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Originally Posted by ITT666
I'm not sure that's true anymore. I remember looking at the field for the ladies event last year and recognizing a lot of names, probably the majority of them. And it was not a soft field either. Granted it was like a 90 year old grandma that ended up winning it, so that may seem to discredit my statement but it being a tournament a lot of the better players just didn't quite get there is all.
Still though I think there were more tough, good, grinders in the field last year than totally, casual players.
So I think the perception of the ladies event as just a fun, casual, laid back social event isn't quite so correct anymore.
I think you misunderstood my statement. I'm not saying the Ladies Event at WSOP doesn't have serious players, but you can't use that event as a representation of women's poker at large. I'm saying that the majority of all women who play poker (so at least 51%) are social players.
I run 2 women's poker groups and I can tell you that less than 20% of each/both groups are "serious" poker players. Most won't pay more than $75 to play a tournament, and of the home games I run, there is more interest in talking and eating than there is in playing the game. Outside of my own groups, I play in the local casinos frequently, and of those players, again, most are social players who will only play if the buy-in is less than $100, and they'll chop it 10 ways even if the starting number of players is 25. Our largest local casino used to have a monthly ladies tournament with a $75 buy in and over 100 players; now it's $110 and we're lucky to get 40 players. When our local annual ladies tournament bumped up from $250 to $400, we lost a significant amount of players. The Venetian tried a $600 ladies event and got horrible turnout. Most WSOPC women's events have less than 100 players show up.