I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?
I can play poker when I have to and I think it has made me a better fighter.
He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
My dad was a big card player.
I'm not a guy that shows a lot of emotion while I'm playing.
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'm a very what-you-see-is-what-you-get kind of person, and my family always laughs at me. They're like, 'You have minus-zero poker-face skills. We just have to look at your face and we know what's wrong with you.'
Look, most players can't stand to be outplayed by an opponent's bluff. Quite honestly, though, it doesn't bother me that much.
Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting.
I get paid to not laugh.
I was mad-keen on poker as a kid. It was like the snooker, pulling me into that same smokey atmosphere I loved.
I still enjoy a wee game of poker now and then, but I'm not very good, and being Scottish, I don't like to lose that much money!
He said, Son, I've made a life out of readin' people's faces, and knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.
I like to play a lot of poker in my off time.
The beautiful thing about poker is that everybody thinks they can play.
It's okay," he informs me. "Your grandfather is teaching me how to play poker." If I know Grandad, that means what he'll really be teaching Sam is how to cheat.
You play your cards so close to your chest," said Shadow, "that I'm not even sure they're really cards at all.
My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.'
I learned that the people who have the cards are usually the ones who talk the least and the softest; those who are bluffing tend to talk loudly and give themselves away.
Some people know me as the bad boy of professional poker and call me The Poker Brat. Sometimes I deserve that nickname, but not always.
I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
Comedy isn't necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it's a question of timing, of the proper rhythm.
I just love poker players.
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.
