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Originally Posted by nickgrinder1
Back in the days, a woman Poker player would be perceived as a straight up tight-passive or tight aggressive ABC player who would overplay the nuts and check or fold everything else.
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But by default a female player making any sizeable bet is always perceived as the nuts or close to it.
Just ran into this early yesterday morning in New Orleans...had flown in, arrived around 8pm the night before and was seated immediately...table finally broke around 6am and I move to a table with perhaps one player I recognized as having played with/against at any prior occasion (which turned out to have been earlier in the evening).
Start out absolutely card dead and since this was a table ($1/$2) where ~$20 P/F was common-place, I didn't want to try and make a move with the usual crap of 9-3 offsuit. Probably folded the first dozen hands I saw and finally pick something up that was remotely playable (KK)...early raise to $7 followed by a fold and I went to $~22 expecting someone to come over the top. Instead it was folded all the way around.
As the next hand is being dealt, I was trying to figure out what prompted everyone to suddenly pucker so tight that they wouldn't play their any-two for even the raise I had made. The response? You guessed it..."we know how you play."
A few hands later, holding deuces, I call some nominal raise P/F and hit my set on the flop. With two hearts out there, I wasn't wanting people to hang around for cheap, so I re-pop a $40 lead in a large enough amount to weed out the chasers. Leader goes all-in on the premise that I 'was just making a move.' He was playing a sooooooooted AK (apparently with Ah).
I'd swear there is no method to the madness of some of the 'logic' employed by the males at the tables...but as long as it keeps paying for my trips over there, they can keep it up.