The PokerStars Ladies’s Summer time Competition has taken over London this week, bringing collectively gamers from across the globe for a packed schedule of poker, leisure, and group occasions geared toward celebrating feminine poker gamers.
From the £1,100 Ladies’s Excessive Curler to satellites, qualifiers, and off-the-felt actions like cocktail receptions and comedy nights, the pageant is designed to rejoice girls in poker whereas providing severe competitors.
This isn’t Caitlin Comeskey’s first time in London, nor her first Ladies’s Competition, however the Texas-based poker professional says the vitality by no means will get previous.
“It’s such a dream to have the ability to come over to Europe,” the PokerStars Ambassador advised PokerNews. “I really feel so blessed to hop the pond and play a enjoyable occasion. KJ [Kerryjane Craigie] does such an excellent job curating this and creating an ideal surroundings, so I’m greater than thrilled to be right here.”
The PokerStars Ladies’s Summer time Competition resides as much as its title, she says, with way over simply poker on the schedule.
“We’ve had a cocktail hour, and [on Friday] I’m headlining the comedy present. I’ve been prepping with two reveals main up: one in Vegas and one at Thunder Valley. That is my first time headlining internationally, so I’m tremendous excited!”
Ladies’s Excessive Rollers: Development and Competitors
This week additionally featured the £1,100 Ladies’s Excessive Curler, an occasion Comeskey says brings a sharper aggressive edge than most girls’s tournaments.
“All gamers search for development of their careers, however particularly for girls, these occasions give them that subsequent step”
“Within the Ladies’s Excessive Curler occasions I’ve performed, just like the Venetian this summer season, the place I went deep, there’s much more preflop aggression than you see in smaller buy-ins. There are many gamers who’ll name down mild and put you to the check. It’s a better degree of competitors.”
She sees these tournaments as a significant development level for girls in poker.
“All gamers search for development of their careers, however particularly for girls, these occasions give them that subsequent step. You may go from an everyday Women Occasion to testing your self in a 1K Excessive Curler.”
The pageant even supplied a qualifier, with seven gamers profitable seats into the Excessive Curler — a chance Comeskey likes to see.
A 12 months of Combined Video games, Excessive Rollers, and Streaming
Comeskey’s 2025 has been busy each stay and on-line. Along with her No-Restrict Maintain’em success, together with a $25,000 runner-up end within the PokerStars Open Philadelphia Excessive Curler, she’s been diving into combined video games with some success.
“It’s been a pleasure studying combined video games. I nonetheless make errors, but it surely’s been an ideal check of self-discipline. particularly in restrict codecs, which drive me to tighten up.”
She’s additionally constructing a following as a poker streamer, profitable a number of on-line tournaments and embracing the problem of remaining entertaining whereas additionally making an attempt to play the perfect poker she will be able to.
“Streaming is a complete different ability set. You’ve received music, chat, selling your stream, and nonetheless making an attempt to play effectively. Fortunately, I’m a giant yapper, so I’m blissful to maintain speaking for 4 or 5 hours.”
Wanting Forward to PokerStars Open Maryland
Comeskey’s schedule isn’t slowing down. She’s enthusiastic about extra PokerStars Stay occasions in North America, with one specifically on the horizon.
“We’ve simply introduced PokerStars Open Maryland in October. It’s phenomenal to have extra North American stops the place gamers can expertise the high-quality sellers and status of PokerStars Stay occasions.
“I’m thrilled to be there, and hopefully mixing it up within the $300K assured Most important Occasion.”
Will Shillibier
Managing Editor
