Is your girlfriend suprisingly good at poker?

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my gf recently has been playing on my bovada account and i'm pleasantly surprised at how good she is.

i try not to "coach" when she is playing and just let her do her thing. she plays a diff style than i do and it really works. her big play (and sometimes downfall) is she likes to lead out on the flop which throws a lot of people off since most people check in early position post flop. she just wont back down and will 3bet people if there is the slightest hint of weakness.

maybe she can just be more agro since it's my money but i can honestly say that handing the PC off to her for 30 mins or so has been EV+.

she tries to say that she's better than me but i just tune out that noise!

do you guys let your girl give your BR a whirl? it's definitely scary sometimes.
 
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Hell know I wouldn't let my gf take my bankroll for a whirl. If she wants to play poker, she can set up her own account. I don't care how good she is. Unfortunately for me, my gf doesn't like poker or math really. Maybe it's time to find a new one lol
 
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I am with groggy44, if she wants to play poker she can use play money and if she gets hooked open up an account. If she is a winning player, this is better for her anyway. If she is a losing player, it is better for both of us.
 
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Hell know I wouldn't let my gf take my bankroll for a whirl. If she wants to play poker, she can set up her own account. I don't care how good she is. Unfortunately for me, my gf doesn't like poker or math really. Maybe it's time to find a new one lol


+1.:D

and also, My GF is surprisingly good at making me feel like a gambling addict for playing poker. :D:D:D
 
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lol mine tried to pull that card too. so thats why i got her playing. as far as opening her own account, i dont see her setting it up with her credit card and depositing any money. too much commitment
 
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millertime...that sounds like her problem. Yes I like to gamble, I like to drink, I all sorts of vices but i'm a big believer in paying for you own habits. If i was dating vanessa rousso, perhaps I'd consider letting her take my br out for a test drive but I'll tell ya this (clean version) she's going to more than make up for it lol.
Now I did date a girl several years back, we met in the bar room poker scene. we played in the casino a few times but never played against each other. She wasn't that serious about poker. She just liked to play. At the bar tourneys, we regular locked horns. She knew it was always good to fold against me though. I wasn't bluffing her but had 0 problems value betting her till the cows came home. Good times. No, i never let her on my pokerstars account
 
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Neither my girlfriend nor I are great players but we often clean up first and second place in our home games with friends. Zoe takes a few more risks than I do but they seem to work out a lot of the time. She has her own account on Party Poker so doesn't need my (small but very well protected) bankroll. She works long hours and is hooked on Candy Crush at the moment so she hasn't been playing much poker lately. Another home game in a couple of weeks, hope we'll take it down again ;-) Must persuade her to get some practice in.
 
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well maybe that's what I am doing wrong. My gf right now doesn't hate poker but she could care less. If it try and tell her how i set a trap for the villian she's lost. If i try and give her a bad beat story, I'd get more sympathy from our dog. Good news is, she's never going to ask me why I would with a naked flush draw and she's never going to want to watch me play. I think she'd much rather watch a baseball game lol
 
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just to clarify, typically i'm monitoring her play time. she doesn't play when i'm at work or something and i come home and all my BR is gone. she knows i would probably kill her and take the dog! i have just found that letting her play/control a sng while i watch or a MTT, she is a lot more receptive to ME playing on my own.

the other day we were both off and had no plans, so we played in 10 $13 9man sng's on bovada. together we cashed in 8 of them with 2 1sts, 3 2nds and 3 3rds. i was pretty impressed with her play.

i let her play in the $2 rebuy and she stacked up in the 1st hour, handed it off to me and i donked it off with 66 vs AK about 15 mins after the break :( she was like......i just spent all that time building that up for you to lose it in 2 seconds.........welcome to poker baby!
 
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They say females are more rational when it comes to decision making. I wish my wife would show interest in poker. She likes spending some of my winnings at the slot machines. I am trying to get her to at least play blackjack then hopefully she will reconsider later.
 
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I'd let my girl play with my money if she wanted, but at a MUCH lower stake than I'm rolled for.

Of course if I'm rolled for 5NL then I can just redeposit later, so whatev. :p
 
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at the time I taught her the basics of poker she was my girlfriend, we have since gotten married and she usually does better then me these days. I think she takes more risks then I would in certain situations and just has an overall different style of play then I do. We just got done with our 13th wedding anniversary and as long as I don't have to play against her we get along just fine, but yeah you could say she is way more profitable then me at least for now.
 
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Never met a girl who likes to play poker... wish i did though, here in brazil gambling isn't very popular... we don't have cassinos or anything like that.
 
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Yes....

My girl has been playing for about ten years, very solid, Online or Live.
 
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