People wear all sorts of disguises at the poker table: weakness, strength, bluster, naivety. Its the nature of the game. So it only makes sense that new forms of deception at the poker table would evolve as the popularity of the games newest innovation — poker online — spread. Its no wonder then that, when you cant see the person youre playing against, theres a good chance theyre not who they profess to be — like male or female.
Its an honest to goodness phenomenon, with its very own name — Betrosexuality: presenting oneself as the opposite gender at a poker online table.
Now, to be fair to the term, and its history, Betrosexuality was actually coined prior to its use in poker online, and occasionally with slightly different implications. Here are a couple of alternate definitions of the terms:
– Betrosexuals wager on both mens and womens sporting events
– Betrosexuals sell sexual favors by lottery
Recent research analyzed by Nottingham Trent University Professor Mark Griffiths reports that 23% of female British poker online players pretend to be men and more than 10% of British male poker online players...