Hi, I'm Jenny/Jennifer/Jen. I'll answer to all of them. I just moved to Vegas last year. Been playing poker all my life, my dad taught me when I was a girl. If I had a day off from school, he'd take me to watch and sometimes play with his poker buddies...my mom didn't much care for that lol.

I was a poker dealer back home (in WI) for a few different outfits, mostly bar tournaments and some after-hours business events. After moving here, I got hired right away (Whew!) as a poker dealer in one of the off-Strip casinos.

I love playing, love dealing, and just pretty much am consumed by the game. I primarily (ok, always) play 1/2 NL. I'm open to learning some other games, but I doubt very much you'll ever see me sit down at a limit game. PLO, maybe. I like to play the occasional tournament, but not a big fan of tourneys that last 9+ hours or more.

I'd love to talk with the local ladies, pick their brains a bit on where to find the best games, what their favorite casinos are, who offers the best comps, etc. As I have time I plan to read these forums a lot more and hopefully pick up some good info/tips.

Welcome Jenny, I live in Vegas too!

lol hotjenny! Hopefully we'll get a chance to meet, maybe even chat a bit or play together.

Thank you very much! I realized my name can be mistaken for a dude's. Just to clarify, I am a female. lol.

Yes! What days/where do you usually play?

We have more in common by the minute!

Hi all, am Elena, I usually read the two plus two Foxwoods thread, but just found out about this awesome thread for ladies.
About me: I started playing recreational poker in 2009 (online), after moving to New England from NY and getting a seasonal job at the cage in Foxwoods. I only play MTT's, and I recently made it to my first live final table ... Am working on improving my poker skills and I have played 6 live MTT's at Foxwoods so far..

Welcome!

Thanks!

[QUOTE=hotjenny314;26738342]Yes! What days/where do you usually play?



My play days/nights vary, according to my work schedule, family schedule, and if I'm feeling like playing. Sometimes I just want to veg out and do other stuff.

I've mostly been playing at Bally's and Gold Nugget. I prefer Bally's, they have high hand payouts, I like the dealers, I like how the room is situated right by the pit tables (a lot of tourists and newbies that are just walking by decide to sit down to play poker). I've heard many good things about a number of poker rooms out here, but haven't checked too many of them out. I've found (for me, anyway) that Friday/Saturday nights are best for action, people who don't know what they're doing, and loose money.

You might want to try connecting with the local WPDG (Wednesday Poker Discussion Group). They meet every Wednesday starting at 2:00 - 2:30pm at a restaurant called Ricardo's in Las Vegas. Just up the road a bit from the Rio.

Very friendly discussion group. Lots of ladies (including some of the best in poker) attend this.

There is also a no-limit specific discussion group that meets Monday nights, but I've never been to one of their meetings.

Lee

Hello Ladies,
My name is Maria and I've lived in Vegas for the past 5 years. I moved here from California to be a pro-poker player and after 3 months of grinding it out, I decided the pro-poker thing wasn't for me. I went back to engineering and now I'm a test engineer for one of the gaming OEMs here in town. I play at MGM and Aria for my "fun money".

I'd love to meet some of you sometime. Please let me know about any get-togethers during the WSOP.

Hi Maria! I'll be playing at Aria Saturday night.

Hi Maria,

Hope that you are enjoying Vegas. I lived there briefly during my Blackjack days, but it was a far different town then. Now it seems more user friendly, but more greedy toward tourists.

Can you amplify on the teat engineering gig? I have an MS in Engr but have had some difficulty finding work; which is why I was playing so much online until Black Friday.

Slainte'

Shauna

Thanks Lee! I'm going to check into this next week if my afternoon is open. Is anyone (female) welcome? Can I just walk in?

What was funny to me was that I played at Bally's last night, and there was a woman at my table. She was pretty good, a straightforward player, tight-aggressive. She even stacked me at one point when my KK ran into her AA.

Anyway, she was a pretty good player, so I got to thinking "Maybe she's one of the ladies here on the forums!" So I asked her if she was local.

Nope, she was a tourist, and leaving this morning. And taking my chips with her. Boo.

Welcome all!

Hey Bella,
I've been pseduo in a non creepy fashion reading your blog and more on Deuces ( Im hustleher0 on dc) . Clever gal you are, I hope to one day meet you though I don't flex around in the LHE world. I personally play NLH (MTT), and am getting into heads-up and 6-Max cash.

I was wondering if I could get your input, on the question: On online forums, should you correct or not correct guys when they assume your a man?

I guess because of my straight up style, almost always I get 'yo bro' or 'dude'

I was wondering, if you think there is an advantage to them treating you like one of the dudes, or is the social justice and right thing to do correct them because long term it reduces hetronormativity? I find when I reveal I'm a girl they kinda treat me a bit softer.

great to get your thoughts.
cheers

Hey Ladies,
Awesome to have this thread!

A little about me- I'm 26 from Toronto, I work in the university sector (I'm a practitioner) , and have been dilletenting it up with poker since 2008 (e.g. doing the fishy thing of playing like once a month and not reading or self-impoving) , but sorta started taking poker a little more seriously 6 months ago aka I read a book and started applying a work ethic and plan out my time towards poker. To say the least I don't like to lose, I love competition and would love to be bi-winning at life.

I've become rather enamoured with poker, and would love to get good enough to be a full time grinder- totally my dream!

I recently came 4th ( My online name on stars is HustleHer0, should have taken it down, made a bad shove) http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/womens...22-081724.html On the stars women's sunday and I'm definitely on a mission to take it down, within the year.

I've heard from a few of my friends who are baller successful full time grinders, that the best way to be on the 'come up' is to surround yourself with like minded individuals ( go Goldman Sachs elite team think methodology), and it is super hard to find girls to do this with, which I'm sure is one of the biggest determinants and roadblocks to really optimizing.. which is what life and poker is all about.

Hopefully, this thread will be the conduit that will allow for like minded females to connect. I would love to have a summer WSOP crib full of alpha elite chicks who grind... hopefully this can be brought into fruition, or brought to light if it already does exist.

cheers all

Everybody is welcomed. The restaurant has a buffet set up from around 2pm to 2:30pmish, I forget the cost, but it's reasonable.

There is also a menu one can order from. You don't have eat anything there in order to be at the meeting - although I've found the food to be good. I believe that the group instituted a mandatory tip to the waitstaff (who put out pitchers of water and iced tea and such) of a couple of dollars if no food is ordered. Please do ask when you get there.

Just show up and introduce yourself. I hope that you enjoy it.

Lee

I'm also a LGBT person, but as I'm a Cancuk though (I'm exclusively into femmes) we just say Queer.

IMO I think there is a high proportion of queer women in the poker world compared to straight. It's the whole alpha thing thats dominant in lezzies.

Awesome though that you both identified.

Hi Swishy!

Thanks for following. Unfortunately I haven't had time to update it in the last few weeks, because I am in the middle of a move across the ocean to Germany. Most of the stuff is done now and I should be able to play more poker now (yay, in Europe where I can play freely).

I would love to meet you too. I will sadly have to pass up this years' WSOP, because there is just too much stuff going on in my life and I can't justify paying 1000$ to go see friends if I *just* left the US. But there's always 2012...

On your question, I just wing it most of the time.

Often already the name "bellatrix" or "bella" suggests to them, that it is a female on the other side of the computer. But yeah, I get the "that bellatrix dude, he said..." plus there are some dudes taking on female names in online forums, too. But "swishy" could is not confined to a certain sex, so I can see how they would "sup bro" you.

Sometimes the forum corrects them. Sometimes I mention it with a smiley at the end, always understandable that in a community where there are mostly males you can assume a male participant as a default. It used to bug me in scientific papers and I always made sure to research the first author, so that I could give proper credit ("she discovered..."), but others are not so thorough. And sometimes I don't mention it, this is when I don't want to veer away from the discussion at hand and don't want to seem petty.

Anyway, yeah, not very good answer I gave, but then again, I don't have a formula how to deal with people in the forums and just do what comes to mind first

heyyy ladies. i'm addy & i live in las vegas. i've been playing poker for about 6 years and have been playing semi-professionally for ~2. (i also do freelance writing & producing and just finished my master's in media arts.) i'm originally from NY but i've lived all over: boston, montreal, toronto, hawaii, LA. been calling vegas home for about 18 months now.

i recently took 6th at the caesars WSOPc ladies event for $1200. also shipped the aria nightly tournament on 5/21 for $2100, as well as 4th in the daily high-roller on merge for $1k & 1st in the $5 rebuy for $1200. clearly i'm a bit of an MTT junkie.

http://www.bluffmagazine.com/players...nt-results.asp
http://www.officialpokerrankings.com...6390F.html?t=2

just joined 2+2 after many months of lurking. howdy. nice to see that there's a spot just for the girls. can't wait to meet some of you during tournament season.

(oh, and since it seems to be part of the discussion, i'm a huge supporter of the GLBTQ community. much love all around. i've been known to swing the bat both ways and my kid sister is a proud little queer. imo there's way too much homophobia in the poker community and i'll stir up sh*t til i'm blue in the face to try and stamp it out.)

http://www.twitter.com/killahmcgillah

yaaaaaaaaay! Addy!

And I will vouch for her stirring sh*t up. She keeps it real and I like that. Fun chick to have at your table.

...and *i* can vouch that pezbaby's rack looks way better in person.