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[serling]

I play under a female persona (name and avatar) for fun, but also with the thought that it might possibly give me an advantage.

Has anyone found playing male or female affects how people play back at you in the SnGs? Do they respect your raises or not? Do they steal less or more?

I haven't found anything out of the ordinary except for the chat. Oftentimes I get questions about my name and city and icon, and am basically chatted up, which I generally ignore or answer yes or no (don't want to lead them on, after all /images/graemlins/smile.gif ). I've never actively used chat to flirt or hit on anyone to see if that has an impact, though.

I just play my same SnGs and see the same results.

I do, however, find I get many more negative and rude remarks (the b- and c-words especially), such as one guy telling me that "the cXXXs are taking over golf and now they're taking over poker." I ignored that. After I busted him, he said, "Why don't you go cook something in the kitchen?"

I said, "I don't need to cook something, I can eat out with your money."


serling

[stupidsucker]

I rarely notice the gender of my opponents.

[Chief911]

I have avatars turned off. /images/graemlins/confused.gif

[LinusKS]

I'm pretty sure all the people I play against are men.

The other day two impersonators ("PornStar" and "SexxyBabe," or something like that) were chatting each other up - I'm sure they'll be disappointed when they find out they're both male.

[Desdia72]

one thing i do know for sure is after a horrible run under my username (for about two months), i started playing under my girlfriend's username and cashed in about 60-70% ITM of the SNGs ($5 + $.50) i played (both one and two-table). i even won a $215 entry into the weekly $250,000 Guaranteed PS Tournament (my 2nd ever) via a $3 rebuy satellite with 500+ players, which i promptly took the tourney dollars instead and made about another $175 (free profit) at least playing more $5 + $.50 SNGs under her username (all of which happened in about a month). then as soon as i transferred all that profit over to my PS account (under my username), i immediately start another horrible run (as if i never left off from the previous one of two months...punctuated by many river beats and premium card kills). basically, i'm -EV and -$ under my username for a cumulative three months straight and had one of my best months ever under my girlfriend's username. a bunch of foulness if you ask me, or should i say....a bunch of femininess.

[LinusKS]

You should consider a sex-change.

[adanthar]

I was very surprised a week ago when I saw a female name in my buddylist I didn't remember.

Turns out my RL friend had switched genders to generate more action. He says it works.

He's also done this in Diablo 2 and Everquest and always got more free [censored] in 2 weeks than I did in 2 years.

I think I need a name change, too.

[ilya]

It's lost on me, I turned off the avatars on my 1st day at Party.

[stupidsucker]

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You should consider a sex-change.


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I laughed for a full minute.

[Vish]

This may be an unfounded prejudice, but I've noticed that most women in person and female avatars online play rather passively. I sometimes find myself playing differently against women as a result. I'll give them a little more credit when they're just calling, and I'll bet out more often instead of slowplaying.

I see it all the time, but perhaps I'm just confirming my bias. I've certainly run into some aggressive players with female avatars.

[serling]

I've noticed this too, mostly in person.

This is actually the image I'd like to cultivate online (and I also assume all my opponents are male and have avatars turned off; my screen name, however, is obviously female). I will sometimes throw in a raise or two on the turn (after pausing for a beat), and find people fold, perhaps giving me more credit than I deserve.

I'm usually not that tricky in SnGs and play a straightforward game, but this female moniker seems to give me license to play around a bit.

Now to find out if blondes have more fun.


serling-ette

[chill888]

If you want people to believe you are really a female, just use an ugly (uglier) picture than all those Scandinavian males at Stars that use Playboy models.

I remember one real pig from Scandinavia - name something like fugla. It was clearly a girl. Luckily she changed the photo.

Also, guys that use "couple photos" are a far better tell of weak, lame, passive play. (THIS is a valuable tip /images/graemlins/smile.gif ). They almost always play scared and hide their losses from their "better half."

BTW, I think Lorinda is a girl (and i am glad her photo keeps winking at me)! But, her being female is clearly no sign of weakness because her posts here indicate she is darn good.

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