Katie dozier c’est hotjenny314 sur FTP mais c’est aussi madame Moshman autant dire qu’elle a un prof a la maison
J’ai pas tradut l’article j’estime que l’on est au 21eme siecle et que de nos jours la maitrise de l’anglais est primordiale et que de toute facon en tant que joueurs de poker on est obligé de le maitriser afin de tirer le maximum des ressources du net et des livres. Alors ne me blamais pas pour ne pas avoir fait la traduc mais si quelqu’un veux le faire libre a lui
How a ‘Hot’ Female Gets an Edge in Online Sit-n-Gos
‘Coping with tilt was tough for me until I learned to depersonalize the game by thinking about the wagers instead of the players’
It may seem like pointless flirting, but you’d be surprised how many chips it has won me
By Katie Dozier
To prove I’m not a typical sit-n-go grinder, you need only look at my desk before I start playing. Sure, I have a typical multi-tabling setup with two 24-inch monitors filling my line of vision, but there is likely to be a nail file and the latest edition of Cosmopolitan underneath my calculator. Instead of poker chips or old decks of cards, my pink desk is cluttered with tubes of lip gloss and nail polish.
Poker became part of my life when my then-boyfriend (now husband) Collin Moshman and I started playing online and in home games with friends. Women are often “accused” of lacking the aggression of men at the table, and I have to agree that most women play a friendly game, passive and literal. For some reason I tended to the other extreme. Poker awakened my “wild girl” side, and you couldn’t stop me from raising hand after hand to scare off the boys who never got over their initial stereotypes!
When Collin began playing high-stakes SNGs, I decided to deposit a couple hundred on PartyPoker and try my luck with everything he’d taught me. One time I was sweating his games at my sorority house and decided to load up a few tables of my own.
True to the ditzy blonde stereotype, I accidentally bought into a $215 SNG, which was my entire bankroll! I was simultaneously watching Sex and the City with some sorority sisters and was so distracted that I didn’t realize I was playing with my whole bankroll until the bubble! Amazingly, I ended up winning the tournament and Collin picked me up and took me out for ice cream to celebrate. I have loved SNGs ever since.
Difficult Transition
The transition from avid SNG player to grinder was much more difficult for me. Collin slowly taught me how to tame my blindly aggressive style and play based on effective-stack sizes. My next problem was math. Many say that it’s harder for a woman to become a professional poker player because men are generally better at math. While feminists would certainly protest, I have to agree with this stereotype, at least in my case. One reason I put off thinking about poker as a real career option was due to my lack of great math skills.
However, once I applied myself and found useful tools like Poker Stove and SNG Wizard, it became a lot easier. I made pot odds flash cards to help me speed up calculations and quizzed myself on the way to school. I read hands on TwoPlusTwo.com and tried to spend a couple hours a day studying strategy and playing. It may have been the one aspect of poker that did not come naturally to me at first, but I worked hard to make sure that I understood all the math necessary for the game. Just don’t ask me to prove that E=MC2 and I should be OK.
Downswings, Risk and Emotions
Another stereotypical female stumbling block is being too emotional. I started off averse to the idea of swings. If I played well, then surely I didn’t deserve to lose money, right? While Collin is very level-headed, I watched him have a terrible downswing at the higher stakes tables and couldn’t imagine how upset I would be if it happened to me. The idea of going on even a 20 buy-in downswing at low stakes was scary to me.
Maybe it takes women – who I do believe are generally more risk-averse than men – a little more time to adjust to the mental aspects of playing poker for a living, but I think most women can learn to deal with downswings. I eventually did. Part of becoming a solid, winning poker player is learning to be level-headed, and that is a good life lesson as well.
By the time I moved up to playing more than twelve tables at once, bad beats had become a lot easier to take because most of the time I didn’t even notice that I was getting drawn out on. I also learned to take upswings with a grain of salt, and the downswings no longer ruined my day.
Screen Name Flirting
Generally, I think men believe that women are too emotional to handle playing poker – not just the swings and beats, but coping with tilt in all its forms. It was very tough for me until I learned how to depersonalize the game by thinking about the wagers instead of the players. Friends would tell you that I cry at chick flicks, but I still managed to learn how to avoid being tilted by other players at the table.
I am often asked why I chose the screen name “HotJenny314,” especially because no part of my name is Jenny. I decided not to use my real name because I thought it had the potential to tilt me if a player typed in: “Katie you suck and you’re not hot.”
And I noticed that many players, presumably male, took on faux female sexy names in order to distract opponents. I wanted to do this and take it one step further to possibly gain an edge.
For example, many losing players in my games will often type this into the chat box: “Hey Jenny – are you really a girl and are you hot?”
If I have time, I’ll type in something like: “Yes Honey .”
I also shamelessly defend a high-volume loser any time that he is being berated for a terrible play. If there is name calling, I’ll type in “Now, now boys,” in order to make sure everyone at the table knows I’m female.
This may seem like pointless flirting, but you’d be surprised how many chips this has won me.
Once it comes out that I am a girl enough for the other players to believe it, I often benefit from players becoming tighter when I raise. I attribute it to the fact that men generally assume a woman will play a passive-literal style, so they give me more credit when I raise. Also, no guy wants to be taken out by a girl, even online!
Distraction Advantage
Heads-up, I almost always respond to chat in order to distract my opponent from the fact that I am likely shoving on him almost every hand. Up to a point, even if it’s only subconsciously, it encourages my opponent to play tighter in order to continue our conversation. After all, if he calls, then one of us might bust or I could become upset, and his conversation with a girl would come to an end. So I really believe they fold a lot more often.
Once guys begin to realize that they are talking to a girl who likes to play poker, they are easily distracted. I take advantage of that and give recreational players a fun conversation at the online table.
Against solidly winning regulars, I sometimes like to (genuinely) compliment their play. This obviously helps me less than against losing players who don’t know how I play. However, I still do it because I want these players to like me, because if they do they will sometimes fold more in the small blind, or call less when I raise.
Like any good guy player, I’m willing to seize any edge at the table, no matter how small.
Now that I have overcome all the typical stumbling blocks of becoming a female sit-n-go grinder and come up with a few tricks of my own, I am tackling a new set of obstacles with my recent goal of beating live multi-table tournaments.
Watch out boys, or I’ll wink my way to victory!
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