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poker is about very small edges and taking advantage of them
they have no idea what to do when they see JKo...in any positionComment -
Women are better at things like Candy Crush and Criminal Case.Comment -
Women get caught trying to bluff to much or playing too tight. It's the fine line all players must walk to get far in tournament play. As far as cash games go, I think some women do damn good. No worse %-wise than men. Tournaments are a different animal, you can't get too far without switching strategies and playing close attention to button position. Lots of women get rattled by the bad beats.Comment -
Of course it makes sense. Strongman is based on strength. Poker is based on strategy and is the most strategic of any casino gambling. Yeah there is luck but we aren't talking about can women win a hand of poker, we are asking why aren't there more female poker players. The answer is among other things they aren't or don't care to be as strategic. In poker if you use no strategy your luck runs out pretty quickly.Comment -
They have no ballsComment -
I am in the camp of there aren't very many of them. A matter of percentage. Not many chicks into gambling other than slotsComment -
If you're dating a woman that gambles or drinks more than you, you better run for the hills.
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Been there and gotta love a girl that can watch football and drink beer. Absolute heaven!!!!Comment -
1. they are too busy in the kitchen
2. they are too emotional
3. by the time they are ready, its already the next hand
4. no money for the buy in, spent it all on make-up
5. if they are playing poker, then who is bringing us drinks?Comment -
too emotionally unstable
gets committed to hands too often and too easy
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you give me the impression that you are trying to sneak in a 'women aren't as intelligent as men' argument, but you are going at it in a roundabout way so that no one can accuse you of being a misogynist
im guessing you must have voted trump
anyway the reason that there are less women in poker is the same reason there are less women in sports betting. they are two activities that are attractive mainly to degens. and mainly men are degens, women dont suffer from that affliction as muchComment -
- Men gambled more frequently than women on most gambling forms and spent significantly more money on their highest spend gambling activity.
- Women were significantly less likely than men to gamble on skill based forms of gambling such as card games or wagering.
- Women were more likely to gamble on lotteries and raffles and electronic gaming machines (EGMs).
- Men were more likely to gamble for social reasons or general entertainment while women were more likely to gamble for charity or for other reasons such as general escape and relieving stress and boredom.
- Younger men and women were more likely than older men and women to gamble on table games and wagering.
- Younger women purchased more scratch tickets and participated in more phone/SMS competitions than younger men.
- Older men were more likely to engage in lotteries and raffles than younger men.
- Older women were more likely to gamble on the pokies than younger women, while younger men were more likely to gamble on the pokies than older men.
- Women were more likely to gamble on lotteries and raffles and electronic gaming machines (EGMs)
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I don't think it's a percentage thing. If it was a constant 5% in the field, you'd still see a lot more women at the final tables than you see now.
Men are bigger gamblers, yes. But that doesn't explain the lack of success from women, it just explains the above percentages.
I think it's men's analysis over emotion that makes us better at poker overall. It the same reason why lesbian women tend to do well overall -- they relate more with men and can turn their emotions off more easily. When you do that, you can focus more, and you can't make final tables without a lot of that. Same reason why players who drink when they play (outside of the small handful of outliers you can name) don't do well either.Comment -
Emotional
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This thread is overloaded with testosterone.
I'm what you call a numbers geek, that's would I do for a living, I/T guy.
This is a fact, not an opinion, not a theory, but a fact.
Psychological studies show most women lose interest in mathematics around the age of 14, or about the time they enter Jr. High School, why? don't know, that's not my forte, numbers are.
Now, for every 10 that are in computers (I/T) professionally, I would say 8 are men, and 2 are women, the 2 women that call I/T a career it's been my experience that they are extremely sharp. No, I/T chicks are not drop dead gorgeous beauty queens, the stereotype is pretty much accurate, pale complexion, glasses, on the thin side. Just plain looking, I work for an insurance company (yeah I know, yawn) but it's a damn good job, women there are sharp as a tack, but just plain looking.
I'm digressing here (I'm the king of that) one of the reasons why "women are no good at poker" is poker is a math game, and math is an area where most women have no interest, the math heads that are women seem to play very well though.
p.s. my 2 in 10 estimate was pretty close.
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If 50 women play in an event and 50 men play TONS OF WOMEN WILL WINComment -
Women have smaller brains.Comment -
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That may be true, there are exceptions, but overall women do have smaller brains, but psychologists say women's brains are more efficient than men.Comment -
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I know what you are trying to say, but that's not a strong argument here, because if you have no interest in a game or sport, you have no idea if you can succeed at it or not, because you just don't give a crap about it to find out.Comment -
most poker pros broke
yeh game of skill
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get in the way.
