Is Poker a Gender Bender?

In the course of working in a gaming company, you come across a whole lot of weirdos and weird characters. If the happenings in a day were a pencil sketch, you wish you could erase the conversations AND these people with a few strokes of a good, clean eraser, haha.

A lot of men get away with the feeling that because I’m a girl, they can get away with anything! They become frustrated and even rude and abusive when they find out they cannot. I am quite flustered and sometimes agitated with such happenings, and it is unnerving at times. Check this out from a client today:

[4/10/2009 9:02:30 PM] al** says: this is my ccc acount here
[4/10/2009 9:02:36 PM] al** says: u know BB
[4/10/2009 9:02:57 PM] al** says: I like to hold you and make you my chachilalala
[4/10/2009 9:03:32 PM] al** says: I have you in mind 4 a long time
[4/10/2009 9:03:45 PM] al** says: and now it cant waitt
[4/10/2009 9:03:47 PM] al** says: bb
[4/10/2009 9:03:57 PM] al** says: Forget the software
[4/10/2009 9:04:03 PM] al** says: i dont want it
[4/10/2009 9:04:09 PM] al** says: i want you now!
[4/10/2009 9:04:17 PM] al** says: lol
[4/10/2009 9:04:46 PM] al** says: I want to be near you sweets
[4/10/2009 9:05:19 PM] al** says: i wanna squeez your n*****s and kiss you all over

This is from a person that passes off as a “human being” on this planet, and whom I chatted with online for business only for a day! Luckily, my boss intervened and took care of this…this thing! I was so outraged and dismayed with all this, that I wonder: do these things also happen in the world of poker? Are women so cheap to men? How are women treated here?

Poker is a game of skill and skill is NOT the prerogative of just men. It is based on your own value judgments and your capacity and ability to use your mind to the fullest extent possible.

As the poker princess and fairly new to the world of gaming, online gaming and poker at Vegas Casino as such I would like to know– have you been ever harassed as a poker player because of your gender?

I dread that the truth may be far from nice!