To be sure, playing it safe isn’t a flashy style of poker. Some even claim that it’s too weak and passive. That being said, playing safe poker is still a proven recipe for success in the world’s biggest poker tournaments.
Not having the online game has made it more difficult. There are a lot of young and upcoming players in poker. But you don’t get to see them because TV has sort of been taken away.
Our poker table is eight guys, and then I’m the ninth; I’m usually the only girl at the table.
I grew up, initially, poor and then rich and then back to poor when I was in the military and college. And then eventually made some money playing poker.
I’ve read the poker books, but at this point, everybody who’s playing has read the poker books. I feel like I’m knowledgeable enough to understand what’s going on in the game, and I understand why I suck. And I’m not sure if I’ll ever rise beyond that to the level where I don’t suck.
Playing tricky poker doesn’t have to mean making bizarre moves or playing way out of character. Rather, it’s simply about taking advantage of what you know about your opponents and how they perceive your style of play.
Because of who I am, when I sit at a poker table, I meet people who engage me in conversation, not only about poker, but also about the movie business and about the world of celebrities.
A lot of boys in my poker circle are mathematicians who play on probability. I don’t have that kind of brain, so I rely on instinct. But I recently found out that poker and cards in general go way back in my family gene pool.
I don’t know if I’m a writer who plays poker or a poker player who writes.
One of the downsides of being a poker pro is that people see exactly how you play.
If you are in a poker game for money and are taking it easy on one of your buddies, you are cheating yourself, your friend, and every other player in the game.
It’s almost like, when someone plays poker for the first time, they might be a professional poker player out of ignorance, just accidentally winning. That was how it felt in my first stand-up appearance.
Poker is all about comfort with uncertainty, after all.
Poker is not a team sport. It’s every man for himself. It’s perfectly okay to root for your buddies and hope they do well, but when it’s time to play the game, you have to give it your all. All by yourself, that is.
The goal of hyper-aggressive poker is to create a wild and crazy image that will return dividends when you’re eventually dealt a monster hand.
In karate, as your skill level increases, your instructor presents you with the next belt. But in poker, only you can decide when it’s time to graduate to the next level. That’s a tricky proposition for some players because it’s difficult to assess your own progress.
One week a year, I go to Las Vegas with friends to play poker. We usually go to the Wynn. To play golf in the desert in the middle of the strip at the Wynn is one of the most surreal experiences you’ll have.
I play poker, a game where there is no edge but the luck of the deal and the skill of the player.
I’ve been playing Texas Hold ’em and other forms of poker since I was about 12.
The World Series of Poker has always attracted a competitive international field.
Hyper-aggressive poker is most effective in games where players are happy to just call rather than reraise.
The investing world is a little bit more multidimensional than poker.
What scares me the most is that both the poker bot and Dropbox started out as distractions. That little voice in my head was telling me where to go, and the whole time I was telling it to shut up so I could get back to work. Sometimes that little voice knows best.
I’m not a big poker guy, I like to play shnarps.
Rarely is it correct to play a hyper-aggressive style of poker. But there are certain situations where a seemingly reckless approach will actually be the most profitable strategy to employ, like at the Main Event at the World Series of Poker.
Deep-stack games like High Stakes Poker are the favorites among both poker pros and avid fans of televised poker. In these games, the most talented players shine and the most exciting action takes place.
No, that’s poker. To win, you’ve gotta get damned lucky.
Poker is a great game and feeds my need for competition a lot.
The secret behind playing small ball poker isn’t so much in the hands you choose to play. It’s more about the amount you choose to bet with the hands you end up playing.
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.
I’m not like a poker player. I’m not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I’m intending to go. My cards are always on the table.
I’ve been an idiot at the poker table for a long time.
Investing in a poker game and investing in stocks, at least the way I do it, it’s a very similar skillset.
Look, I never enjoy risking my tournament life with a marginal hand, but if you want to be a poker champion, that’s exactly what needs to be done. Just don’t do it too often!
You can’t follow or understand the game unless you play chess yourself, unlike poker which you can pick up in five minutes.
Exercise clears my brain of the stresses of poker’s ups and downs, and allows me to re-focus my mind on the next day.
I’m just a poker player who does a bit of TV.
Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting.
Humans are hard-wired to be irrational when it comes to financial decisions. We must understand that so we don’t become the sucker at the poker table.
The pros really like all the new people playing poker because they love the dead money; but when the money wins they don’t like that very much at all.
My favorite poker game is No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em.
The best poker game is seven-card stud, high-low splits. I mean, it’s the best if you don’t have to declare high or low, and can win it all with a low straight.
My kitty cats could rely on my poker winnings.
In golf, no one learns to hit a draw, a fade, or a cut shot until they’ve been taught how to hit the ball straight. Similarly, novice poker players need to learn how to ‘hit it straight’ before taking on more difficult concepts.
My poker face makes it difficult for people to figure out what’s on my mind.
I wear my heart on my sleeve. I have no poker face.
Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn’t be avoided. It should be faced.
I play a lot of board games, so you need to be quite good at strategy and poker faces so people can’t always read your hand.
You show people playing poker or hacking into a computer; it feels so significant in the script, and then when you see it on the screen, it loses something. But there’s something about cooking – food being prepared is incredibly captivating. It became just a fun box of tools to use as a director.
I can never have a poker face. Anybody looking at me can tell exactly what I’m thinking.
Poker is meant to be enjoyed.
Always keep in mind that poker is about limiting your losses and maximizing your gains on every hand you play.
There is no such thing as women’s intuition. You all just have crap poker faces.
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.
Michael Phelps truly has a ton of poker talent.
I like blackjack. I like the psychology of poker.
I never wanted poker to be a job. That’s partly because I love it, and it’s fun, and I didn’t want it to stop being fun, and partly because, I suppose, something in me doesn’t feel right about calling poker a job. It’s not grown-up enough. But it’s a hobby that takes up an enormous amount of my time.
My father taught me poker at a very young age and I’ve been playing for money since I was 14 years old.
As for poker, I’ve stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean’s Eleven, I would get accosted by these guys begging me to play. They just want to take my money. They see me, think ‘actor’ and see some easy money.
I love playing poker, reading, and painting.
It’s imperative to save a few chips whenever possible when playing small-ball poker. You never want to risk a high percentage of your chips unless you’re dealt a monster hand.
You have to play more hands than usual to be successful in tournament poker. While a conservative approach can help you squeak into the money, the only way to win is to mix it up and get involved with a wider range of starting hands.
Poker is really about reading people. What happens when you bluff? What does it look like when the other guy bluffs? Does he look right, does he look left? Under what circumstances does he fold or call?
I’ve figured out how to turn what’s different about me and limitations – I’m new to this world, I’m a woman, I don’t have a math background – and how I use that to my advantage. They’re what make me unique. In poker you learn very quickly, if you play like everyone else, you’ll be fine, but you’ll never be great.
