Chris Moneymaker Quotes

Writing about poker is one of my passions.

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

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.

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

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

The key to online play really is multi-table tournaments.

I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.

I'm comfortable with the hold 'em, Omaha and stud high-low. But the other two games aren't my strongest games. I'm not comfortable at all with razz or stud.

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

Actors should be better poker players. But I think there's actual skill and crazy guts that you need to play poker - this ability to put all this money on the line inside of that game of cards. There's this whole different set of skills that doesn't apply to acting whatsoever.

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.

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.

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.

My biggest problem in live games is that I love the game so much and I don't think I ever met a poker player I didn't fundamentally like - even if they're screaming and they're acting like real jerks.

I just love poker players.

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

I play quite an old-fashioned game of poker. It's a lot about getting a sense of people at the table rather than the maths of the thing.

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

Look, most players can't stand to be outplayed by an opponent's bluff. Quite honestly, though, it doesn't bother me that much.

Success at poker is ultimately the result of solid fundamentals and the ability to read your opponents' betting patterns. This is especially true when playing online. But playing live poker is a completely different animal. In this venue, the presence of physical tells can not be overlooked.

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

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.

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

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

To the untrained eye, poker seems deceptively easy.