Women's and Men's Divisions

**lawgator1** · 04-24-2006, 11:00 PM

It make sense to me that there are different leagues for men and women in certain sports, such as tennis, basketball, track and field, and golf. But there are some sports where it makes no sense to me to have different leagues, one for men, one for women. Examples (and feel free to add your own):

Billiards.
Poker.
Bowling.

**GAVol** · 04-24-2006, 11:05 PM

Bowling is a necessity. Women are notorious for loading up the ball with Vagisil.

**LadyinOrange** · 04-24-2006, 11:06 PM

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Originally Posted by (lawgator1 @ Apr 24, 2006 10:00 PM)

It make sense to me that there are different leagues for men and women in certain sports, such as tennis, basketball, track and field, and golf. But there are some sports where it makes no sense to me to have different leagues, one for men, one for women. Examples (and feel free to add your own):

Billiards.
Poker.
Bowling.

Skating. All the men are like women anyway.

Did I just say that?

**LadyinOrange** · 04-24-2006, 11:07 PM

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Originally Posted by (GAVol @ Apr 24, 2006 10:05 PM)

Bowling is a necessity. Women are notorious for loading up the ball with Vagisil.

How nasty.

**tidwell** · 04-24-2006, 11:09 PM

I wasn't aware of the women poker leagues, but I'm not surprised.

A few more to add are basketball, baseball/softball, hockey... you get the idea. What happened to my old America where everyone was created equal?

therealUT · 04-24-2006, 11:41 PM

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Originally Posted by (lawgator1 @ Apr 24, 2006 11:00 PM)

It make sense to me that there are different leagues for men and women in certain sports, such as tennis, basketball, track and field, and golf. But there are some sports where it makes no sense to me to have different leagues, one for men, one for women. Examples (and feel free to add your own):

Billiards.
Poker.
Bowling.

Don't get me wrong, I love poker, but it is a sport?

Back to your premise though, Curling could definitely be added.

**GAVol** · 04-24-2006, 11:49 PM

The thing about Poker is that women play in the WSOP AND they have their own women's events.

**tidwell** · 04-24-2006, 11:52 PM

Kinda like golf...

**GAVol** · 04-24-2006, 11:54 PM

None of them actually make the cut in golf though. In poker, a few of the women are extremely competitive.

**tidwell** · 04-24-2006, 11:58 PM

yeaah yeah, same principle though.

Speaking of poker, I'm wondering if the turnout at the WSOP will be lower this year? The fad seems to be dying out, at least for me. I'll still watch every now and then, but I rarely play anymore.

**GAVol** · 04-25-2006, 12:02 AM

I think Poker is bound to suffer from overexposure. At any given time it's on ESPN, ESPN2, the Travel Channel, Bravo or FSN.

**lawgator1** · 04-25-2006, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by (GAVol @ Apr 25, 2006 12:02 AM)

I think Poker is bound to suffer from overexposure. At any given time it's on ESPN, ESPN2, the Travel Channel, Bravo or FSN.

Florida allows the dog tracks, horse tracks, and the Indian Reservation Casinos to offer poker, but under some fairly tight restrictions. And for a state that is so populous, we are talking about probably only 10-12 sites across the state. They all seem packed to me when I go and play. And now of course they are trying to get in on the deal with offering satellites into some of the big Hold 'Em WSOP or WPT events and that always gets them a nice crowd.

The tracks have single table tournaments of 11 players. The buy-in is $45, but the take-out from each entry is a ridiculous $13 -- almost a third!!!! At the Indian Casinos, they run 10 seater tournaments of $100 + $20, $200 + $25, $500 + $35, and $1000 + $50, so its a much better deal if you play more than once in a blue moon.

The Indian Casinos do run a lot of multi-table tournaments of anywhere from $50 on up to $1000 per entry. Tough to win those.