Why Most Women Don't Play Poker

The concept of a weaker gender representative in poker seems to be a bedboat situation. Everyone has their own considerations and most of them don't want to hear. All of these texts from my fellow women have benefited from writing the first version of this blog late r-as a man, it seemed that it was not misleading, contempt or meaningless. It is even more difficult to summarize his consideration on this theme. But, for example, or otherwise, here is my idea about the subject.

The Intimidating Nature of Live Poker

When I recognize female players in poker, they do not like live dealing, and in many cases they are actually scary.

-Lydia Barbara, Pegasus Gaming Solutions Representative

Online poker has relatively few women. According to our best estimates, women are 9-19, 4%of online players (recent studies on French players have higher, but the global average indicators are lower. Dow). In the live poker, this indicator is even lower-according to Alex Dray Fass, a global poker index, women only account for 3-4 %of the players in actual poker, only 5, 43 %of the members of the 2015 Univers Poker Series. Was a weak gender representative.

There is a big difference between the Internet and the role of the live, and no one literally understands what will cause it. One of the most likely comments is that the poker environment is live and women are afraid because they are not afraid of the online environment. It is trying to solve it with support for.

However, the ladies' tournament causes various controversy. There are male groups who think that men need to be a rudimentary because they need men to participate in ladies tournaments, or that women's tournaments are male discrimination. But in my gaze, the male group has never realized what's wrong.

Victoria Corin Mitchell wrote a great series of articles on the 2012 blog. She decided to play at the Ladies Festival and talked about her own experiments in communication with men who ruined all girls.

He was young, dark, and hooded. He was young, dark and hooded. He first stopped at our table, did not smile or greet. The atmosphere changed immediately. In the past, everyone was this joy, everyone was swearing, swearing and laughin g-even if you are embroidered, the tournament itself is spending well on a wel l-funded day. Everything was relaxing and smiling ...

... But when this young man sat, the mood changed completely. The sister relationship has been broken. The party is over. The adults at the table looked even more sad. They asked the question of whether he told his mother what he would participate in this tournament, or whether he could explain anything about this preposition. He ignored the question.

Women often organize "bunkers", but they don't invite men there. I have a family game where only men are invited. For example, why don't you like exchanging with other women the most? In the world of profile poker, women's tournaments are not considered elite. Neither women have achieved a perfect performance in the Ladies Store, which will not win the GPI version of the "Player of the Year" award. And they do not strongly ask that ladystorenaments are serious that they receive global reputation. What they are looking for is bright and friendly air.

I have an ambivalent feeling for wome n-only poker events. On the other hand, I don't think that is needed. I want to participate in a game dominated by men. But this is not the case, and the data must be won someday, but the basics of the online poker at the international level are in danger.

-Lydia Barbara, Pegasus Gaming Solutions Representative

But why do some girls need a women's event to enjoy? For example, why does ordinary actual poker scare them? For a long time, I had been bothered by the answer to this question, but I got a doctrine a while ago.

I read the Everyday Sexism Plan and thought like this. The plan, established in 2012, gathers the skills of women around the world and describes the harassment, prejudice, and gender discrimination they face every day. This is a really scary reading. More than 50 women record personal daily skills. As a man, I met on the street many times in my life. For example, I was shocked by "everyday gender discrimination" how often this happens to a vulnerable gender representative every day.

Of course, this is not surprising for women. I want men to talk to the weak representatives who are close to them. In fact, you can see that the skills explained in "daily gender discrimination" are not special. Almost all women you understand have been strangers on the street or on the bar, or even worse harassment.

Harassment does not stop when the woman sits in the poker dinner seat:

In 2+2, there are some content specializing in situations in what harassed women at the table.

Last night, after playing a few hours (what a casino), I entered a mult i-way pot and received a straight flash. It wasn't a big pot, but I earned some money with the other two flashes. One of the members says. "I will rape when the diamond 7 comes."

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I sincerely believe in the right of textbooks, and I don't really think that "insults" should give special rights. After all, it's up to you to make a muffled. But, for example, why do many men feel like this, while deciding to exercise the right to email freedom in this way, do women feel like unrivaled customers?

What if you could talk like this: "If you win with this hand, I'll rap up you." If one in six women grew up in a country like the United States, which is sexually assaulted, this statement is not a joke but a real danger.

I want men to care more. The skills we usually use are different from the actual skills. Interesting and appropriate for men, sometimes not attractive for women. This is not because we have no sense of humor, but most of us are harassment victims and more victims. Almost all women have physiological, psychological and sexual violence. At least one should understand that they are rape victims, but most of them don't understand who, when they rape. They simply don't talk about this.

Anonymous woman, South America poker player

The first part of my doctrine is addicted to being harassed by men in everyday life, so (probably unconsciously) a lot of unknown men. That's right. This alone is not enough, and some of the few women who participate in the current poker games are immediately disgusted by the scary men who are the minority elements.

Even on the Internet, where the moment of harassment is significantly reduced, there is a precedent that more than 80 % of players are men. For example, why aren't they evaluating the possibility of poker?

Poker as a Masculine Activity

The second part of my doctrine is that almost all women do not even think about this poker game due to the fact that poker is a male activity in our society.

To explain this problem, consider the words you use in your daily life. If words and phrases are classified into "masculine" and "feminine", where will words such as "blue", "pink", "cute" be classified? Most people would have no problem to classify "blue" masculinly and feminine. But why are they reminiscent of such a strong gender, even though they are just colors? There is more room for discussions is where to classify words such as "career", "president", and "poker".

Since we were born, we have been taught that something is masculine and some are feminine. If you are pregnant with a boy, buy blue clothes. When the child gets a little bigger, take him to a toy store. One side of the store is unified in pink, with ugly products such as cooking utensils, toy hoo, dolls, and ironing platforms. The other is blue, with great things such as dinosaurs, sticky buckets, lightsavers, science kits, and action figures. If a boy wants to play with a doll, it will be said that "dolls are for girls." If a girl wants to play in a science set, she is told to play with a doll like a normal girl.

These gender divisions have been strengthened not only by adults but also by children themselves. In particular, some stores take measures in the store to compete with these gender stereotypes. For example, the US retail chain "Target" has recently announced that it does not label a specific toy "for girls" or "for boys". However, this change has been very recent, and most of the ages who can play poker today have been exposed to such gender roles. < SPAN> To explain this problem, consider the words you use in your daily life. If words and phrases are classified into "masculine" and "feminine", where will words such as "blue", "pink" and "cute" be classified? Most people would have no problem to classify "blue" masculinly and feminine. But why are they reminiscent of such a strong gender, even though they are just colors? There is more room for discussions is where to classify words such as "career", "president", and "poker".

Since we were born, we have been taught that something is masculine and some are feminine. If you are pregnant with a boy, buy blue clothes. When the child gets a little bigger, take it to a toy store. One side of the store is unified in pink, with ugly products such as cooking utensils, toy hoo, dolls, and ironing platforms. The other is blue, and there are wonderful things such as dinosaurs, adhesive buckets, lightsavers, science kits, and action figures. If a boy wants to play with a doll, it will be said that "dolls are for girls." If a girl wants to play with a science set, she is told to play with a doll like a normal girl.

These gender divisions have been strengthened not only by adults but also by children themselves. In particular, some stores take measures in the store to compete with these gender stereotypes. For example, the US retail chain "Target" has recently announced that it does not label a specific toy "for girls" or "for boys". However, this change has been very recent, and most of the ages who can play poker today have been exposed to such gender roles. To explain this problem, consider the words you use in your daily life. If words and phrases are classified into "masculine" and "feminine", where will words such as "blue", "pink", "cute" be classified? Most people would have no problem to classify "blue" masculinly and feminine. But why are they reminiscent of such a strong gender, even though they are just colors? There is more room for discussions is where to classify words such as "career", "president", and "poker".

Final Thoughts

Since we were born, we have been taught that something is masculine and some are feminine. If you are pregnant with a boy, buy blue clothes. When the child gets a little bigger, take him to a toy store. One side of the store is unified in pink, with ugly products such as cooking utensils, toy hoo, dolls, and ironing platforms. The other is blue, and there are wonderful things such as dinosaurs, adhesive buckets, lightsavers, science kits, and action figures. If a boy wants to play with a doll, it will be said that "dolls are for girls." If a girl wants to play with a science set, she is told to play with a doll like a normal girl.

These gender divisions have been strengthened not only by adults but also by children themselves. In particular, some stores take measures in the store to compete with these gender stereotypes. For example, the US retail chain "Target" has recently announced that it does not label a specific toy "for girls" or "for boys". However, this change has been very recent, and most of the ages who can play poker today have been exposed to such gender roles.

1. The second part of my doctrine is that both farmers and women are used to specific labor forms that are not actually touched since they were born. For example, most men do not poker, whereas most men do not do no n-voltage, softball, kamoga (these are women's activities to share the roles of men and women). Also, they do not evaluate the odds of the game as a result of what they actually believe, that is, that they are male occupations. This is a very difficult contradiction, not easy to solve with short odds.
2. An unpleasant element for me is the sexual description of women in poker. In fact, you seem to be in one of the two groups:

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It is a model that understands how to speak, but it is not good because it is sexy. As an example, you can take this video on YouTube. I can't assume that Phil-Ivy had experienced his trousers and stretching on a poker table, including the punishment of Bucks and Scott between his teeth.

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-Clora Hansen, micro gaming poker promotion manager

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Micro gaming poker promotion manager, Cluda-Hansen

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Of course, there are other conditions, but at least this means that women generally have less time for women. This problem is very complicated and can be discussed in the context of one comment on the blog. Fortunately, most others are talking about this now. I felt that Lee Davi's posting about sympathy for girls was honest and attractive.