Dreenie do you think being a girl helps when selling packages? Think people more likely to take a chance etc?
Point being there's pub near me that has poker after hours, occasionally pop in on way home when drunk and donate- a youngish girl was in game, she had spun £40 case money into £250 and I obv stacked her. She was devastated and nearly in tears, she got young kid etc. So I gave her the money back. Now of that was a bloke id probably be more along the lines "shouldn't be playing with last money etc"
Being popular obviously helps when charging markup and selling , just wondering whether being female helps as well
Not a dig at you at all btw, just curious how people think
I've read through eight pages of this thread and find it comical that no one else commented on this post. Is that because all other posters in this thread are male? Do you all think this way?
The majority of women who play poker enter the game expecting to be treated as an equal to the men at their table. They soon realise this is never going to happen, thanks to ridiculous attitudes like yours.
You gave her the money back because she was upset. Why? She sat down to play poker that night knowing she could lose her £40 buy in, same as all of the other people playing that night. You stacking her then giving it back is not chivalrous, it's just ridiculous. What if she had won her money from a guy who was gambling his last £40 - she didn't give it back to him did she? The men she won money from may well have been broke themselves: they could have kids at home as well but you're not going to pay them back?
If she was out in the local pub playing poker and had a kid at home then she probably had to pay a sitter to look after the baby. Did you give her the cash for the sitter as well and her taxi fare home?
I think I'm actually just as ashamed for the woman. The fact she would take that back from you is a joke in itself. Again, most women in poker wouldn't dream of taking it back. They sit down to play knowing they could lose as well as win. If they chose to gamble when they couldn't afford to lose, then it's their own choice and ultimately, their own mistake. The few women in poker who choose to play the "I'm a girl" card instead of their hole cards are generally disliked or simply tolerated by other female poker players, for obvious reasons. Every time we sit down to play, this type of woman takes table equality back another step, and leaves the rest of us women having to put up with yet more Neolithic attitudes at the table.
Everyone has gambled when they couldn't afford to, me included. When I've chosen to do so, and have lost, I've walked away. If a man at my table had then offered to give me my money back I would have been mortified. I don't think I'm alone in this attitude surely?
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