Initial Post - Ladies use your assets
Until just recently poker has been a male dominated sport. One would expect to be seated in smoke-filled backroom of a casino with scantily clad waitresses serving up whiskey and cigars until the wee hours of the morning. Just within the last few years have we seen female pro poker players emerging and ending up at the final tables of large poker tournaments.
It can be fun to play in a man’s world though. There are several tricks to being a successful female player in a man’s poker world. The biggest is what I like to call “the Erin Brockovich effect”. This is where you have the ability to distract your male opponents and their ogling eyes by showing a little (or a lot) of cleavage. Just do a little stretch in your “hooter girl” type shirt and watch them lose all focus on the game in front of them. It works better if it’s a little chilly in the room (wink wink). I have seen this tactic work in some poker games. Be advised, though, if you are playing against a very committed, focused player, you might as well just put your sweater back on.
You can even use the “Erin B” trick at online poker. Take a look at the avatars available at some of the online poker rooms. The hot, sexy diva in a low-cut red gown is my favorite. Even if in reality I’m more of the librarian type. The men are still making comments about you virtual bosom.
Another trick is the poker face, which every player likes to think they have a good one. I love telling my opponents that I have one just one poker face – the ear-to-ear grin! It leaves the gentlemen of the table wondering; “is she flirting with me or did she really just flop a boat?” Others are wondering if you are smiling because you think you have the hand won, or you are nervous as hell that they will call your bluff.
Whether it is one of those two tricks or you have your own (please let me know your others ASAP so I can use them too!), it is always a challenge to invade a man’s game. But listen up ladies, it is time to stand up and sing out with pride the old feminist mantra “I am women hear me roar!”
Whether it’s by trickery, skill or sheer luck I will treasure the day I can proclaim to my husband that I am a better poker play that he is. Actually I’ve been saying that behind his back for some time now, but I would never say it to his face. Well maybe I will once I have one of those cute little gold bracelets with the WSOP inscription around my wrist!
It can be fun to play in a man’s world though. There are several tricks to being a successful female player in a man’s poker world. The biggest is what I like to call “the Erin Brockovich effect”. This is where you have the ability to distract your male opponents and their ogling eyes by showing a little (or a lot) of cleavage. Just do a little stretch in your “hooter girl” type shirt and watch them lose all focus on the game in front of them. It works better if it’s a little chilly in the room (wink wink). I have seen this tactic work in some poker games. Be advised, though, if you are playing against a very committed, focused player, you might as well just put your sweater back on.
You can even use the “Erin B” trick at online poker. Take a look at the avatars available at some of the online poker rooms. The hot, sexy diva in a low-cut red gown is my favorite. Even if in reality I’m more of the librarian type. The men are still making comments about you virtual bosom.
Another trick is the poker face, which every player likes to think they have a good one. I love telling my opponents that I have one just one poker face – the ear-to-ear grin! It leaves the gentlemen of the table wondering; “is she flirting with me or did she really just flop a boat?” Others are wondering if you are smiling because you think you have the hand won, or you are nervous as hell that they will call your bluff.
Whether it is one of those two tricks or you have your own (please let me know your others ASAP so I can use them too!), it is always a challenge to invade a man’s game. But listen up ladies, it is time to stand up and sing out with pride the old feminist mantra “I am women hear me roar!”
Whether it’s by trickery, skill or sheer luck I will treasure the day I can proclaim to my husband that I am a better poker play that he is. Actually I’ve been saying that behind his back for some time now, but I would never say it to his face. Well maybe I will once I have one of those cute little gold bracelets with the WSOP inscription around my wrist!
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