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The universe doesn't hand out blank cards to play. You will know your hand soon enough.
A lot of boys in my poker circle are mathematicians who play on probability. I don't have that kind of brain, so I rely on instinct. But I recently found out that poker and cards in general go way back in my family gene pool.
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
It all boils down to the same thing: are you going to play the cards you got, or are you going to fold?
You got dealt some crappy cards. But you're the one who has to decide how to play them.
One has a stronger hand when there's more people playing your same cards.
In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.
Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.
we play the cards we've been dealt - as Isabel in Secrets of a Charmed Life says - based on finite knowledge, and while being largely unaware that everyone around us is playing their own cards.
What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.
He tossed the deck to David. 'You get first deal.'
'I've got one hand.'
'Right, then. Deal those cards, Max, and let's have ourselves a game.
Silence, that inspired dealer, takes the day's deck, the life, all in a crazy heap, lays it out, and plays its flawless hand of solitaire, every card in place. Scoops them up, and does it all over again.
A psychologist plays the cards before the shuffle and the deal.
The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately.
Let me tell you, there's no better medicine than a friendly card game for sloughing off the cares of a workaday world.
Looks to me like the sort of fellow one doesn't play cards with.
I play out the cards. They say: This is Heaven, this is Hell. It is one.
At 2:00 sharp on the afternoon of his internment, with his body resting in a casket in the front room of his home, the pallbearers--all bridge players--stuck a deck of cards in Mr. Hampton's cold hands, shut the lid over his head, and played bridge.
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.
Young men most needed experience. They could not play well if they trusted to a general rule. Every card had a relative value. Principles had better be left aside; values were enough.
Trust everybody in the game but always cut the cards
We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent - or they themselves - was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible.
Only losers and amateurs blame the cards. After all, cards don't care; they don't take sides, and they have no memory. They are blind justice holding her scales, and in the long run they'll tip evenly for the novice and the skilled alike.
Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of ivory interests more than the loss of an empire, or the ruin of an unoffending group of infants, and their nearest relatives.
Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by, say, Tony Danza. The grand masters associate each card with a person, an action, or an object so that every group of three cards can be converted into a sentence.
If you have the winning cards, why cheat?
The way you play, you need to talk about winning. Don't talk about keeping your card - talk about winning.
It's d-d-dishonourable to peek at someone else's cards."
"Cribbage is cutthroat.
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
World Class players can lay down the toughest hands and play any two cards at any time without fear. Their reads are impeccable.
Enlightenment writer and philosopher Voltaire likened life to a game of cards. Players must accept the cards dealt to them. However, once they have those cards in hand, they alone choose how they will play them. They decide what risks and actions to take.
I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker.
Listen, friend, he said, this whole game is just one big deck of cards. if you want to get into the game you have to take whatever comes up in the shuffle.
Do you want to be a poker player? Then this is your path, the only one. You will be wrong, always wrong. But you must keep being wrong and keep whittling away at that wrongness.
I've always played cards. I can't remember when there wasn't a gambling game going on somewhere, even if it was a craps game in a wheelbarrow on the backside of the racetrack.
Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
Here some one thrust these cards into these old hands of mine, swears that I must play them, and no others. And damn me, Ahab, but thou actest right, live in the game, and die in it.
When you go card dead its torture just sitting there.
You're playing solitaire with no aces in the deck, and you can't figure out why you never win.
poker hand which includes a king, queen and jack, all three face cards that appear to be 'looking at you'.
Plus he was naturally lucky at cards. As Mam had always said, lucky at cards, or lucky at life. One or the other. Not both.
Show me your eyes and you may as well show me your cards.
Anything was better than playing cards, and I was doing something I wanted to do creating.
Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.
Haven't you ever played Uno? ... Sometimes you have to lose all your cards to win.
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.
Do you really think cards can tell us future??
No matter how you spread the cards but queen is always king ones..!!
Just so long as Charlotte doesn't know what was going on," said Lesley.
"Don't worry, she went to her room in a fury just because I put down the word cardscissors.
"Which as everyone knows are scissors for cutting cards," said Xemerius. "Essential in every household.
Ninety percent of the hands aren't shown in a poker game.
All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.
The beautiful thing about poker is that everybody thinks they can play.
The one who bets the most wins. Cards just break ties.
If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.
Poker is meant to be enjoyed.
Then we change our possy and lie down again to play cards. We know how to do that: to play cards, to swear, and to fight. Not much for twenty years;
and yet too much for twenty years.
I'm the first person in my family to play poker.
This is life and all there is of life; to play the game, to play the cards we get; play them uncomplainingly and play them to the end. the playing of the game is the foregetting of self and play it bravely to the end
After the play, he counts on playing cards,
and he on a wild night in some girl's arms -
why, in a cause like this, must you poor fools
so sorely try the Muses' kindness
Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved.
It's called the principle of favorability. When you play cards the first time, you are almost sure to win. Beginner's luck.
We're over at Dad's. James just won another hand of poker. I'm starting to worry."
"He's your son, Pidge. Does it surprise you that he's good at cards?
I'm like a poker player, bluffing with whatever cards equal a really shitty hand. I should mention that I have no fucking idea how to play poker. "You
We cannot change the cards we are delt, just how we play the hand
I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards.
I've done my part, played my hand, even thrown in my cards when I had to. I've bet what I didn't have and bluffed until I had it. Link once said: Ridley Duchannes is always playing a game. I never told him, but he was right.
Took awhile, got the jokers out of the deck now, I'm holdin all the cards and niggas wanna play chess now
Rummy is the best-known of all card games played in the United States. Its popularity is due partly to the fact that it is so simple. Any person with a knowledge of the basic game can easily learn any form of it.
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
In some ways, they've added one more card to their playing hand.
Well, you played me, Rabbit. You played me, and it worked, and I'm not the kind of person to make the same mistake twice. Your whole life is a game, but you know what? I already have a life. Poker's nothing to me but a goddamn deck of cards.
I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
Courage - and shuffle the cards.
Life deals your hand and you play it.
The good news is that in every deck of fifty-two cards there are 2,598,960 possible hands. The bad news is that you are only going to be dealt one of them.
The world is more than a game of cards. History is more than a record of gambling operations.
It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.
Coin matching and finger flashing were among the first formal games to arise in the history of gambling. The class of Morra games extends back to the pre-Christian era, although not until comparatively recent times have game-theoretic solutions been derived.
People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.
Hand at Cards IX. The Game Made X. The Substance of the Shadow XI. Dusk
Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.
In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.
Here's a freebie: Don't play poker with a kid who can read minds.
My father lost me to the Beast at cards
playing patience,
A married couple that plays cards together is just a fight that hasn't started yet.
To play is to yield oneself to a kind of magic.
But it's also true that my memory is a card shark, reshuffling the deck to hide what I fear to know, unable to keep from fingering the ace at the bottom of the deck even when I'm doing nothing more than playing Fish in the daylight with children.
Okay. So you know, you need to beat the dealer. Yeah?" he began. I nodded. "Okay. When you count cards, you have to remember; cards between 2 and 6 have a value of a plus one. Cards between seven and nine have a value of zero. Cards between ten and ace have a value of negative one.
Matches were dangerous, but cards were fatal.
It's not the cards that you have all the time that makes you a winner or a loser.
One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all the cards.
Do you play cards?"
Her lips tingled from the light kiss, "In theory. Why? Do you have a hankering for Old Maid?" She teased, flashing him a smile.
He placed his glass down and reached for an intricate metal crafted box. "Not even close. How about a little strip poker?
I love card games, and I've always loved board games and stuff like that as a kid, and I think it's that part of your brain that's engaged in con movies. It's like this 'Who's outsmarting whom?'
You can bluff the good players, but not the bad players. Against the bad players, you have to have a hand.
I am clean I am true I am playing with my cards on the table.
But that's life right? It's just a shitty hand of cards. But then maybe somebody pulls out an Ace, and somebody else gets a four, or a ten. It's all in the draw and how you play it.
extra pack of dog cards.
The cards are no good that your are holding unless you're from another world.
Crooked cards and straight whiskey,
Slow horses and fast women.
Every poker player is smarter than me.