World Series Of Poker Makes 'Ladies' Event $10K Buy-In, Gives Women $9K Discount

Doubt it will happen, but imagine the publicity the guy gets who enters this by way of a 10k buy in.

Why stop there? If they really want to firmly discourage male participation, they should just make it a $20k buy-in and half goes to charity. Regardless, great idea WSOP.

I wish I were dealing the @WSOP this year. I'd do my best to deal a cooler to every guy that entered the Ladies' Event.

I like the idea behind this but it misses the mark. There exists two reasons for having a ladies event in poker (or any sport for that matter);

1) Guarantee that at least one female wins a bracelet every year

and

2) Attempt to entice more woman into the given sports/game series (in this case trying to get more consumers in the form of humans with vaginas to spend hard earned money into the WSOP brand)

I think that there should be 2 advertised ladies events for best accomplishing #1 and #2 above.

Ladies Event #1, have the current $1K ladies entry event include a $50,000 buy-in for males. Neither the $10,000 male buy-in nor $50,000 male buy-in will 100% guarantee a lady winning a bracelet out of the 62 bracelet events, but the $50,000 male buy-in is much more likely to.

Ladies Event #2, have a ladies event with a $1K ladies buy-in to a $3K male buy-in (this 1:3 entry ratio could fluctuate year-to-year depending on the previous years ratio of female:male entries. With the main point being that Ladies Event #2 eventually (after multiple years of doing it) have gender population data that reverse-image equates to the ratio buy-in for the purpose of expected value for both genders).

For example, with the ratio buy-ins of $1,000female:$3,000male, then the gender population of entries for “gender ratio of expected value to buy-in ratio” should equate to a ‘reverse image ratio.’ 3femaleplayers:1maleplayer/$1Kfemale:$3Kmale, thus the next years Ladies Event #2 buy-in gender:money ratio would stay the same and if not, then it would shift accordingly from the previous years data.

*(The above is all assuming two things. First, that more women should be brought into poker [not sure that I agree with this, but not sure that it’s a bad goal either]. Two, that females are not as good and/or experienced of poker players as males, but I’m just going from the horses mouth via past comments from Selbst and Oberstad).

It is amusing that it's still acceptable to have ladies only anything. Imagine the uproar if there was a mens event. All events should be open to all.

I guess it's time to ban the Olympics where men compete against men and women compete against women.Do away with World Cup Soccer while we are at it. Close McDonald's for giving senior citizens a discount on coffees and all other businesses that give discounts to certain customers whiles excluding others. The WSOP should just have the guts to say the womens event is just for women no troglydtes allowed. The WSOP does have a seniors only event that some dopey 20 something cannot enter.

Sexist is accurate. Seems to be ok for women to play in what were once tournaments for men. So men should be able to play in what were once tournaments for women? The excuse of "trying to entice more women into playing the game" is a crock. And why the hell should women get a discount. In reality it should be the other way around. Why? Check you facts guys and gals. Women spend over 80% of every discretionary dollar earned in America. Here's the kicker. They control over two thirds of the wealth too! Yup, over 66% of the goodies and gold are horded by women. You'll love this... three of the primary ways women accumulate wealth are... are you ready for this ... inheritance, divorce, and... wait for it..."crook." And you won't even let the guys get some of their money back. Whoever made this decision a hexed whammy on you. May your next divorce keep your ex in chips forever... your chips.

I'm fine with the situation of the $9,000 discount as long as the casino or whoever puts up the differene, so that the prize pool has $10,000 credited for each entrant. I doubt this is the caae now. If the situation is such that men have to pay $9,000 more, and the prize pool is only credited $1,000 for eah woman entrant, that this would be illegal and ripe for a lawsuit. It sounds clever on the surface as a way to keep men out, but I don't think it is legal to discriminate against men by pricing them out. On the other hand, I am all for women's only tournaments, but it has to be done legally.

I suppose its similar to when bars offer ladies drinks and ladies night free entrance promotions, which is legal in some states and illegal in others. State courts in California, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have ruled that ladies' night discounts are unlawful gender discrimination under state or local statutes. I'm sure the poker 'discounts' for women is a similar thing, where state rights will prevail
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[from Wikipedia] The California Supreme Court has ruled that ladies' days at a car wash and ladies' nights at a nightclub violate California's Unruh Civil Rights Act in Koire v Metro Car Wash (1985)[5] and Angelucci v. Century Supper Club (2007).[6] The Unruh Act provides: "All persons within the jurisdiction of this state are free and equal, and no matter what their sex [...] are entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, or services in all business establishments of every kind whatsoever [...]."[5] The court considered the statutory defense that the promotions serve "substantial business and social purposes", but concluded that merely being profitable is not a sufficient defense.