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"Poker is often considered as both an art and a science."
"Poker teaches you about things you cannot control, and you have to be okay with it. It's a valuable lesson in both poker and life."
"You can have a poker face, but you can't have a poker body."
"We need to be entertainers, right? People want to play high-stakes poker with us."
"Welcome to Las Vegas for the event three Final Table of the PGT PLO series. We got Daniel Nanu in the house. This is going to be an epic one."
"Daniel Nanu taking center stage along with one of the most accomplished PLO players in the world, Mr. Dylan Wisman."
"I tried to told them, let's call a spade a spade; when you in that full house with your pockets flush, you got to know how to hold 'em."
"Poker players, professional ones, very long ago stopped thinking of poker as gambling and saw it as a strategic game."
"Whether poker was a game of chance or a game of skill... the more skillful players won."
"Jason Somerville takes a seat to sub in for Vegas Matt. Jason had a massive influence on me."
"Nate Silver is an extremely interesting guy. He's the founder of 538, a genius statistician, and an accomplished poker player."
"I've personally watched over 40 hours every hand this guy's played. I feel like I am the guy in some way. Our minds have melded together."
"How does a man make a successful decision all the time on the river?"
"We saw a God become a mortal man, and he played just like the kind of player you would expect him to play."
"You will believe in a higher power than God because there has never been dominance displayed on a poker stream like this guy did."
"When you play poker, your edges are small. You just don't go on runs like this."
"Part of the skill of being a poker player is finding situations where you're profitable you know regardless of your skill level."
"Sometimes you have to call your opponent's bluff."
"Wow, I smashed that flop out. I end up folding. What a good fold."
"I've been in the poker spotlight for the past 15 years."
"It's a pretty good hand played by both players here. Daniel going for value with his queen-nine, and after getting check-raised all-in, he was getting a pretty good price to call."
"He's one of those players that wants to play every single hand... I'm the same way."
"Poker is just not very easy, it's very complicated."
"When I'm gone from poker I'd like to at least be remembered for putting my money where my mouth is."
"Pocket aces here guys, the best hand in no limit hold'em for Jesse."
"I think I was bluffing... it was the one with the do's of hearts."
"If you win the 10k main event, you are a poker legend all time."
"I love poker. Poker is one of the main games I played in college."
"The most beautiful part of Poker is watching the main event."
"We're playing for lots of money at a fun table with two of the best ambassadors in poker."
"If you're good at online strategy games like Starcraft, you're gonna be good at poker because poker is a strategy game."
"Last night was the wildest day in Main Event history." - Absolute bangers of hands back to back
"Poker is a game played in the mind as much as on the felt."
"Bluffing allows you to win pots even if you have a weak hand."
"Confidence in a poker player is actually the most important thing."
"You're making the wrong decision if you're getting into poker because you want to make a quick buck. It takes a lot of time."
"Let's talk to Stan. Obviously just to make the final table is like a goal and a dream of mine and I'm just elated to be here."
"Welcome back to Las Vegas for the 2022 World Series of Poker event 42!"
"It's not about winning one session or one day or one week. Over time, the superior player wins. That's what poker is all about."
"Buckle up, enjoy the show, and while you're at it play some PokerGo Hold'em."
"He fired a very reasonable amount, it's not that reasonable, it's pot."
"I know Phil's better than me and that's why I'm going to beat him." - Phil Hellmuth won round one.
"Wow what a battle, Phil Hellmuth with his second sweep."
"He was just so over poker for a while, yeah, couldn't be much more over it but he's back."
"The top echelon of poker players contains many weird dudes."
"Poker can be a tough thing coming up for young men especially guys that play Live guys that have come to places you know LA but even more of the Vegas right"
"This is a great candidate to actually fold there."
"Wow, what a sick hand! Are you guys not entertained?"
"It's Tony G, and Tony could be like bluffing there a lot."
"Ike folded a bigger hand than Robert Wadlow."
"The last thing you ever want to be called as a poker player is a cheat... that just really tarnishes your name."
"There's bluffing that people don't always make the right play, there's creativity in it, and intuition."
"Poker's kind of a really great platform and framework for understanding decision making."
"You've got people like Daniel the Granule, Gus Hansen, and Mike Matt, so they're absolutely astonishing players."
"I've certainly had more than my share of success in tournament poker I'm proud of my bracelet that I won here at the world series of poker and I don't care how long you've been playing poker and how good you are the great thing about the."
"Sexton was in the top 10 all time in World Series caches."
"This would be the most money that I'd won in a poker tournament."
"Poker is a game of infinite solutions. You always have some percentage assigned to some answer."
"We're not going to become the best poker player in the world overnight or even in a week or even in a month."
"He challenges the guy to heads up and actually goes and plays... he loves poker."
"Be proactive in the hands you choose preflop."
"Clearly you need to rate the edges that you have both in the preflop in the post flop scenarios."
"I like poker, but I remember getting introduced to poker and I didn't know anything."
"Nice hand there from our short stack... high level of poker."
"There it is and here we are." - Daniel Negreanu
"He just loved it and the joy that he showed playing poker was unlike anything I'd seen."
"The level of passion and excitement that he had playing $100 heads up sit and go's."
"I just mean that poker's a beautiful game and he has a beautiful mind for poker especially."
"Pretty brutal way to go out... folding jacks right six five of clubs."
"To beat the small stakes games for the maximum amount possible, you must get well out of line to take advantage of the things your opponents do incorrectly. You have to exploit them."
"Most players in small stakes games are deathly afraid of getting bluffed, yet they rarely bluff themselves. It's time to exploit the players who call a lot and don't really bluff a lot."
"Poker is a game of uncertainty. You're not going to know if you made the right play 100% of the time, every time. If you want a game like that, well, go to chess or something. Poker's not for you."
"Poker is all about risk, odds, and skill. Luck is for slot machines and bingo."
"The best players in the world are in this room."
"Poker players professionals specifically for over a hundred years understand better than anybody that this game needs to be create in such a way that the amateurs are happy because if they're not happy none of the pros e."
"Mike Sexton always has home court advantage on the World Poker Tour."
"A good Poker Face actually can help you not lose rounds."
"I show the Kings be friendly and let him know that he made a good lay down."
"I kind of like going for a big value on the turn get called by his combo what a pair of plus got shot protect against the flush draw."
"We see a pot of over 40,000 dollars happening at the table right in front of our eyes."
"Good poker players, they'll either have good poker faces or they can give off false tells."
"Poker's different. Poker is a game of skill. The best players win in the long run."
"If online poker gets legalized in all these states, some very good things will happen for poker and poker players."
"Your boys back in there for another Beatdown... I got the nuts, it's time to build this pot."
"You can't win them all. Final tables and back-to-back EPT stops ain't too shabby."
"The benefit of poker is you're competing against other players."
"Flop comes a full house city for us right now."
"The best part about playing poker for a living for me personally is the lifestyle stuff."
"Luckily for me, after that straight flush over nut flush hand, the straight versus straight, and despite running kind of bad with the pocket aces all in pre-flop, I ended up booking one of my biggest wins of all time."
"The key to the game is playing the man, not the cards."
"If you have no Bluffs in your range, where's your opponent's incentive to continue giving you action with second best hands?"
"The only color that matters in poker is green."
"It's a pretty big buy-in and a pretty big guarantee."
"I win this one with pocket sevens on this board and a four bet pot. Now I understand why people play full ring."
"I used to win at poker, they said Doug is really good. Now I just fold second nuts to people when they have the nuts, lose all ins, pay people off, and bluff into guys that are never folding."
"New challenge: Can I turn minus three hundred and twelve thousand one hundred sixty-two dollars into zero dollars at the lodge?"
"Doug obviously still up massive on the session."
"Doug Polk with the check call, yep caught Daniel speeding."
"Daniel wins about 100k, fights back a little bit."
"Congratulations on a winning session, didn't feel like a win, did it? You made it happen in the last 30 minutes."
"That last 30 minutes, the chips were flying, everyone was entertained."
"When you're in a hand, sometimes you have to just go for these bluffs."
"Daniel flopped the world, open-ended flush draw and a fortunate river for Polk there, very interesting hand."
"Being suited adds considerable value to your hand."
"I started playing poker in 2007 when one of my video game buddies said, 'You're so good at this game... you should be playing poker where you can actually make some money.'"
"I've cashed for over five million dollars and won two World Series of Poker bracelets... I've done well online, I've cashed for a bunch of money in WCOOP high roller."
"Pocket aces is actually my favorite hand in the game... it's the best hand, it is the most profitable hand by a mile."
"Thank you guys for joining me today for poker hands."
"It kind of felt like a win, and to actually win my biggest pot ever is kind of like the only saving grace."
"Lean towards being uncomfortably aggressive because in good poker, you're gonna make plays that are aggressive and uncomfortable."
"Almost no other live poker player when I like see the lineup construction for almost every game I play in like it's almost always like universally really great kind like enjoyable people to be around."
"Don't play your hand unless you're sure that you have an ace in the hole." - The Ace of Spades
"He was able to beat legendary players such as Chip Reese and Stu Ungar for millions of dollars."
"If you don't get caught with your hand in the cookie jar, you're not playing good enough poker. If you're never bluffing, if you're never taking shots at pots, you don't win."
"When I like something, a strategy game, there's more to Poker than meets the eye."
"I've always been a little more on the aggressive side with my bankroll management because at the end of the day I believe that I'm a good poker player and that over time I'm gonna realize my edge."
"Position matters way more than it does in Hold'em because so much of the board can be represented."
"When you play PLO, you better bring the big guns."
"I'm gonna do it again, alright? I'll let you guys off the hook. Okay, stay tuned because next week we're gonna do Limit Hold'em."
"Tournament poker can make heroes of men and women, throw in the odd villain, and you've got regular sporting theater."
"The difference between tournament poker and cash game poker is that every person wishing to enter the tournament pays the same amount of money upfront."
"Playing in a poker tournament can involve ludicrous sums of money, with the winners being written into the history books."
"It kind of feels like to me, they're thinking of all poker players like they're just gamblers."
"He's got the bluff, he's got the eight six of clubs."
"Pressure was when I won in 2003 when I'm playing for life-changing money and literally changing my world. This is fun, and if I bust in five minutes, it won't matter. I'll go home and I'll be happy."
"What a complete bank this hand turned from a disaster to a lovely present."
"We're winning over 32,000 right now. It's a lot of money to me and we still have plenty of Poker left to play."
"MO is in a particularly difficult situation because even though he has the best hand and the most equity he can't feel very confident about second pair."
"And in 2011, Tobey had to settle a lawsuit to avoid having to return the huge amount of money he won three years ago in a poker game."
"Jonathan Pastore: 'That's probably pretty safe to assume here that it's gonna be lots of big pairs, big pseudo connected cards.'"
"Pastore continues on the turn, picks up the pot here."
"It was a hero call and sometimes the hero dies at the end."
"Finally wins one, Steve Warburton the runner-up."
"John Jawanda collects more than a million, he's the EPT twelve Barcelona champ."
"Dare you question the way I play poker? That's not the atmosphere here."
"First final table stream of the 2022 World Series is here!"
"I never really liked doing any drugs and playing poker because I think it took me out of the clearest mental state."
"I am officially closing out my poker chapter."
"I'm tired of it. You know, you have a royal flush, I want the game to end."
"I'm pretty sure quad aces pays more in video poker."
"Ignore it at your peril: position, possibly the single most important concept in poker."
"Poker keeps my feet on the ground... it keeps my mind active and alert."
"The old school is no longer the dominant force in poker... now the young guns grab the headlines with our flashy style and do-or-die attitude."
"This was just one of the absolute coolest sessions in my poker career."
"All right, I just need to get through eight more hands without getting stacked to survive what's been one of the most fun but also one of the most nerve-wracking sessions that I've played."
"She's putting in a big bluff against the most intimidating poker player."
"Poker is for sure. Not always what it seems."
"You make money when your opponents make mistakes."
"If you're in a room playing poker and after 30 minutes you don't know who the sucker in the room is, you're the sucker."
"I'm trying to teach you all to be good poker players not marginal poker players."
"What'd you think I had? You could have folded ten seconds ago."
"Second in chips, a distant second behind Money Maker."
"Poker's taught me so much about life. So many decisions you make off the table can be influenced by the way you think about poker."
"Poker is all about chasing your dreams, taking your shot, and changing your life."
"It isn't a community of degenerate gamblers it is a community of dreamers."
"Again, straight flush would have won it, yep."
"When you have a good hand, you're quiet; and when you're bluffing, you're blustery and loud."
"It's like poker when you have a good hand you're quiet and when you're bluffing you're blustery and loud."
"Poker is just a very good clarifying function for just how frankly probabilistic life is."
"All the real fans of the original Red Dead Redemption will no doubt be excited to hear that the poker minigame will be returning for Red Dead Redemption 2."
"If you play well post-flop, it allows you to open or play a lot more hands and I enjoy that."
"I must have misplayed that hand on every street."
"Keep saying, Queen nine suited is a better hand than everyone realizes."
"Trust me, when you move all in under the gun with A10, you don't want any action."
"It's a race situation, the two overcards versus the under pair."
"A king right on the flop, Jake needs to catch a six or two runners to make a straight."
"It's a deuce, so there it is, Ryan high fives the crowd because he is now a millionaire."
"Did you ever dream you were going to see him at the final table playing for almost $2 million?"
"Poker is his game of choice, and after winning his tenth career championship bracelet at the World Series of Poker this summer, he is arguably the best in the world."
"Adrian Mateos has won his fourth World Series of Poker bracelet."
"We love to preside over these super high roller events because it is a different type of poker we bear witness to."
"We played poker. Oh wow, so we had a poker night every week."
"Your job in poker is not to win every hand, it's to get your chips in good when you have the odds in your favor."
"It's in my DNA to be creative. Poker is one of my creative outlets."
"In poker you can start out with pretty much nothing and just little by little work your way up."
"He's a beast, he's totally in tune when he's at the table."
"The more you play, I mean the better you get."
"What a fantastic return to poker."
"Great champions play here, great crowd, and right now four players battle. Mukul very short on chips doesn't even have ten times a big blind."
"One of the best feelings in my poker career."
"Sorry, Ben lamb. He's folded an eight, so he's very curious what Ben had."
"Now, how to play a three of a kind? What a card for him."
"Welcome to Las Vegas and indeed the Rio Hotel & Casino for the World Series of Poker main event final table."
"...not to be. Wynn came into this heads up battle with just over 3 million chips and leaves it with the title and first prize money."
"The quest to create another chapter in World Series of Poker history continues."
"It's all about Anthony Zeno, the winner of the 25k PLO in 2015, the winner of the 1500 PLO 8s in 2019, and the winner of the 10K seven card stud championship in 2021."
"Tournament poker is a game of skill, strategy, and nerve."
"Poker can go from extremely complex to super easy in the turn of a card."
"It's one of the many reasons to love this game."
"I think it might be the hardest thing in poker is checking behind when you know that's what's going to make you lose for sure."
"He wins the seat online for free and now he's on TV."
"Poker still exciting to us and I think it comes across on the screen."
"Part of being a good poker player, maybe a great poker player, is to be able to back yourself."
"Tonight's Champion: a huge payoff. 12.1 million dollars."
"A huge night in the poker world and for the World Series of Poker."
"He's a bit discouraged he's a little handcuffed stack wise and with the blinds where they are now it's a lot easier to claw oneself back into the match because these pots are bigger."
"Top set for Antonio, yep against second pair. Certainly an opportunity to extract more chips, right?"
"No, no, that's not the win, that's just a very uncomfortable situation."
"I think Phil just has too much back. Oh my god in heaven, that hurts."
"You call, it's over. It's true. The question is, when did you get there?"