The Lady Across the Table-Introduction Thread - Page 2 - That's What She Said! -- Two Plus Two Poker Forums

HiFi · 03-03-2011, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by katie75013

I would highly recommend Texas A&M if you really wanted to get out of the city! Many of my equine vets and my small animal vet/friend of 10 years have gone there and have nothing but great things to say about it. I do hear it is very competitive though. One of my equine vets who went there literally wrote the book on equine founder issues...at least, it is the most recent/highly utilized book/authority on founder...it's actually a required text book at A&M.

However Penn's feral herd of horses that they maintain/study has always been super interesting for me...thus the reason I was torn when entertaining the idea of vet school all those years ago.

It's pretty tough to get into Texas A&M from out of state, but it's hard to get into vet school period. I'm somewhat put off by their application process because you have to jump through a whole bunch of hoops *just for them* and frankly it seems like too much of a pain to be worth it when I can just apply to other schools so much more easily.

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Originally Posted by TimeLady

Umm

I don't have a horse, nor am becoming a vet, am I still welcome?

zomg, TL!

jenium · 03-03-2011, 06:57 PM

Hi everyone, Jennifer here.

I'm a chessplayer/coach, editor, author, video producer, etc. (to make a career today in gaming/media you often have to do a lot of things at once!)

I've been playing live and online MTTs sporadically for five years but in the past year, I've become more involved in the poker world. My results have improved lately and I hope my play, sometimes unclear

, I often feel that the main thing I'm better at now is finding good tournaments, profitable satellites, etc which I guess is just another way of saying even in MTTs, game selection is v.important (key mourning for death of Ladies 55s on Stars).

I find the culture around poker to be as fascinating as the game itself, though sadly it's often not very pro-woman. I'm glad Katie, who I know in person, had the gumption to push this forum.

I've also met Jamie irl, judging from her facebook posts she is def kicking butt lately. Grats girl!

Look forward to meeting more of you.

bigpairde · 03-03-2011, 08:35 PM

hi. my name is bigpairde and i am a woman. :-(

**JMurder3** · 03-03-2011, 09:24 PM

Hmm. I'm not a woman, & I don't really play chess, but I am an attorney & my mom's a vet (she went to vet school in her 40s, so I wouldn't worry bout 27).

So I would say I'm about half-qualified to moderate y'all.

**MadeLiefje** · 03-03-2011, 10:45 PM

hai girls! i think i'll be the only girl here that doesnt play poker

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nevertheless i'd love to meet you all and hear what you're up to!

other than that, im 22, last year student communications, busy with my thesis right now.
im from this little country in europe, belgium and most here call me daisy!

MsBlueberry · 03-03-2011, 11:17 PM

I'm Blue and I play recreationally. I work as a nurse and have never aspired to grind for a living or anything like that. This is wise on my part since I'm a terrible losing player. I very much enjoy playing.

My favorite game is 6max cash, preferably 2 levels higher than I'm properly rolled for and against people ridiculously better than me. I also play the odd tourney here and there.

I do not know who jenium is, but she seems over qualified at life.

Spoiler:

Hi Daisy, HiFi, TL!

JamieAnn · 03-03-2011, 11:21 PM

Thanks Jennifer! Running good is very nice.
I like your articles a lot, keep em coming please

**hotjenny314** · 03-04-2011, 12:42 AM

Hi all!

Glad that this forum exists-- nice work Katie and kudos on the title!

My name is also Katie lol. I'm 25 and an MTTer, who started out in SNGs. I also write/edit on poker, coach, make training videos, etc. I just moved to Vegas, and am loving it so far!

Maybe we could do a meetup this summer.

jpsychlady · 03-04-2011, 01:37 AM

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Originally Posted by hotjenny314

Hi all!

Maybe we could do a meetup this summer.

I am all for this!

CKBWoP · 03-04-2011, 03:10 PM

Hello!

I've been playing poker since 2006 - mostly live, but occasionally online. I enjoy non-NLH cash games the most (O-8, draw / mixed games), but the easy money in LV is at the NLH tables.

I worked in corporate finance in NYC for 8 years (part of it on the legal side, part of it on the business side) before moving to LV in 2008. I met my boyfriend playing O-8 at the Venetian

He posts a lot on 2+2, but I've mostly been a lurker.

I'm not yet sure how I feel about this women-centric forum. I certainly would love to see a higher representation of women in poker. The problem for me is that the more women-centric things there are in poker (e.g., ladies events), the more I feel it reinforces the view that there is an inherent gender disparity when it comes to men and women in poker.

I'm all for a meet-up!

**SGT RJ** · 03-04-2011, 03:19 PM

New forum FTW?

My name is Nicole, and I've been playing poker (pretty much exclusively NLHE) since 2008, when my b/f suggested a Vegas trip and mentioned he would want to play. I used to play "fake" poker while I was in the service, so I "played" as well, if you can call it that, but I enjoyed myself a lot. From there I picked up a few books, and it was all down hill from there.

I play mostly micro to low stakes SNGs and MTTs with a few middle and high stake shots thrown in.

IRL I'm currently an unemployed dissertation phase Ph.D. student in Counseling.

MsBlueberry · 03-04-2011, 03:23 PM

Hi Sarge!

**SGT RJ** · 03-04-2011, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by MsBlueberry

Hi Sarge!

And hello yourself, Blue!

How goes the Canadian nursing business?

AAmaz0n · 03-04-2011, 04:07 PM

Hi all,

My name is Shauna and I play poker. I guess I'm the old lady here.

My first experience with live poker was when I lived in Vegas briefly while I was playing a lot of blackjack. The first game I was dealt into was 7 stud at the Silver Slipper on the Strip, across from the Desert Inn. I dabbled on and off for quite a while.

When IRC poker came online late in the last century I started playing a lot on that. Despite being play money it was fairly competitive; you could only reload once a day and there were games where you couldn't play unless you had built your bankroll up to a certain point. Some of the current poker geeks like Chris Ferguson were playing there at that time.

I'm not sure when I started playing online for real money, sometime early in the century. I know that I was playing full time around 2003 after leaving grad school, and grinding pretty hard in 2005 when I did a promo to go to the WSOP. My play since then has been fairly sporadic; got burned out a bit and the games just seem to keep getting harder.

My best game is probably still Stud, although i love NLHE tournaments and seem to do OK in them and SnGs.

Favorite live place to play is the Bike; it's good to be back in LA so I can go over there. In Vegas I tend to go downtown since it reminds me of the old days, still a certain down home feel to it compared to new mega places on the Strip.

Outside of poker, it's been a long strange trip. Grew up near where "Rocky" was filmed in Philadelphia, moved to California for work and decided I love it here. Never really used that MS in Engineering, got married to a lovely woman just before Prop 8 passed, played a lot of pool and was on a BCA national championship team last year.

Looking forward to getting to know everyone better.

Shauna

**SGT RJ** · 03-04-2011, 04:30 PM

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Originally Posted by AAmaz0n

Hi all,

My name is Shauna and I play poker. I guess I'm the old lady here.

My first experience with live poker was when I lived in Vegas briefly while I was playing a lot of blackjack. The first game I was dealt into was 7 stud at the Silver Slipper on the Strip, across from the Desert Inn. I dabbled on and off for quite a while.

When IRC poker came online late in the last century I started playing a lot on that. Despite being play money it was fairly competitive; you could only reload once a day and there were games where you couldn't play unless you had built your bankroll up to a certain point. Some of the current poker geeks like Chris Ferguson were playing there at that time.

I'm not sure when I started playing online for real money, sometime early in the century. I know that I was playing full time around 2003 after leaving grad school, and grinding pretty hard in 2005 when I did a promo to go to the WSOP. My play since then has been fairly sporadic; got burned out a bit and the games just seem to keep getting harder.

My best game is probably still Stud, although i love NLHE tournaments and seem to do OK in them and SnGs.

Favorite live place to play is the Bike; it's good to be back in LA so I can go over there. In Vegas I tend to go downtown since it reminds me of the old days, still a certain down home feel to it compared to new mega places on the Strip.

Outside of poker, it's been a long strange trip. Grew up near where "Rocky" was filmed in Philadelphia, moved to California for work and decided I love it here. Never really used that MS in Engineering, got married to a lovely woman just before Prop 8 passed, played a lot of pool and was on a BCA national championship team last year.

Looking forward to getting to know everyone better.

Shauna

I'm mid 30s, if that makes you feel better.