For example, pokerstars.com, an online poker website that attempts to be in the lead of women’s poker games, launched a new 2011 women’s poker league on 7th February, 2011. This is good news for the ladies as their main focus is to help women learn playing the poker game in a friendly, no-stress atmosphere with free rolls, low buy-ins and a chance to be awarded with a pokerstars.com Women’s Live Event Package.

Its first $0.1 tournament package runs at one p.m. ET and eight p.m. ET on a daily basis, whilst the $1.1 tournament packages are run at two p.m. ET and nine p.m. ET daily. On top of all, there is a free roll on every Sunday providing free tickets to the $0.1 weekly event. This league offers both monthly and annual cash prizes. In addition, the overall yearly winner of both leagues will be awarded with a maximum cash price of $4,000 pokerstars.com Women’s Live Event Package.

Another piece of interesting news for women in poker comes from pokernews.com with a bold prediction that at the 2011 World Series of Poker (WSOP), the generally considered weaker sex will win an open event. In fact, we have seen so many times that the notion of the weaker sex does not apply in poker, especially online. This prediction was casted with the recognition of the huge success of the women poker players in 2010. The only thing left for us to wonder is which of the possible candidates might be the one to win. I will probably bet on Vanessa Selbst or Annette Obrestad!

In Cyprus, if you are an elderly woman and you have gathered 41 of your ageing counterparts to indulge in poker games at your home or their homes, don’t expect to get away with it just because you think you can throw your fake teeth at the young policemen. This piece of news made a buzz when 42 women between the ages of 75 to 85 were round up in a raid due to a leak from a jealous neighbor. It was learnt that the elderly women rotated houses where the games were played and organized weekly. However, the good news here is they all got away with a paltry fine. Now, if you ask me, I think next time if the grannies want to play poker at home, make sure they invite their neighbor along too!

Whatever it is, the situation looks like news about women in poker will be endless in the coming years since more and more women are entering into the poker arena, be it professionally or leisurely.

Annie Duke, Vanessa Rousso, Isabelle Mercier, Liv Boeree and Annette Obrestad are just a few names of professional players making a living with poker and are very feared even by the more experienced men. You can watch them playing in the greatest poker tournaments like the WSOP and you can see them win. Just recently Liv Boeree won €1,250,000 at EPT San Remo, Italy.

Supposedly disadvantaged, women in poker have several aces in the hole when seated at the poker table. Starting off with the apparently most grim expedients they can easily take advantage of the cliché depicting women’s frailty, emotionality and bluffing incapacity, showing themselves even more weak and fragile and hence hitting at the right time.

Cat Hubert, in her book “Outplaying the boys: Poker Tips for Competitive Women”, reveals how to easily take advantage of the commonplace of women’s weakness to slaughter those baby-boys at the table.

The grim reality is that while men are tendentially more risk takers and more efficient in logic reasoning and immediate action, women have a natural greater analysis skill together with greater capability to learn from opponents, to manage the bankroll, to act cautiously, to be patient and intuitive.

The challenge between Queens and Kings of poker is anything but uneven and it has just begun.

For those who don’t know the WSOP, it is the main poker event of the year. Pros from all around the world fight each other to win a huge amount of money. The idea of a World Series of Poker began in 1969 with an event called the Texas Gambling Reunion. It was as an invitational event sponsored by Tom Moore of San Antonio, Texas, and held at the Holiday Hotel and Casino in Reno. But it was the following year that poker player and Las Vegas casino owner Benny Binion officially created the World Series of Poker (WSOP).

But let’s come back to our point: Hands With Queens Win.

Apart those winning the tournament with double Q – in 1978 Bobby Baldwin’s Q Q defeated Crandall Addington’s 99 and in 1983 Tom McEvoy’s Q Q won against Rod Peate’s K J – there are more recent examples, some of them really amazing. In 2001 Juan Carlos Mortensen’s suited K Q defeated Dewey Tomko’s A A, in 2002 Robert Varkonyi beat Julian Gardner with Q 10 offsuit against a suited J 8 and in 2006 Jamie Gold won the competion with Q 9 offsuit against Paul Wasicka’s 10 10.

These are facts!

Your best chance to get a Royal Flush in a casino is in the bathroom.  ~V.P. Pappy

There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker.  The upper class knows very little about it.  Now and then you find ambassadors who have sort of a general knowledge of the game, but the ignorance of the people is fearful.  Why, I have known clergymen, good men, kind-hearted, liberal, sincere, and all that, who did not know the meaning of a “flush.”  It is enough to make one ashamed of the species.  ~Mark Twain

The commonest mistake in history is underestimating your opponent; it happens at the poker table all the time.  ~David Shoup

The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius.  ~Author Unknown

If, after the first twenty minutes, you don’t know who the sucker at the table is, it’s you.  ~Author Unknown

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards.  I got a full house and four people died.  ~Seven Wright

Is it a reasonable thing, I ask you, for a grown man to run about and hit a ball?  Poker’s the only game fit for a grown man.  Then, your hand is against every man’s, and every man’s is against yours.  Teamwork?  Who ever made a fortune by teamwork?  There’s only one way to make a fortune, and that’s to down the fellow who’s up against you.  ~W. Somerset Maugham

I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.  ~Jonathan Swift

“How long does it take to learn poker, Dad?”
“All your life, son.”
~Michael Pertwee

Poker:  the art of civilized bushwhacking.  ~Nick Dandalos, attributed

Poker is the game closest to the western conception of life, where life and thought are recognized as intimately combined, where free will prevails over philosophies of fate or of chance, where men are considered moral agents and where – at least in the short run – the important thing is not what happens but what people think happens.  ~John Luckacs

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.  ~Charles Lamb

In a game of poker, I can put the players’ souls in my pocket.  ~Beausourire

I believe in poker the way I believe in the American Dream.  Poker is good for you.  It enriches the soul, sharpens the intellect, heals the spirit, and – when played well, nourishes the wallet.  ~Lou Krieger

Poker, n.  A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown.  ~Ambrose Bierce

Poker is… a fascinating, wonderful, intricate adventure on the high seas of human nature.  ~David A. Daniel

Poker’s a day to learn and a lifetime to master.  ~Robert Williamson III

Whether he likes it or not, a man’s character is stripped at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame.  Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life.  ~Anthony Holden
With spots quadrangular of diamond form,
Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife,
And spades, the emblems of untimely graves.
~William Cowper

The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.  ~David Mamet

Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and democracy.  It can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring, or hard and impersonal, fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair, and right, and just.  ~Lou Krieger

Baseball is like a poker game.  Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.  ~Jackie Robinson

Poker is to cards and games what jazz is to music.  It’s this great American thing, born and bred here.  We dig it because everybody can play.  ~Steve Lipscomb

God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e., everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won’t tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.  ~Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens, 1991

Hold’em – like life itself – has its defining moment.  It’s the flop.  When you see the flop, you’re looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting.  ~Lou Krieger

[Poker is] as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find outside an advertising agency.  ~Raymond Chandler

You have it in your power to turn a bad-beat around simply by realizing this simple truth:  The more bad beats you encounter, the luckier you are. It’s a sign that you are playing against opponents who continually take the worst of it, and if you can’t beat someone who always takes the worst of it, you can’t beat anyone.  ~Lou Krieger

Old card players never die, they just shuffle away.  ~Author Unknown

Industry executives and analysts often mistakenly talk about strategy as if it were some kind of chess match.  But in chess, you have just two opponents, each with identical resources, and with luck playing a minimal role.  The real world is much more like a poker game, with multiple players trying to make the best of whatever hand fortune has dealt them.  In our industry, Bill Gates owns the table until someone proves otherwise.  ~David Moschella

Most of the money you’ll win at poker comes not from the brilliance of your own play, but from the ineptitude of your opponents.  ~Lou Krieger

I’ve often thought, if I got really hungry for a good milk shake, how much would I pay for one?  People will pay a hundred dollars for a bottle of wine; to me that’s not worth it.  But I’m not going to say it is foolish or wrong to spend that kind of money, if that’s what you want.  So if a guy wants to bet twenty or thirty thousand dollars in a poker game, that is his privilege.  ~Jack Binion

There’s opportunity in poker…. If Horace Greeley were alive today, his advice wouldn’t be “Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.”  Instead, he’d point to that deck of cards on table and say, “Shuffle up and deal.  ~Lou Krieger

Alaska: 11,623 Eskimos Can’t be Wrong!

Arizona: But It’s a Dry Heat

Arkansas: Litterasy Ain’t Everthing

California: As Seen on TV

Colorado: If You Don’t Ski, Don’t Bother

Connecticut: Like Massachusetts, Only Dirtier and With Less Character

Delaware: We Really Do Like the Chemicals in Our Water

Florida: Ask Us About Our Grandkids

Georgia: Without Atlanta We’re Alabama

Hawaii: Haka Tiki Mou Sha’ami Leeki Toru
(Death to Mainland Scum, But Leave Your Money)

Idaho: More Than Just Potatoes… OK, Maybe Not, But The Potatoes Are Real Good

Illinois: Please Don’t Pronounce the “S”

Indiana: 2 Billion Years Tidal Wave Free

Iowa: We Do Amazing Things With Corn

Kansas: First Of The Rectangle States

Kentucky: 5 Million People; Seven Last Names

Louisiana: We’re Not All Drunk Cajuns

Maine: We’re Really Cold, But We Have Cheap Lobster

Maryland: A Thinking Man’s Delaware

Massachusetts: Our Taxes Are Lower Than Sweden’s

Michigan: First Line of Defense From the Canadians

Minnesota: 10,000 Lakes and 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Mosquitoes

Mississippi: Come Feel Better About Your Own State

Missouri: Your Federal Flood Relief Tax Dollars at Work

Montana: Land of the Big Sky, the Unabomber, Right-Wing Crazies and Very Little Else

Nebraska: Ask About Our State Motto Contest

Nevada: Whores and Poker!

New Hampshire: Go Away and Leave Us Alone

New Jersey: You Want a F**kin’ Motto? I Got Yer F**kin’ Motto Right Here!

New Mexico: Lizards Make Excellent Pets

New York: You Have the Right to Remain Silent, You Have the Right to an Attorney…

North Carolina: Tobacco is a Vegetable

North Dakota: We Really are One of the 50 States!

Ohio: We Wish We Were In Michigan

Oklahoma: Like the Play, Only No Singing

Oregon: Spotted Owl — It’s What’s For Dinner

Pennsylvania: Cook With Coal

Rhode Island: We’re Not Really An Island

South Carolina: We Have Never Actually Surrendered to the North

South Dakota: Closer Than North Dakota

Tennessee: The Educashun State

Texas: A Whole ‘Nother Country!

Utah: Our Jesus Is Better Than Your Jesus

Vermont: Yep

Virginia: Who Says Government Stiffs and Slackjaw Yokels Don’t Mix?

Washington: Help! We’re Overrun By Nerds and Slackers!

Washington, D.C.: Wanna Be Mayor?

West Virginia: One Big Happy Family — Really!

Wisconsin: Come Cut Our Cheese

Wyoming: Wynot?

Later she awoke and felt great, so she decided to go to the party and see what her hubby did when she wasn’t around. As soon as she arrived, she noticed him on the dance floor getting very friendly with every hottie in the place, and groping them when he could.

She then cut in and rubbed close to him. When the song ended, he leaned over and whispered in her ear, “Let’s go outside.” So the two costumed characters snuck off and occupied themselves in one of the parked cars.

Midnight was to be the unveiling of the party-goers, so she slipped out and went home before the clock struck twelve.

When he got home she asked, “How was the party? Did you meet any interesting people?”

He replied, ”You know me, dear. I don’t have a good time when you’re not with me. I ran into a few friends and we ended up in the basement playing poker. It wasn’t very fun at all. But the guy I loaned my costume to had the time of his life!”

The stupid blonde because the other two don’t exist.

Knowing this, Pamela decides to seduce God by showing her bare breasts. God looks at them and says, “Very nice.”

“Does that mean I”m in?” says Pamela. God looks over to his side and sees the Queen of England douching in the corner.

He looks back at Pamela and says, “Sorry, a royal flush always beats a pair.”

The uncle returned in a short time without Jimmy and without comment, and the game resumed. For the balance of the afternoon, there was no trouble from Jimmy. After the game ended and the players were settling their wins and losses, one of the men asked Jimmy’s uncle, “What in the world did you do to Jimmy?”

“Not much,” the boy’s uncle replied. “I told him how to jerk off.”