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The Quotable Poker Player is a fun-packed, free rolling book of 1500 humorous poker quotes that covers every aspect of the poker world: games from Stud to Texas Hold Em, online poker, professional players, superstars, celebrities, experts, tips, cards, rules, tournaments, poker rooms, poker films, poker books, poker on TV, even poker songs. In fact, more poker quotations than you can shake a Royal Flush at.

August 23, 2010 -- Containing over 1500 humorous poker quotations, The Quotable Poker Player is the most extensive book of funny poker quotes covering every aspect of the poker world. Or to quote Blue Eyed Books' editor-in-chief Colin M Jarman, it is "The Biggest and Funniest Poker Quotes Book Ever."

Quotes, quips, wisecracks and one-liners come from professional poker players, poker celebrities, poker fans, poker experts, poker writers, authors and journalists - even fictional poker players. A special chapter Poker Media covers humorous reviews and comments about Poker Books, Poker Movies, Poker TV Shows and Poker Songs.

From Poker 101 to Ocean’s 11

From the Poker Brat to The Cincinnati Kid

From bad beats to Goodfellas

From home games to House of Games

From Texas Hold ‘em to California Split

From Go Fish to the Devilfish

From green felt greenhorns to Barry Greenstein

From Holly Madison to Phil Ivey

From The Odd Couple to Phil & Jennifer

This well-researched and extremely topical book contains a number of recent quotations from 2010 with many of the 1500 quotes taken from the 21st century.

The 156-page paperback is divided into the following thematic chapter headings (shown here with sample quotations) ...

POKER IS ...

"Poker is the new pornography. The Internet is awash with it … it’s banned in China and it’s full of excitable Scandinavians."

- Rick Dacey on InsidePokerMag.co.uk (2006)

POKER AS WARFARE

"Poker is like war; there is no tomorrow. You have to pick the hill you want to defend and die trying, or be king of the hill."

- Johnny Hale on GamingToday.com (2009)

POKER 101

"Every bluff is now revealed as the product of untold computations, every bullying all-in raise seen for the science that it is, the arithmetic of incomplete knowledge. Unless, of course, it’s just a bad guess."

- Richard Hoffer in Sports Illustrated magazine (2003)

POKER CARDS and POKER HANDS

"The cards have no regard for sex; they’ll just as soon make a straight for a woman as a man - only it will sting worse if you have a scrotum."

- Michael Konik (2001)

POKER GAMES

"No-Limit Texas Hold ‘em may be the Cadillac of poker games, but there are plenty of other fine cars out there in the showroom."

- Conrad Brunner on CardPlayer.com (2006)

POKER ROOMS

"The card clubs of California are vast sheds of frenetic activity filled with noise and excitement, proffering some 200 tables divided between American poker and Chinese games. They are good fun in their own way. But for true believers, Binion’s in May is better than April in Paris."

- David Spanier in The Independent (1995)

WORLD SERIES OF POKER

"The Americans tip the odds in their own favour, with WSOP tournaments like Limit Razz and Ace To Five Draw; such un-British games that they might as well be competitions to see who can name the most Texan garden centres."

- Victoria Coren in The Guardian (2001)

POKER PLAYERS

"To become a first-rate poker player, you must be one part mathematician, one part economist and one part psychiatrist."

- Robert Schraff

"Phil Hellmuth, the loudest, most obnoxious, and biggest all-around cry-baby in the poker universe."

- Daniel Fierman in Entertainment Weekly (2004)

"Phil Ivey is a top-notch negotiator, making Samuel L Jackson look like a 5th grader."

- Gus Hansen, Every Hand Revealed (2008 )

"Daniel Negreanu is known for his friendly and chatty nature with time for anyone but beware, whilst you’re making friends with a poker legend, he’s reading your soul!"

- Shaun Dean on PokerPlayer.co.uk (2010)

As well as quotes about the 'real' poker world, The Quotable Poker Player also includes a large selection of quotations about Poker Media: Poker Books, Poker Movies, Poker Sites, Poker on TV and Poker Songs.

POKER BOOKS & POKER WRITERS

"Anthony Holden, author of the bestselling book about poker, Big Deal, goes out of his way to emphasise that poker is not gambling because it is a game of skill, and yet he won’t go down to the tables without wearing his lucky watch."

- Mike Atherton, Gambling (2006)

POKER MOVIES

"Hollywood often uses gambling, and less often card playing, to add a flavour to a movie. Unfortunately most of these movies have silly scenes (House of Games) or stink (Honeymoon in Vegas) or both (Maverick)."

- Steve Badger on PlayWinningPoker.com

POKER ON T.V.

"These days, people watch poker on TV until their eyes turn as red as the ace of hearts."

- Jon Saraceno in USA Today (2004)

POKER SONGS

"No matter how much you’re tempted, DO NOT hum or sing any portion of The Gambler by Kenny Rogers."

Richard Roeper in The Chicago Sun-Times (2005)

Book Details

Cover: Paperback

Pages: 156

Size: 6.14" x 9.21"

Quotes: 1500+

ISBN: 1907338052

Publisher: Blue Eyed Books

The Quotable Poker Player is published on August 31 but is available online from the publisher Blue Eyed Books.

For further details on The Quotable Poker Player or to buy direct from the publisher, go to the dedicated web pages at:

Publisher website: http://www.blue-eyed-books.co.uk/poker-quotes-book

Official Poker Book website: http://www.quotablepokerplayer.com/p/book.html

The Quotable Poker Player will be available after publication on 31st August 2010 from traditional booksellers and online book stores.

Other humour / quotes publications from Blue Eyed Books include:

James Bond: Licence To Quote - The Quotable 007

The Quotable Doctor Who

The Quotable Harry Potter

The Quotable Comic Book Hero

The Quotable Film Critic

The Quotable Michael Jackson

The Quotable Fred Astaire

and

The Quotable Dancer.

For more details on these book titles, see the publisher’s website at:

http://www.Blue-Eyed-Books.co.uk

Series Editor Colin M Jarman is available for interview or comment and can be contacted via the Blue Eyed Books website

Contact :

Colin M Jarman

Blue Eyed Books

United Kingdom

0560 2960376

blueeyedbooks@gmail.com

http://www.blue-eyed-books.co.uk