Famous poker phrases

Marcelo: This topic is intended to present famous poker quotes and comments.

Tips:
1. Preferably put in the original language and the translation.
2. Include the author, if applicable.

Marcelo: “When a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience leaves with money and the man with money leaves with experience” – Anonymous

Original: “When a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience leaves with money and the man with money leaves with experience.” – Anonymous

It's not just relevant in poker, but a good lesson for many things in life 🙂

Marcelo: “Trust everyone, but always cut the cards” – Benny Binion

Original: “Trust everyone, but always cut the cards.” – Benny Binion

(remembering that whoever is in the cut-off position, just before the dealer, is responsible for cutting the deck of cards after it has been shuffled by the dealer)

Marcelo: One of the best tips:

“Try to decide how good your hand is at any given moment. Nothing else matters. Nothing!” – Doyle Bunson

Original: “Try to decide how good your hand is at a given moment. Nothing else matters. Nothing!” – Doyle Bunson

Marcelo: And the classic of classics:

“Look around the table. If you don’t see the idiot, stand up, because you are the idiot.” – Amarillo Slim

Original: “Look around the table. If you don't see a sucker, get up, because you're the sucker.” – Amarillo Slim

Petrillo: And the classic of classics:

“Look around the table. If you don’t see the idiot, stand up, because you are the idiot.” – Amarillo Slim

Original: “Look around the table. If you don't see a sucker, get up, because you're the sucker.” – Amarillo Slim

Great topic!

I knew an equivalent phrase, attributed to Stu Ungar:

“If after half an hour of playing you don’t know that you are the duck, it’s because you are the duck!”

jrpedretti: “Do you always play here, do you always play like this?”, by Akkari commenting on a bad call, on an ESPN broadcast.
I found it hilarious

Petrillo: There is a phrase by Harrington that makes sense:

“Be kind to weak players after a bad beat against you. Treat them cordially, praise them, and suggest they play more often…”

Petrillo: There is a phrase by Harrington that makes sense:

“Be kind to weak players after a bad beat against you. Treat them cordially, praise them, and suggest they play more often…”

foa73: “Poker is a game of luck, bad luck is when you sit with someone who knows how to play”

Author not known

darosa76: “It’s better to run with a good hand than to lose with an excellent hand”

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darosa76: “A moderate player may not lose much, but he will never win against someone who takes more risks. Playing to avoid losing is a shot in the head.”
Jonathan Harries - Executive Vice President and Global Creative Director, FCB Chicago

chipraker420: Thats Poker – donkeys

RLima15: If after half an hour of playing, you still haven't figured out who the duck at the table is, it's because the duck is you.

RLima15: Fortunes here change hands faster than any game.”

brunomulato: “Nobody is always a winner, and anybody who says he is, is either a liar or doesn't play poker.” (Amarillo Slim)
“Nobody is always a winner, and anyone who says they are is either a liar or doesn't play poker.”

"One day a chump, the next day a champion. What a difference a day makes in tournament poker."(Mike Sexton)
“One day an idiot, the next day a champion. What a difference a day makes in tournament poker.”

Antonucci82: “Poker is a game of people… It's not the hand I hold, it's the people that I play with.”
— Amarillo Slim
Poker is a game about people… It’s not the hand I have, it’s the person I’m playing with. (Read your opponent and win)

marceloizzy: “Always bet first”
Mike Matsow

Raiser: “I can dodge bullets, baby” (Phil Hellmuth)

“I can dodge bullets (Aces)”

I don't know if this would be the correct translation, if anyone can help it would be welcome, lol

maufarias: “Your goal is to maximize gains and minimize losses.”

Excerpt from the book – The Theory Of Poker By David Sklanski

“If mathematics is important in Poker, psychology is even more so.”

Phil Gordon

Thanks!

rogeriosjunior: In poker, time eliminates luck. Anonymous.

GremistaEterno: “We are the most intelligent bunch of bums I have ever met.” – David Williams

Everyone already knows, but I still find it interesting…

TSawyer: I just saw a cool one…lol

“Variance is a bitch that whips you every day” (Ratex).:diablotin:

cozar: Here are some I found on the net:happy34:

“Knowing how to win the most with the best hand and lose the least with the worst.”

“A moderate gambler may not lose much, but he will never win against someone who takes more risks. Playing to avoid losing is a shot in the head.”
Jonathan Harries - Executive Vice President and Global Creative Director, FCB Chicago

An Ace in the hand is worth two in the bush. (What an idiot lol, but pure truth):spade:

“The secret to No Limit Texas Hold'Em is to play the men, not the cards. You can win even if you don't have good cards in your hand.”

push or fold (good phrase, my style of play)

And my favorite

shuffle the deck and deal the cards.:thumbsup:

pdias666: “There are two reasons why I don’t play:”

“When I have little money.”
“When I have a lot of money.”

I think it's by Mark Twain.

I like this phrase because it says “Correct Bank Management” all over it.

LeoNeto: “If you can afford it, raise the bet. Be limited in your actions, but aggressive. Really aggressive, as if you were in a war.” – taken from the movie Rounders

F01: “Weak people say that poker is for luck, I say poker is for those who know how to play”
“Good cards don’t win tournaments, but they help”
I

Minored: “In the long run there's no luck in poker, but the short run is longer than most people know.”

In the long run there is no such thing as luck in poker, but the short term is longer than most people think.

Rick Bennett

diogoafa: “To you it's poker man, to me this is my life!” (Phil Hellmuth)
“For you it’s poker man, for me this is my life”

I don't know if this phrase has already become famous, but I thought it was cool – and what's more, it's part of one of the funniest hands with Phill Hellmuth.
It happened at the 2008 WSOP, against Christian Dragomir.
There’s a video on YouTube – too bad I can’t post links yet… 🙁

*Apart from the barbs:
“Show me the 3-8 offsuit!” (Matusow)
“I'm an idiot with a stack!” (Dragomir)

:thumbsup:

SeijiS: “Damn Internet that never stops going down!!!” – me, you and any other online player…

Ronald: “Those who don’t go when they can end up going when they shouldn’t”

TostesBr: “Fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold…”

Phrase without a specific author, “spoken” in one’s own head by anyone who is bluffing…

Marcelo: “Fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold…”

Phrase without a specific author, “spoken” in one’s own head by anyone who is bluffing…

I do it myself hehehehe

Minored: “Fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold…”

Phrase without a specific author, “spoken” in one’s own head by anyone who is bluffing…

LOL!

uaheuheauhua, “fold fold fold” eternal

Nakamura: “Fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold…”

Phrase without a specific author, “spoken” in one’s own head by anyone who is bluffing…

ahahahaha I always do that! :happy34:

cavalera78: damn!!! SnG push or fold phase, in the bubble, you push the paçoca with A 3 off and it's in the head: fold, fold, fold, FOLD VILLAIN LOL
– very good this one

cavalera78: damn SnG, push or fold phase, in the bubble, you push the paçoca with A3 off, and it's in your head: fold, fold, fold, FOLD VILLAIN LOL

– That’s a very good one…

FIREFLY: LOL
very good phrases!!!
This was the best for me!
When a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience leaves with money and the man with money leaves with experience.” – Anonymous

icemanjr0: There's a quote from Raul Oliveira that says "Why did you go if you knew you were lost?" It's the case of having a hand that seems to be won but it's not, and we know that, but we want to go all the way to the end, to see what happens and then we lose...

TostesBr: There is a phrase by Raul Oliveira that says “Why did you go if you knew you were lost?” It is the case of having a hand that seems to be won but it is not, and we know that, but we want to go to the end, to see what happens and then we lose…

Dude, I often pay knowing that I'm losing out to gain information (depending on the price, of course).

Learning how your opponent plays is + ev, even if you have to spend a little on calling…

Vadiu: “the lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math”

“The lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math”

TSawyer: “I'd rather donate $ to the fish than to the REGs. By donating to the fish I'm sure the $ will come back.” :D:D:D

FIREFLY: “I’ll play with anyone. The worst ones give me sustenance; the best ones, prestige.”

“Stop gambling while you still have money.”

“Change the DEAAAAAAALER!!!!”

NL Holdem is a game that takes minutes to learn and a lifetime to master” by=Mike Sexton

Garcia: “Poker is like sex, if you’re tired don’t try hard”

PattyRoss: :heart::club::diamond::spade::heart::club::diamond::spade::heart::club::diamond::spade::heart::club::diamond::spade::heart::club::diamond::spade::heart::club::diamond::spade::heart::club::diamond::spade:

Poker is a game of chance!!
Mischance is when you sit with who knows how to play!!

:heart::club::diamond::spade::heart::club::diamond::spade::heart::club::diamond::spade::heart::club::diamond::spade::heart::club::diamond::spade::heart::club::diamond::spade::heart::club::diamond::spade:

PattyRoss: Sorry, I was creating my signature and I don't know how I posted it here!!!

I ask the moderator to delete it!!!

JRS: “Fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold…”

Phrase without a specific author, “spoken” in one’s own head by anyone who is bluffing…

“Ace is only Ace with another Ace”…

It's not a phrase, but a thought when you go out with Ax and know that the one who will win is a pair!

PokerBrasileiro: “Playing poker professionally is a tough way to make an easy living”

“Playing poker professionally is a hard way to make an easy living” – popular wisdom

Leandrinhuuu: That's right.
Now show me the 8 3 offsuit.

If I'm not mistaken, it was at the WSOP 2008 final table after Negranu won an AK with a T4.

Vadiu: “Donk’s excuse is AK”

I saw it on MSN today

Leandrinhuuu: “Donk’s excuse is AK”

I saw it on MSN today

It can be adapted to;

Donk's excuse was ON!

aehuihaei

Ras Lucas: It can be adapted to;

Donk's excuse was ON!

aehuihaei

Donk's excuse is that it was 'naipadinho'

Onion: Can be adapted to;

Donk's excuse is that it was SUITED!

aehuihaei
These 10 minimum characters are unnecessary bureaucracy, seriously

edit: posted along with ras, lol

Ras Lucas: these 10 minimum characters are unnecessary bureaucracy, seriously

edit: posted along with ras, lol

I bet that 9 out of 10 who read it will think the same thing huaehauehae

BILLGAMA: It's not famous but when I was playing in the micro limits, where there are a lot of people learning.
One guy was always taking too long to play preflop, and another guy, who was already a little nervous, said in the Chat:

“It’s just two letters and not a book..!!!”

I never complain about delays because I know there are countless reasons (some of them are just plain mean), but whenever someone takes almost the time limit in the preflop I think about the sentence above and I imagine the guy's eyes going from one card to another, lost, hehehe.

Ras Lucas: It doesn't matter what cards you have, but what cards the villain has! :happy34:

BILLGAMA: Oops…

Wrong topic. You can delete it.

Leandrinhuuu: Phrases that go through my head, must go through yours too;

1- Will I ever leave with a letter?

2- Because only my set doesn't crack.

3- This son of a bitch is holding Aces.

4- Now fold you damn thing.

5- Is it a poker rule to leave 7-2 from BB and SB?

6- Jesus, give me at least an AQ, omg against an AK, you damn thing.

7- I'm going to slow down, no I'm not going to slow down, I'm going to slow down... damn I shouldn't have slowed down that damn thing.

8- Flop, the mass is dominating everyone.

Villain all in, hero call…

Hit the turn…

Look at the shit…

runner runner no…

Holy shit

“Throw the mouse away, close the notebook and go to bed”

Jorginho "JJ": I have some here at UTG:

“Poker is not for cowards” – by Allan “Boss”, who loves being in the Big Game, whenever he raises.

“Want to see Flop? Then take it.” – this was yesterday here at UTG and is from Rodolfo “Rox”, giving a copy of Flop magazine to a player who complained about his repeated re-raises pre-flop.

Cheers
Jorginho :Js:Jc (Ah! I discovered the JJ in the emoticons)
UTG Club

JoaoRicardo: “When a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience leaves with money and the man with money leaves with experience” – Anonymous

Original: “When a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience leaves with money and the man with money leaves with experience.” – Anonymous

It's not just relevant in poker, but a good lesson for many things in life 🙂

This is so cool!

RG: “In both life and poker… Most people attribute their destinies to luck… When in fact in both what decides their trajectories… are their own choices…” (RG)

Shishido: I can't help myself!

heart always beats!(cups)

respect my big!

Tex Wilde: I love poker proverbs!!

2 that are not here:

“Poker is only a game of chance for those who depend on luck” this is by Poker Brasileiro.

“You know you’re starting to get addicted to poker when your college professor asks you a question, you knock twice on the table and look at the guy on your left.”

RodBarreto:
“You know you’re starting to get addicted to poker when your college professor asks you a question, you knock twice on the table and look at the guy on your left.”

AHSUhauhsuUSHUHuhsuaHUHSUAHUSHUAushUAHUSHAuhusUHSUA :thumbsup:

Aandysilvaa: "You can play a tournament well for a whole day, one mistake and you're out in a second." ~ I don't remember the author

"Don't take poker personally if we can't say you're losing the fight and your money." I

“Not every hand will win you”

"In poker you must survive not commit suicide." I

“Don’t get too attached to your cards”

GIL_BRASIL: “To live you must be willing to die.”

Applied for sit&go and MTT when you have a low M-factor.

Ruus7y: “It’s better to run with a good hand than to lose with a great hand”

Q?

#fail

Martinsy: I love poker proverbs!!
“You know you’re starting to get addicted to poker when your college professor asks you a question, you knock twice on the table and look at the guy on your left.”

FUCK MAN.. I ALMOST FELL OUT OF BED HERE THE NOTEBOOK ENDED UP ON THE WALL IUHAWIHiawhIAWHIAhwiuhaiuwhIawhUIHauwihuai I'LL DO THAT FOR SURE!

The kids in the room will now just be checking.

*if this fashion catches on.

FlAAvio: “If you don’t like taking bad beats, then you might as well play chess.” Chris Fergusson

BILLGAMA: “If you don’t like taking bad beats, then you might as well play chess.” Chris Fergusson

This is the phrase I like to repeat the most when someone starts to insult me in the chat just because they had a bad time…

Note: I think it's stupid to offend someone you don't even know, just because they made a "bad call" or raised more than expected.

arturscharf: If you want to fly, fly with AA (American Airlines)

full play: “oh yesssss, that’s justice”

shouted by piggy bank, 2009 São Paulo champion, after a pre-flop all-in of 3-7 off against aa……flop 3-3-7………could it be???????????

Aandysilvaa: Poker is a game of positive long-term investments. You want to make sure you have enough money to stick around and reap the rewards of those investments.

– “Rilla

JRS: Excellent topic!! Let's go: Only crap comes out of your hand and some idiots increase the stacks of others, and it's not even a sentence, it's a thought: "It's time to see the flop!" or worse: "Fuck the flop"

Heartbreaker: These are not famous quotes, but they were lines that made me laugh. They all happened in BetnGo's $10 DoNs.
The first was a pre-flop all-in where the players had AJ and AK. The board came XXX X J. The crazy guy was so happy that he said “I am God”. The crowd started to rip the guy apart, saying he was just a lucky fish and other common insults at the tables (moron, idiot, donkey…)
The second was in the late game with blinds 100/200. A player waited for time to pass so the blind could be increased for the next opponent...it didn't work, the UTG said the line "unbelievable poor..." (incredibly poor...) hahahahahaha

TrezeRJ: This is the phrase I like to repeat the most when someone starts to insult me in the chat just because they had a bad time…

Note: I think it's stupid to offend someone you don't even know, just because they made a "bad call" or raised more than expected.

I completely agree!
People complain that the game's level has dropped since Americans stopped playing online, but the good news is that we got rid of those jerks! They're the
most annoying guys I've ever seen in the world!

TrezeRJ: I don't know if they are famous, but they are funny:

“The phase is so bad that if it rains money a safe will fall on my head” – Guilherme Kalil
“I should have never stopped playing mau-mau!” – Mauricio Boechat
“Poker is a game of luck, bad luck is when you sit with someone who knows how to play” -Unknown author
“For those who have nothing, half is double” – Thiago Mergulhão
“Wow! It’s never peaceful. You always have to see your family on the wall!” – Írio Júnior holding AA
“If a pair of 22s is a coin flip with death, is a pair of 33s a coin flip with a coma?” – Renan Feitosa
“If my mother had 6 little breasts, she would be a pig” – Hilarious
“Friend, drink the milk and forget the cow!” – Roger “the legend” Machado

Source: “FALINHAS” | Mavca

gabrielper: this “fold, fold, fold” is a classic.

I grab the mouse and draw “I give up” on top of his profile picture hahaha

CpokerM: I like the denial and pleas for mercy ones! Lol

“The Ace doesn't hit, the Ace doesn't hit!! HOLY SHIT!!! ALWAYS ON THE RIVER!! DAMN PS”
The neighbor should be with me when I start!! hehehehehe

maicofer: taking it bad

Paid with this!!

response

There were just three more BBs!!

Who here, friend, has never seen this at a poker table.

nadinhosk8: Great strategist Sun Tzu whose ideologies have a lot in common with poker

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the outcome of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will lose every battle…

You don't need to have open eyes to see the sun, nor do you need sharp ears to hear the thunder. To be victorious you need to see what is not visible.

Lekp0ker: I like “Winner, winner, chicken for dinner” from the movie “Break the Bank” (I know www.duelodecentavos.com.br

teteukiller: “If only I was winning!!”

When you call the river with middle pair

DonVitche: This “fold, fold, fold” is a classic.

I grab the mouse and draw “I give up” on top of his profile picture hahaha

Hahahahahaha, I do that too Gabriel kkkkkkkkkkk

Eddwards003: “He has AA and will try to bluff my 64!”
I dropped this one on a live table when I saw the flop 664 on the button and got laughs and an all-in from the villain.
He actually had AA and I had 64, I took his entire stack.
“The truth hurts!”
Villain's response when getting up from the table.

arogerios: “He has AA and will try to bluff my 64!”
I dropped this one on a live table when I saw the flop 664 on the button and got laughs and an all-in from the villain.
He actually had AA and I had 64, I took his entire stack.
“The truth hurts!”
Villain's response when getting up from the table.

kkkkkk' Ohhhh if it hurts '-'
The worst thing is to imagine that someone is going to play 64, hahaha, not taking you out, because they must know how to play very well, and then when they play an off hand like that, they manage to beat Fullen on the Flop, it's tense, hahaha.

Eddwards003: lol' Ohhhh it hurts '-'
The worst thing is to imagine that someone is going to play 64, hahaha, not taking you out, because they must know how to play very well, and then when they play an off hand like that, they manage to beat Fullen on the Flop, it's tense, hahaha.

The table folded and as I had a very tight image I bet 2.5bb to steal, so far so good.
The villain was BB and three-bet for only 5bb, when I think the correct bet would have been at least 8bb. I gave him high cards since his image was also very tight, so I called. I hit the fullen. He bet about 7 to 8bb and I called and left the phrase, the trash turn came and he bust.

Vadiu: “Tournaments are basically a lottery. Some players are so poor, they're
in the lottery but don't have a ticket. Maybe the average player
has one ticket. A really good player has two or three tickets, and
a great one has five or six. But you're still in a lottery.”

Dan Harrington

XexeuAlves: Better than not winning is not losing.

(When you drop an AA and the table follows)

Original author: Marcelo.