Chris Moneymaker Quotes

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

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 actually do quite well in Omaha. It's one of my better games. I love pot-limit Omaha and Omaha high-low. I do quite well in them. If I play in a casino, I usually play some kind of mixed game with Omaha and hold 'em.

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

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

Whatever game suits you best, learn to play both Limit and No Limit Texas Hold'em. Your overall game will definitely improve.

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

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.

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

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.

I just love poker players.

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 played with amateurs for a million years, and they just don't hit many flush shots.

The best poker game is seven-card stud, high-low splits. I mean, it's the best if you don't have to declare high or low, and can win it all with a low straight.

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

It's rare to find these true coin flip situations in Hold'em but surprisingly common in Omaha. That's one of the reasons why Omaha is the perfect game for action junkies who relish the notion of flipping coins for large sums of money.

For five or six years, I didn't play in some of the good games leading up to the World Series of Poker, because with so many below-average players there, I reasoned it messed up my game.

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

No doubt about it, in order to win the WSOP Main Event, plenty of stamina is required.

To the untrained eye, poker seems deceptively easy.

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.

Limit Hold'em is the game for you if you bore easily and crave fast action. Conversely, in No Limit, the game will often slow to a halt when someone is faced with a big decision. That's uncommon in Limit games because all-in bets are rare.

Experienced no-limit Texas Hold'em players understand the importance of reading flop texture.