has launched what it is calling partypoker Ladies, a community created by female poker players for female poker players, which include ladies-only tournaments, female orientated social media channels and more.
One of the statistics that stuck out when the World Series of Poker released the demographic breakdown of the 2017 WSOP Main Event entrants was the fact that only 3.7 percent of the 7,221-strong field was female. Quite alarmingly, only one woman in the 21-25 years-old bracket competed in the $10,000 buy-in tournament.
Poker is a game that has a predominately male player pool that some women have difficulty being accepted in for various reasons.