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Message: [QUOTE="Robbie Strazynski, post: 2348553, member: 94242"] Okay, so here's the emailed response from Jessica Welman, who manages the WSOP.com site from the media end. She was kind enough to allow me to copy/paste it here directly: [COLOR=#1f497d]Hi Robbie,[/COLOR] [COLOR=#1f497d]I did see how much buzz your article seems to be generating. I enjoyed it myself and am always glad when someone brings up gender issues in the poker world.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#1f497d]I’m also more than impressed that someone did that much research on our blog content. To be honest, we just don’t have the staffers to cover the non-ring events at the Circuit, especially the Ladies Event, which more often than not, coincides with the Main Event of that stop. Much like the Seniors Event, we don’t consider these ring events because we don’t want to give out Circuit points to ring events that limit who can play. So, when it comes time to delegate how much our one staffer on site at Circuits writes about an event, these tournaments just tend to not get more than a mention or two in the blog. I certainly wish we had the ability to do so, but the timing of the schedule during the Main, when the Blog generally gets a little neglected, just makes it too complicated.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#1f497d]This is actually a problem we’ve run into during the summer—we haven’t been able to have the Ladies event on the feature stream with Tuchman so far. The problem is that we can’t justify putting that event on the feature table when other events, like the One Drop High Roller, are taking place at the same time. As a female, I obviously would love for us to include them in the stream, but I don’t think it necessarily helps the women in poker cause to pre-empt something with a large buy-in or field size for an event with a smaller buy-in and smaller field size just because it is the Ladies Event, you know?[/COLOR] [COLOR=#1f497d]We do try to denote when women succeed on the Circuit and at the WSOP though. Last year, there was an unprecedented level of success and participation from women on the Circuit, followed by Circuit reg Loni Harwood’s bracelet win. I personally did a lot of writing trying to draw attention to her performance and the performance of women overall at the WSOP, but sometimes we are limited by the amount of data we have at our disposal.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#1f497d]Hope that gives you a little insight, but if you guys have any other questions, happy to answer them.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#1f497d]Jessica[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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