Man Wins “Ladies Championship” at Harvey’s Lake Tahoe

Posted on November 18, 2009 
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At the Harvey’s Lake Tahoe Circuit event a male has taken down the “all ladies” event. Greg Sessler, a 22-year-old student entered the all ladies event with three other males. At the end of it all, Sessler defeated the other 95 players and took home a first place prize of $9,932. The intrusion has left some people questioning the future of ladies events.
Ladies events have been a standard in many poker tournament series, and the World Series of Poker Circuit events are no different. In almost every tournament series, ladies events have been introduced to encourage more women to get involved with poker. For many women, this is a more comfortable atmosphere where they can exert their poker skills without dealing with the male ego. Although these tournaments are marketed as “ladies only” tournaments, it does not discriminate against men entering.

There are some women who have voiced their concerns with all women events stating that it hinders women from getting the respect they deserve at the poker table. These women say that women possess the skills to win big events and go head to head with other males, but in creating all women events it retains the line between male and female poker players. No matter what the popular opinion is on ladies tournaments, it is safe to say that the prestige for men winning all women events is highly diminished.

According to Nolan Dalla’s tournament report of the Harvey’s Lake Tahoe Ladies Circuit event, women were banded together in showing their discontent for these guys who entered the event. “When three of the four men busted out, women broke into spontaneous applause and cheers.” More often than not, the poker community is very supportive of each other, but it was apparent that these women were not interested in having these guys around.

Sessler seemed to be just as excited to win the ladies event as to have won any other event. “Me playing in this tournament really had nothing to do with trying to take advantage of the ladies or thinking it was a softer field,” Sessler stated afterward. “If Jennifer Harman would have come and played in the ladies event, she would have been much tougher competition than me. I came here because I only had one day, and I really like the structures and the payout. This was the only tournament I could play.”

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