Poker is just a hobby I'm passionate about. It's not supposed to bring glory.
It's hard to be so mentally competitive and when you're not competing you try to turn it off but it doesn't work like that. I don't think you can just turn it off, I think you still find ways to be competitive - if it's playing a video game, if it's playing cards.
I'm a big card guy. I play Rook, Liverpool Rummy - love that. I play Pac-Man, shoot pool.
Soon there will only be five kings left, Spades, Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs and the King of England.
Zog was deposed in 1946
A married couple that plays cards together is just a fight that hasn't started yet.
Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.
It wasn't a popular thing to be a professional poker player in the '80s.
I can play poker when I have to and I think it has made me a better fighter.
Anything was better than playing cards, and I was doing something I wanted to do creating.
When I play poker, I don't like losing the pot.
I don't play. I'm a terrible gambler. I don't know half the rules, and I'm not really patient enough to sit through hours of gaming.
I am terrible at cards.
The good news is that in every deck of fifty-two cards there are 2,598,960 possible hands. The bad news is that you are only going to be dealt one of them.
I was good at most subjects at school. Looking back, I was a proper boffin! Now, the thing I'm really good at is poker.
I'm not a crazy Vegas guy. I'm not a gambler.
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
I try to keep my mind active. I'm a solitaire and puzzle addict. I exercise religiously. I don't do many things religiously and I've taken up golf to have something to do when I have nothing to do.
My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him.
My dad was a big card player.
I love playing poker, reading, and painting.
We never talk about gambling around my house.
I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 million dollars from playing. It is unreal.
Before I got into electronic games, I was making table-top games.
I don’t like gambling very much. I don’t like being at the mercy of those little white squares that roll around and decide whether you win or lose. I like to have the say-so myself.
I love card games, and I've always loved board games and stuff like that as a kid, and I think it's that part of your brain that's engaged in con movies. It's like this 'Who's outsmarting whom?'
