Now that Stars has daily mtt's and satellites for women, I think we need a thread for some suggestions for improvements to structures, schedule, etc.

One thing off the top of my head I'd like to know is when we will start seeing satellites for Women's PCA packages...

I'd also like to see a higher buyin Sunday event as well as maybe a daily $16.50 or $22 Women's event where annual TLB points would result in a ladies PCA package or something...

In addition, I'd like to see a TLB that covers women's results over all mtt's, not just for the women's events.

Great idea for a thread! I love all of your ideas!

+1 to PCA sattys. Start them earlier in the year so that we can qualify more players. Also, leave out the goofy $300 boot camp and put that money toward more seats IMO.

Yea, although I have never been to the PCA, I def agree that the boot camp is really unnecessary, and I'm sure that the players would all agree that using the $300 towards awarding more seats is a way better use of the monies.

They didn't have a boot camp or a spa voucher last year as part of the Women's
PCA package, though the total package $$ was about the same, with an extra night at the Atlantis instead.

So so so jealous that I can't even play PCA satties. This thread is both genius and depressing. If we Americans ever get to play on stars again, I'm sure I'd have a lot to add :-)

glgl ladies abroad.

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I'd also love to see a daily women's tournament (besides the league), maybe even two or three with different buy-in options from $11 up.

Also like the idea of an overall tournament results leader board for women.

It would be nice if the Women's Sunday had a 15 minute blind structure

I like the faster structure, should make a deeper $109 though

5k starter 15min blinds, not the 15-30/25-50/50-100 crap either

Thanks for starting this thread Katie, always useful to get feedback like this.

I'll try to answer a few points.

Women's PCA: Satellites will start October 22nd. It'll be a similar package to last year, so there'll be no frills like spa or bootcamp, we realised our qualifiers prioritised the poker!

Daily/higher buy-in women's events: The Tuesday $11 has a small following and is well liked, but we're not sure there's quite enough demand for further women's MTT. We're likely to play with the women's schedule in the new year so might trial a new buy-in women's tourney then.

Women's TLB: I really like this idea, however our privacy policy means no 'outing' players as women without permission, so it would have to be either opt-in or else based only on women's events.

Women's Sunday structure: We're open to feedback on this, but we do seem to get a mix of views, most players seem content with it as is.

Happy to hear more thoughts, thanks to all who replied.

Joanne
PokerStars Women

Thanks Joanne!
Is there any chance Pokerstars will add more satellites for the Women's PCA package? Maybe an additional $109 satty on Sunday or Wednesday and maybe even a higher buy-in mega one time before the event? This will be my 4th year playing the ladies 1k, whether I satty in or not, and in previous years the table chatter has been so positive about the Sunday satty. I feel that interest could be high enough to qualify even more players.

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Thanks for the suggestion JamieAnn, I forwarded it to our tourney set-up team. We'll most likely look at how the sats go in the first few weeks and add more if numbers are decent. The idea of a bigger buy-in last chance sat is good too. Good luck and hope to see you at the PCA!

So they have one now. Yay!

Excited to read this about the changes for 2013 with the ladies tournaments on Poker Stars and to see what will be implemented. I really hope a ladies TLB will be introduced!!

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/pokers...ource=11441987

For seriousness!

I did not see the ladies' $11 6max tournament today...I usually try to play it if I remember, but looked in the lobby and couldn't find it registering or running...has it been discontinued or am I going crazy?

There was a delay deploying the $11 Women's Tuesday due to the holidays - but as you'll see it continues in 2013. We also have new daily guaranteed $5.50 Women's tourneys.

I'd also be interested to hear feedback on our new PokerStars Women's Club tourneys. http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/promotions/womensclub/

The Women's Poker League has been a fixture at PokerStars for a few years, but this year we've changed our women's games to reward more casual play - at $0.10 and $1.10 levels the aim is to offer something that suits new female players. We found that the majority of women couldn't commit to daily play for a month to stand a chance of winning the Women's Poker League's monthly cash prizes - so in many ways the league suited grinders not newbies. :-)

The basic structure of the new PokerStars Women's Club is daily tourneys with all who cash gaining a ticket to a Sunday freeroll. These Sunday freerolls have added cash and merchandise prizes.

We're hoping this will reward more women, and suit 'the average player' better than WPL did, but of course we'll monitor how it goes and listen to feedback.

The $55 Women's Sunday still continues, and we'll offer regular $5.50 and $11 women's tourneys for women who prefer higher buy-ins.

Happy New Year to all - hope it's a successful one for women poker players!

Joanne
PokerStars women

The revised club still doesn't offer anything beyond micros, which is sad. If you had even a $11 league I would play it.

But yes, more $5.50s and $11s please! It would be great to have them every day (a mix of 6max and full ring).

And we would still love to see a women's TLB.

Yea, this isn't something that I will be allowed to play either...seems like the changes went in the opposite direction than we had hoped for.
My avg. daily buyins are about $1k on weekdays $3k on Sundays...I cannot afford to add freerolls and $1 tournaments to my screens.

I really want to continue to show my support for the PS Women's initiative but I guess it will be only through the $55 Sunday tournament.

Again, I also reiterate my desire for a women's TLB.

Thanks for your thoughts on PokerStars Women's Club. The new promotion is certainly aimed at newer players, though we continue to offer $5.50, $11 and $55 women's games.

A women's TLB is an interesting idea, but it would have to be based solely on the women's games rather than pulling the women's results from the mixed game tourney results. We'll certainly think about this idea.

Or what about something voluntary, where the female players who don't mind being 'outed' as a female player, can opt in to a women's TLB that covers all regularly scheduled mtt's?

+1

You should really consider this, as it would give more recognition to female grinders, which is actually inspiring to new players and players who are still building their game. Just like the regular TLB does, it would likely give additional incentive to women players to play more beyond $.10 mtts and freerolls.

I have had the experience, and probably Jamie and Katie and others who hang out in TWSS who have been featured in articles/tweets etc by pokerstars women can also attest to this through their own experiences, of women coming up to me all the time wanting to talk about poker because they have heard about my results. This certainly happened this past weekend at the PCA ladies events, and is extremely common in Vegas during WSOP time. I make friends, get asked to coach, etc, which in turn only helps promote poker amongst newer female players. When they see what we do, I think it seems much more achievable to the avg female player than having a career like Selbst (who is obv awe inspiring, but just on a totally different planet when we are talking about $55 buyins as being high).

You all at pokerstars women have been doing some pretty cool things by promoting female players who don't have sponsorship deals with Stars but who play on the site. The articles about the women's sunday, the sattelites to the live ladies events, etc, I think are very smart, and good for business, and new ideas that continue this trend of promoting the accomplishment of women who play on stars benefit Stars bottom line as well as everyone in the women's poker community.

There are actually scores of great female players around these days, which wasn't true even a few years ago. Something like a TLB can emphasize that, that there aren't just a few celebrity/model female poker pros but also actually a lot of just regular women who are playing the regular games all the time.

Just to say the women's TLB ideas are very interesting, and I've been discussing the technicalities of making this happen – though unfortunately it’s not the most straightforward thing to implement.

I also wanted to mention there's a PS Women YouTube broadcast on Saturday at 14:00 ET, the Women’s Sunday is 2 years old so we’re celebrating. I do hope you’ll tune in! Details here: http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/pokers...da-131627.html

This is great to hear! Please keep us updated on this!!

I also wanted to point out that this past Women's Sunday had more than $30k in the prize pool, while only $20k was gtd for the 2nd anniversary celebration. First place was about 3x what it normally is on a typical Sunday. I think a good goal would be to have this become a $15k or $20k gtd by the end of the year. The promotions definitely help boost women's participation!

Played in the first women's nightly $8 mtt last night on Stars, was finishing Sundays and then saw a tweet from Poker Stars Women that it was about to start so I hopped into it...nice to see more ladies mtts!!