Over the past few months an interesting new trend has come to my attention-men competing in women’s poker tournaments and winning. In September, Abraham Korotki took home the title, and $20,982, in the Borgata Poker Open Ladies Event and last week another male player joined the ranks of Ladies tournament winners.<\/p>\n
Greg Sessler just took home $9,900 for winning the Lake Tahoe Ladies Championship, part of a WSOP circuit. Sessler says that he wanted to enter the $340 ladies event because he just felt like playing some poker on his day off. A lot of players are up in arms as a result of Sessler’s win. He was not the only man playing in the tournament and each time a man was eliminated the crowd went wild with cheering. When Sessler won, sufficed to say the crowd was not too pleased.<\/p>\n
In recent years more and ore women have begun playing poker for money and they are taking advantage of ladies only events as a starting point to get their name out in the poker world. It is a huge question of ethics as to whether men should be allowed to participate in these events. Of course, many people argue that it would be unfair to limit a poker tournament to men only, so why should tournaments for women only be allowed?<\/p>\n
The WSOP is refusing to get involved in the matter, saying, “The WSOP isn’t a political organization and can’t be expected to get involved in debates about sexism, discrimination or other polarizing issues which may be applicable to poker tournaments.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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