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Awarding a “World Championship” title and a WSOP bracelet in an event that “isn’t about top competition” cheapens every other bracelet awarded.

Shrink, I’m not having this conversation with you anymore. You don’t even have a point except to piss me off.

It was nice meeting you briefly during dinner with Shamus. Yes, the moving of the women to another room (which I was part of) was lolbad and cringeworthy. You could see they didn’t care much for the event and treated it as a spectacle.

But as I said to you at dinner, my main interest is that as many women as possible enter this event. I talked to every female in Las Vegas to enter this event, because it was fun, relaxed tourney and you were gonna have fun. Yes, I’m a bad person, for wanting my tables as soft as possible…?

I also talk to the ladies at my table, ask a lot of questions of where they are from. That gives me information. Did you win this seat in a “women’s league” or do you actually attend cardrooms regularly? Where do you play? How long have you been playing? Is 1000$ significant to you? etc. etc. etc. I like to mask it as cute table talk, but it’s not.

Best

Tanya (bellatrix)

Oooh, re-burn!

Girl power? Did you just say that? Maybe you should work on the staff during the ladies event.

So you don’t think the final table, with all the money and a bracelet on the line, will be intense poker? I’d think once all the sickening stuff has been eliminated, you’d be all down with the pokeriffic display of “girl power” and all that.

Women who play in open events are less likely to apologize when they eliminate another player, squeal when they make it to the first break, etc. But the atmosphere of the all-ladies event makes all of that acceptable…and encouraged. And when the tournament staff sees the behavior, they cater to it and feed into the giddiness. Staff also takes it too far with the condescending comments about the “pretty ladies,” which for many women is cute and appealing (though some do find it infuriating). In essence, I believe they both feed into each other and make for a nauseating event for me, personally, to watch.

My main arguable point is that open events shouldn’t be bracelet events at the WSOP. My other snarky comments are more of a personal commentary on things that annoy me on the day of the ladies at the WSOP.

I lost count of the number of stupid sexist things associated with this event. I very much doubt I’ll ever play another one.

If commenters/readers can’t see that this is condescending, then I don’t know what to say.

I like that you had a “ladies weekend” with WSOP-Academy Ladies BootCamp, Women in Poker Hall of Fame induction, then Ladies event.

If we as a nation can have “Black History Month”, I don’t see why the WSOP can’t have a Poker Ladies Weekend.

– side-question … how many runners would a ladies only $1k PLO get?

The ladies tournament is an option for participants. If you object to some piece of marketing, fine. Others didn’t. So, did Tilly win the makeover?

I’m a senior. 4 o’clock special buffets aren’t my thing. I won’t knock those who like them. I just sit here in my putter pants and sandals with socks feeling superior like you.

If the ladies event is something different, and just an event to induce women to fall in love with poker tournaments, it should not be a bracelet event.

Stimulus event donkeys? Sure thing. But it doesn’t discriminate against any donkey gender. All of them are welcome to play.

It’s not about top competition. It’s not about whether these women are tournament pros, or cut out to be tournament pros, or if they will ever be tournament pros.

But how many women played the $1,000 stimulus event? At most, maybe 200? There are more than five times that many in the ladies event. (And if you want to talk about horrible players, maybe you should have paid close attention to a lot of men in that stimulus event …)

Many of these women will play this one event, have some fun, and leave it at that. But many of these women will develop a taste for it — they’ll think, “Hey, poker is pretty fun! It’s not what I thought it would be.” They might start playing in more home games, or signing up for an online account, or even enter another (”real”) tournament.

You’re judging this event by the wrong criteria, Jen — don’t be such a defensive feminist. (But you know I love you!)