I could think of worse ways of going than at the poker table.

I could think of worse ways of going than at the poker table.

Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling.

I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.

I'm good at reading people.

When you make a bet, you're saying something.

I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy like me ever, how I ever got into this dreadful trade.

Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade.

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can't make any mistakes so you have to, it's all about where you're sitting at the table.

I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.

The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all.

I hate writing.

The poker chip is like a conjuror's sleight of hand that turns an egg into a billiard ball, a necessity of life into a plaything, reality into illusion.

Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.

I could think of worse ways of going than at the poker table.

Air power is like poker. A second-best hand is like none at all - it will cost you dough and win you nothing.

You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker.

Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling.

I can never have a poker face. Anybody looking at me can tell exactly what I'm thinking.

I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.

No, that's poker. To win, you've gotta get damned lucky.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

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.

People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.

I am very driven. I work really hard, whether it's acting or my charity or even poker. When I focus on something I give it my all.

I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.

The best part about poker is there's no down side.

Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.

Initial feedback we got from people was that Poker could and should be a product in its own right. For us, that was definitely a case of us not seeing the forest for the trees since we are Poker nuts.

I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12.

When I play poker, I don't like losing the pot.

What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning.

The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker.

Being able to pit your wits against literally hundreds of other people is really exciting and ultimately the biggest single challenge for a poker player.

My kitty cats could rely on my poker winnings.

Ninety percent of the hands aren't shown in a poker game.

As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played.

Every poker player is smarter than me.

Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting.

For the most part, I get to do what I want to do. If I want to play poker, I can. If I don't want to play poker, I don't have to.

I basically have paid for a piano and a flat-screen television completely with my poker earnings. I'm pretty good at it.

I don't like uncertainty. I don't play poker. I don't like bluffing.

I have been on TV quite a few times as a poker player.

I learned playing poker that you never count your winnings because that's when you start to lose.