In the end, being a woman is definitely to my advantage at the poker table. I can take advantage of the underestimation and stereotypes that will be attributed to me simply due to my gender.
Vanessa Rousso – 03/2009
Categories: Poker Players
Tagged: Rousso, stereotype, woman
To be successful, you have to live a balanced life. All of those players who just sit in front of their computers all day long, seven days a week, will simply burn out and not really enjoy what life is all about. To succeed in today’s poker world, you must be disciplined enough to separate [...]
Categories: Poker Players
Tagged: discipline, Hilger, life
I’d never experienced such a significant moment at a poker table. If I got my card here, it would be over. I felt the weight of all those hours of play as the dealer slid the card off the top of the deck and turned it over. Wow! Was it really the ten of diamonds? [...]
Categories: Poker Players
As a female player, you are always being watched. Everyone remembers you and if you make one single mistake, you will hear it for the rest of your life.
Katja Thater – 08/2008 – in Poker News Daily
Categories: Poker Players
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
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
The most important thing for a professional poker player to have is discipline. If you cannot move down in limits when you are losing, you do not have the discipline that is needed to be a professional poker player.
Chris Ferguson – 05/2008 – in Card Player
Categories: Poker Players
Tagged: bad players, discipline, Ferguson
It’s no coincidence that Patrik Antonius, Phil Ivey and a lot these really, really top players are in excellent physical condition. They’re in great shape, they eat healthily and I’m sure many of them have mental coaches, sparring partners of some kind. [..] I think in the next three to four years the players that [...]
Categories: Poker Players
Tagged: Antonius, good players, Hougaard, Ivey, sport