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