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  • The best hand in poker is a Royal Flush.
  • "Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser" - Stu Ungar
  • The poker player with the most WSOP bracelets is Phil Hellmuth.
  • "The safest way to play AA, is FOLD" - mrmacacan
  • Dusk Till Dawn is the best place to play poker outside of Vegas.
  • The surge in online poker rooms has brought millions of new players to the game of Texas Holdem.
  • Stu Ungar is largely considered the best ever Texas Hold'em player.
  • "Playing poker for a living gives you backbone. You cannot survive without that intangible quality we call heart" - Bobby Baldwin
  • The worst Texas Holdem hand is 72 off-suit.
  • "There is more to poker than life" - Tom McEvoy
  • "If you can't spot the sucker in the first half an hour at the table, then you are the sucker." - Rounders
  • The majority of card players play their poker in casinos.
  • The WSOP or World Series of Poker is held every year in the Rio Casino in Las Vegas.
  • "To survive in poker, you have to poke around casinos without intimidation" - Stu Ungar
  • "If you die in debt then life is +EV" - Various
  • Texas Dolly is the name given to the hand of 10-2, which helped Doyle Brunson to two WSOP titles.
  • "If you never put it in behind then your not putting it in enough." - Kev Stevens
  • Some of the top poker searches in Google are 'uk poker', 'poker online', 'poker games', 'online free poker', 'play poker', 'party poker' and 'poker hands'.
  • "I have seen poker turn upright, hard-working men in to wastes of space, but not vice versa." - James Welch

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