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

Fear is the basis of all mankind. In cards, you psyche ‘em out, you shark ‘em, you put the fear of God in ‘em.

The commonest mistake in history is underestimating your opponent; happens at the poker table all the time.

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 th…