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Originally Posted by poker_babe
I LOVE being a hot woman at the poker table. Blonde hair FTW indeed! My best strategy is to distract the men and make them think I'm a giant fish. I'll say things like oh I'm just waiting for my boyfriend to finish, or ask dumb questions. Because of that on a typical night my roi is between 100-250% playing live cash just by waiting for good hands and playing them fast.... pretty sick. Who ever said poker was an honest game? As for respecting women players and perpetuating stereo-types and blah blah blah, they can respect me when I take their ****ing money
I don't entirely follow the logic here. If there was a stereotype that goes along with being a newer player/woman, especially when combined with waiting for a while between playing hands, it would be that if she's betting she's very strong, so don't pay her off.
Of course, perhaps you happen to be so hot (or at least so poker hot) that a lot of people at the table can't concentrate on the fact that you're actually playing pretty similarly to how they should expect you to be playing.
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Originally Posted by BlackSwan05
Hi Saya - thanks for posting - say initially a very attractive female sits down at the table and gets involved in a hand, are you immediately giving her no credit and trying to bluff her off the hand because she probably doesn't know what she's doing, or are you scared she's passively check calling the nuts all the way because she doesn't know anything about value betting?
I can't speak for Saya, but I would say in general it's dangerous to try & bloat any pot based on a "read" on someone who just sat down. There's so much more nuance to poker than that, & saying "well she's an attractive woman so this is what I should do" is kind of crazy.
There are so many reliable indicators of how good a poker player is, that there's no reason to get sidetracked by intentional diztiness or other fake tells. In fact, if I pick up on something that would indicate that a player knows more than they're letting on, I'll watch them twice as carefully. The question then becomes can they figure out that I'm on to them & thus not be exploited by the fact that they think I don't have a clue how good they are. Lots of levels in poker
All that being said, intentional ditziness, along with a lot of other activities that one can do to induce incorrect play, is very very effective against fishes