Poker gems, #75

Dwight D. Eisenhower, on the difficulty of deliberately losing to a bad player, as quoted in Graham Sharpe, Poker's Strangest Hands, p. 113. Eisenhower had won most of a fellow officer's life savings, felt badly about it, and surreptitiously tried to let the man win his money back:

This was not easily achieved. One of the hardest things known to man is to make a fellow win in poker who plays as if bent on losing every nickel.