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I have always played cards during training camps. I used to play Italian card games, though. I rarely played poker.
Exercise clears my brain of the stresses of poker's ups and downs, and allows me to re-focus my mind on the next day.
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 basically have paid for a piano and a flat-screen television completely with my poker earnings. I'm pretty good at it.
The correct strategy in heads-up poker is based on identifying and acting upon your opponent's strengths and weaknesses.
Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'
I'm not a good poker player, but I've got one bluffing technique - as long as you're quick with the blinds, you're fine.
When you're willing to play poker for two days and lose millions of dollars, it's no longer recreation. It's taking over.
You can't follow or understand the game unless you play chess yourself, unlike poker which you can pick up in five minutes.
There are big advantages to having a lot of chips early on in a poker tournament. You can make plays that other people can't.
Poker is a charismatic game. People who are larger than life play poker and make their living from playing games and hustling.
Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting.
There were times in school where I would say, 'I should go to class.' But I could make $100 playing online poker if I didn't go.
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!
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 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.
In the development business doing something for both women and the environment is the equivalent of holding a royal flush in poker.
I am a poker player, but I am not a good poker player. My favorite game is seven card stud, but I'll play hi/lo, Hold 'em, Razz, etc.
If you look at poker as a sport like baseball, then I'd be maybe a minor league or high school ballplayer. But I play with T-ballers.
Actors, we like our little cups of cappuccino and our personal umbrella-holders. Poker players, they've gotta be a little bit tougher.
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 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.
President Obama is a poker player, which the media used as part of the narrative that he was more calculated and careful as a politician.
I've become addicted to playing poker because you're constantly faced with confusion, and winning is trying to make sense out of nonsense.
Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
No matter what poker book you read or poker show you watch, the topic of position will invariably be discussed and its importance stressed.
Swallow your pride and be completely objective about your own poker skill level. Only then can you implement an effective betting strategy.
I used to make it deep in poker tournaments without ever moving all-in because other players knew that when I raised it up, I had the goods.
Manipulating people is what's so fun about poker. I love that you can just look into someone's eyes and lie - and it's perfectly acceptable.
I haven't done 'Celebrity Poker Showdown,' and I would love them to have me, but I think I'm not a big enough celebrity yet to get on there.
The goal of hyper-aggressive poker is to create a wild and crazy image that will return dividends when you're eventually dealt a monster hand.
Poker is about understanding human behavior and managing emotions - yours and the other guy's. That's huge in poker, and it's huge in business.
At my first tournament, about four years ago, I got four twos. Now I have a poker problem. I do win every so often, so that's what keeps me going.
The hope that people walk into poker halls with and the despair they leave with was something I researched by actually visiting these poker halls.
It's nice to have other hobbies, other than golf. I've played football, I play tennis. I enjoy doing things other than golf, and poker is one of them.
I hear a really good pop song every now and then. 'ROAR' by Katy Perry, I love that! 'Poker Face'... Oh! What a song! And 'Rolling in the Deep'... Oh!
The pros really like all the new people playing poker because they love the dead money; but when the money wins they don't like that very much at all.
Humans are hard-wired to be irrational when it comes to financial decisions. We must understand that so we don't become the sucker at the poker table.
Being able to pit your wits against literally hundreds of other people is really exciting and ultimately the biggest single challenge for a poker player.
I grew up, initially, poor and then rich and then back to poor when I was in the military and college. And then eventually made some money playing poker.
Just because you're sitting at a poker table with some guy doesn't give him the right to say whatever the hell he wants about the way you live your life.
I stopped playing online poker due to a combination of the UIGEA legislation and realizing that I could make more money with less effort by betting sports.
It's kind of cool being at a poker table with the guys from NOFX, a guy from Bad Religion, a guy from Lagwagon, all these cool punk bands you've always dug.
I started playing poker in 2003 during my pregnancy, to distract myself from my awful morning sickness. For months all I did was cry and play Texas Hold'em.
If you are in a poker game for money and are taking it easy on one of your buddies, you are cheating yourself, your friend, and every other player in the game.
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.
The best poker game is seven-card stud, high-low splits. I mean, it's the best if you don't have to declare high or low, and can win it all with a low straight.
In poker, you've got to start at the bottom level and work your way up. This advice applies to the limits that you play and the sizing of the bets that you make.
I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table.
I don't think anyone could have predicted that I would have gone in less than a year from not knowing how many cards were in a deck to winning a major poker title.