No 1 in Gambling

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

Yeah, well, sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand.

Mae West: Is poker a game of chance? W.C. Fields: Not the way I play it.

Luck favours the backbone, not the wishbone

You call this one and it's all over, baby.

Poker is a godless game, full of random pain.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

Poker is the game closest to the western conception of life, where life and thought are recognized as intimately combined, where free will prevails over philosophies of fate or of chance, where men are considered moral agents and where - at least in the short run - the important thing is not what happens but what people think happens.

The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius

Hold-'em is to stud what chess is to checkers.

Poker is a game of people. . . . It's not the hand I hold, it's the people that I play with.

They anticipate losing when they sit down and I try my darnedest not to disappoint one of them.

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

There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker... Why, I have known clergymen, good men, kindhearted, liberal, sincere, and all that, who did not know the meaning of a 'flush'. It is enough to make one ashamed of one's species.