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“I love the internet kids but they can lose a 200k pot and go right back to eating their egg-white omelette, meanwhile when I get the bring-in 4/7 in razz I feel like I can hardly breathe.”

- John Hennigan talking about what it’s like playing w the younger generation in Bobby’s Room.

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09-22-2021 , 01:17 PM

#127

tracktardicus

newbie

Join Date: Nov 2018 Posts: 38

At the poker table last night:

Another player: "The math compelled me to call."

Me: " The power of math compels you!!!"

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09-22-2021 , 01:30 PM

#128

joe_seboks_luck

grinder

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 600

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Originally Posted by SinK

Just to get really finicky, I believe this is the movie dialogue from "Guys and Dolls".

Runyon's original wording from the short story is:

The Sky tells me that when he finally cleans up all the loose scratch around his home town and decides he needs more room, his old man has a little private talk with him and says to him like this: [...] "Son," the old guy says, "no matter how far you travel, or how smart you get, always remember this: Someday, somewhere," he says, "a guy is going to come to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is never broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that the jack of spades will jump out of this deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son," the old guy says, "do not bet him, for as sure as you do you are going to get an ear full of cider."

Given that I'd read the short story a good ten years before I ever saw the movie, I can't not hear the movie dialogue and transpose it to the (much better) short story dialogue in my head anyway.

Man, I kinda miss the days when you didn't have everything on demand and you might have had to wait ten years before an old movie was re-run on the TV.

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09-23-2021 , 09:32 AM

#129

HurtLocker

adept

Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 798

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Originally Posted by joe_seboks_luck

Given that I'd read the short story a good ten years before I ever saw the movie, I can't not hear the movie dialogue and transpose it to the (much better) short story dialogue in my head anyway.

All of sudden I want to watch again some silent movies from the 1920's. They really never got their due praise if you ask me. Some of em consisted of comedians like Buster Keaton, Laurel & Hardy etc. who walked along steel beams "only" 40 + floors high on skyscraper construction sites. No dialogue but you as the viewer are watching with emotions of fear and funny tugging against each other as they traverse along the high-rise trying to get back down to the ground floor.

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09-23-2021 , 07:54 PM

#130

Reggie Steer

banned

Join Date: May 2021 Posts: 1,939

"Unfortunately, the only cheaters who get caught are the ones that don't know how to cheat." - Dominic Nitsche

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09-27-2021 , 10:14 PM

#131

yimyammer

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 7,211

"Totin schmo ain't like rolllin blow unless you’re a Sasquatch pickin daisies out on the prairie"

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09-29-2021 , 10:59 AM

#132

superleeds

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 4,180

Nothing yet from The Cincinnati Kid?

Slade: 'How the hell did you know I didn't have the king or the ace?'
Lancey Howard: 'I recollect a young man putting the same question to Eddie the Dude. "Son," Eddie told him, "all you paid was the looking price. Lessons are extra."'

Lancey Howard: 'Gets down to what it's all about, doesn't it? Making the wrong move at the right time.'

Lancey Howard: 'You're good, Kid. But as long as I'm around, you're second best. And you might as well learn to live with it.'

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09-29-2021 , 03:36 PM

#133

yimyammer

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 7,211

"Tortellini & ham Sammies, dem good!"

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09-29-2021 , 08:20 PM

#134

elendil200

adept

Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,031

"I won my freedom last night, all it cost me, was everything I had"

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09-30-2021 , 05:37 PM

#135

yimyammer

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 7,211

‘Turtle toes, chicken feet and rubber mallets…what do they all have in common?

I don’t know but folding sucks!”

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09-30-2021 , 05:45 PM

#136

Reggie Steer

banned

Join Date: May 2021 Posts: 1,939

From the world of vlogging:

"Folding is boring"

"Go Gamble"

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09-30-2021 , 09:09 PM

#137

Al Mirpuri

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 5,485

Quote:

Originally Posted by King Fish

”Son, when a man bets you that the jack of spades will rise out of the deck and squirt water in your ear: son, don't take that bet, for, as sure as eggs is eggs, you'll end up with a wet ear.”

-Doyle Brunson

This does not originate with Brunson. Here is Damon Runyon's orginal:

One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider.