Do you think females are worse at poker?

[RadioDave]

I think women in general have the abilities to be vastly superior poker players then men. Poker is a game of controlling emotions at the table so you don't give anything away. Let's face it, us men (cough cough.. Hellmuth, Matasow.. cough cough) have a harder time dealing with emotions when it's all on the line.
Women also have a greater innate ability to accomplish several tasks at once. The example I've always heard in psychology class was talking on the phone, cooking dinner and taking care of the baby at the same time. In the poker world, that could translate to calculating pot odds, putting players on hands and evaluating her own hand at the same time.

If a woman and man of equal mental capacity were each taught to play poker the same way.. I would bet the woman would evantually become the better player. Take for example Annie Duke and brother Howard Lederer. Howard is one of the best players in the game today, but he's never knocked his sister out of a tournament, while she's done it to him 4 times now (granted the 4th time was a bad beat for Howard in the Tournament of Champions).

[Gocko1525]

i think the females have can have an edge, if they know the game and how to read people, they can perswade some men to play differently, mabye just calling when they should raise...

have the strongest power in the world. The power of pussy can influence all men's minds.

As a chick who is obsessed with poker and who has placed in the money in most of the tournaments I've been a part of lately (after much dedication, much practice and many hours of losing...) I have to say this, it's not so much about how I play as a woman as much as how men react/play to me. Men often give me no credit for a hand when I raise and I will be called or even re-raised with much more inferior hands than if a man had made a similar raise (a fold would occur if it was a man). Men are often thrown off when I flop the nuts and slow play -- like I was such a genius that I flopped Aces full of Kings and checked to the river until my opponent bet and I reraise all in... that people with crap hands still think it's not worth believing me is a miracle and a blessing...

The guys who I play with regularly know me and are always amused to watch the dynamics of the big bad bully man who is gonna try to steal my chips -- those guys are always the most gratifying to bust out!

Jen

Women were taught in the old days to be subservient to men. Take care of the baby, clean this, cook that, wash this, etc. That type of atmosphere pervaded almost anything women did, not just poker. Thats why there weren't any great female players. Couldn't be aggressive and strong and act freely in a man's world. Now, however, there is a new mindset based on equality for the sexes and we are seeing the women become stronger.
Guys, we're in trouble now!

Women worse at poker>?? no way
I think women are just as good as us if not better.
I mean either way you look at it , it always comes down to the player not the gender, but from experience , the women i have played with have done very well.
My fiance takes my money everyweek!!

i am playing 1/2 no limit. i am bb and sb raises me 15$ we each have about 100$ in chips in front of us. i call in bb. flop comes Jc 10c 4c. he bets 20 i raise 20 he goes all in. i call. he has As Kd i have Qc and 9c. was i right?