“Healthy habits are learned in the same way as unhealthy ones – through practice.”
[Mike's girlfriend has just left him over his broken promise not to play poker] Worm: You know what always cheers me up? Mike McDermott: No, what’s that? Worm: Rolled up aces over kings. Check-raising stupid tourists and taking huge pots off of them. Playing all-night high-limit Hold’em at the Taj, “where the sand turns to [...]
“Poker reveals to the frank observer something else of import—it will teach him about his own nature. Many bad players do not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.”
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 had and impersonal. It is fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair and right, and just
Once you start thinking about what the money in the pot is worth in the real world, you’re dead !
“I’m absolutely gonna win it, because I’m ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people”
“No-Limit Texas Hold’em is equivalent to playing Russian roulette… with only one bullet missing.”
By: Lou Kreiger Recommended Starting Hands If you follow this list of suggested starting hands, you’ll seldom get into trouble, or find yourself involved in a hand where you’ll be confused about whether you ought to continue playing or fold your hand. Ace-ace combinations: Any hand containing a pair of aces is a terrific starting [...]
“There are three kinds of losers at the poker table: those who never raise, those who think about raising, but don’t, and those who raise without thinking.”
If you are constantly in need of divine intervention, in the form of a miracle card, you are probably headed for poker hell.”
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