Poker Chess Quotes

Poker isn't the roulette wheel of pure chance, nor is it the chess of mathematical elegance and perfect information. Apart from the underlying mathematics, poker depends on the nuanced reading of human intention, interactions, and deceptions. Maria Konnikova. In chess, having complete information available to you allows for very complex analysis and deep thought process. Poker involves a similar thought process but also includes luck and guess work (based on analysis) so more players are able to develop a style/strategy and become proficient + profitable at the game despite lacking the mental capacity of chess wizards.

Every once in a while, people stumble across a hobby that represents much more than the activity itself. They connect with the task at hand way beyond the sport or the game or the craft. Instead, a person's new hobby helps them tap into a healthy, welcoming community and a new way to think about life.

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This can happen with pretty much any hobby so long as the person finds that deep of a connection; it can't be forced and it's not the same for everyone who feels passionately about the way they spend their free time.

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One of the most interesting hobbies this happens with, though, is poker.

Here are 6 quotes about poker to help you see how it's more than just a card game.

1. 'It's Hard to Convince a Winner That He's Losing' – Mike Caro

At the surface level, this quote is probably talking about bluffing. When a player knows he has a winning hand, he's not going to fall for another person's bluff.

But, think about how that can apply to life. Consider all the drama and judgment that surrounds our actions from time to time, then remind yourself that it's not up to others to decide whether you're winning or if you're right or wrong. If you know in your heart your actions are right, if they feel right, you're fine.

2. 'Life Is Not a Matter of Getting Good Cards…

…but sometimes, knowing how to play a poor hand well.' – Jack London

You can't expect to get a perfect hand in every round of poker, and your life definitely isn't going to be perfect all the time, either. You probably knew that by now. But maybe what you didn't know is that life isn't always about what happens to you so much as how you react to the world around you.

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3. 'Just Play Every Hand. You Can't Miss Them All.' – Sammy Farha

Maybe your issue is that you overthink your reactions. Maybe you get so caught up in 'coulda shoulda woulda' type of thinking that you forget to live in the moment.

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One of the most interesting hobbies this happens with, though, is poker.

Here are 6 quotes about poker to help you see how it's more than just a card game.

1. 'It's Hard to Convince a Winner That He's Losing' – Mike Caro

At the surface level, this quote is probably talking about bluffing. When a player knows he has a winning hand, he's not going to fall for another person's bluff.

But, think about how that can apply to life. Consider all the drama and judgment that surrounds our actions from time to time, then remind yourself that it's not up to others to decide whether you're winning or if you're right or wrong. If you know in your heart your actions are right, if they feel right, you're fine.

2. 'Life Is Not a Matter of Getting Good Cards…

…but sometimes, knowing how to play a poor hand well.' – Jack London

You can't expect to get a perfect hand in every round of poker, and your life definitely isn't going to be perfect all the time, either. You probably knew that by now. But maybe what you didn't know is that life isn't always about what happens to you so much as how you react to the world around you.

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3. 'Just Play Every Hand. You Can't Miss Them All.' – Sammy Farha

Maybe your issue is that you overthink your reactions. Maybe you get so caught up in 'coulda shoulda woulda' type of thinking that you forget to live in the moment.

Use Farha's words to remind you to come back to the present and play the hand you're dealt with the gaming strategies you know. When you do fold, move on and don't look back.

4. 'Fold and Live to Fold Again' – Stu Ungar

Speaking of folding, keep in mind that you're going to have to do that a lot in life until you get the cards you've been looking for. Those 'cards' may be opportunities that were handed (or dealt) to you, or your reason for not folding could also be what you make of them (how you play the game).

5. 'Keep Calm and Go All In' – Anonymous

Sometimes, the best thing you can do is go all in. This goes for the goods and the bads in life. When a good thing happens to you, embrace it and soak it up for what it is.

When a bad situation presents itself, don't try to run from it or avoid the situation. Face it. Go all in and you'll be out of that darkness before you know it.

6. 'One Thing Even a Poker Face Can't Hide is Love' – Tapan Ghosh

At the end of the day, love rules all. Having love for the game of poker won't make you win a hand, but love does help a lot of the big picture things in life. It's the ultimate source of healing, hope, and purpose. Keep that in mind no matter the 'cards' you're dealt.

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It's funny how much a game can teach you if you know how to pay attention.

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Many athletes say that about their sport of choice and it's the same thing for poker players and well-known chess champions. That's how poker enthusiasts come up with these quotes about poker, after all. They understand it beyond the face value that other people see it for.

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• Lasker(DGM): Resign or else.
• Capablanca(DGM): I think I'll else.
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• Zsa Zsa Gabor(PMS): Macho does not prove mucho.
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• Alekhine(DGM): That was rather tasty, Euwe. And you say it has no alcohol?
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• Judit Polgar(GM): It will take more than what's in your pants to beat me.
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• Anand(GM): I don't pay attention when I play. I wanted to be a doctor.
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• Anand(GM): I think Judit has a crush on me.
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• Judit Polgar(GM): As if, Vishy. Didn't you read my last quote?
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• Korchnoi(MGM): This time I'll win the Championship for sure.
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• Kasparov(SGM): Be the chess player not the chess piece.
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• Nigel Short(BFGM): Chess is ruthless: bring a drop cloth.
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• Woody Allen(Patzer): I didn't make the chess team because I play 1. g4.
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• Pawnshover(PG,WP,GBM): I am a victim of chess.
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• William Hazlitt(probably plays 1. g4 too): A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them.
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• IBM(C): We finally figured out how to beat Kasparov. We programmed the computer to play poker.
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• Chess.com(ICS): Have you looked up the definition of quote, pawnshover?