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[QUOTE="DS3, post: 6428319, member: 407846"]
Excellent article, but I am sure for women it feels like swimming upstream.

By the by regarding the post by Nafor above, the number of women who play online and anonymously is much higher than live according to poker sites and that speaks volumes on several fronts.

As I have given my opinion before. I am not going to cover the same ground again but I will say I think it will simply be a question of time and those invested need to be patient. It's taken decades for women to break through on numerous fronts and poker remain one of the holdouts. I think we are all agreed the number of women interested in poker will never match men (for a variety of reasons) but the fact so few play is a loss to the industry and the prize pools.

One of the more interesting ideas would be to recruit women who really fit the game (serious amateurs) and sponsor them to play for say a year in high profile tournaments with a lot of media coverage. A question of priorities. Samantha Abernathy was recently recruited by 888 and she seems to be playing tourneys and keeping a high profile. But you had years where the likes of Liv Boeree were on PokerStars books but I could never work out quite why as she seldom seemed to do anything in her ambassadors role. If some major sponsors pulled out their finger to recruit women who really wanted a crack at the professional circuit (and I mean live) then they could have a more profound influence on the women's game.

But, I'll repeat, excellent article.
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