Hold’em is to to stud and draw what chess is to checkers….

If you always start with the worst hand, you never have a bad-beat story to tell….

They say poker is a zero-sum game. It must be, because every time I play my sum ends up zero….

Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and democracy. Poker can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring, or hard and impersonal, fickle and elusive, but ultimately poker is fair, and right, and just….

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…

I won my ticket on Titanic in a lucky hand of poker…a very lucky hand….