poker wisdom - Beginning Poker Questions

hey guys at 2+2

i'm searching for short, useful sentence which have a bit of poker wisdom in them.

eg no set no bet
small hand small pot

feel free to post
fnx

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09-14-2007 , 01:40 PM

DiamondDog

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 7,474

"It depends"

and

"Fold preflop"

are two of my favourites.

Seriously.

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09-14-2007 , 02:01 PM

crystalallen

grinder

Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 669

My favorite from Phil Gordon (who I learned from watching Celebrity Poker)

"Aggressive poker is winning poker"

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09-14-2007 , 03:09 PM

shoefactory

newbie

Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 20

I like "fold preflop".

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09-14-2007 , 03:13 PM

Terremoto

adept

Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 751

nh sir

and...

Gogogogogo!!

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09-14-2007 , 04:24 PM

hecubus

centurion

Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 197

Amir Vahedi I think - "In order to live, you must be willing to die." Or was that Freddy Deeb?

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09-14-2007 , 04:27 PM

hecubus

centurion

Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 197

If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.

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09-14-2007 , 04:35 PM

Win.by.TKo

journeyman

Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 372

"In order to live, you must be willing to die" applies mostly to tournament poker.

'Fit or Fold' is a common one.

'Third raise is Aces or Kings' or something similar tends to be true.

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09-14-2007 , 04:42 PM

KurtSF

Lucky Number Seven

Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 16,471

Of varying degrees of usefulness and truthfulness:

Play opposite of the table. (be loose at tight table, etc)

No Limit Holdem rewards bold and aggressive play.

Play the player, not the cards.

Never open limp.

Standard.

Better players get sucked out on more often.

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09-15-2007 , 12:05 AM

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silvar_shark

newbie

Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 49

"no pairs means you go no wheres"

"The kiddie game is down the street boys"

"only a donkey would play that hand"

"i can dodge bullets baby"

"Bluffing takes two things, balls, and balls, and stupidity...no wait thats three."

"knowing when to fold aces.....wait.... NEVER FOLD ACES"

"There was this one time. well, see i had aces, i was utg......and that donkey actually had the flush, go figure, what a donkey!....NEVER tell bad beat stories to Actual poker players"

"Why bother when your money is just coming to me?"

"Always quit when ahead"

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09-15-2007 , 12:07 AM

#11

Poker Clif

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 5,806

Quote:

hey guys at 2+2

i'm searching for short, useful sentence which have a bit of poker wisdom in them.

eg no set no bet
small hand small pot

feel free to post
fnx

Balance playing with reading and studying.

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09-15-2007 , 01:21 AM

#12

Anamul

journeyman

Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 227

Most of the money you'll win at poker comes not from the brilliance of your own play, but from the ineptitude of your opponents. ~Lou Krieger

Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression: If you cards are good enough for your to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with. Alfred Alvarez (2001)

Try to decide how good your hand is at a given moment. Nothing else matters. Nothing! Doyle Bunson

The winner is not the player who wins the most pots. The winner is the player who wins the most money. Anthony Holden, author of Big Deal (1990)

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09-15-2007 , 03:38 AM

#13

LiveInPeace

centurion

Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 156

Liquor in the front, poker in the rear

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09-15-2007 , 04:14 AM

#14

tacticaltal

centurion

Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 157

He who chases straights and flushes will be pushing mops and brushes.

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09-15-2007 , 07:25 AM

#15

MrBump

WINNING

Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 6,018

RAISEY DAISY

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09-15-2007 , 08:30 AM

#16

JJT

adept

Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 915

Win early, lose late.

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09-15-2007 , 12:01 PM

#17

jtr

old hand

Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 1,581

Have a good time... all the time.

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09-15-2007 , 12:41 PM

#18

sputum

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 6,435

At some point you will run worse than you ever believed possible.

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09-15-2007 , 03:52 PM

#19

Cernunnos

journeyman

Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 251

The commonest mistake in history is underestimating your opponent; it happens at the poker table all the time. ~David Shoup

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09-15-2007 , 03:52 PM

#20

Cernunnos

journeyman

Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 251

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport. ~Charles Lamb

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09-15-2007 , 03:53 PM

#21

Cernunnos

journeyman

Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 251

Whether he likes it or not, a man’s character is stripped at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life. ~Anthony Holden

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09-15-2007 , 03:54 PM

#22

Cernunnos

journeyman

Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 251

The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent. ~David Mamet

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09-15-2007 , 03:54 PM

#23

Cernunnos

journeyman

Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 251

Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and democracy. It can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring, or hard and impersonal, fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair, and right, and just. ~Lou Krieger

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09-17-2007 , 06:21 PM

#24

AugustWest

grinder

Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 620

"In poker every man is his own...poker is sheer justice" Frank B. Wallace; Poker:A guaranteed income for life

"They were suited"

"How many aces are in that deck?"