most women just aren't interested in poker and that's not going to change
it's not like there was some high amount of women playing online poker either.

good one

How long have you been playing? Is it any different now than when you started? Does it bother you when men go out of their way to wish you luck or make comments about a lady being at the table (in an attempted chivalrous way)?

Just this

Go get in line for your healthcare, and stop lying

Why are woman so much more common at limit holdem than pot limit omaha? The obvious answer is that woman are smart enough to stick to games that I have written books about. But I fear that might not be it.

They should make you all wear pink for a month and start being all SJW

Nevermind. NFL called said no dice.

Well-played

Going to say no politarding/general ass hattery ITT and nip the feminism/anti/SJW talk now. Only warning.

i love the women.

LOeffinL at a bunch of butthurt PC police that don't even see the main underlying theme in my post.

More WOMEN / CHICKS / GALS / POKER PLAYERS should play poker because they'd be INHERENTLY BETTER than most men because of their ABILITY TO MASTER MENTAL GAME quicker. I know strong ass chicks that are cold as icceeeeeee, and wouldn't hesitate to push it in when they feel it.

Basically, wuhp wuhp, if you aren't the type to be lookin to be ahffended, I said that men can be OVERCONFIDENT and GIVE MORE TELLS as opposed to WOMEN / CHICKS / LADIES.

Good low blow there going with the sexual predator. I'll have you know I've adopted the dreadlocked look from mr Movie Predman AND the big ol cowboy hat from Mr Slimwhickywhicky Slim Jim Rillo man.

Huh

I mean categorised the way we treat a player...only if the player is a friend we can make their life difficult

If you believe women are going to be drawn simply because there are more shiny baubles, then YOU are part of the problem.

How would that help? I don't know ANY players who I see on a frequent basis AND who play tournaments that give a damn about Hendon Mob rankings. Those at tables that talk about it or post about tournaments being slow to update tend to be the narcissists that make the table less fun.

I started playing NLHE in early 2007...started with bar league where owner/friend needed butts in the seats. Was playing cash less than six months later and doing well. Honed the non NLHE games online prior to Black Friday...and those were what I spent more time playing during June in Vegas.

I still see some of the same issues at tables now that I saw a decade ago. Dealers are more willing to be proactive in shutting down the nonsense, and some of the homophobic comments have died off as the various court rulings have come down and more people don't hide being gay or lesbian.

Wishes of luck don't bother me in a general sense...comments are viewed in context of the conversations going on at the table. There is no one-size-fits-all approach.

If the annual poker awards had awards for the top male and top female <$150 buy in player and maybe the top 50 worldwide from each gender qualify for a lucrative on line free roll it could incentivise both men and women to play more regularly. The Hendon Mob rankings are under utilised in general in this respect. The data could be harnessed much more effectively to promote the game.

The current system of only highlighting bigger buy in players is a little dismissive of a lot of very good players who happen to play at lower buy in levels.

One of my female friends was in the Main Event and before it began, she was sitting next to the only other woman at the table. A guy came in, looked at everyone at the table without saying anything, and when he came to them, he doffed his hat and said "good luck, ladies." That really bothered them because they thought to themselves "why would he need to say good luck to us and not everyone? Why single us out?"

I know most guys here think that perhaps she was being too sensitive (I think that, too) but it doesn't change the fact that that's how they felt and that comments many of us perceive as innocuous can be viewed differently by the people we are speaking to. That's why I think it best that we don't point out women at the table or single them out for comments, even if well intentioned. It can make them feel as if they are being divided from the rest of everyone rather than treated the same.

sitting at a table with 8 dudes isn't most women's idea of fun. Cash game players especially are pretty disgusting people.

Just a thought, NL is a riskier game than limit, is perhaps why you see less women in poker rooms now than before. There may be some truth to the fact that women, in general, are more risk averse than men.

Another factor is the social experience. It is basically non-existent in NL. When limit holdem was king, the rooms were rocking, chips flying, people chatting, having fun etc. Now it's like sitting in a morgue. You've got people tanking, not talking, games are slow. Where's the fun in that? Who would be attracted to that lifestyle?

If i encourage x amount of women into poker does this make me a more valuable member of society than someone who doesn't. If so can someone explain how/If not then why the hell would i do it

If that was not someone who was going to be playing AT the same table, I can see why they felt a bit wierded out by the action, even if it was innocent in intent. If it was someone who would be at the same table, I would not be as concerned...judgment in that instance reserved to see how the rest of the table conversations went.

As I believe I mentioned somewhere in the thread (or it could have been at some point in time over in TWSS), much is situational-dependent...in this social media world, there are too many instances where someone cherry-picks a single sentence to run one direction or another.

We need ambassadors like Joe McKeehan saying hi to peoples wives and boom, more women in poker!

Indeed....not really my idea of fun either, and I'm a man. Women would be so much more likely to play if they knew there would be other women at the table. That's why I suggested hiring female prop players. I'd happily pay an extra dollar in rake if there were at least two women at the table every time I played.

Someone meme this fool with a "more rake is better"!

Haven't been to a casino to play live in over three years now. Still get the occasional itch every now and then to go, but then I remember why I stopped playing live in the first place.

Women are smarter than men, hence no live no poker boom ever. Sorry.