gambling strategy Quotes

When I bet on horses, I never lose. Why? I bet on all the horses.

We look for a horse with one chance in two of winning and which pays you three to one.

Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that's what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent signal or noise

The first thing I know, I'm in a card game. Then I'm in a crap game.

Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.

Whether I make two dollars or no dollars, it's better than losing. I've got enough people playing the games at the casino that I don't lose any money. So it's good for me, and it's fun.

The time to worry is before you place the bet - not after the wheel is spinning. Once it spins, you forget about it.

He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.

At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.

I like to think of the world as a sort of a casino, except the house doesn't have the advantage. If you're smart, you have an advantage. It behooves you to place a lot of bets.

Powerful drawing hands, like a pair with a flush draw or even conventional straight and flush draws, are often good opportunities to try a semi-bluff - making a bet or raise that you hope will not be called, but leaves you some outs if it is.

In karate, as your skill level increases, your instructor presents you with the next belt. But in poker, only you can decide when it's time to graduate to the next level. That's a tricky proposition for some players because it's difficult to assess your own progress.

I'm not a poker player; I play slot machines.

The value of small pocket pairs comes from the possibility of flopping three of kind and winning a sizable pot. To that extent, playing this type of hand is a low risk/high reward proposition.

Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.

The record of a month's roulette playing at Monte Carlo can afford us material for discussing the foundations of knowledge.

If I gamble, I go for the lowest-end blackjack or slots. It's because I don't like to lose!

I always have a bet at the start of each season, looking at the teams and the squads. I know there's a big element of unpredictability but if you've got your financial structure sorted out you've got a chance.

Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets?

I'm not a guy who counts cards. I'm a guy that plays with feeling. Because I feel that if something is going to come up, it comes up; if it doesn't, it doesn't. And a lot of people get pissed at me because that's the way I play but that's the way I learned to play - with my feelings.