Significant Poker Others...

SupaMuncherSupaMuncher
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Does anyone here have a significant other that plays with him/her? I have been trying to get my girlfriend to start playing for about a year now, but she's very resistive to the idea. She thinks quicker than I do, and I think she'd be excellent. Anyone else in this situation?

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  • ScottyZScottyZ
    My girlfriend plays, and I think that she is much better than I was when I was at the same experience level as her. She also has a lot of natutral poker abilities & insticts, e.g. skill at reading people, fearless bluffing, ability to generate a poker face & both give and read fake (and re-fake) tells. She impresses my in particular by being very good (for a relative beginner) at the specific things I am not at all good at myself.

    I think if she wanted to, and gained some more experience, she'd be a a tough, solid player that I wouldn't want to play against.
    I have been trying to get my girlfriend to start playing for about a year now, but she's very resistive to the idea.

    This is a tough situation. I wouldn't push anyone too hard into trying out poker myself.

    I was lucky myself, because my girlfriend was the one who approached me with the idea of learning to play. So, the first thing we did was she played a *lot* of Wilson's Turbo Texas Hold'em both her alone, and with me watching her. She really liked the "advisor" feature that suggests which play the programmed advisor would make in each situation. The purpose of me being there would be to sometimes try to explain the theory behind the advisor's suggestions, or alternative plays.

    We've never played poker for significant money against each other. Not sure how that would go over. :)

    ScottyZ
  • SupaMuncherSupaMuncher
    ScottyZ wrote:
    We've never played poker for significant money against each other. Not sure how that would go over. :)

    That reminds me of a tournament I was playing at, where a couple was heads-up in a hand against each other. The boyfriend busted out his girlfriend, and she angrily grabbed his jacket, pulled out his wallet, took out a C-note, and went to go play the slots. He said, "deal me out!" and ran after her. It was one of the funniest things I've ever seen in a cardroom.
  • dvst8rdvst8r
    SupaMuncher wrote:
    ScottyZ wrote:
    We've never played poker for significant money against each other. Not sure how that would go over. :)

    That reminds me of a tournament I was playing at, where a couple was heads-up in a hand against each other. The boyfriend busted out his girlfriend, and she angrily grabbed his jacket, pulled out his wallet, took out a C-note, and went to go play the slots. He said, "deal me out!" and ran after her. It was one of the funniest things I've ever seen in a cardroom.

    OMG...lol!!!
  • SupaMuncherSupaMuncher
    The epilogue to that story is that he finished in the money, but she lost lots on the slots, so it all balanced out.
  • Dan808Dan808
    my wife is pretty indifferent about poker
    but when she does play, she is really good at reading people
    she talks to me after about certain plays, and i'm amazed at how much she picked up that i completely missed!

    has the ability to read so well, but doesn't really care to use it that often...figures
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