“Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker. Guys around here will tell ya, you play for a living, it's like any other job. You don't gamble, you grind it out. Your goal is to win one big bet an hour, that's it.”
Matt Damon - Mike McDermott

“Casinos have house rules: they don't like to lose. So you never show that you're counting cards. That is the cardinal sin, Ray.”
Tom Cruise - Charlie Babbitt

- Jack Singer: Do you know what a straight flush is? It's like... unbeatable.
- Betsy: "Like unbeatable" is not unbeatable.
- Jack Singer: Hey, I know that now, okay.
Nicolas Cage - Jack Singer
Sarah Jessica Parker - Betsy

“Bet twenty thousand![the poolhall falls silent]
Oh, did I stutter? Everybody gone all quiet and shit? About a minute ago it was like an evening at the Apollo up in this motherfucker, now all of a sudden it's quiet as a church.”
Mars Callahan - Johnny

“The game [of poker] exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism
that have made our country so great.”
Walter Matthau