Monday, October 11, 2010

The Only Animl that Plays Poker

The poker tables in the Trump Taj MahalImage via Wikipedia
Insurance: An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. – Ambrose Bierce




True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table: luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home. – John Hay



There is enough energy wasted in poker to make a hundred thousand successful every year. – Arthur Brisbane



Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich – something for nothing. – George Bernard Shaw



Man is the only animal that plays poker. – Don Herold



It doesn’t say much for society, if gambling is the main method of raising money for good causes. – Bertram Troy


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