Female poker geek anonymous

I had a meeting at work today that lasted all day. Draining, but extremely satisfying and I caught up with a lot of people I hadn’t talked to in a while. I came home and had a very relaxing evening and even played like 1000 hands of poker in the evening. All while forgetting that it was Monday and I was supposed to update the blog. So there you go, a day late…

Much better mood in today, especially pokerwise. As I said, I just needed to play a little and get my head straight again. I’m thinking on some strategy too, so here are some questions to you:

a) limped pot, 4 players (HJ, CO and SB and me in BB). Flop is KJ2r and I have J4o.

b) When you have somebody that will call 100% of your cbets on the flop, even if he has the nut low on an all high card board, do you still cbet 100% of the time?

c) What is your raising range when somebody donks a JsTsx board? This guy donks a quite high percentage of the time, about half, maybe even 60% of all hands.

d) What is you raising range on the button to a bad CO openlimp and fairly taggish blinds?

Well, as you see from the questions, I’ve been playing in very good 1/2 6max games lately and the coldcalling, openlimping and donking is such eyecandy. I think games are good at this level. I played some 2/4 yesterday, too (still in transition phase, need about 200BB still at 1/2 to move up completely). Had a bit more trouble there, mainly because it took so long for me to get off my ass and leave the table when the game became bad. Lots more random turn aggression at 2/4, too. And I’m often lost if I should value check the turn or not. Ah well, when you’re losing it always seems they charge you when you’re drawing and they fold when you’re valuebetting :)

So tally, winnar winnar 4-5BB/100 at 1/2 and lost about 40BB yesterday at 2/4, but nothing out of the ordinary, where I would go: “gasp, a leak!”. Will make GoldStar this month and it’s not too bad, considering I’m playing 1/2 and I just sat out a whole week and didn’t play. Supernova? Fading further and further into the horizon :(

Another week, another woman winning a tourney, huh? Gooo Liv Boree. But why didn’t you stay in astrophysics, girl and went off card-counting and pokering? Oh wait, that sounds familiar… :P

Anyway, I’ve been thinking a lot about this and I still don’t know how to have that “woman” distinction. I mean, on one hand, I really like it and it sets me apart as my own sort of brand: female geek → isn’t that an oxymoron, some might say? But on the other hand, I’m perpetuating a myth that I should have some special advantages / disadvantages just because I’m a woman. I don’t! I’m not suddenly much more involved with my feelings, because I have a vagina. You don’t suddenly get to use math more creatively just because you have a penis!

Grrr, I keep going back and forth, back and forth. No, I think I’ll save my ire and irony for when the Ladies’ Event rolls around, those are always worth a chuckle or two from the things that go on at the table, but mostly surrounding the whole event.

It’s my last post of the month, so I leave you with my April BB graph. Enjoy!