How do female players feel about the WSOP moving the Ladies event to the end of the series? I am not personally that bothered by it, although it does pose some inconveniences for me personally, but there is a lot of chatter going on, and many players are actually offended by the move.

I always liked having other series to consider during "ladies week", but now that it's moving to July, Golden Nugget Grand Series, for example, ends before the Ladies event starts this year. Moving to July 8 also now precludes some players from straddling the days between "seniors" week and "ladies" weeks, so the ladies event will likely lose some players because of that. On the flip side, some ladies who want to play the main event are now closer in schedule to the Ladies event. But let's be realistic, the majority of female poker players are social players - they aren't going to pony up $10k to play the main event anyway. (For arguments sake, please note I said MAJORITY, so, at least 51%.)

At the end of the day, I realize you can't please everyone, especially with an event this big. I am grateful to have so many events to choose from, and thankful for everyone who puts time into planning these events.

Looking at the schedule, I think it is an attempt to raise the profile of the Ladies tournament placing it so close the main event and during the "One Drop" tournament.

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.