Aware that some of these posts are old, but...
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Originally Posted by Assani Fisher
However, the trade-off is that I have been a poker pro for 10+ years, have played as high as $50/100, have nearly 50k posts on this forum, know a ton of people in the poker industry...and I've never once been approached for a sponsorship of any kind. Contrast that to a random woman who goes deep in one WSOP ME and then gets a huge contract for the following years.....basically what I'm saying is that I would gladly make the trade of having Chippendales dancers instead of RFG if it meant that I had the same odds as a female of getting a sponsorship.
This is a fair point in terms of the very top of the industry but doesn't have much to do with the vast majority of people playing.
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Originally Posted by Milo013
It is simply marketing to the lowest common denominator, much like any other sport, beer company, cologne, etc.
(below based on experiences in Europe)
Cologne is different because the whole product exists to smell nice for women. If you were working on an oil rig in the Persian Gulf with no women present then there would be no reason to wear it - it makes sense that women one would want to influence would appear in the advert.
Apart from that, pretty much no good products are sold that way, "sex sells" is always the sign that the beer won't taste good. Ads that talk about their ingredients and "master brewers" are what marks our the top of the market. I like women too and am an active poster in the Miss OOT threads - I'm not interested in being political correct and that sort of thing - just if you're selling me something and you try to distract me from the product I'll conclude the product isn't very good.
Sport the same. F1 grid girls, Tour de France podium girls, Poker's RFG. These sports have in common that from the point of view of the spectator they are low quality featuring long hours of time with not much happening. At the top of the market there are no "corner kick girls" in premier league football(soccer) for example.
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Originally Posted by Many posters
Chippendales
I don't have much to say about this except that in the majority of cases female sexuality doesn't seem to be a mirror image of male sexuality.
EDIT: Apparently women's cyclocross has podium boys
http://www.cyclingnews.com/blogs/aut...hirlwind-week/