Professional poker player Maria Konnikova explains how
she exploits irrational prejudices by male poker players to her advantage:
There are people who’d rather die than
be bluffed by a woman. They’ll never fold to me because that’s an
affront to their masculinity.
I
never bluff them. I know that no matter how strong my hand, they are
still going to call me because they just can’t fold to a girl.
Other people think women are incapable of bluffing. They think if I’m
betting really aggressively, it means I have an incredibly strong hand. I
bluff those people all the time.
FWIW, she has won $200,000 over the past year of playing professionally.