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To be a successful gambler you have to have a complete disregard for money.  Doyle Brunson  

 

 

One more time.  Come on, man.  The Cincinnati Kid 1965 starring Edward G Robinson & Steve McQueen & Ann Margret & Tuesday Weld & Rip Torn & Karl Malden & Joan Blondell & Midge Ware & Jack Weston et al, director Norman Jewison, kid

 

I dont need to mark cards to beat you, pal.  ibid.  McQueen

 

Theres always a Kid, isnt there?  ibid.  Lancey Howard

 

Lancey, you have been the man for a long time.  ibid.  Shooter

 

Remember what you said about cheating yourself?  ibid.  Melba

 

No limit.  No string bets.  ibid.  Shooter

 

You know, kid.  Youre the best stud poker player Ive seen in thirty-five years of action.  ibid.  Lancey

 

Women are a universal problem in our business.  ibid.  Lancey

 

Just the two of us, kid.  ibid.

 

Gets down to what its all about, doesnt it?  Making the wrong move at the right time.  Like life, I guess.  ibid.

 

Youre trying too hard, man.  You just aint ready for me yet.  ibid.  kid

 

 

You were holding a pair of 8s, Dick.  And you bet the farm on the river card.  The time came when you should have folded and you didn’t.  Something in you told you to take the leap.  You were remarkable.  The blindness was exquisite.  The Last Days of Lehman Brothers, Paulson, BBC 2009

 

 

No chess, Mr Spock.  Poker.  Do you know the game?  Star Trek s1e10: The Coromite Maneuver

 

 

Too rich for my blood.  Star Trek: The Next Generation s5e18: Cause and Effect, Data playing poker

 

 

Five card stud.  Nothing wild.  And the sky’s the limit.  Star Trek: The Next Generation s7e26: All Good Things II, Picard  

 

 

It was his poker winnings that helped finance Nixon’s first political campaign.  The American Experience: The Presidents: Nixon I: The Quest, PBS 1990

 

 

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with tarot cards.  I got a full house and four people died.  Stephen Wright

 

 

Poker should not be played in a house with women.  Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire, Mitch

 

His poker night you call it.  This party of apes.  ibid.  Blanche

 

When men are drinking and playing poker anything can happen.  It’s always a powder-keg.  ibid.  Stella    

 

 

Behind closed doors there are underground poker games going on all over the world.  Underground Poker, Esfandiari, Discovery 2015  

 

 

The beautiful thing about poker is that everybody thinks they can play.  Chris Moneymaker

 

 

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.  Paul Newman, attributions & variations

 

 

Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don’t have to do push-ups.  Penn Jillette

 

 

Poker may be a branch of psychological warfare, an art form or indeed a way of life – but it is also merely a game, in which money is simply the means of keeping score.  Anthony Holden   

 

 

In contrast to the linear chain of reasoning for sequential games, a game with simultaneous moves involves a logical circle.  Although players act at the same time, in ignorance of other players’ current actions, each is forced to think about the fact that there are other players who in turn are similarly aware ... His own best action is an integral part of the calculation.  Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind

 

 

You’re under arrest for running an illegal gambling operation, do you understand?  Molly’s Game 2017 starring Jessica Chastain & Samantha Isler & Piper Howell & Idris Elba & Kevin Costner & Michael Cera & Brain d’Arcy James & Chris O’Down & J C Mackenzie & Bill Camp & Graham Greene & Jeremy Strong et al, director Aaron Sorkin, Molly nabbed

 

Poker Princess Molly Bloom Arraigned Today.  ibid.  news headline

 

Poker was my Trojan horse into the highest level of finance, technology, politics, entertainment, art  all I had to do was listen.  ibid.  Molly

 

I felt like I was in a hole so deep I could go fracking.  ibid.

 

 

At the age of 27, Sebastien ‘Seb86’ Sabic and Alex ‘Alexonmoon’ Luneau have been played online ‘nosebleed’ games since 2009.  They have already won several million dollars in cash game poker … In 2014 they have one dream left to fulfil in poker: to win a bracelet at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.  Nosebleed, 2014

 

‘The level keeps getting tougher.  I’m ten times better than three years ago.’  ibid.  Alex

 

‘Now every time I play him [Rui], I’ll tell him he’s being filmed.’  ibid.  Sebastien

 

‘Alex won a million dollars in a month.’  ibid.

 

‘I’d say Alex remains the best player in the world.’  ibid.

 

‘The Razz tournament is for me.  I can feel it!  ibid.  WSOP #18 $10,000 Razz Tournament

 

‘It’s the most beautiful tournament to play, the most exciting in the WSOP, and of the whole year.  It’s not often you can play $50,000 buy-in tournaments.  Moreover, mixed games are what I’m the best at.’  ibid.  Alex

 

 

Las Vegas 2012: This is a poker game like no other.  Entry fee: $1,000,000.  To see it will be to believe it.  48 players have paid to enter, among them a former plumber turned British poker sensation.  Sam Trickett’s incredible gift has already earned him millions.  But there has been a price to pay.  Now Sam’s taking the gamble of his life in pursuit of Poker greatness.  High Stakes: The Story of Sam Trickett, 2013

 

‘Poker is worldwide.  Poker is on the internet.’  ibid.  player  

 

The industry’s unbelievable growth has transformed public perception of the game.  In 2011 the global online poker industry was worth an estimated thirty billion dollars a year.  ibid.

 

At the 2010 World Open, Poker realised Trickett was the real deal.  ibid.

 

 

Poker is a blood sport … Doyle [Brunson] was one of the legendary Texas Rounders – the road gamblers who went around the Lone Star State in the 50s and 60s playing one game after another.  They created modern poker.  History of Poker, Youtube 2016 

 

Thomas Austin Preston, alias Amarillo Slim – one of Doyle’s fellow Rounders and a living poker legend himself.  ibid.   

 

He started playing poker to pay the bills.  ibid.

 

The Mississippi River became a poker playing mecca around the 1820s.  ibid.

 

Professionals have been playing poker in the West since the 1850s.  ibid.

 

 

15 April 2011 Black Friday: On Black Friday the US Department of Justice shut down online poker in America and froze $500 million in player funds.  Bet Raise Fold, caption, 2013

 

‘When I found out sitting around on a computer playing cards for a living was something you could actually do, I was like that’s it, that’s what I’m gonna do with my life.’  ibid.  player

 

In 1998 Planet Poker launched the world’s first real money online poker site.  ibid.  caption

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