Comments on: Ladies Poker Tournaments are Awesome

By: james covert

2010-07-12T21:39:17Z

Its not that men are more confident at the top, its because there are more of them. We’ll seen as the seasons progress, more ladies will begin racking up the bracelets you’ll see. Which is great, because i’m sick of seeing those not so very photogenic men on the front of WSOP every month.

By: mikey

2010-05-19T01:33:41Z

“Men are free to ignore the gender label of the tournament if they don’t mind getting booed.” Thats an awesome quote. Just imagine if men booed the few female players that played in a tournament? Sexist? Discrimination? Theres a few females in almost all competitive games that can compete with men – It doesnt make it sexist, It just points to the fact that men are generally stronger at the top levels of competition. I dont know why, but theres alot of evidence to back this up.

By: jennifershahade.com » Double-Bubble and Forgetting to Enjoy the Weather

2010-04-12T22:10:25Z

[...] of my article on Ladies’ poker tournaments on WomanPokerPlayer.com. Two additions to my original post here were the idea of ladies sats into mixed events (like the World Series of Poker Main Event, which [...]

By: Jennifer

2010-04-10T16:03:09Z

Rook4Sale: Interesting question…I think there are many effective all men’s games, which I write a little about in my expanded version of this article on Woman Poker Player.com http://www.womanpokerplayer.com/pokernews/237-why-i-love-ladies-events.html

Rebekah, Thanks for your comments. Sadly, if you check out the article link above, you’ll see that I didn’t quite make it to Monte Carlo, though I will give it one more try tomorrow. Yes, let’s definitely chat- I’ll add you on facebook or you can send me an email. Cheers, Jennifer

By: Rebekah Mercer

2010-04-10T15:09:02Z

P.S. Congratulations on qualifying for the Women’s event at Monte Carlo!! I tried, but didn’t make it. I’ll be reading the PokerStars blog to keep up with how you’re doing. Best of luck!

By: Rebekah Mercer

2010-04-10T14:52:50Z

Hi Jennifer–Rebekah Mercer here. I wrote the article on the PokerStars blog referred to throughout the BWOP controversy. I really enjoyed reading your response to the “fiery comments” as you put it. I’m glad to have a world chess champion defending my point of view, since as you said,the field issue is very similar. I would love to chat with you some more about it, and write about it for my column on Examiner.com (I’m the National Women’s Poker Examiner for the site.) Please contact me if you get a chance. By the way, here’s the link for the original story about women at the PCA on the PokerStars blog. http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/2010/watch-out-the-women-are-coming-063753.html
http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/2010/watch-out-the-women-are-coming-063753.html

By: Rook4Sale

2010-03-15T18:24:42Z

Hi Jen, I am curious then, how would you feel about men only tournaments? It is an interesting perspective to look at the question of ladies only events solely as a poker player, as opposed to how one may look at some other gender segregated issue. Very thought provoking.

Thanks