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Seven poker quotes from WSOP bracelet winners to inspire you

Winning a World Series of Poker bracelet is the inspiration for many poker players to take up the game, from playing with their friends locally to attempting to turn their hobby into a profession by becoming a poker player for their job.

When it comes to poker inspiration, then, who better to learn from than seven players who have won WSOP bracelets, the fabled gold trinkets that symbolize your arrival as a player to be reckoned with?

Let’s take a look at some of the best poker quotes to give you the kind of week at the felt that youcould build a bracelet run upon.

1. “Fold and live to fold again.”

Premier League Gameweek #18 Review – City on the March

With so much at stake in a Premier League season dominated only by inconsistency, every game seems to be getting more important. The current league campaign has almost reached the halfway stage for most clubs, with only Aston Villa having more than two games in hand on the pack.

With a titanic tussle at Anfield and a showdown between two terrific teams at the King Power Stadium to look back on in detail, who came out on top at the peak of the Premier League? Let’s take a look back at the biggest action.

Leicester City 2-0 Southampton

The Foxes prevailed at the King Power Stadium as Danish goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel made his 400th appearance against The Saints.

Paulius Plausinaitis Wins $10 Million Guaranteed WSOP Circuit Online Main Event

Paulius Plausinaitis took down a $10 million guaranteed WSOP Circuit Main Event on the GGPoker poker site — a $1,700 buy-in tournament — for $1,236,361. He beat a tough final table table that included tournament crusher Joseph Cheong.

Paulius Plausinaitis won one of the biggest WSOP Circuit events in history. (Image: WSOP.com)

Plausinaitis hails from Lithuania, home of the legendary Tony G, one of the most colorful and loud poker players ever. The recent Circuit ring winner outlasted a field of 6,395 players, making it the largest Circuit event in history.

Cheong is no stranger to crushing massive field tournaments. In 2010, he finished third for $4,130,000 in the WSOP Main Event, a tournament with 7,319 unique players. And at the 2019 WSOP, he won his first and only bracelet in a 6,214-player field ($1,000 Double Stack No-Limit Hold’em for $687,782).