Poker is a family of card games that combines gambling, strategy, and skill. All poker variants involve betting as an intrinsic part of play, and determine the winner of each hand according to the combinations of players' cards, at least some of which remain hidden until the end of the hand. Poker games vary in the number of cards dealt, the number of shared or 'community' cards, the number of cards that remain hidden, and the betting procedures. In most modern poker games, the first round of betting begins with one or more of the players making some form of a forced bet (the blind or ante).
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- The game that defines dictators much better [than chess] is poker because it’s about bluffs. It doesn’t matter whether you have a strong hand or weak hand. You can have a weak hand, but if you’re comfortable bluffing, raising stakes, and if you can read your opponent.
- Garry Kasparov, interview with Bill Kristol (April 2016)
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- I don't gamble, if you will concede that poker is a game of skill.
- Robert A. Heinlein, Glory Road
- All serious poker players try to minimize their tells, obviously. There are a couple ways to go about this. One is the robotic approach: where your face becomes a mask and your voice a monotone, at least while the hand is being played. The other is the manic method, where you affect a whole bunch of tics, twitches, and expressions, and mix them up with a river of insane babble. The idea is to overwhelm your opponents with clues, so they can't sort out what's going on. This approach can be effective, but for normal people it's hard to pull off. (If you've spent part of your life in an institution, this method may come naturally.)
- Dan Harrington, Harrington on Hold 'em: Expert Strategy for No-Limit Tournaments, Volume I: Strategic Play
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- Encyclopedic article on Poker at Wikipedia
Every once in a while, people stumble across a hobby that represents much more than the activity itself. They connect with the task at hand way beyond the sport or the game or the craft. Instead, a person’s new hobby helps them tap into a healthy, welcoming community and a new way to think about life.
This can happen with pretty much any hobby so long as the person finds that deep of a connection; it can’t be forced and it’s not the same for everyone who feels passionately about the way they spend their free time.
One of the most interesting hobbies this happens with, though, is poker.
Here are 6 quotes about poker to help you see how it’s more than just a card game.
1. “It’s Hard to Convince a Winner That He’s Losing” – Mike Caro
At the surface level, this quote is probably talking about bluffing. When a player knows he has a winning hand, he’s not going to fall for another person’s bluff.
But, think about how that can apply to life. Consider all the drama and judgment that surrounds our actions from time to time, then remind yourself that it’s not up to others to decide whether you’re winning or if you’re right or wrong. If you know in your heart your actions are right, if they feel right, you’re fine.
2. “Life Is Not a Matter of Getting Good Cards…
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…but sometimes, knowing how to play a poor hand well.” – Jack London
You can’t expect to get a perfect hand in every round of poker, and your life definitely isn’t going to be perfect all the time, either. You probably knew that by now. But maybe what you didn’t know is that life isn’t always about what happens to you so much as how you react to the world around you.
3. “Just Play Every Hand. You Can’t Miss Them All.” – Sammy Farha
Maybe your issue is that you overthink your reactions. Maybe you get so caught up in “coulda shoulda woulda” type of thinking that you forget to live in the moment.
Use Farha’s words to remind you to come back to the present and play the hand you’re dealt with the gaming strategies you know. When you do fold, move on and don’t look back.
4. “Fold and Live to Fold Again” – Stu Ungar
Speaking of folding, keep in mind that you’re going to have to do that a lot in life until you get the cards you’ve been looking for. Those “cards” may be opportunities that were handed (or dealt) to you, or your reason for not folding could also be what you make of them (how you play the game).
5. “Keep Calm and Go All In” – Anonymous
Sometimes, the best thing you can do is go all in. This goes for the goods and the bads in life. When a good thing happens to you, embrace it and soak it up for what it is.
When a bad situation presents itself, don’t try to run from it or avoid the situation. Face it. Go all in and you’ll be out of that darkness before you know it.
6. “One Thing Even a Poker Face Can’t Hide is Love” – Tapan Ghosh
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At the end of the day, love rules all. Having love for the game of poker won’t make you win a hand, but love does help a lot of the big picture things in life. It’s the ultimate source of healing, hope, and purpose. Keep that in mind no matter the “cards” you’re dealt.
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It’s funny how much a game can teach you if you know how to pay attention.
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Many athletes say that about their sport of choice and it’s the same thing for poker players and well-known chess champions. That’s how poker enthusiasts come up with these quotes about poker, after all. They understand it beyond the face value that other people see it for.
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