Poker And Women Or Who Are Poker Blondes?

Poker is not a mens game anymore. I live in a free country and men and women have the same rights here. So why not to play poker for a while? thought Marla Schram Schwartz entering a card room one evening about 20 years ago. She wanted just to play poker nothing more. As soon as she approached a table (which was occupied only by men, of course), all the players stopped the game and rose. We will never play cards against a woman, they swore. Poor Marla didnt manage to earn few extra bucks on that day. But things change. And they change in no-time. A great number of young (I mean - younger than 35) poker players are women nowadays. And you know what they really can do much harm to male gamblers. Yeah, thats right men DO LOSE money because of female players. There can be plenty of examples. A woman, who keeps asking after each street is dealt Can I check? Or raise? And what is better? can drive other players mad and thus not fully concentrated. A woman who is wearing a low-necked dress during a poker game is not able to totally demoralize her opponents, but they surely will distemper them in way. A woman rouging her lips while the river card is dealt was the most astonishing vision Ive ever observed. But still women win. They really do, you can believe me. aka Professor) introduced her to the world of high stakes poker. And she found out that she could outplay most of her male opponents. She finished in the money at the WSOP a lot of times, and has 1 WSOP bracelet. And that is really worth admiring. Of course there are many other great female poker players like Isabelle Mercier, Evelyn Ng and so on. But there is also is large group of eh lets call them Poker Blondes (not to mix with good female poker players) who believe that the best strategy at a poker table is wearing a good make-up and keeping a foolish Hollywood smile on their faces. If the housewife could make, I certainly will, they think. Here are some strategy tips taken from the Poker Blondes Association guide to gambling. I could not help commenting on some of them. Blondes Strike First or Quick Guide To Poker For Women With Light Hair:Wear sexy dresses and try to flirt with your opponents. Thus you will keep their thought on your neckline, not on the game" (then goes the 15 pages-long list of strategic dresses fitting a poker room). That is really true they do believe they can distract the attention of a good player from the game by these stuff. Most men believe women are passive. But successful women tend to be almost hyper aggressive. Remember it and you will do them all. Yeah, thats right. The only bad thing is that most not many of them can tell the difference between the notions hyper aggressive and loose-aggressive. Womens sixth sense is much more developed than the mens. So, listen to your intuition. Women dont need Sklansky. Tarot cards can do much better for them. Remember that the casino chips are not like those they serve at McDonalds. Well, just in case somebody has forgotten it. Ok, I know that all this is not true for women who really are good poker players. Of course, all the above quotations are a kind of grotesque. But the most amusing fact is that the exact ideas (except the last one, maybe, though, who knows) can be found on different sites dedicated to female poker players. And you can easily check it out if you dont believe me. You know, if a person is a good gambler, it is not important who he is a man or a woman. There are no genders in the game. There are either good or bad players. And only those who understand it have chance to succeed. And those who dont are just Poker Blondes.