Girls are Dangerous for Poker!
Posted by Mal | January 25, 2010 | Posted in: Articles | Comments (1)Firstly let me say that the title of this article is a play on words and spoken completely tongue in cheek. You should read this article in the playful way it is intended and in no way do I think that ladies should not play poker. The more the merrier in fact. Would you rather sit with nine other men for twelve hours, each one getting more sweaty and irritated as the time goes by and the pressure builds or would you rather sit with an attractive female? I know what I prefer, but male poker players need to be aware that female players know exactly how to make that work for them.
Texas Hold’em poker throws many challenges in your way before the poker gods allow you to profit from the game. You must learn strategy, patience and a steely desire to win. That is, until an attractive female sits at your table and instantly that “male thing” kicks in where you just have to try and get them to like you. It just happens. All the poker strategies go out of the window. You want to bust everyone, but you want this girl to stay at your table because she is cute. Shame on you!
I am not being chauvinistic here. The ladies have all the power in this situation. Let me tell you a story about a poker tournament that I played in. A very attractive young lady sat at our table and this a male player got involved in a big pot with her. She had around $500 of chips left poker the action and checked to the guy on the river with the pot around $8000. The male player said “I should bet $500 here”, to which the young lady flashed a big smile at him and said, “It would be a shame to have to leave when I was enjoying talking to you so much”. The guy instantly checked and revealed the stone cold nuts. I laughed out loud and said “If you were a guy you would be out”. She went on to make a comeback and cashed in the event and later in the tournament I knocked her out. Neither of us went home with her number, but I got the win in the end.
Getting information out of your opponents is difficult. If you are female you can extract information from male players by using your charms to massage the male player’s ego. Men need to be aware that if girls are chatting away to you at the table they might (only might of course) just be doing this to give them an advantage. That does not mean you should be unfriendly, just stay away from altering your play because of it.
Although I am certainly prone to this sort of ego manipulation by the fairer sex you must remain ruthless and if the chance comes to bust a great looking girl you should do it immediately just as quickly as you would bust a male player. This is why I love to play online poker as great looking girls could be everywhere and it can never affect me because I do not realise!
Reading a poker blog written by a model that plays poker she mentioned sitting next to a well-known poker professional in a tournament recently. She was talking to him and giving him her full attention as it were and he hissed “I know what you are doing and it will not work”, before re-raising her off a large pot. If you are a good poker player you will also need to make such moves to remind a good looking female player you are all business.
Especially if your wife or partner is watching!
By Malcolm Clarke
Sorry I avoid girls esp. cute one while on the table. Because I know she is my opponent and can do anything to get me out of the table.
Btw I talk to them when game over and have lot of cash to spend. Because I just love girls