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Introduction to Poker Phrases

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If you play long enough, you hear a lot of poker phrases. Some are witty, some are ironic, and some are better forgotten. A poker phrase, like puns and sayings you hear in ordinary life are a summation or snippet that requires no further elaboration. This article will look at some poker phrases, what they mean and when to use them.

“A Chip and a Chair”

This saying is one of the most famous. It basically means you are in the game so don’t give up. How many stories have you heard of a player who had a big blind left and came back to win the tournament or make a final table? A chip and a chair means as long as you have a chip, you are still in with a chance. The best time to use this poker phrase is after losing a massive pot and being left with very little chips.

“Better Lucky Than Good”

This always struck me as an interesting poker phrase. The poker community are forever banging the drum that poker is a skill game, so much so, that Gutshot poker club had court case about it. The phrase implies it is better to get lucky and win the pot than be a good player. Certainly, in one off instances, this poker phrase is true. As we know, poker is about the long run, the better players make the money every year. The saying is most appropriately used when getting lucky in a big pot or inflicting a bad beat on an opponent.

“If You Can’t Spot the Sucker at the Table, It’s You”

This well-known phrase was coined by Paul Newman and used beautifully by Matt Damon intro to the movie Rounders. No further explanation needed, no matter what table and the players on it, there will always be weaker players than others. If you look around and feel like there are none weaker than you, stands to reason you are the weak link. The saying is a lot harsh in a way, you may be the weakest at the table without being a fish but there is still truth to this one. This is not a saying to be said as such, unless it is a friend that is detailing his bad luck the night before with sharks.

“Everyone’s a Winner”

My favourite of all phrases as it always makes me chuckle. In short, if you ask any poker player how they are doing, they will always tell you they are up and winning. The reality is, most players actually lose, and we can’t all be winning right? Yet, I promise you, next time you go to the local poker room, ask a few players how they are doing for the year and you will soon find out that everybody is winning! If everybody is winning, who is losing? This saying can be used in response to a player who say’s they are up. It will usually be received by a laugh if the player is winning or defensiveness if the player loses.

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The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius. ~Julius 'Big Julie' Weintraub
If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you. ~David Levien and Brian Koppelman, Rounders
I stayed up one night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. ~Steven Wright, A Steven Wright Special, 1985, stevenwright.com
Is it a reasonable thing, I ask you, for a grown man to run about and hit a ball? Poker's the only game fit for a grown man. Then, your hand is against every man's, and every man's is against yours. Teamwork? Who ever made a fortune by teamwork? There's only one way to make a fortune, and that's to down the fellow who's up against you. ~W. Somerset Maugham
[Poker] exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great. ~Walter Matthau
Your best chance to get a Royal Flush in a casino is in the bathroom. ~V.P. Pappy
The commonest mistake in history is underestimating your opponent; it happens at the poker table all the time. ~David Shoup
I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand. ~Jonathan Swift
'How long does it take to learn poker, Dad?'
'All your life, son.'
~Michael Pertwee
FLUSH Five cards in one suit being choked to death by ten fingers clasped in an attitude of prayer. ~Charles Wayland Towne, The Altogether New Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz, 1914
Poker: the art of civilized bushwhacking. ~Nick Dandalos, attributed
Poker is the game closest to the western conception of life, where life and thought are recognized as intimately combined, where free will prevails over philosophies of fate or of chance, where men are considered moral agents and where — at least in the short run — the important thing is not what happens but what people think happens. ~John Luckacs
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport. ~Charles Lamb
In a game of poker, I can put the players' souls in my pocket. ~Beausourire
I believe in poker the way I believe in the American Dream. Poker is good for you. It enriches the soul, sharpens the intellect, heals the spirit, and — when played well, nourishes the wallet. ~Lou Krieger
Poker, n. A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown. ~Ambrose Bierce
Poker is... a fascinating, wonderful, intricate adventure on the high seas of human nature. ~David A. Daniel
Poker's a day to learn and a lifetime to master. ~Robert Williamson III
Whether he likes it or not, a man’s character is stripped at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life. ~Anthony Holden
With spots quadrangular of diamond form,
Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife,
And spades, the emblems of untimely graves.
~William Cowper
The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent. ~David Mamet
Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and democracy. It can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring, or hard and impersonal, fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair, and right, and just. ~Lou Krieger
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead. ~Jackie Robinson
Poker is to cards and games what jazz is to music. It's this great American thing, born and bred here. We dig it because everybody can play. ~Steve Lipscomb
God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e., everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time. ~Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens, 1991
Hold'em — like life itself — has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting. ~Lou Krieger
[Poker is] as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find outside an advertising agency. ~Raymond Chandler
You have it in your power to turn a bad-beat around simply by realizing this simple truth: The more bad beats you encounter, the luckier you are. It's a sign that you are playing against opponents who continually take the worst of it, and if you can't beat someone who always takes the worst of it, you can't beat anyone. ~Lou Krieger
Old card players never die, they just shuffle away. ~Author Unknown
Industry executives and analysts often mistakenly talk about strategy as if it were some kind of chess match. But in chess, you have just two opponents, each with identical resources, and with luck playing a minimal role. The real world is much more like a poker game, with multiple players trying to make the best of whatever hand fortune has dealt them. In our industry, Bill Gates owns the table until someone proves otherwise. ~David Moschella
Most of the money you'll win at poker comes not from the brilliance of your own play, but from the ineptitude of your opponents. ~Lou Krieger
In life's poker game, the optimist sees the pessimist's night and raises him the sunrise. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
I've often thought, if I got really hungry for a good milk shake, how much would I pay for one? People will pay a hundred dollars for a bottle of wine; to me that's not worth it. But I'm not going to say it is foolish or wrong to spend that kind of money, if that's what you want. So if a guy wants to bet twenty or thirty thousand dollars in a poker game, that is his privilege. ~Jack Binion
There's opportunity in poker.... If Horace Greeley were alive today, his advice wouldn't be 'Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.' Instead, he'd point to that deck of cards on table and say, 'Shuffle up and deal.' ~Lou Krieger

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