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
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- December 21, 2009
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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 have to accept that and find a game you can beat. Most people rise to their own level of ruin by always looking to play in games they can’t beat. It’s part ego, part delusion, and part competitive spirit.
Daniel Negreanu – 12/2009 – in Full Contact Poker
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- December 20, 2009
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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
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- December 18, 2009
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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
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- December 17, 2009
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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
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- December 16, 2009
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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
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- December 15, 2009
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Most people – especially younger ones – have little experience with diverse people. They live in relatively homogenous towns and neighborhoods and usually relate to people who are fairly similar to themselves.
In online and casino poker games, you have to play with whomever sits down. You must compete against very different kinds of people: aggressive and passive, friendly and nasty, educated and uneducated, quiet and talkative, intelligent and stupid, emotionally controlled and uncontrolled, and so on.
You therefore learn how to understand and adjust to people who think and act very differently from you. The faster and better you do it, the better results you will get.
David Sklansky & Alan N. Schoonmaker – 09/2007 – in Two plus two Magazine
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- December 13, 2009
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They say that information is power; in poker, it’s cash, just cash.
John Vorhaus – 03/2008 – in Card Player
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- December 10, 2009
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