The version I've heard is "The easiest way to make a small fortune gambling is to start off with a large fortune".

I've heard a version as, "the best way to double your money is to fold it in half."

Heard this a few places, one for the gamblers;

I'd rather have a sister in the whorehouse than a brother betting don't come

“The next best thing to gambling and winning is gambling and losing.”

for pure cliche..."Poker takes a minute to learn, lifetime to master."

fyp

"It should be illegal to let a sucker keep his money"

"You gotta know when to hold'em, know when to fold'em"

"I'm a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work, the more of it I have"

- Arnold Rothstein

But how much did you lose?

"Like my Uncle Les used to say 'when the money is gone it's time to move on.'"

You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're walking around going, 'Hey you get the lacrosse scores?' Artie Lange

A vegas poker saying...

People who chase straights and flushes come in airplanes and leave in buses

I know it sucks, but what can you do? Gotta lose that money.

"Of course we can't afford to play these stakes. If we could, we'd be playing much higher."

"no gamble, no future"

This one scratches my degen itch. Plus I lol'd and had never heard it before. Any idea who said it?

The only morally wrong thing is to let a sucker keep their money.

- Canada Bill Jones

“I love lady. Lady coming. LADY LADY LADY.... LADY”

Barry Greenstein apparently

I don't have a gambling problem, I have a winning problem

I've always found it funny that this line has caught on as some pithy saying about poker. To me, it was intentionally written as a lame attempt at an aphorism. Worm is an idiot suddenly being forced to wax philosophical in the hopes of offering some consolation to his friend, and failing to do so. After all, some people have a way with words while others... not have way.

Even in the scene itself, Mike remains annoyed and chides his buddy for saying it ("What the F- are you talking about? What saying?"). It's as if Worm was trying to make "fetch" happen.

Of course, he quickly pivots and gets to what truly can cheer up Mike: something something rolled up aces over kings, check-raising stupid tourists, stacks and towers of checks, etc. The sound of a bass and hi-hat kicks in and Mike's expression changes. Then the guitar info from "Funk #49" J-cuts to the guys on the road, signaling to the audience that the old Mike is back.

Then again, you never know what catches on. The "greed, for lack of a better word, is good" line from Wall Street was meant to hammer home Gekko's villainy, and instead became a rallying cry for wannabe yuppie douchebags in the 80s. The Seinfeld writers often said some of the terms that were written to be catchphrases never did, while other throwaway lines became part of the lexicon.

“Limit poker is a science but no-limit is an art.” - Crandall Addington

Pulled it from The Biggest Game In Town, well overdue reading. It’s remarkable how things have changed, yet in some ways are the same.

“If they had wanted you to hold on to money, they’d have made it with handles on.” - Jack Strauss

"When faced with two choices, flip a coin. When it’s in the air, you’ll know which side you’re hoping for."

If God did not want them sheared he would not have made them sheep.
--Calvera

"you are a ****ing moron betting kk into trup qq"

- nwerle