Kenneth Langone Quotes

Players talk about pot odds all the time, especially when they try to justify a call that they made. Whenever I hear this line of reasoning, though, I can't help but wonder if they properly thought through the consequences of their call.

Trust me when I tell you that Andy Roddick has the game to win a major poker tournament. I've played Hold 'em with him several times and he consistently demonstrates the kind of playing style and competitive drive that gives him a legitimate chance to win.

If you're going to just play with patience, you're going to be at the mercy of the cards.

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

All-star lay downs are all about reading your opponents, trusting your instincts, and then making the right move.

I thought poker might be a perfect environment to start to learn probabilistic decision-making, and to live what it means to have skill versus chance and to see how that played out. I would dive in head first into the poker world.

I'm not a good poker player, but I've got one bluffing technique - as long as you're quick with the blinds, you're fine.

Every poker player is smarter than me.

But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can't make any mistakes so you have to, it's all about where you're sitting at the table.

Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.

I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.

World Class players can lay down the toughest hands and play any two cards at any time without fear. Their reads are impeccable.

Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.

Poker is a game where you don't have to have the best hand to win. Poker is really reading other people and reading human emotion, which certainly comes into play in business.

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

The bigger the bet, the better I played.

You don't need a Ph.D. in mathematics to be a successful poker player.

Look, for some players, pot odds should guide your decision making.

My favorite poker game is No Limit Texas Hold 'Em.

Poker is all about comfort with uncertainty, after all.

Poker isn't the roulette wheel of pure chance, nor is it the chess of mathematical elegance and perfect information. Apart from the underlying mathematics, poker depends on the nuanced reading of human intention, interactions, and deceptions.

It's imperative to save a few chips whenever possible when playing small-ball poker. You never want to risk a high percentage of your chips unless you're dealt a monster hand.

I like blackjack. I like the psychology of poker.

Blackjack is very scientific. There's always a right answer and a wrong answer. Do you take a card, increase your bet, bet big or bet small. There's absolutely a right and wrong answer.