Making Compromises throughout High School--Are You where You Intended to Be?

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“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.” -Voltaire

“Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and democracy. It can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring or hard and impersonal. It is fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair, and right, and just.”

• Lou Krieger

“A witty saying proves nothing”

• Voltaire

“The key to excellence is making a commitment. Wishing is not enough. Neither is mere involvement. There’s a difference between involvement and commitment. It’s like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the ham is committed!”

• Lou Krieger

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

• Voltaire

You have it in your power to turn a bad-beat around simply by realizing this simple truth: The more bad beats you encounter, the luckier you are. It’s a sign that you are playing against opponents who continually take the worst of it, and if you can’t beat someone who always takes the worst of it, you can’t beat anyone.

• Lou Krieger

“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”

• Voltaire

“Forget about money management. Forget about quitting when you’re ahead or quitting once you’ve lost some predetermined amount of money. If the game is good and you’re ahead, why not keep playing? Chances are you’ll win even more money. If you’re losing, but haven’t let your losses get the better of your emotions and you’re still making good decisions at the table, there is absolutely no reason to quit. On the other hand, if the game is bad you should quit or look for a softer game regardless of whether you’re winning or losing.”

• Lou Krieger

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

• Voltaire

“If you are not a winning player, your bankroll will never be large enough. To completely eliminate the possibilities of ever going broke, losing players need a big enough bankroll to outlast their life expectancy.”

• Lou Krieger

“It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.”

• Voltaire

‘Some 250 years ago, Jonathan Swift said, “Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.” The analogy also holds true for losing poker players. They see flaws in everyone’s play but their own.’

• Lou Krieger</p>