Kerryjane Craigie, PokerStars Ambassador and Director of Poker on the Hippodrome On line casino, is gearing up for the PokerStars Girls’s Summer time Competition in London, and she or he’s as soon as once more championing the important position girls’s occasions play within the progress of the sport.
Girls’s tournaments aren’t nearly competitors, they’re about group, visibility, and making a extra welcoming path for the following technology of ladies in poker.
We’re quick approaching the PokerStars Girls’s Summer time Competition, and with the countdown in single figures, it will not be lengthy earlier than we hear that acquainted name: “Shuffle up and deal!”
This summer season has already delivered some standout performances from top-tier gamers like Leo Margets, Esther Taylor, and Shiina O. However each time a lady takes that first step right into a mixed-field occasion, luggage up chips, or makes a remaining desk look — that issues too. All of it counts.
Girls are not simply occasional gamers. Their presence in high-stakes tournaments is rising, they usually’re exhibiting up not simply as contenders however as champions, leaders, and position fashions. With them comes a contemporary power, new methods, and a dynamic spirit that elevates all the poker ecosystem.
“I’ll all the time advocate for girls’s occasions as a vital a part of poker’s progress.”
There’s been some chatter round women-only occasions lately. And whereas all of us deliver our personal experiences to the desk, for many people, these tournaments provide one thing genuinely particular. They supply a welcoming house, a way of group, and sure, extra enjoyable (and undoubtedly extra quantity!).
I’ll all the time advocate for girls’s occasions as a vital a part of poker’s progress. They are not about separation, they’re about constructing bridges.
As a result of this motion is about greater than playing cards and chips. Poker is a sport of mind, intuition, and psychological grit, none of that are sure by gender. When girls are underrepresented, the expertise pool is proscribed, and drained stereotypes are strengthened. The extra we help, welcome, and encourage girls into the sport, the higher and extra aggressive the sport turns into.
And the momentum is actual. We’re seeing the message resonate: “You belong right here too.”
PokerStars lately launched knowledge exhibiting year-on-year progress in girls’s participation in any respect their reside occasions — a pattern value celebrating.
We have additionally seen a brand new chapter open with Girls’s Excessive Curler occasions now an everyday fixture. From the Girls’s Winter Competition to Las Vegas Girls’s Week, the inclusion of excessive buy-in women-only occasions is proving to be an important stepping stone. These arenas give gamers the prospect to watch, examine, and apply superior expertise in a aggressive, but empowering atmosphere.
That is how we construct to larger buy-ins and the principle combined occasions of main festivals. These transitional tournaments assist normalize girls’s participation on the highest ranges, and that is the place actual progress occurs — not simply in numbers, however within the visibility and legitimacy of ladies in poker.
The Girls’s Summer time Competition is constructed with all gamers in thoughts, no matter your bankroll. Stay satellites begin from simply £40, a reside no-reg charge path into the Foremost Occasion. New to this 12 months’s schedule is the £110 Excessive Curler Satellite tv for pc, kicking issues off on Tuesday twelfth August, and we need to see these numbers develop within the Excessive Curler itself on the thirteenth.
This is not only a event sequence, it is a assertion. And I am assured that the following technology of poker’s elite will likely be extra gender-diverse than ever earlier than.
Let’s journey collectively.Play fierce.
Kerryjane Craigie
