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The poker grapevine – PokerStars takes aim at female players
Posted by: Mark Baldwing - Sat, 2010-07-31 11:54
Despite all the protest from various male and female poker players against gender-segregation at the WSOP’s Ladies only event,
PokerStars is planning to do the “unthinkable”: to start a women’s poker league. We’re not sure how one can crossdress online, but even if it were possible, it wouldn’t really earn access to guys planning a
WSOP-like protest. Only ladies are allowed in this promotion, which runs till the end of the year. Players will have to accumulate points, and at the end of the year, they’ll be rewarded with cash prizes, poker tournament entries and live event packages.
How will participants accumulate points? By playing in two daily tournaments. Gender segregation in poker may be sending the wrong type of messages to some people, but this
poker promotion will certainly provide a genuine opportunity for the ladies to grab some prizes without having to worry about outracing a bunch of 24/7 fanatics.
In other news: the passage of Barney Franks bill in the House Financial services committee seems to have stirred up quite a fuss. Experts have forewarned that the achievement in itself doesn’t equate to the legalization of online poker in any shape or form, regardless of that though, online poker and even social networking companies seem terribly excited, planning their moves to invade the US market. PartyGaming’s merger with Bwin was apparently just one consequence of the good news. Zynga, the company responsible for the play money online poker application featured by Facebook has expressed its interest in getting into real money online poker. Seems like the shop’s not even open and takers are already queuing up outside.
