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To: TFF who started this subject	2/8/2003 12:33:21 PM
From: TFF	of 12617

Memorable Quotes from Rounders: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you can’t spot the sucker after your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You play for a living. You don’t gamble. You grind it out. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Get your money in when you have the best of it. Protect it when you don’t. Don’t give anything away. A true grinder. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I learned how to win a little at a time. But finally I’ve learned this.If your too careful - your whole life can become a fuckin grind ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Give me three stacks of high society. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I hope you not thinking of putting all that glimmer in play. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Some people, pros even, won’t play no limit. They can’t handle the swings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Life is on the wire. The rest is just waiting. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I’m down to the felt. I lost everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Happens to everyone. From time to time everyone goes bust. You’ll be back in the game before you know it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You don’t hear much about guys who take their shot and miss. But I’ll tell you what happens to them. They end up humping crappy jobs on midnight shifts trying to figure out how they came up short. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The cardinal rule. Always leave yourself outs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A nickel would get me start very nicely. 220? Hey thanks, but that’s like 11 bets. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Few players recall big pots they have won. But every player can recall with remarkable accuracy the outstanding tough beats of his carreer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It’s immoral to let a sucker keep his money ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can sheer a sheep many times. But skin him only once. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- He’s see all the angles but he doesn’t have the balls to play one. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why does this still seem like gambling to you? Why do you suppose the same 5 five guys make it to the finals in the world series of poker every single year? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was watchin em when the cards came out. That’s just an old habit with me..like….breathing. You watched the cards? I watched the cards also. But I was watching the players reacting to the cards. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We can’t run from who we are. Our destiny chooses us. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Throw in your cards the moment you know you can’t win. Fold the hand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Your never down and out until your chips are all gone. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- He doesn’t know what hit him. I know what that feels like. Like a locomotive through your stomach. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fifteen grand in five days. I can do that. I’ve gone on rushes like that before. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The move was folding. I can’t lose what I don’t put in the middle. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fold or hang tough. Call or raise the bet. These are decisions you make at the table. Sometimes the odds are stacked so clear there’s only one way to play it.Other times like holding a small pair against two over cards it’s 6 to 5 or even money either way. Then it’s all about feel. What’s in your guts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I tell you to play within your means, you risk your whole bankroll. I tell you not to over extend yourself, to rebuild , you go into hock for more. I was givin you a livin Mike. Showing you the playbook I made off my own beats. It wasn’t enough for you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I put it all on the line that’s true.But you know what ..it wasn’t a bad beat. I wasn’t unlucky. I got outplayed. But I know I’m good enough to sit at that table. It’s not a pipe dream. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I owe -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I’ve often seen these people. These squares at the table. Short stacked and long odds against. All their outs gone. One last card in the deck that can help them. I used to wonder how they could let themselves get into such bad shape. And how the hell they thought they could turn it around. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I told worm you can’t lose what you don’t put in the middle. But you can’t win much either. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- People insist on calling it luck. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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