To the untrained eye, poker seems deceptively easy.
Whenever somebody folds, say, ‘Good laydown.’ It encourages them to fold on a later hand because it makes them feel like you had the best hand even if you were bluffing. It’s an odd form of flattery that seems to work at the poker table.
I thought poker might be a perfect environment to start to learn probabilistic decision-making, and to live what it means to have skill versus chance and to see how that played out. I would dive in head first into the poker world.
In poker, you’ve got to start at the bottom level and work your way up. This advice applies to the limits that you play and the sizing of the bets that you make.
Poker would have never gotten on TV when we only had three networks.
I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you’re done for.
But when I will call it a day, I could become a professional poker player.
Manipulating people is what’s so fun about poker. I love that you can just look into someone’s eyes and lie – and it’s perfectly acceptable.
I love getting out of the Q train at Union Square. It’s such a mix of people, like a party. There’s always an errand you can do along there, whether it’s picking up contacts or buying poker chips.
I’m the first person in my family to play poker.
I’m not a poker player; I play slot machines.
I can play poker when I have to and I think it has made me a better fighter.
You become Team U.S.A. when you’re teaching some of the girls to play poker or you’re getting food someplace in Hawaii together. It’s the stupid little moments, it’s not the big moments that are caught on cameras, it’s the stuff you guys don’t see. And that’s what makes this team so unique.
I was mad-keen on poker as a kid. It was like the snooker, pulling me into that same smokey atmosphere I loved.
