Amarillo Slim famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him.
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My favorite chip trick is to make everyone's chip stack disappear.
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You can shear a sheep a hundred times, but you can skin it only once.
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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.
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Look around the table. If you don't see a sucker, get up, because you're the sucker.
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I don't believe in hunches. Hunches are for dogs making love.
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I dont play any two suited cards. I play any two non-suited cards. That way I am drawing at two different flushes.
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If you are going to bluff, make it a big one.
-- Amarillo Slim
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Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.
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The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
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As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If we gamble on verbal structures that have no observable empirical structures, such gambling can never give us any structural information about the world. Therefore such verbal structures are structurally obsolete, and if we believe in them, they induce delusions or other semantic disturbances.
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Dice have their laws, which the courts of justice cannot undo.
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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.
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Persistence is the soul of a champion.
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If I wasn't a champion, I'd still be in jail. That makes me try very hard.
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The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.
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Behind every champion is a team that prepared him to become that champion.
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I think Bute would have to face off with the Super Six Champion to prove that he's the best Super Middleweight. You come out of a tournament like this on top, that demands a lot of respect and carries a lot of weight.
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