I grew up in Dayton, Ohio and one of my best friends was Danny Robison (who was two years older than I was). He was a great high school athlete and the guy who taught me how to play poker at the age of 13. We really were good kids growing up. We never smoked or drank, but because of Danny’s influence, the kids in the neighborhood gambled. I’m not saying it’s a good thing, but we bet on everything – cards, golf, bowling, ping-pong, whiffle ball, board games, you name it.

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Danny and the late, great, Chip Reese took a trip to Las Vegas in the early 1970s and quickly became rock stars in the poker world. I stayed at their house (the ultimate bachelor pad) when I would go to Las Vegas and although I didn’t play in the high-stakes games they did, I hung around them, so I got to know all the poker icons like Puggy Pearson, Stu Ungar, Doyle Brunson, Johnny Moss, Sarge Ferris, Jack Strauss, and Billy Baxter. These guys are all members of the Poker Hall of Fame and are true legends in the poker industry.

I have great memories of the “old days.” Here are some quotes from these poker legends while I was in their company:

Chip Reese (considered by most, including me, to be the best all-around player that ever lived): “Sexton, there are two days in poker that you will never forget. One is the first time you’ll lose $100,000 in a night and the other is the first time you’ll lose $1,000,000 in a night.”

Doyle Brunson: In the mid-1980s, Doyle was being interviewed by Poker Player (They were doing an article attempting to rank the best poker players in each game). I was standing next to him when he was asked, “Doyle, who do you think are the best poker players in each of the different games?” Doyle said, “You judge a hunter by the number of furs he brings home. Make no mistake about it – the best players are the ones who play in the highest-stakes games and are successful over time.”

Puggy Pearson: Years ago, I was “between bankrolls” (which is a quote by Frank Henderson when someone once asked him how he was doing). I owed a bookmaker some money and didn’t have it. I went over to Puggy’s house to borrow some money so I could pay the guy. After telling Puggy my story, he looked at me and said, “Son, let me give you some good advice. Don’t ever spend your time worrying about money you owe someone. Let them worry about it.”

Jack “Treetop” Strauss: Jack was an amazing guy who loved action and high risk. He once said, “I’d rather live one day as a lion than my whole life as a lamb.” Years ago during the World Series of Poker, Jack and I were going up to the Steakhouse at Binion’s when a guy came running up to us and said, “Jack, I’m in the best $3-$6 game in the world. They’re all playing like maniacs. I’ve been so unlucky in the game you can’t believe it, but for sure, I’m going to beat the game. Have you got some money I could borrow so I can get back in the game?” Jack reached in his pocket and pulled out two green chips ($25 chips). He flipped them to the guy and said, “Good luck!” We get in the elevator and I asked Jack who the guy was. He said, “I don’t know. If I knew him, I’d have given him a hundred.”

Stu Ungar: Stuey had the quickest mind and the most gamble of anyone I’ve ever known. And in my mind, without question, he was the greatest big buy-in No Limit Hold’em player of all time (He played in about 35 big buy-in No Limit tournaments in his lifetime and he won 10 of them!). In 1990, I bumped into Stuey as I was walking from the Golden Nugget to the Horseshoe to play in the 8 or Better Stud tournament at the WSOP (I won this event the previous year). As we walked out the door to cross the street, he said to me, “Sexton, never forget this. Anyone can win a poker tournament. Defending, that’s where it’s at.”

Well, I can’t tell you the goose bumps I got when he said that to me. It jacked me up so much that I couldn’t wait to start the tournament. I won the 8 or Better Stud event a year ago and now, after hearing that, I really wanted to defend my title. And I almost did it!

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I made it to the final table and things were going well. With five players left, I played a three-way jammed pot. On fifth street, I had two Aces and a seven-low draw. One opponent had Kings up and the other (Stormin’ Norman from Augusta, Georgia) had two eights with a gutshot straight draw. I was all-in on sixth street. I caught a deuce (to make Aces up) on sixth street and a Queen down the river. Norman caught a six to make an eight-high straight and scooped the pot. It was heartbreak for me. I busted out in fifth place and Norman went on to win the bracelet.

In the history of the WSOP, I believe only five people have successfully defended their titles (and none have done it in an open event that wasn’t the Championship event): Johnny Moss, Doyle Brunson, Stu Ungar, and Johnny Chan did it in the Main Event and Susie Isaacs did it in the Ladies’ Event. Because of Stuey’s inspiration and quote while we were crossing the street that day, I almost defended my title.

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Do you recognize this quote? “May all your cards be live and your pots be monsters!”

Take care.

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The dog will eventually stop whining.
What is the difference between a Phil Hellmuth and God?
God doesn’t think He’s a Phil Hellmuth.
What’s the difference between a poker player and a dog? In about ten years, the dog quits whining.
Why is “a man” like a deck of cards? Because you need a heart to love him, a diamond to marry him, a club to smash his head in, and a spade to bury the bastard.
Nice hand, sir.. and by hand I mean catch.. and by sir I mean dumbass.
If you're a guy, you know you play too much Poker if your dreams involve nuts instead of breasts.
- Unknown Player
I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol, and wild women. The other half I wasted.
- W.C. Fields
Q: What are a Man's three favorite games?
A. Checker, Chess, and Poker. (If you didn't get it say it quickly to yourself)
Money isn't everything … unless you're playing in a rebuy tournament.
- Anonymous
Whats the difference between online poker and live poker? You can cry after a bad beat online and no one will laugh at you.
Poker is like sex... if you don't have a good partner you better have a good hand.
Poker is a lot like sex, everyone thinks they are the best, but most don't have a clue what they are doing.
- Dutch Boyd
Sign you might have a poker addiction: your kids are named check and raise.
Q: What is the biggest difference between a church and a poker room?
A: In a poker room, you really mean it when you pray!!
What are vampires playing poker for? High stakes.
Chuck Norris won the World Series of Poker using Pokemon cards.
What do you get when you cross poison ivy with a four-leaf clover? A rash of good luck
Even Your Poker Face Is Ugly
Poker has the only river in the world you can drown in more than once.
I am folding faster than superman on washing day.
What's the difference between a pizza and a poker player? One can feed a family of three.
Q: How can you get a professional poker player off your balcony?
A: Just pay him for the Pizza!
Q: How can you tell when a professional poker player is lying?
A: His chips are moving
Q: Did you hear about the Los Angeles local poker hand?
A: Its Four Clubs beat a King
There are TWO basic rules for winning in poker:
1. never tell anyone anything
What is Bill Clinton's favorite game? Poke-her.
What do you call a poker player without a girlfriend? Homeless.
What did the giraffe say to the tiger at the poker table?
Answer: I thought you were a cheetah.
Why didn’t the elephant like to play poker in the jungle?
Because there are too many cheetahs.
I couldn't hit a river if I fell out of the boat.
AK: Anna Kournikova. Looks great. Never wins.
AK: Anna Kournikovz. Looks great but doesn't win much.
My chip stack is up and down more than a hooker's panties.
Do you have blisters on your a**? Because that is one hot seat your in.
I hope you don't make love the way you play tournaments... all in and done in under a minute.
I've had more flushes sucked out of me than a public toilet.
There's more fish in here than Seaworld.
He folded like a K-Mart lawnchair.
I wouldn't wipe my a** with those cards if I was out of toilet paper.
Making that call qualifies you for the Special Olympics.
That isn't a hand, it's a height.
There's a reason you lie in poker... you can't always be the best player at the table.
Some cowboys were playing poker in an Old West saloon. One of them laid down the winning hand, and another jumped up, yelling, “He’s cheatin! He aint playin the cards I dealt him!”
A blond girl playing freeroll was taking her time and playing very slow. The timer was started and she still could not take a decision how to play the hand. Her friend asked her with surprise, “What is going on? Why aren’t you playing?” The blond girl replied, “I am playing! I am just slow-playing aces!”
In a book store:
“I am looking for the book named 'How to win easily and fast with poker.'
Clerk says: “Please check the science fiction section.”
Someone bets, say, $35. Some other guy, a player at the back of him will say, 'I was going to call $34, but $35 is just too much.'
Husband Comes Home After A Poker Game...
I came home from the pub four hours late last night. “Where the fuck have you been?” screamed my wife.
I said, “I’ve been playing poker with some blokes.”
“Playing poker with some blokes?” she repeated. “Well, you can pack your bags and go!”
“So can you,” I said. “This isn’t our house anymore.”
What does “a safe game at low limits” mean?
The wife of a doctor called the poker room to get her husband paged. They refused. The house doesn't make doctor calls.
May the flop be with you.
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In the poker game of life, women are the rake
- Worm (Ed Norton) in Rounders
Your best chance to get a Royal Flush in a casino is in the bathroom.
- V.P. Pappy
Last night I got thrown out of a casino… apparently I completely misunderstood the crap table.
If I didn't have bad luck I'd have no luck at all.
- Unknow Author
I can't even catch a cold.
I need a hand that doesn't look like a foot.
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
- Steven Wright
A faint heart never filled a spade flush.
- Anonymous
You played that hand like a vegan.
- Erick Lindgren to Daniel Negreanu
Dear Lord, help me to break even. I need the money.
-Anonymous
A king can do no wrong … unless it runs into an ace.
- Anonymous
A Smith & Wesson beats four Aces.
- Anonymous
Forgive your enemies but remember the bastard's name!
- Doyle Brunson
The poker pool could use a little chlorine.
- Doyle Brunson
In the long run there's no luck in poker, but the short run is longer than most people know.
- Rick Bennet
Trust everyone, but always cut the cards.
- Benny Binion
'When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table.'
- Dean Martin
Avoid people with gold teeth who want to play cards.
- George Carlin
'Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.'
— Samantha Bee
It's unlucky to be superstitious.
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Forget about a chip and a chair; give me a hand and I’ll stand.
- Warren Karp
All I know is, if the cards ever break even — I’m screwed.
- Rich Korbin
If the shoe fits, steal it.
- Lou Krieger
To be a poker champion, you must have a strong bladder.
- Jack McClelland
There is more to poker than life.
- Tom McEvoy
It's not whether you won or lost, but how many bad-beat stories you were able to tell.
- Grantland Rice, Sportswriter
They say poker is a zero-sum game. It must be, because every time I play my sum ends up zero.
- Max Shapiro
It never hurts for potential opponents to think you’re more than a little stupid and can hardly count all the money in your hip pocket, much less hold on to it.
- Amarillo Slim
Old card players never die, they just shuffle away.
- Author Unknown
Put yourself in their shoes before you decide on the best way to take their shirts.
- David Sklansky
The only thing more profitable at a poker table than a man's ego is the rake.
- Tawnia
Omaha is a game that was invented by a Sadist and is played by Masochists.
- Shane Smith
Poker... I hardly even know her!
- Jack Styles
I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.
- Jonathan Swift (1728)
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.
- R.E. Shay
After a donkey goes busted: 'He's in donkey heaven now.'
About a really bad player: 'Even a donkey would think he's a donkey.'
That isn't a hand, it's a height.
Directed at a tournament player constantly using their timebank...
'Come on ... I've seen continents drift faster than you play'
Let me put on my blindfold and we'll play pin the tail on the donkey.
I've folded more hands than an undertaker.
I've seen more rags than a janitor.
I don't have a straw long enough to suck out on you.
How do you get 80 nice old ladies to curse at the same time? Yell 'Bingo'.
A man joins Gamblers Anonymous. He’s given three-to-one odds he won’t make it.
Besides lovemaking and singing in the shower, there aren’t many human activities where there is a greater difference between a person’s self-delusional ability and actual ability than in poker.
-Anonymous
What do you call a Poker Player with half a brain? Gifted
What is poker hell like? A limit game at 9:00 AM.
Q: What does a poker player eat for dinner?
A: Whatever his comp card allows him to.
What does a poker player eat for dinner? Fish and Chips
What is a poker player's favorite food? Fish and Chips
I'm in Vegas last week and a guy is standing in front of the Shoe and he appears to be pan handling. I wander by and he say's to me 'Sir, my wife has died, but I need money to bury her. Can you help me out?' I get a bit huffy and say back to him 'Why should I give you money. You're just going to take it and go gambling!' He looks at me and says ' You got it all wrong, I've got gambling money!'
What's a poker dealer's favorite song? 'Everyday I'm shuffling'.
You can only play pocket jacks 3 ways, all of which are wrong.
LIFE IS LIKE POKER - If you don't have a big enough stack... No one really notices when you are all in
I bet you I could stop gambling.
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