Quote of the day

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"Ace is not good, Ace is God."
William Wigstrom

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"The game exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great."
Walter Matthau

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"Nobody is always a winner, and anybody who says he is, is either a liar or doesn't play poker."
Amarillo Slim

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"The most difficult aspects of playing poker professionally are coping emotionally with the losses and coping with the recurring idea that you're not doing anything worthwhile."
Mike Caro

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"Whether he likes it or not, a man's character is stripped bare at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life."
Anthony Holden

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Poker is to cards and games what jazz is to music. It’s this great American thing, born and bred here. We dig it because everybody can play. -Steve Lipscomb

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Many players learn just enough to lose money that they wouldn’t ordinarily risk. –Ian Andersen

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Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and democracy. It can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring, or hard and impersonal, fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair, and right, and just. -Lou Krieger

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The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent. -David Mamet

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I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand. -Jonathan Swift