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Poker4Girls.Net's Interests
General
Bluffing, slow playing, casinos, studying the game, playing poker online, raising, beating the boys, hosting poker nights, cashing in chips, poker tournaments...
Music
Cha-ching!
Movies
Rounders, A Big Hand for the Little Lady, The Gambler, Four Dogs Playing Poker, Aces, All In, Luna's Game, Lucky You, and, of course, Annie Duke's Advanced Texas Hold'em Secrets--How to Beat the Big Boys!
Television
Poker After Dark and televised WSOP and WPT events
Books
Super System (Doyle Brunson), Caro's Book of Poker Tells (Mike Caro), How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, & Won Millions--And You Can Too (Annie Duke), Texas Hold'em Odds & Probabilities (Matthew Hilger), Outplaying the Boys (Cat Hulbert), The Poker Mindest (Taylor & Hilger), The Psychology of Poker and Your Worst Poker Enemy (both by Alan Schoonmaker), Women's Poker Night (Maryann Morrison), The Theory of Poker (David Sklansky), The Badass Girl's Guide to Poker (Toby Leah Bochan), Queens Can Beat Kings (Susie Isaacs), Harrington on Hold'em (Dan Harrington), Getting Started in Hold'em (Ed Miller), Phil Gordon's Little Black Book (Phil Gordon), The Female Brain (Louann Brizendine), Why Men Love Bitches (Sherry Argov).
Heroes
All the girls brave enough to sit down and play with the boys!
About me: In 1979, Doyle Brunson wrote in his ground-breaking poker strategy book Super System, "I've never met a woman who was a really top player." In the 2006 World Series of Poker, Doyle's own daughter, Pam Brunson, won over $34,000. Not only are women here to stay in the poker world, but we have many advantages over the men.
What you WON'T find on this web site is anecdotal advice or tips on how to flirt at the table. What you WILL find is well-researched poker strategy tailored for women's brains and lifestyles...because one-size poker strategy does NOT fit all!
In her 2007 book The Female Brain, Dr. Louann Brizendine explains what women's brains can do:
"Just about the first thing the female brain compels a baby to do is study faces" (p. 14). As women poker players, we've been studying the game since day #1!
"Girls can also hear a broader range of sound frequency and tones in the human voice than can boys" (p. 17). Reading tells is that much easier for women poker players!
"Remember, he's thinking about sex literally every minute" (p. 92). Women poker players don't have to worry about this distraction!
"The areas of the brain that track gut feelings are larger and more sensitive in the female brain" (p. 120). Women poker players are processing all kinds of "clues" about the other players at the table--without even trying!
"It's easier to push a man's anger button...Women have a much less direct relationship to anger" (p. 129). Women poker players have a lower chance of going on tilt! Thank you testosterone!
"The female brain is gifted at quickly assessing the thoughts, beliefs, and intentions of others, based on the smallest hints" (p. 120-1). The female brain is a poker tell-reading machine!
Who I'd like to meet: Victoria Coren, Annie Duke, Barbara Enright, Clonie Gowan, Jennifer Harman, Susie Isaacs, Kathy Liebert, Liz Lieu, Isabelle Mercier, Vanessa Rousso, Shirley Rosario, Jennifer Tilley, Mimi Tran, Cyndy Violette...just to name a few!
