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If you replace hot with dirty and trashy, you have a very accurate description.

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The real question is, what's Daryn's call on the Hot or Not topic?

Re: Ladies Limit Hold Em on ESPN
 

There are two big problems with this which is why I didn't bother to watch:

1. the whole idea of a "ladies" tournement is BS, this isn't a physical sport, its a freakin card game, lets get real. No need for seperate womens events.

2. Its a limit tourny. I would rather play bingo than play a limit tourny and there is about that much skill involved.

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The real reason is $$$. There is no money in that tournament. I could host a Ladies only tournament in my apartment, and I guarantee she won't come. Not because of sexism. She just didn't want to sound like a snobby btch

Re: Ladies Limit Hold Em on ESPN
 

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I was on a straight draw!

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Re: Ladies Limit Hold Em on ESPN
 

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Why should Annie or any of the best women in the world play in a womens only tourney when they are clearly good enough to compete and win in a regular event.

I am not even clear why they need a womens only event. Can you imagine if they decided to have a mens only event!

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Exactly..its not like its a normal sport where men have a natural stength and athletic advantage.

Re: Ladies Limit Hold Em on ESPN
 

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There are two big problems with this which is why I didn't bother to watch:

1. the whole idea of a "ladies" tournement is BS, this isn't a physical sport, its a freakin card game, lets get real. No need for seperate womens events.

2. Its a limit tourny. I would rather play bingo than play a limit tourny and there is about that much skill involved.

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Your second point is ridiculous. You can learn much more watching good pros play limit than watching a bunch of all ins preflop. No skill? Absurd. Howard Lederer won the PartyPoker Million I. The WPT that was limit this season had several solid pros at the final table.

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Well, it gave them a chance to show some half way decent looking poker players, I guess. Style over substance. If only Evelyn Ng and Clonie whats-her-face were there with Ms Jett, the asian woman who won, and the blonde with the linebacker husband.

They're not showing any hi/lo events at all. Maybe split pots are too boring. They didn't even make a half hearted attempt to explain how the game is played to the average viewer, so they're probably not showing them because they think the rules are too complicated for Joe Six-Pack to comprehend.

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Everytime I see Annie Duke, I want to throw in in a hot tub and scrub her down real good, then give her fifty bucks so she can visit something I'm sure she's never seen in her whole life: A beauty salon.

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I don't think the reasoning is in question at all. if you have two options, you pick the most profitable, of course. When you pick an option though, berating the option you didnt pick and sounding like a complete obnoxious bitch in the proccess is just unneccessary.

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Why should Annie or any of the best women in the world play in a womens only tourney when they are clearly good enough to compete and win in a regular event.

I am not even clear why they need a womens only event. Can you imagine if they decided to have a mens only event!

Ken

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Exactly..its not like its a normal sport where men have a natural stength and athletic advantage.

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No, but it is a game where women are woefully underrepresented. Of course, that begs the question... Why do they have Seniors only events?