Expert poker is first and foremost about effective bluffing, but you have to mix up your play in such a way that your bluffs are always credible. - Brandon Adams.
Point #1: Your most important decisions involve your first two cards. Point #2: If you don't fold, the flop will usually disappoint you. - Mike Caro
If you like to win all the time when you're the favorite on the river, you're going to experience a lot of heartbreak. Every day, you going to get those hands beat. Everybody gets the same hands beat the same percentage of the time.... [D]on't look at anything as a bad beat. Nothing is surprising. It's all expected. - Daniel Alaei
When weak players take what they perceive to be a bad beat and start complaining, rather than correcting them, telling them to stop whining, or flat out ignoring them, sympathize with your opponents... You should be friendly and welcoming to all players, but especially the bad ones. - Nick Brancato
The message is clear: plan with attitude, prepare with aptitude, participate with servitude, receive with gratitude, and this should be enough to separate you from the multitudes. - Krish Dhanam
Here is the real deal: Poker is about proving yourself through results. Play well, you win money. Win the money, be successful in the long run, and you have proven yourself by definition. Tell everyone how great you play, and all you have done is proven yourself to be a jerk. - Annie Duke
General tournament strategy can best be characterized by two words: discipline and opportunism. - Michael Cappelletti
Everybody does the things that top people do occasionally. Top people do these things all of the time. - Brian Tracy
Accept the fact that poker is a long-run game and that your primary objective is to get your money in with as big an overall edge as you possibly can. - Roy Cooke
Money management was always the thing that slowed me from becoming a truly great poker player. I would suggest that other players adhere to bankroll management. If you are good, you will break through. If not, at least you'll know where you stand for sure rather than gambling with a good portion of your money. - Mike "SowersUNCC" Sowers
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