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Women's only events.
Firstly not looking for a sexist thread....
Just thoughts on this as I played live recently and the discussion came up at the table. Two old guys couldn't understand why they have women's only events as this is a game of the mind and skill. I thought they had a point, but decided to sit on the fence at the time.
As I got knocked out of the tourny ...sigh... The last comment I heard was a rambling about equality.... So I thoguht I would come here for a better debate than with some old codgers at the empire.
Does it make sense to have women's only events when the game doesn't give you any advantage down to your sex. The game is about skill and luck.
Thoughts?
Comments
In my opinion, no. Although I wouldn't say you don't have ANY advantages being female. This is only from my experiences live, but I would say women get credit for hands when they bet aggressively, also women tend to get shown folded hands in some kind of weird chivalrous manor. Most men do tend to get a bit giddy when an attractive female is playing. But mine is only a small sample size and in local, low stakes cash/tourneys, so it could be way off what others have experienced.
I do think it is odd to segregate people into categories when equality seems to be the way society is going.
Should be more of these on TV
On some sites, I am set up as a woman, you get some men hit on you, others go easy on you. And you get a lot more respect for having a hand, men think you bluff less (though I do play up to this persona)
I think women only events is the poker industry trying to encourage more women to participate in poker, which in my opinion is a good idea.
All the best
Rainman397
Women only events = more women playing poker
Simples!
Just Orford I presume?
Stop insulting people please.......
IMO, With the right promotion, a female tournament might work. A mini-league might help. Tournaments scheduled when football is on the telly might help! E-mail invitations with details might help. But unless Sky tried it once, it's all guesswork.
My take on it is this.
Poker, whether online or in a live setting is played on a level playing field. Sex, race, colour, creed, sexual orientation, height, weight, fashion sense, an outside interest in all things concrete, none of it matters. Anyone, at any particular moment in time, is capable of winning. That's the beauty of the game. With that in mind, yes, I would play a female only poker tournament, but for no other reason than to help promote the game to potentially new players. Females only playing would be neither here nor there.
Not that it would matter who I play, unless I am dealt four cards, I am lost. With four, I'm merely baffled!
Brilliant thanks. Great hotel, great days sightseeing and great casino. Friendly atmosphere playing and would have been perfect if I hadn't bubbled! No complaints though, it took one ridiculous bluff and once getting very lucky to get as far as I did.
We appear to have a new chip leader in the High Roller.
Nope, not Toby, Chris, Trigg, Luke, Matt, Middy, Shallow, no no no.
Ian Gascoigne, aka Ian Gas.
I was chatting to him & he says "watch me play this hand".
He raises UTG with 6-6.
Immense respect is shown. Call. Call. Re-raise to 11,000.
Ian ponders a bit. And calls.
Chap behind him calls, too.
What?
The flop comes down J-8-6.
First to act makes it 12,000.
Ian Gas min-raises him to 24,000.
Ther chap behind Ian now jams for about 70,000.
The other fella can't muck fast enough.
Ian calls, & his set of sixes are good against ultra slow-played K-K.
Easy game.
He gets his letter from the Queen in a few months.
I even have trouble counting to 3 these days.