Maverick (TV Series)
According to Hoyle (1957)
James Garner: Bret Maverick
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Quotes
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Bret Maverick : I'll call, sixteen thousand.
Samantha Crawford : You're looking at my hand, Mr. Maverick, a pair of nines.
Bret Maverick : I wasn't bluffing, Miss Crawford. Sorry, I do have the nine.
[Maverick turns over his hole card to show he's completed a straight]
Samantha Crawford : I didn't think you were, Mr. Maverick.
Bret Maverick : And you raised in to me?
Samantha Crawford : According to Hoyle, remember?
[Samantha reads from her copy of 'Hoyle's Book of Games']
Samantha Crawford : "In five-card stud poker, straights are not played unless it's determined at the commencement of the game that they be admitted." See for yourself, Mr. Maverick.
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Samantha Crawford : Uh, gentlemen, before we begin, I'd like one thing clearly understood. Now, as we did before, we play according to Hoyle?
Bret Maverick : You make quite a point of it.
Samantha Crawford : Well, it's a man's world, and they make the rules. I haven't any objections to that as long as they all abide by them equally.
Kittredge : According to Hoyle, Miss Crawford.
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Bret Maverick : Samantha. You just proved something my old Pappy used to tell me. Man's the only animal you can skin more than once.
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[Maverick has lost Bledsoe and Hayes' money in a high-stakes poker game]
Bret Maverick : I imagine you have your suspicions, gentlemen.
Bledsoe : Well, not at all. Both Mr. Hayes and I checked carefully. You have an impeccable reputation for honesty.
Bret Maverick : I'm afraid that's all I have left.
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Bret Maverick : I remember George Cross who played good cards badly and bad cards worse.
Samantha Crawford : Well, you took his money.
Bret Maverick : Yes, but believe me, I never played in a game with anyone I didn't think could afford to lose.
Samantha Crawford : Well, that doesn't help him now.
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Bret Maverick : Samantha, this is Big Mike McComb. Mike, I wrote you about Miss Crawford.
Big Mike McComb : Aye, that you did, but you didn't write half enough.
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Joe Riggs : Boys tell me a load of gaming equipment came in this morning. Yours?
Bret Maverick : Didn't your boys tell you that?
Joe Riggs : They didn't have to. Now that I see you, I can add two and two together.
Bret Maverick : It'll never come out four, not the way you deal.
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Bret Maverick : As Pappy used to say, faint heart never filled a flush.
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Bret Maverick : Don't you wanna see Joe Riggs closed up?
Ma Braus : Oh, the Devil will get him some day.
Bret Maverick : I'd like to help.
Ma Braus : The Devil does plenty of business in this town, he don't need you.
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George Cross : Nobody ever cheated me and got away with it.
Bret Maverick : And nobody ever called me a cheat and got away with it.
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[last lines]
Bret Maverick : It's a long way to Kansas City. High card deals?
Henry Tree : Seven of clubs.
George Cross : Ten of diamonds.
Bret Maverick : Ten of hearts.
Samantha Crawford : Ace of spades!
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[first lines]
Bret Maverick : I'll take two, please.
Kittredge : I'll try one.
Samantha Crawford : Three, please.
Bret Maverick : Opener bet's 200.
Kittredge : I'm out.
Samantha Crawford : I think there's an expression in poker. I'll tap you, Mr. Maverick.
Bret Maverick : There is 3500... and since you're tapping me, I believe I'd better add this.
[unpins 1000 dollar bill from inside his coat]
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Big Mike McComb : [about Samantha] She's got to be Irish with a face like that. She's an angel, but an angel.
Bret Maverick : Play poker with her sometime.
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Bret Maverick : New Orleans, a real fine place to be. When you've got some money in your pocket. I hadn't.
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Samantha Crawford : Why I expected you to be a good loser.
Bret Maverick : Is anyone? No one likes to lose.
Samantha Crawford : Especially to a woman, huh?
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Joe Riggs : You're not a very careful talker.
Bret Maverick : But careful who sits in a game with me