Ergen: ‘I Learned to Trust My Cards’

Dish Network chairman Charlie Ergen, reaching back into his ample sack of poker metaphors, said that he would prefer to sit back and watch the current merger frenzy in the media business play out, noting that as a former professional card player he “learned to trust my cards.”

Ergen said he didn’t have the firepower to outbid Sprint for T-Mobile or AT&T for DirecTV, citing two of the top rumored deals of the week, and would likely stick to the sidelines for the time being.