Poker gems, #80

Helen Chamberlain (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Chamberlain), runner-up in the 2005 Ladbrokes Poker Million Final, a year later, announcing that she was through with poker, as quoted in Graham Sharpe, Poker's Strangest Hands, p. 227:

Sitting in silence for four or five hours round a table of people who you know are out to smash you to bits at every opportunity is not my idea of fun, plus I don't know one professional poker player who isn't a kook or a weirdo.