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 In more and more women are taking to the tables, and this is certainly true in South Africa. Female South African poker players are on the rise and are giving the men a good run for their money.
One of the many beautiful things about the game of poker is that it is a level playing field from the outset. Unlike other sports or games where strength can play a factor and be used as a reason to separate men and women, this is not so in poker.
Poker is becoming the new corporate entertainment in South Africa, and with that more and more negotiations are being done at the tables. Traditionally carried out on the golf course, women were often excluded, but all this is changing. With the rise in corporate popularity of poker in South Africa, Women are now able to do more networking as poker has provided a solution where they can really take on the men.
It is often said that women are more natural poker players than men, with natural intuition, the ability to remain calm and no testosterone leading to pent up aggression that is often displayed by playing “on tilt.” It is really therefore little wonder that women are beginning to be noticed at the tables. It is not only the corporate world where women are taking to the tables, but a girls’ poker night where friends come over for a bottle of wine and a get together is becominGmon place throughout South Africa.
Female poker players in South Africa are really beginning to come in to their own. Despite not having a female win one of the major poker tournaments in South Africa, it is undoubtedly only a matter of time before this happens.
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