Deep down inside, poker is what I do, and it’s what I live for, so if I knew I wouldn’t be able to win another poker tournament again, I would quit and my life would have no meaning anymore.
Annette Obrestad – 11/2009 – In PokerNews
Categories: Poker in General
Tagged: life, Obrestad, tournament
Does poker rule your life? Or does it exist in the context of a conscious, well-balanced, self-aware existence? It may surprise you to learn that the less obsessive you are about poker, the better your game will be. Why? Because if poker is all you have going on in your life — if getting that [...]
Categories: Poker in General
I admire the attitude among the top European players. In US, so many players just think about surviving until the next day. European players come out to play and they attack. I see a younger me in some of the younger European players I met. They fear nobody and really have attitude. Some of them [...]
Categories: Poker Players
In poker, one must have courage: the courage to bet, to back one’s convictions, one’s intuitions, one’s understanding. There can be no victory without courage. The successful player must be willing to wager on likelihoods. Should he wait for absolutely risk-free certainty, he will win nothing, regardless of the cards he is dealt.
David Mamet – [...]
Categories: Poker in General
I have played a lot of poker in my time, so I know a winning hand when I see one. Giving the American people more freedom, collecting more tax revenue for the government, enhancing regulations to protect children, and bringing more common sense to our legal system looks like a Royal Flush to me.
Annie Duke [...]
Categories: Gambling Legislation
The fact people accept that you’re a poker player now is a big thing. In those days, you were a second-class citizen. They thought you were a gangster if you played poker for a living.
Doyle Brunson – 08/2009 – in Poker News Daily
Categories: Poker Players
If you want to be a successful poker player that reaches the highest levels, you simply can’t do that unless you are aware of your weaknesses and focus on plugging those leaks. For most people, even after doing that, they’ll simply never be good enough to play at the highest levels. That’s just life. You [...]
Categories: Poker Players
Tagged: bad players, ego, Negreanu
I spent the last year of my life evaluating what I needed to do to become better at poker and better at picking up women, and in the process I discovered that the two only really have one thing in common — confidence.
Hevad Kahn – 01/2009 – in The Huffington Post
Categories: Poker Players
Tagged: confidence, Kahn, woman
We all think the UIGEA is going to be reversed at some point. It’s just a matter of when. I’m convinced we’re going to see another poker explosion like we saw six years ago. It’ll be second to none.
Mike Sexton – 12/2009 – in PartyPoker’s PokerBlog
Categories: Gambling Legislation
Chess involves logic; roulette involves probability theory. Poker involves logic, probability and something pertinent to military and diplomatic strategy — bluffing.
George Will – 08/2009 – in Washington Post
Categories: Poker in General
Tagged: bluff