Hi MeLoveYouLongTime:
Please accept my apologies for taking so long to respond. My comments are embed below.
Best wishes,
Mason
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Originally Posted by MeLoveYouLongTime
Mason,
Thanks for the advice!
I mostly give the allusion that I am a typical tight woman player that never bluffs. I do play tight, but I generally take down the hand regardless if I hit. When I have the right odds I chase.
That sounds good.
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I think you are wrong in that women don't like NLH. I use the men's aggressiveness during play to my advantage, and I love the (rare) excitement of the game and the strategy.
Well, I can only go by what I see in The Bellagio. There, a much higher percentage of the players, by my observation, in the limit games are women when compared to the no-limit games. In addition, I know that in the world of management types in the poker community there is conversation as to why so few women play. And third, years ago when stud was a popular game and no-limit didn't exist, it seemed like there were a lot more women playing.
Now with the above being said, my observations are basically just limited to Las Vegas and things can be much different elsewhere.
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What women don't like is the aggressiveness of the men in general. I played tournaments all weekend, and at three separate tables guys berated me and other women.
I agree with this and it's just my point. While aggressive play is important in all forms of poker, it's also my opinion that a passive stud player can survive, and this may explain why there always seemed to be a bunch of women playing. But there's also no excuse for the type of behavior that you describe.
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One guy told me to"wipe that smile off your face" I wasn't even in a hand with him or looking at him!
Another guy I bluffed:
"Raising 99s, what book did you read that in....can you please teach me; you just making **** up as you go along"
As you know, poker is a game of taking advantage of weaknesses that other players may exhibit. I think you have a couple of targets here.
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And, I was at a table with two other women that were having a conversation about their nails, and a guy was being extreamly aggressive saying, "what has poker table talk come to; y'all need to take that somewhere else, that doesn't belong here."
Once 2+2 finished with the no-limit books we had planned to publish, I returned to limit play a few years ago and virtually never see behavior like this. In addition, at no-limit, I have also observed similar bad behavior that had nothing to do with women. So perhaps it's just something that the game itself brings out and it appears in many forms. I don't have an answer.
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The men act like women are not wanted and don't belong. It's like a hit to their ego when a decent woman player sits down.
This is an interesting comment. I'm now much older than most of the players I play against and in no-limit I use to hear similar comments relative to being old and out of touch. But I never hear anything like this in limit. Again I wonder why.
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Even my own boyfriend told me a girl at his table was getting on his nerves.
It's like poker is guy time and women are in the way. The problem is that men are too worried about their egos and not focused enough on their bankrolls.
If that's the case, at least part of their bankrolls should become part of your bankroll. Would you want it a different way?
Best wishes,
Mason