Females at the poker table

[The Dingo]

BE a gentleman off the felt but take everyone's loot on it.

You can always buy the lady a drink later if you feel bad BUT the reason they are pros or playing for money is to take YOURS, whether they are hot or not.

We had a few games at Palms this year where some 4 semi-pro 22 year old ladies (I suspect they are dancers), very, very hot (I would rank 2 as 10/10 and the others as 9.5) played at our 5/10 NLH game. They are the best looking women I have seen at a poker game.

They bragged about being semi-pro poker players (funny I had never seen them before anywhere in Vegas or east coast).

Anyway, they were drinking a bunch and convinced one of the regular pros to guzzle with them expecting that the flash of their boobs and pretty faces would put him off. After around 3 hours the girls were really drunk as skunks and the pro was making out like a pissed idiot but he ended up taking ALL of their hard earned, around $3k. After they left he tipped the waitress $35 for giving him H20 instead of vodka. NEVER SAW THEM AGAIN.

But if you do run into them, Tiffany, Ashleigh and co dont fall for their game (they are lesbian)

[Fletch46]

Just found this thread this morning. The stuff in the original post does happen. I'm sort of past middle age (and hope I'm not annoying) and play with a lot of very young male players. I always chat with them a bit and find it works wonders. Most of them will not go after me the way they will a male player that they don't know. They show me cards after a hand's over that they wouldn't normally show and otherwise soft play me. It's no different from any other mistake in their play and I always take advantage of it. In fact, if I'm playing 1/2 NL, I won't stay on a table with more than one other woman if I am able to move. It cuts my advantage to have too many other women there.

But on the other hand, something that happens to all the older women in 1/2NL at the B&M I go to is young male players try to push us off hands with all in bets, even though we've shown strength throughout the hand. They just think we won't call a large bet. This has been a big money maker for all of us. It even happened to me at the Venetian although I don't know why I thought things would be any different in Vegas.

[BBMW]

That's one of the two types of reactions that better female players count on.

[somapopper]

If there's a very pretty girl at the poker table and I'm carrying on a conversation with her, I'm definately playing my C game.

It's not that I'm trying to softplay her (I don't see how that'd help) it's just that I am terribly distracted.

[vmacosta]

I can't relate to most of the stuff being said in this thread. When a pretty girl sits down at my table I stereotype her according to age, ethnicity, and gender for all of 10 hands or so until her body language and betting patterns give me the real information.

Also, LOL at any woman thinking she makes serious money by sexually manipulating men at the poker table. Sorry, but at any limit where you can win real money, a little flirting isn't gonna stack the chips.

Don't want to make it sound like I don't flirt a little bit when a pleasant woman sits at my table, but its only cuz I like to joke around and have a good time while playing cards. I guess I've played too many hands of poker to start changing the way I play just because somebody who represents over 1/2 of the population is sitting near me.

[Transcend06]

I don't think it applies to ugly girls. [img]/images/graemlins/ooo.gif[/img]

[DMC0627]

I am a woman, recently started playing and have gone to the B&M 3 times. The last time I went, I played in my first MTT (only $100 buy in). We were down to the bubble with 3 tables left, and I was shortstacked. Blinds were up to 300/600, antes in effect. I was in the sb with only 650 in chips, and it was folded around to me. It was either fold to try to get in the money, or all in to get back into the game.

I looked down at ace rag and pushed all in, only 50 in chips over what the bb had in already, plus all of the ante money was in the middle. He mucked without looking. He said there was no way he was going to knock the last woman in out, and that I had nice eyes.

I couldn't believe it. I thought for sure someone would get pissed, yell collusion (I hadn't ever met him before) etc. but nothing. 2 other guys actually nodded in agreement at what he did. The next hand some guy at our table knocked out on the bubble, and I thought someone would have said something to the effect of "it should have been you" to me.

Nothing. It seems like quite a few guys have the idea that it is not gentlemanly to knock a woman off the table. I never would want or ask anybody to soft play me due to my gender, but it happened.

On the flip side, I knocked out a man earlier in the tourney when I held kk against his jj. He made a comment about me being a stupid b**** and that he couldn't believe he had been knocked out by a c***. He went on to say "they have no idea how to play but get lucky with good cards" implying the only way a woman can win is to get hit with the deck. Seems silly to me to make gender an issue in poker.

[iggymcfly]

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My experience as a male is that most women are either (a) super weak-tight, or (b) a dumb fish.

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Honestly, it's not sexism. Just like most old guys are nitty, and most Asians love to gambol, most women play a pretty weak-passive form of poker. In probably close to 1,000 hours of live poker, I've only seen one woman that I'd actually categorize as a solid player. I'm sure there are TAGs like you out there, but trust me, you're in the minority.

[Javanewt]

There is usually a reason for stereo-typing. I'm a woman, and if I see a bad driver, I assume it's a woman. (Happened today, and it was a woman.)

I also don't expect most of the women I play with to be very good poker players. Sad but true (and honest). Makes it tougher when you come up against a strong female player, but it's so rare that I play with other women, anyway. I stereotype men at the table the same way based on looks, dress, personality, etc., until they prove otherwise.

It's human nature.

I play only live 1/2NL in casinos, though, and it seems as if few players are strong.

[pokerswami]

I used to play a lot of small limit Hold'em in Tunica, and I did notice that females of all ages over-valued Queens and played them deeper into the hand compared to male palyers.

They were much more likely to call down all the way to the river with pocket Queens even with an overcard on board and opposition betting.