<p>I’m not quite where I planned to be, but I never compromised. That’s good enough for me.</p>
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<p>Someone’s being clever.</p>
<p>You too, Dan.</p>
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<p>“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</p>
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Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
- Voltaire</p>
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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</p>
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“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</p>
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“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</p>
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<p>Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
- Voltaire</p>
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“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</p>
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“It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.”
- Voltaire</p>
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‘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>
<p>or…like quotes.com or whatever</p>
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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
- Voltaire</p>
<p>Grasping at straws here lol.</p>
<p>hahhaaha good job on hijacking this thread…</p>
<p>but i will admit that this quote war is kinda entertaining lol.</p>
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<p>Voltair can suck a nut.</p>
<p>Anyway, I think ya’ll had too high expectations maybe? I don’t know. Mine going into high school was just to have fun, maybe join theater, get into a college fully paid (shooting for something out of state), figure out an idea of what I might want to do in college/life.</p>
<p>And I’ve done all that and then some so I’m happy.</p>
<p>**** Voltaire. I demand some Oscar Wilde here.</p>
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“When the cards have evened out in the long run, the true measure of any player’s skill is the quality of decisions he made. Make better decisions and you’ll win money…It’s that simple.”
- Lou Krieger
“In poker, position means power. It is always advantageous to act after you’ve had the benefit of seeing what your opponents do.”
- Lou Krieger</p>
<p>The relevance of Voltaire to poker or an analogy using poker can only be stretched so far.</p>
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“Whenever you’re inclined to call a bet, ask yourself this: Instead of calling, is it better to raise, or would folding be the best decision? Many players look for reasons to call. While calling can be almost automatic in certain situations, raising or folding is frequently a better choice.”
- Lou Krieger</p>
<p>“Fold and live to fold again.”
- Stu Unger</p>