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a small minority of players in serious or high-stake poker games, they can gain more experience against
male opponents than men can gain against female opponents. That advantage is similar to the advantage
held by left-handed pitchers, boxers, and tennis players who can gain more experience against righthanded
opponents than their right-handed counterparts can gain against left-handed opponents.
A woman's greatest advantage, however, comes from exploiting her opponents' misconceptions about
women lacking the "killer instinct" to compete against tough players in high-stake poker. As shown by
the Advanced Concepts, winning poker requires discipline, thought, and control--not the so-called killer
instinct. Winning poker demands objective attitudes and clear conceptions of reality. The "inferiorplayer"
view of women is a nonobjective, flawed view. So the woman player who is not inferior can
profitably exploit all opponents who stereotype her as an innately inferior player and thus misplay her.
Still, the woman player will encounter stubborn machismo attitudes, especially when she tries to
organize and control high-stake, male-dominated games. But by using the Advanced Concepts, she can
exploit any erroneous attitude in her opponents to beat them.
Since the Advanced Concepts have been published, the near-total male dominance of professional poker
has been crumbling. Today, about 10 percent of the public professional poker players are women using
the Advanced Concepts. And in private poker, perhaps 1 percent of the professionals are women. As the
Advanced Concepts of Poker become more widely known, the percentage of women poker players (both
amateur and professional) should increase, especially in private games.
The Advanced Concepts provide women with the tools needed not only to compete against men, but to
beat them. Increasingly, women are discovering that they can exploit the erroneous and machismo
attitudes imbued in most male poker players. And because of the subtle but real advantages women
players hold over men, women could eventually dominate public poker and regularly win the major
tournaments.
As with all opponents, the good poker player considers female players only from a financial viewpoint.
If a woman player is an overall financial asset, she is a welcome player. A woman player can cause men
to be less objective, thereby increasing the good player's edge odds. But, on the other hand, if she is a
good player and a steady winner, she is a financial liability and unwelcomed. Also, control over men
players and attempts to increase the betting stakes can be more difficult when a woman is present.[ 27 ]
For that reason, the good player more often than not tries to keep women out of the game.
As the game starts, Scotty informs the players that Sid is bringing his wife, Stephanie Bennett, to
play poker. All object to having a woman, particularly the wife of a player, in the game. Quintin
even threatens to quit if she plays.
"I don't want her playing either," John says. "But she's already expecting to play.... Let her play
tonight; we'll keep her from playing again."
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