Cat Hulbert, 342pp. (2005 Workman)
Whether it’s in a casino, a private club, an online poker roomor even many friendly home gameswhen a woman sits down to play poker, she’s usually facing men, and those men are going to typecast her as being too passive to be competitive. Guess what? She’s got them right where she wants them! Women have a tremendous natural advantage at the poker table. Now it’s just a matter of learning how to exploit it.
Written for female players who are in ever greater numbers catching poker-mania60 million people a month are now playing poker and 30% are womenOutplaying the Boys is a street-smart guide to the green-felt jungle. By Cat Hulbert, whom Card Player magazine ranked as one of the top seven-card stud players in the world, its 125 annotated tips are filled with strategy, wisdom, and lessongiving anecdotes. How to project a winning image. How to choose the most profitable tablea talkative table will yield more than a quiet oneand the best seats (avoid the chair closest to the expert players). How to recognize and squelch your own tells. Who to bluffthe new player, the player who just made a comeback, the guy who comments on how tight you are. And who not to bluffthe short stack, the maniac who calls everything. Understanding your innate strengths and weaknesseshoning intuition, curbing your instinct to be too trusting, getting into opponents’ heads. The book covers two key gamesTexas Hold’em and Seven-Card Studand provides a glossary of terms, recommended books, and more.
