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Originally Posted by LordRiverRat
I think any new poker room needs to cater to a VASTLY untapped market - women. Let's get THEM into the game. Not only would poker be more +EV with a bigger and fresher player pool, it would be more...fun. A fish would be way more incentivized to play if there's an attractive or even semi-attractive woman on every table instead of four locals who tell the same bad beat story, a few drunk tourist dudes and a grinder who hasn't showered in three days.
I remember a robust discussion of this on another sub-forum here about a year or so ago. There was very little consensus about how what could be done to effectively encourage women to join.
It would obviously be helpful to get the input of women on this, but I think that is unlikely on this forum. I've had a number of ideas myself based on games I have played in that did have a good gender balance. (I've played in multiple home games that were almost half female.)
Among these ideas, I think the absolute most important thing is that the casino should simply ensure that there are always a critical mass of women playing in the room, so that it actually looks inviting to female players. The casino should make sure that if a woman wants to play, she will not be the only woman at her table.
To this end, I think the best thing a room could possibly do is to hire a bunch of female prop players so that there is always at least one other woman playing at every table at all times. If the room does achieve this critical mass so that the prop players are not necessary, they could phase out this policy over time.