Michael Ian Black Quotes

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

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

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 just love poker players.

Writing about poker is one of my passions.

You get steely nerves playing poker.

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

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

At my first tournament, about four years ago, I got four twos. Now I have a poker problem. I do win every so often, so that's what keeps me going.

The World Series of Poker was becoming popular, and there were a lot of really bad poker players out there. The misperception was that I was really good, but I just ground it out. It was a good way to make money for Box.

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.

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

To the untrained eye, poker seems deceptively easy.

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

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

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.

Being able to pit your wits against literally hundreds of other people is really exciting and ultimately the biggest single challenge for a poker player.

I basically have paid for a piano and a flat-screen television completely with my poker earnings. I'm pretty good at it.

I've won over 50 million dollars playing poker.

Before I found out what poker really was I had this picture in my mind of men smoking cigars and having all these chips and like going all macho and crazy. I don't think there's been that much done in the mainstream community to change that perspective.

I got into poker in the early 2000s. In snooker tournaments, you are always looking for things to pass the time between matches, so we'd play together, or I would play online.

The World Series of Poker has always attracted a competitive international field.

I've been an idiot at the poker table for a long time.

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

In No Limit Hold'em, much like video games and karate lessons, you need to master one level before you can move on to the next.