Poker Discussion Post

This guy needs a beating.

 well him playing a womans event is a little ridiculous, although why is there a womans only event? are woman inferior to men so they need to limit the sex that enters? what about white only events? black only events? they should just get rid of this kind of thing to begin with.

who cares about chopping with her - if she was dieing tomorrow it has nothing to do with the tournament - I feel bad for her condition but shes here to play poker not to find someone to help her out in life - I think its lowclass for her to bring up her disease as a way of morally getting him to chop the tournament

swyyft:

If he is really donating it to cancer why would he just not chop with the woman? Does that not seem ass backwards? And if you were loaded from real estate and someone wanted to chop would you not chop? If you were going to donate it anyway?

If you are grinding it out for a career its one thing. If you are just bored and like to play for fun cause you have a grip of cash elsewhere would you not just chop?

Kevin Jessee:

 

well the guy is obviously a jerk but i was playing a cash game at borgata a while and that girl sat down and was ripping everyones play.  she went broke pretty quickly but continued to berate everyones play at the table so i dont feel real sorry for her either.  and if she needs money so bad whats she doing playing in poker tournaments?

I would like to know what some of the top pro's think about this.  It's utterly ridiculous hearing the crap that's been posted on the 3 threads about this so far.  I would love to hear what Annie Duke, who by the way, CHOSE not to enter the women's event at the WSOP in 2004, and instead went on to win the Omaha 8 tourney, because she went after the bigger prize, because she was a professional.  This guy probably parks in "Expectant Mother's" parking spots also - which, by the way, is not a crime like Handicapped spaces would be.  As the beer commercials go - "Men should act like men", watch out for that big falling beer can, loser.

aquavitix:

What will he do with the tax credit he must get for donating so much money?  Hopefully he will donate the amount he gets extra for his tax refund back to charity. 

 i play in a local charity game and was talking (not about this but about womens touramnents) with one of the older ladie plays. she was playing the one that just passed for foxwoods and I basically asked her if she felt it it was a setback to woman as shouldn't they wanted to be seen as equals.

she basically said that while yes, she loves playing with the boys, she also liked people able to converse with other women at the table and thats it fun to do so when she's able to play in them. for her it was more about being able to "play with the girls" which she doesn't often get to do in a male dominated game

 thats a weird looking lady

This story keeps getting better and better.  Now there is soft-play/collusion involved.  C'mon Borgata, disqualify both of them!

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/new_jersey/20090915_Poker_Guy__She_s_calling_it_a_bad_deal_in_A_C_.html?submit=Vote&oid=1&mr=1&cid=8500281&pid=59274142&59274142=Y

Towards the end of the story:
"Each acknowledged that earlier in the contest Korotki, after hearing from Rowe about her illness, purposely played a weak hand against her in hopes of helping her build her chip stack (she doubled her amount by winning the hand)."

I would have slowrolled her heads up and spent the money on blow...

doomed222:

edit - SERIOUSLY? come on. so since she needs the money, that means he is immoral for not chopping a poker tournament? EL OH FCKIN EL

get real man

I think women are sometimes intimidated to come and play live. I think if this makes them more comfortable and willing to later then why not. 

As far as he goes. Obv a douche, although in AC I can think of someone doing this just to get extra money and lying about it. In AC anything scandalous is possible.