Frank Vincent Quotes

I made the choice to go into the world of underground poker.

Pool is a fascinating game, but there is always the added factor of the money that really makes it hot.

Poker is a charismatic game. People who are larger than life play poker and make their living from playing games and hustling.

I'm a gambler at heart. That's my life.

I like playing roulette, I like dice. I grew up with gamblers.

I'm not a crazy Vegas guy. I'm not a gambler.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

I met my boyfriend, a pro poker player, at a tournament. He tried to dissuade me because it's a seedy gritty world. Listen, I've played till 4 in the morning. I've played with a half million dollars on the table.

Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.

Daily Fantasy Sports has nothing to do with sports. The “game,” such as it is, uses sporting events the way the lottery uses ping-pong balls. Being into DFS because you’re a sports fan is like being into poker because you’re just generally a big fan of clovers, diamonds and spades. Indeed, the best players don’t know anything about sports at all, a fact they are cheerfully honest, even boastful, about.

I was a gambler when I was a kid, so when we got to Las Vegas, it was like Mecca.

Connie Bennett, the guys used to stake her, she was so good.

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

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

I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.

I've always played cards. I can't remember when there wasn't a gambling game going on somewhere, even if it was a craps game in a wheelbarrow on the backside of the racetrack.

Casino games are the one kind of content that has stood the test of time for decades.

A long time ago, my grandfather used to play blackjack with me, when I was very small, and I quite enjoyed that.

Most gamblers do it for ego. It's not about winning or losing, it's about challenging your ego and showing your mates you're fearless and will bet on anything.

Sometimes when you gamble, you get up from the table with a fortune.

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.

My father loves Las Vegas, and he loves to play craps. Growing up, I'd find old Caesars Palace chips in his pocket that he forgot to cash out.

Every card player in Hollywood wanted to come to the games. Everyone's friends and their friends wanted to come to watch.

My dad's uncles were illegal bookmakers who were known in the area as Peaky Blinders, that's the stories I heard.

I love playing poker, reading, and painting.