Gandhi–he wouldn’t play aggressively and he would never bluff, but somehow he would end up with all the chips.

“Stonewall” Jackson–his game would be pretty traditional, though a little quirky, but he would never lose a battle.

M.C. Escher–he would bring a completely different perspective to the game. You would never know what angle he might try next.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

Regina Spektor

Maybe you should just kiss someone nice or lick a rock–or both. Maybe you should cut your own hair (cause that can be so funny. It doesn’t cost any money and it always grows back–hair grows even after you’re dead).

Shel Silverstein

If you are a dreamer,come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hoper, a prayer, a magic-bean-buyer. If you’re a pretender, come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in!

I’m thinking we’d only get to shuffling the cards. Then we’d leave them to go outside and play instead.

Derrida- “To risk meaning nothing is to start to play…” I assume he means play poker.

Shakespeare- she must have been one hell of a woman.

Parmenides- mostly to get him to clarify his ‘one and the many’ nonsense.

Cleopatra – I would expect to be trounced by her.

Ceasar – I would expect him to be trounced by Cleopatra too.

Albert Einstein – Would proabably be sticking his tongue out at everyone every time he lost a hand.

Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorn Clemens) – I wouldn’t care if I was being trounced by Cleopatra. I would be laughing too hard. And he’s the dark horse. Being from the old west he might trounce Cleopatra.

Alive:

Chris “Jesus” Ferguson

Howard Lederer

Daniel Negreanu

Scotty Nguyen

Phil Hellmuth

I would totally get trounced. But to sit at a table with all of them in person would be such a great story.