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Dark, smoke-filled rooms and tough guys slouching around a table, playing for keeps--that's our image of poker from old movies. But in the past few years, as poker mania has taken hold of the nation--fueled by televised tournaments, celebrity players and a proliferation of online poker sites--the game's macho image has undergone a makeover. At card tables both real and virtual across the country, women who didn't know a flush from a full house a year ago are pushing in chips and slapping down cards faster than you can say Texas Hold...
Firm statistics on who's playing poker are hard to find, but virtually all the online sites report a big jump in female players. At EmpirePoker.com women have gone from 3% of players three years ago to 20% today. InterPoker.com reports that 10% of players a year ago were women. Today that number is at least 25%. "Women are the fastest-growing demographic of new players," says Maryann Morrison, publisher of the fledgling Woman Poker Player magazine and founder of the Women's Poker Club, a women-only site. Morrison estimates that about 35% of online players are now female...
Eileen Yee, 33, is typical of the newly minted female player. An accountant from Ferndale, Mich., she was riveted to ESPN last year during the World Series of Poker. "What grabbed me," she says, "was the excitement and drama." Afterward, she continued to watch televised poker for hours at a time, bought a book on strategy and refined her game online and at live tables. Residing in a state where gaming outside a casino is illegal, she finds it hard as a woman to pick up live games as often as she would like. At her computer, she can ante...
Cyberspace play offers other advantages, which can quickly turn beginners into practiced players. Online games are fast, and you can play far more hands in a month than would be possible in person. Also, without faces and bodies to read for tells--psychological clues to what's in an opponent's hand--players can concentrate on percentages and betting. They can take notes on how others bet and when they bluff. A click on most sites lets players set up opponent profiles. Players can also search all their own previous hands, comparing stats, for example, on the percentages of hands...
...think you’ve got him stopped at nothing, and he’s got four. We certainly saw that today.”Ultimately, though, the Princeton defense was able to keep Dawson from a win, if not from player-of-the-week caliber numbers.Princeton cornerback Jay McCareins acknowledged that playing Hartigan last week prepared the Tigers for the challenge of containing Dawson.“Be relentless to the ball; there’s no choice,” McCareins said. “If you miss a tackle, someone has to be there right behind...