| This is a discussion on guys at my home games within the online poker forums, in the Poker Rooms section; we have a friendly game every week and im the only girl that plays. my husband invites all of his friends. for the past few ... |
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| guys at my home games we have a friendly game every week and im the only girl that plays. my husband invites all of his friends. for the past few months i have placed in our tournies over half the time. But for some reason it seems the guys still dont think i know what im doing. its kinda frustrating. its even harder for me to bluff at a pot, bc no one takes me serious. hmmm any suggestions on how to crack their view? |
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Yea - I can see where you would have problems. In some games when guys get away with bluffing with crap it is a good play but when a girl does the same they think she is playing dumb lol. Luckily we usually have 50% women at our home games so it is not so bad. Maybe BBB and Juicee can give you some tips here - they both play very well with the guys - playing similiar strategies and winning a lot. And they both get respect at the table |
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| Don't try to crack it. Adjust your game accordingly. Wait for big hands and slowly take all their chips. I play at the local casino from time to time, and there is always at least one guy there who does not take me seriously--you know the type--and can even be patronizing. I just smile my sweetest smile, and play my game. Then I take their chips. I busted a guy twice because he didn't respect my raises. It was very satisfying. Good luck in your home games! They'll start to take you seriously the more you win. |
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| thanks thank you. how do i find them? im looking through this website and just clicking away at stuff..heeehehehee. last week i came back and won the tourney and the guy i was heads up against kept saying...you shouldnt even have made it this far. only bc i called his all in with aj and he had ak. i hit the j on the river... and that totally made him mad. |
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| re: guys at my home games poker If they're calling you down because they don't think you know what you're doing, so you can't bluff effectively, then bluff less often or not at all. If they're going to keep calling you, value-bet, value-bet, value-bet when you have big hands and make them pay big. I'm sure you can use it to your advantage that they don't see you as a big threat. Good luck. EDIT: Doh, I was 2 minutes late... JQ kind of already said what I said |
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Tighten your hand selections and don't thorw money into the pot unless you have a hand. Use this info to your advantage and take all their chips. Last home game I was at there was a girl who would flip over her cards and say "I have a pair of 7s" and we'd have to correct her letting her know she actually had a flush and won the pot against one guy's straight and the other's set. I'm not sure if it was an act or not as I had never met her before, but it wasn't long before she was betting out big amounts where we would fold decent hands and she turned out to be bluffing on most. One way or another she had a HUGE stack in front of her. |
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| re: guys at my home games poker take advantage of you being the only woman there. practice your game as much as you can online or in person and then play the dumb girly roll to the hilt. some guys won't want to see you leave the table . most men tend to think with something other then their minds when a pretty girl is at the table. |
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| as above(many posts), but I would also add that next time you play a home game, try to bluff early on in a couple of cheap hands, and get caught. These guys will then think that you havent changed your game, ie you still bluff all the time. After the second time you get caught, tighten up your PF hand selection, and start hammering them when you hit the flop, they are gonna think you are still running bluffs. |
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| Okay, someone has to say it...cleavage. Yes, follow all of the advice above for nailing these knuckleheads, but add cleavage to the mix in the games and have one more weapon of mass distraction in your arsenal. You're the only woman at the game, this will work in your benefit. |
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The more feminine you look, the more likely these dumb guys are to think you can`t possibly know anything about a "man`s game". |
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