So, five-card stud, nothing wild. And the sky’s the limit. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘All Good Things’.
Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting. – Jason Alexander
Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn’t be avoided. It should be faced. – Edward Norton
There’s more at risk in what happens in Microsoft than I could ever bet on a poker table. – David Einhorn
I learned playing poker that you never count your winnings because that’s when you start to lose. – Kenneth Langone
Our poker table is eight guys, and then I’m the ninth; I’m usually the only girl at the table. – Laura Prepon
As I stood there absorbing Hammett’s novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played. – Ross MacDonald
I basically have paid for a piano and a flat-screen television completely with my poker earnings. I’m pretty good at it. – Robin Weigert
Being able to pit your wits against literally hundreds of other people is really exciting and ultimately the biggest single challenge for a poker player. – Tim Page
Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people. – Samantha Bee