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THE QUOTABLE POKER PLAYER
By COLIN M JARMAN
The Fun-Packed Book of Poker Sayings from Five-Card Stud to No Limit Texas Hold 'em
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Description
READ ‘EM AND WEEP (with laughter) This volume of 1500 humorous quotes covers all aspects of the game. It celebrates the fun-side of poker encompassing the funniest poker-based sayings and quotations from professional players, poker celebrities, authors, humorists and journalists, as well as a choice selection from film and TV characters. A special chapter Poker Media covers humorous reviews and comments about Poker Books, Poker Movies & Poker TV Shows. SAMPLE CONTENTS and CHAPTER HEADINGS POKER IS ... "Poker is the new pornography. The Internet is awash with it … it’s banned in China and it’s full of excitable Scandinavians." Rick Dacey on InsidePokerMag.co.uk (2006) POKER AS WARFARE "Poker is like war; there is no tomorrow. You have to pick the hill you want to defend and die trying, or be king of the hill." Johnny Hale on GamingToday.com (2009) POKER 101 "Every bluff is now revealed as the product of untold computations, every bullying all-in raise seen for the science that it is, the arithmetic of incomplete knowledge. Unless, of course, it’s just a bad guess." Richard Hoffer in Sports Illustrated magazine (2003) POKER CARDS and HANDS "The cards have no regard for sex; they’ll just as soon make a straight for a woman as a man - only it will sting worse if you have a scrotum." Michael Konik (2001) POKER GAMES "No-Limit Texas Hold ‘em may be the Cadillac of poker games, but there are plenty of other fine cars out there in the showroom." Conrad Brunner on CardPlayer.com (2006) W.S.O.P. "The Americans tip the odds in their own favour, with World Series tournaments like Limit Razz and Ace To Five Draw; such un-British games that they might as well be competitions to see who can name the most Texan garden centres." Victoria Coren in The Guardian (2001) POKER BOOKS "Anthony Holden, author of the bestselling book about poker, Big Deal, goes out of his way to emphasise that poker is not gambling because it is a game of skill, and yet he won’t go down to the tables without wearing his lucky watch." Mike Atherton, Gambling (2006) POKER MOVIES "Hollywood often uses gambling, and less often card playing, to add a flavour to a movie. Unfortunately most of these movies have silly scenes (House of Games) or stink (Honeymoon in Vegas) or both (Maverick)." Steve Badger on PlayWinningPoker.com
