Katie Dozier open letter to PokerStars

lulu pk · Feb 23, 2015

You can find the integral letter on Katie Dozier blog.I must say that agree whit her 100% about women's tournaments and pokerstars women blog.

http://katiedozier.com/?p=1227

Daniel72 · Feb 23, 2015

Good blog! I love Katie Doziers style and grind etc.
The problem is, there are only a few competetive woman in the world.
It is more the nature of men, they fight and make competitions (also to get womens attention lol) since the beginning of all.
I would love to see more girls and woman in math, chess, poker etc. but where is the motivation?

moots · Feb 23, 2015

Here's the link:

http://katiedozier.com/?p=1227

BluffMeAllIn · Feb 23, 2015

Thanks mootso, meant to post earlier to ask someone for the link but got tied up with some pm's lol

Katie Dozier · Feb 23, 2015

Thanks very much for your nice comments lulu PK and Daniel72 .

I really hope that PokerStars reads the letter and that, if even in only a small way, it encourages them to put more of an emphasis on women in poker.

I spent longer writing (and re-writing) this blog post than any other post in the roughly 5 years I've had my blog-- so I am very glad to see that others feel as I do about my points in the post!

BluffMeAllIn · Feb 23, 2015

+1 on the post Katie, a great read and certainly a lot of strong points that Pokerstars certainly needs to give some focus and consideration.

Debi · Feb 23, 2015

Great blog post Katie!

BearPlay · Feb 23, 2015

+1 Excellent letter and always a pleasure, Katie. I'll be tweeting this as well.

Katie Dozier · Feb 23, 2015

BluffMeAllIn said:
+1 on the post Katie, a great read and certainly a lot of strong points that Pokerstars certainly needs to give some focus and consideration.

Thanks! I really hope that they do!

dakota-xx said:
Great blog post Katie!

Thanks, Debi! <3

BearPlay said:
+1 Excellent letter and always a pleasure, Katie. I'll be tweeting this as well.

I really appreciate that! Every bit of coverage helps a ton, because I do not want them to feel like they can ignore this.

Alexsandr Kononov · Feb 23, 2015

Good blog, I like post

Katie Dozier · Feb 23, 2015

Alexsandr Kononov said:
Good blog, I like post

TY

dealio96 · Feb 23, 2015

Great blog post! Hope this catches the eye of PS and they make some much needed adjustments!

I'll retweet as well!

Daniel72 · Feb 23, 2015

Great to see you here in the forum, Katie!

Enjoyed already your floattheturn videos, will def. check out your DragTheBar videos too!

lulu pk · Feb 23, 2015

I remember when there were five or six PS women pro members on Sunday women's.

The last couple of month is one or none.Another thing is that i do not see any PS women pro to identify with them.

The last two women pro that they sponsored is the Russian cash game player who does not speak English and the other one is the girlfriend of one of the PS online pro.Sry but i do not now there names.

We loose Vicky Coren that i respect very much and they give us someone's girlfriend to be our inspiration

I think that this is not the good way to attract other women to play and certainly not a good way to gain my respect.

lulu pk · Feb 23, 2015

Daniel72 said:
Great to see you here in the forum, Katie!

Enjoyed already your floattheturn videos, will def. check out your DragTheBar videos too!

+1

motorcity1957 · Feb 23, 2015

I agree with the part about switching trny dates once they are posted as open for registration. That is wrong. All the stuff about women only stuff, i don't agree. Unless you are telling me that Men play poker way better than women, so they should have their own games. Then I guess I would say OK ,

lulu pk · Feb 23, 2015

motorcity1957 said:
I agree with the part about switching trny dates once they are posted as open for registration. That is wrong. All the stuff about women only stuff, i don't agree. Unless you are telling me that Men play poker way better than women, so they should have their own games. Then I guess I would say OK ,

If you do not agree whit whit all the women stuff .You should agree whit 50% sponsored women in poker.
And i would love to see tournaments whit 50% women on the field just for the pleasure to be equal.
But this is not happening,so let us have our tournament whit 100% of women it is
the only place where we are in the majority:flowers:

Katie Dozier · Feb 23, 2015

dealio96 said:
Great blog post! Hope this catches the eye of PS and they make some much needed adjustments!

I'll retweet as well!

I really hope so too, thanks!

Daniel72 said:
Great to see you here in the forum, Katie!

Enjoyed already your floattheturn videos, will def. check out your DragTheBar videos too!

Thank you! I <3 Cardschat!

motorcity1957 said:
I agree with the part about switching trny dates once they are posted as open for registration. That is wrong. All the stuff about women only stuff, i don't agree. Unless you are telling me that Men play poker way better than women, so they should have their own games. Then I guess I would say OK ,

Ty for your comments.

I think a big part of why many people love to play poker is that it is such a social game. In my mind, women-only games have nothing to do with some kind of perceived handicap at skill, rather they are an opportunity to sit down with other women in a game normally dominated in numbers by men. I think that it is easy to feel like an odd-ball when playing poker as a woman, and being able to blend in a bit (in ladies events) as opposed to stand out massively (in mixed events) can make the work of learning a new game less intimidating and more fun from the beginning.

bezobrazny · Feb 23, 2015

You are hot Katie.

I even read your blog now, good observation. If you ask me, I think the World would be a much better place if women lead us.

LarkMarlow · Feb 23, 2015

hotjenny314 said:
I think a big part of why many people love to play poker is that it is such a social game. In my mind, women-only games have nothing to do with some kind of perceived handicap at skill, rather they are an opportunity to sit down with other women in a game normally dominated in numbers by men. I think that it is easy to feel like an odd-ball when playing poker as a woman, and being able to blend in a bit (in ladies events) as opposed to stand out massively (in mixed events) can make the work of learning a new game less intimidating and more fun from the beginning.

+1 and Amen, Katie. It's about time someone spoke out and I am glad that person was you. Your blog piece is truly inspired.

Katie Dozier · Feb 23, 2015

bezobrazny said:
I even read your blog now, good observation. .

Thank you!

LarkMarlow said:
+1 and Amen, Katie. It's about time someone spoke out and I am glad that person was you. Your blog piece is truly inspired.

Awww, thanks! I think I care more about this post than anything I have ever written!

Ms_Fold_Alot · Feb 23, 2015

I think many online poker sites could learn alot from that blog post. I agree, that it isn't about women playing worse or better than men, it's about being among other women in a predominantly male environment. I'd love to see ladies only games on PartyPoker, I rarely see women on my tables in tourneys because we tend to be spaced among the tables which is such a shame. I love chatting while playing and guys seem to be so quiet which is another reason a female only game would be fun

Lets hope we get something like that, there seem to be alot of tourneys that exclude people on many other factors (UK only, certain forums, newbies only etc) we need more women to feel comfortable in the poker world, we are very few and far between.

Katie Dozier · Feb 23, 2015

Ms_Fold_Alot said:
I think many online poker sites could learn alot from that blog post. I agree, that it isn't about women playing worse or better than men, it's about being among other women in a predominantly male environment. I'd love to see ladies only games on PartyPoker, I rarely see women on my tables in tourneys because we tend to be spaced among the tables which is such a shame. I love chatting while playing and guys seem to be so quiet which is another reason a female only game would be fun
Lets hope we get something like that, there seem to be alot of tourneys that exclude people on many other factors (UK only, certain forums, newbies only etc) we need more women to feel comfortable in the poker world, we are very few and far between.

So many great points in your post, thank you for sharing that.

Ms_Fold_Alot · Feb 23, 2015

hotjenny314 said:
So many great points in your post, thank you for sharing that.

Thank you

It was inspired because of your blog post which I couldn't agree more with! Let's hope someone see's it!

baudib1 · Feb 23, 2015

Nice blog post Katie.

I'm a guy who plays a ton of live poker and yes, as a social game I'd love to have more women in poker.

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