Zitat des Tages über Poker:
But I want people to understand that poker's not all glamorous, it's not all being on TV and making tons of money. It's a hard life. It's a lot of travel. It's a lot of weird hours.
Ninety percent of the hands aren't shown in a poker game.
I never really gambled - certainly not playing poker. I'd casually bet on a football game or joined a pool.
I can never have a poker face. Anybody looking at me can tell exactly what I'm thinking.
As for poker, I've stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven, I would get accosted by these guys begging me to play. They just want to take my money. They see me, think 'actor' and see some easy money.
If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling.
For the most part, I get to do what I want to do. If I want to play poker, I can. If I don't want to play poker, I don't have to.
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.
You got paid on Friday, go for a late-night poker game, and have no money on Saturday. But the RSC took your rent out of the paycheck, so at least you had a place to sleep.
I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.
When I play poker, I don't like losing the pot.
I could think of worse ways of going than at the poker table.
I used to sports gamble a lot and I was getting killed on that but then I found poker and really enjoyed it. But it was a hobby more than anything else. I played it every day but only on pretty small stakes.
The principal reason for the universe's poker face is that its constituents are far away. Stars careen through space, and galaxies spin at speeds thousands of times faster than a jet plane. But given their distance, you'd need the patience of Job to notice much change in their appearance or position.
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
ESPN has this problem with sports, it's impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments.
Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.
I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips on the table has more leverage than everyone else. He can eventually outbluff everyone else and outraise everyone else at the table. That's what has happened and it needs to be corrected.
I've read the poker books, but at this point, everybody who's playing has read the poker books. I feel like I'm knowledgeable enough to understand what's going on in the game, and I understand why I suck. And I'm not sure if I'll ever rise beyond that to the level where I don't suck.
Poker has such an element of competitivness that other games don't have.
No, that's poker. To win, you've gotta get damned lucky.
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
I have a house, with two big plasma-screen TVs, two dogs, a grill, chessboard. I like to keep it low-key: invite friends over, order some Papa John's pizzas and Coors Light, play poker and ping-pong and chill. I'm pretty private.
There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces.
Because of who I am, when I sit at a poker table, I meet people who engage me in conversation, not only about poker, but also about the movie business and about the world of celebrities.
Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.
I wear my heart on my sleeve. I have no poker face.
My kitty cats could rely on my poker winnings.
I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.
What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning.
I've become addicted to playing poker because you're constantly faced with confusion, and winning is trying to make sense out of nonsense.
I am very driven. I work really hard, whether it's acting or my charity or even poker. When I focus on something I give it my all.
The competition has improved tremendously. In 2003, I could teach a guy how to play poker in an hour and he could win some money. Today, it would take days. The game has gotten so much tougher. So I will spend my time with my family and play when I can.
Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.