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Sometimes in poker, no matter how you play the hand, you can go broke on it because you have a hand that you just can't get away from. Sometimes it works out that way.

Aaron Rosenberg

I really enjoyed playing for a cause so close to the hearts of Londoners. The atmosphere was electric -- and the London Open poker tournament has only begun!

Willie Garson

What I like about Jacki is she doesn't get too high or too low, kind of like a poker face.

Gwen Lewis

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

Jackie Robinson

He would be a very good poker player.

Larry Mize

I swore I'd never do a version of dogs playing cards. But everyone's playing poker these days and too many people were asking for this. Quite frankly, I folded.

Ron Burns

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

Steven Wright

We had a lucky poker chip that my granddaughter gave me and I rubbed that the whole time for good luck.

Charlie Fehrenbach

The only way most people can play poker right now is either online or in a cushy casino where you sit in comfortable chairs and people fetch drinks for you. We want to put poker players in intense conditions to see how they perform.

Peter Marcus

He plays poker by night and golf by day.

Scott Ostler

We played a lot of poker.

Carter Jenkins

I absolutely love poker, ... It's the perfect game. ... The perfect combination of everything that I love: it's math, psychology, competition, money ...

Andy Bellin

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.

Paul Newman

Nothing finalized, ... It's natural we'd think about things such as the X-games. We certainly play a lot of poker on our air, so we're thinking about that. We're also thinking about bass. We have the rights to the bass license.

John Skipper

Poker has leveled out, but new players are gradually coming in; just not as fast. We've developed two kinds of players - those who like the cash tables, and tournament players. It's two different styles of play.

Jay Tigner

The governor has said before that he believes the lottery will do away with the video poker industry. But, it will be up to the General Assembly regarding legislation on the matter.

Sherri Johnson

I used to go back there with my poker-playing friends and eat really good food.

Ronnie Vannucci

[Years later, when Baker learned that Gaye had been killed by his father, he thought back to the last time he saw Gaye.] He was in bad shape, just...detached, ... going to a drive-in, or sit around playing poker, or chase girls, or let them chase us.

George Baker

He's a winning poker player.

Greg Raymer

He was famous for saying, ?Deal me in (for the highest game in the room) as soon as he walked into a poker room without even knowing what the game was or who was playing.

Mike Sexton

The best poker players walk a tightrope between their business sense and their passion.

Michael Craig

When there is gambling, this is what we expect him to do when he is making payouts on poker machines. He had a notebook with addresses of known felons in it.

Brendan Conway

I've always felt that the Travel Channel is a blessing and a detriment for the 'World Poker Tour', ... It looked like the 'Professional Poker Tour' could have gone to ESPN and that would have been big.

David Bain

I think it's a great team. You get a chance to talk about poker with some great players and there's a feeling of team spirit.

Brian Jensen

On number two you really felt for him. It helped us (Mize and Ben Crane) because he's not losing it out there. He'd be a really good poker player because you can't tell how he's doing.

Larry Mize

Poker is a game everybody can play.

John Elway

We gambled, we shot craps, we played poker and that was a weekend thing for us.

Doris Payne

We're excited to be launching a poker game that features simultaneous play with a PC and a mobile phone. It's gives players some great options. We are legally compliant with the United States Department of Justice. We don't accept U.S. bets.

Mark Jensen

Only about 160 . . . are poker dealers. And there is a pretty big waiting list [to get one of those jobs].

Michael Bloom

You get jewelry - stuff you can wear. Oscar, Golden Globe, Emmy, you can't hang that around your neck. But everywhere you go, you've got your poker gold and diamond bracelet on; everyone knows you won.

Jennifer Tilly

Poker has exploded over the last few years. Once they figure out the best way to televise blackjack, I think it will become as popular as poker.

Ben Mezrich

On his person he had a list of video poker machine locations and betting sheets.

Brendan Conway

We want to determine the best Canadian university poker player.

David Power

He's spending all this cash. He certainly didn't make it on a mayor's salary. He has to explain it from somewhere else, and poker winnings ain't gonna get it.

Bruce Harvey

A.J. and I were about as competitive as two people can be. Actually, competitive is a big understatement. It could be in golf, poker, basketball - we just compete. That's a big reason why we both have done so well in competitive situations. It's a huge part of us.

Ryan Hawk

I played poker every Saturday night for 35 years with him and Lenore, ... I loved them beyond the music. If Mrs. Gershwin were here today, she would say, 'Isn't this peachy?'

Angie Dickinson

There are a lot of opportunities and possibilities for The Venetian to have involvement in these large poker events. Our goal right now is to have a room that will gain a large following.

Kathy Raymond

It is going to be great playing poker on our honeymoon.

Jackie Johnson

We almost doubled the amount of poker books we had in the past year and a half.

Howard Schwartz

I just play golf and enjoy my game. So I don't care who is playing. I just practice concentration, poker face. I'm always confident, I'm ready, I'm always ready.

Seon Hwa Lee

It's going to finish when I fold my hand and go up to the big poker game in the sky.

Al Alvarez

Poker players are going to play anyway. Might as well have that money go to something good. In a home game, it's going to go into someone's pocket.

Brad Lewis

Too popular. It's just too overexposed. Anybody with a computer who never played poker in their life can win the World Series of Poker.

Jon Hein

Poker ... hmmm. That's one you don't hear about every day.

John Morrill

Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling.

Al Alvarez

The WPT has become the gold standard in poker and the Budweiser brand is the same to beer. It's a great match of two iconic brands.

Steve Lipscomb

I didn't give nothing to nobody. I was over at the store drinking coffee, and he asked me if he could put my name down. Whenever he asked me, I really didn't think nothing of it. It was something about the poker machines.

Thomas Crowley

School. Everything. Hanging out with friends. No, go to a poker game instead.

Ryan Graham

You have to be a poker player and be able to read whether a guy is really interested or not.

Charles Robinson

When Jumbo Poker began in 2003, the poker frenzy was just beginning. Back then when Jumbo Poker hit, we?d be happy to see a few dozen players splitting the pot. Now, even at 4 a.m. when today?s bad beat happened, there were over 250 players sitting in our rooms.

Weldon Russell

Poker operators are having to attract casual players who are not as profitable as the hard core and that is changing the economics of the business.

Robin Chhabra

It was wonderful. I played the best poker of my life and I got as lucky as I've ever gotten in my life. It's a dream come true.

Greg Raymer

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

Mary Austin

It will be interesting to see what's more important to the players: chip stacks or comfort level. There's a lot more strategy in Extreme Poker than in a normal tournament.

Peter Marcus

They think it's big-time video poker again. It's not.

Doug Mcmanus

If we were going to call it the 'poker million', we needed a million on offer. So last year, that's what the winner collected.

Barry Hearn

Back when the game was on Sega Genesis, it was hard to find competition. I dominated everyone I played. Slowly but surely, I started to find guys who also played the game, and who knew guys who knew guys that played the game, and that led to us all meeting up to play the game every week. It was like our poker night.

Israel Charles

Bluff is a nice word for lying. The cards are going to even out in the end. In poker, the one who lies the best wins.

Chris Anderson

There's not a lot of walking in poker.

Dennis Perry

It really hasn't been noticeable, and they've been around for a while. They're whole different games. In video lottery, a large percentage of your play is poker and keno, and they don't have that.

Greg Peterson

We're going through a phase in history where the only thing that can stop poker from being the most popular form of gambling (slots excepted) is a big scandal.

Howard Schwartz

I was an advocate of poker on television, and I was stunned by how much it grew.

Norman Chad

If he decides not to be a senator, he can certainly make a living playing poker. I've never seen anybody hold cards so close to the vest.

Marty Wiseman

Poker is both math and instinct, and CEOs understand the bottom line and the odds. But knowing the numbers is not enough, they have to know how to read people, something they do every day in the boardroom.

Maria Gomez

Most people know more about professional poker players than football players. It's amazing.

Tom Keith

I would never bet against Warren Buffett if I were sitting at a poker table with him.

Tony Ross

We thought that if the baby is a boy we could call it Mike after Mike Sexton but in honor of the way we met we'll call him Chip. If our baby is a girl we may call her Linda after Linda Johnson, the first lady of poker, but Queenie is a possibility.

Gary Suffir

The way I got addicted, the first month I played poker, I won a lot of money. 'Oh my gosh! This game is great! More people should play this game.' And I just got carried away.

Ryan Graham

Ever since my husband started playing home games with his buddies, I've been hooked on poker, especially No Limit Texas Hold 'Em.

Cindy Margolis

This is a game of chance that is considered a lottery game. The lottery has specific abilities and they wouldn't have the ability to do video poker for instance.

Rebecca Rausch

These figures have given a much needed fillip to the gaming sector and have gone against the grain in insisting that online poker in particular is still showing signs of growth.

Richard Hunter

Erica is an intelligent woman with a bright future on the international poker circuit. She is poised to become one of the stand-out players and personalities of the game, and we congratulate Erica on a fantastic 16th place get.

David Kinsman

[The poker game never materialized.] For almost three hours we sat there and watched an American classic on DVD, ... It was a night I will not soon forget.

Chris Rose

Designers Showroom is making it of the period for the event and there will be men in the room playing poker.

Penne Mobley

I worked on my elbow and I learned how to play poker. That was all I did. I didn't want to watch games on television because it was too painful. I missed pitching.

Octavio Dotel

Mostly women come to these fundraisers. Poker is more of a man's game.

Rafael Lopez

No poker face. They keys for us are just like always n ball security, avoid mental mistakes and be physical on the offensive side.

Mark Hutson

I think Mad Dog's got a great poker face. He wills himself to do things. There'd be a lot of other people that wouldn't even be pitching.

Leo Mazzone

If makers don't invest now it basically means they are giving up on the game. It's kind of like poker. But there is no way all of the TV makers will end up happy. At some point in the future, overcapacity will emerge and there will be a shakeout.

Koichi Hariya

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

James Woods

There was interest in having an event that had a little higher buy-in. Something that would be different, be fun, and give poker pros a chance to show their all-around skills.

Jeffrey Pollack

You could technically call online poker investing, but that doesn't mean that it is good.

Bob Jennings

It's like playing a game of poker and, if you lose the hand, saying, 'Let's negotiate the pie.' It doesn't work that way. You lose the hand, you pay the money, then you go on to the next hand.

Frank Mckenna

By legend, after the shows performers and stagehands gathered to play poker hands.

Jim Montgomery

I used to play real poker at least twice a week.

Evan Depew

The popularity of poker is absolutely phenomenal. It is head and shoulders over other types of college gambling.

Elizabeth George