pokerchick

The poker world has seen, not just an influx of players, but an influx of female players. I, for one, was intrigued by poker, it being one of those games girls don’t ‘typically’ play. Poker is a way to be competitive without having to participate in a sport; it is an outlet for lying, cheating, and stealing…something that is very UN-ladylike. When I sit down at the table, I want to be looked at as a force to be reckoned with. I want to take other people’s money and do so with a very bad poker face. I blush, I grin, but in the end I go for the jugular and watch as the other player opens their mouth in an O, surprised to have been trapped by a girl.

I rarely see a man as proud at the poker table as when he can say that his woman plays poker, too, AND IS GOOD. The men all comment on how they’re jealous and would love it if their women played poker, if only so that they could play longer themselves.

Not too long ago I was sitting at a table in Reno when there was some commotion at another table behind me. The guy to my right spoke briefly to someone at the other table and then said very proudly, “Mary (or whatever her name was) just called a guy down when there was a flush on the board! He went all in for $300 and she made a stone cold call! She said she smelled a bluff…that was a $1000 pot!” He then went on to say that his girlfriend would be an awesome player if she ever wanted to be serious about playing. Women have a better honed gut instinct than men and often can sniff out a lie.

At the poker table, a woman can be, for a few hours at least, just one of the guys.

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