Poker is a game full of personalities and characters, people who are never shy on giving an opinion. Here we’ve gathered together some of our favourite quotes, some by poker players and some which we think are just worth thinking about the next time you are at the table!

"Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died."

Steven Wright

"It's not how you play the hand where you take the bad beat. It's how you play the next one."

Julian Gardner

“No set, no bet"

Cloutier

“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

"Skill is good, but luck is better. But to stay long enough in the competition...to get that amount of luck...that's skill."

Marcel Luske

“When we play, we must realize, before anything else, that we are out to make money.”

David Sklansky

"Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite."