Maria Konnikova Quotes

I just love poker players.

I like to play a lot of poker in my off time.

I'm not a big poker guy, I like to play shnarps.

You get steely nerves playing poker.

I'm the first person in my family to play poker.

What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning.

If you're a poker player and you show up at a casino at 8 a.m., you're going to be by yourself or with some people that are rocks and just don't give you any action.

I still enjoy a wee game of poker now and then, but I'm not very good, and being Scottish, I don't like to lose that much money!

But when I will call it a day, I could become a professional poker player.

I am a poker player, but I am not a good poker player. My favorite game is seven card stud, but I'll play hi/lo, Hold 'em, Razz, etc.

I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.

Anybody who likes to play poker, if you want to find a good poker game, you're going to go play. It's not anything where I'm betting the house, like $100,000. You go, kick back, have fun, talk to some of the fans, enjoy it.

One of my favorite poker shows on television is 'Poker After Dark.'

It wasn't a popular thing to be a professional poker player in the '80s.

To the untrained eye, poker seems deceptively easy.

I've been at the table with some really great poker players. I'm sure Vince McMahon is a hell of a poker player.

Writing about poker is one of my passions.

I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12.

I have been on TV quite a few times as a poker player.

Not having the online game has made it more difficult. There are a lot of young and upcoming players in poker. But you don't get to see them because TV has sort of been taken away.

So to me, Texas Hold 'em puts me to sleep. At least when you play stud, you can be funny as you deal. Somebody some day is going to come up with a Stud show that's going to work.

I play poker face to face.

High-stakes gamblers love heart-racing Omaha-type action; normal poker players don't!

I'm just a poker player who does a bit of TV.

I was mad-keen on poker as a kid. It was like the snooker, pulling me into that same smokey atmosphere I loved.