Showing posts with label Arthur Brisbane. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arthur Brisbane. Show all posts

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