Amarillo Slim Quotes

• Look around the table. If you don't see a sucker, get up, because you're the sucker.

  Amarillo Slim

  Sports, Hockey, Looks

  "Amarillo Slim obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2012.

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• You can shear a sheep a hundred times, but you can skin it only once.

  Amarillo Slim

  Sheep, Skins, Hundred

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• I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him.

  Amarillo Slim

  Gambling, Champion, Looks

  Amarillo Slim Preston, Greg Dinkin (2013). “Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People: The Memoirs of the Greatest Gambler Who Ever Lived”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• Sometimes the lambs slaughter the butcher.

  Amarillo Slim

  Lambs, Sometimes, Butchers

  Amarillo Slim Preston, Bill G. Cox (1973). “Play poker to win”, Not Avail

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• I don't believe in hunches. Hunches are for dogs making love.

  Amarillo Slim

  Dog, Believe, Making Love

  Amarillo Slim Preston, Bill G. Cox (1973). “Play poker to win”, Not Avail

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• I dont play any two suited cards. I play any two non-suited cards. That way I am drawing at two different flushes.

  Amarillo Slim

  Play, Two, Drawing

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• It never hurts for potential opponents to think you're more than a little stupid and can hardly count all the money in your hip pocket, much less hold on to it.

  Amarillo Slim

  Hurt, Stupid, Thinking

  Amarillo Slim Preston, Greg Dinkin (2013). “Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People: The Memoirs of the Greatest Gambler Who Ever Lived”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• My favorite chip trick is to make everyone's chip stack disappear.

  Amarillo Slim

  My Favorite, Disappear, Chips

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• If you are going to bluff, make it a big one.

  Amarillo Slim

  Gambling, Competition, Conflict

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