“Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you must do.”
H. Jackson Brown
Poker is a game of chance, chances are you will lose.
The only probability you need to know is that in any given hand there is an 80% chance that one of the other eight players is luckier than probability. eddie72
always work hard on your game
minimize luck and maximize skill
use proper bankroll management
love the game and have fun
You can’t always lead a horse to water, but you can lead a donkey right to the river
Playing cards is similar to marriage.
means love
means marriage
is what you want to beat them with after being married to long
is what you can use to burry them with
Hahahahaha, that was great. Never heard that before
Glad you liked it Craig, I know a few people who can relate to this lol
a good player knows when he plays well
a great player knows when he doesn’t play well and is strong enough to alter it.
it takes more balls to fold a strong hand then to bet a weak hand
If you want to make money playing poker, make your opponent think you have a great hand. If you really want to make money playing poker, make them think you don’t. Doll
*One thing even a poker face cannot hide is love.”
― Tapan Ghosh, Faceless The Only Way Out
That would be true.
That right there is the mantra of a lotta players around here,
This may have only been in the movie version, and not in Jessup’s novel The Cincinnati Kid, but it has stuck in my mind all these years.
Lancey, the Man (played by E. G. Robinson) the Kid was trying to beat has just taken the Kid’s entire stack by catching a straight flush against the Kid’s full house. The Kid (played by Steve McQueen) asks:
“How could you do that? Everybody knows a draw like that’s against the odds.”
“Kid, the difference between being good and being great is knowing when to do the wrong thing at the right time.”
Poker is like sex… most people aren’t nearly as good as they think they are.
The cardinal sin in poker is becoming emotionally involved.
-Katy Lederer-
That’s a great quote Tiandra. I NEVER get emotionally involved in my poker cards, my poker MONEY, now that’s another thing
it doesn’t matter how strong your hand is when you assume someone has a better hand.
you play well if you understand the math of the betsize, but you play great if you understand the story of the betsize.