WSOP Cherry Poppin' Time!

Cherry Bomb 

Well as we say here in the south, God willing and the creek don't rise I'm finally going to Vegas and playing in some WSOP events. I'm excited, slightly nervous and just can't wait to get there. I'm trying to play online some but just can't focus too well right now so I think most of my time will be better served studying, reviewing and preparing for the trip. 

Currently sitting here watching the live stream of the casino employees final table.  Last year I was running bad, disappointed that I wasn't going to get to go to Vegas and didn't even start paying attention to anything going on until the week before the main event. This year I'll be watching all the live streams and trying pick up everything I can. 

I'm leaving on June 18th and staying until July 6th. If things go well and I'm winning enough I may try to sat into the main event and stay longer. Unfortunately, I'm doing a lot of moving around and staying in 4 different places but it's all good, I'm just glad it worked out for me to stay that long. 

I'm joining in with some people from CardsChat forum for a team for the Little One for the One Drop. Each team member gets $222 to cover the rake and charity amount and the one who last longer gets the rest of their buy in back. We will all wear CardsChat hoodies and tweet and Facebook to help promote CardsChats. It's a great team and I'm really looking forward to participating with them in this event. 

I'll also be in Vegas for ladies week and I'll be playing a few ladies events, including the ladies WSOP event. I really enjoyed playing the ladies event in Cherokee and I'm really looking forward to playing these. Several women I've know online for a few years will be there and I'm looking forward to meeting them in person. 

I plan on doing some blog updates all along during my WSOP journey. I'm really trying to keep a positive attitude and make the very most of this opportunity without worrying about the end result of each game. I hope to do my best to play each hand and make each decision the best that I know how and just stay patient and focused.

Bottomline I just want to....
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Sexism alive, well and thriving... WARNING RANT!

Many women and even men may look at these ads and find it hard to believe people really had these type of attitudes towards women. They may even think things like "thank God it's not like that anymore". Well I have some news for you, it's not that much different now than then. Then men thought of women as inferior and expected them to stay "in their place". While that's bad and wrong at least back then men showed women respect. They didn't call them names, unless it was their wife in an angry moment, and they honestly, for the most part treated the women in their lives with respect. 

I find it amazing that the generation of women who fought the hardest for female equality raised sons who are more sexist and more disrespectful towards women than any generation of men before them. 

Poker is a very male dominated field so when you play a game that is very male dominated you have to expect and tolerate a certain amount of sexism, it's just the price we pay. 

I love how men will say when talking about the WSOP or especially the WSOP Main Event "well how often do you see women get deep in those events". I find the fact that they don't even realize the statistical odds of a woman making a final table in a game where only 15% at best of the field are women ridiculous. The odds for a woman making the final table of the main event are something like 10:1 or worse, yet men use this fact to say women just aren't as good as men at poker. 

Then there is the way women are treated on many poker forums, it's deplorable. I have to say I only run into this issue in off topic/news/gossip areas of forums (which I generally stay out of for this reason) but some of the things I've had said to me and the way some moderators acted like, "if you're gonna post here you gotta live with it" is just inexcusable and totally outrageous. 

Here are a few recent quotes from one forum for your enjoyment: 

• "I'm actually surprised everybody agreed you suck. your vagina has no power here, OP. a few pics might change the score tho."
• "skipped last post, woman again. sigh, guess i'll have to X thread"
• "You should just go back to Facebooking and building your Pinterest wall."
• "skipped dixis post because i know she is a woman. someone let me know when it has been removed and the thread is safe again"

This was all in response to a comment I made regarding Game of Thrones which was in no way a spoiler, those idiots wouldn't know a spoiler if it jumped up and bit them in the ass. 

Even when some guys are buying action from women they are more willing to invest in ladies events versus mixed field events.

Sorry it's just all piled up on me lately and I'm likely taking exception to things that are not meant the way they come across but this is the 21st century and you'd think things would actually be different for women by now, unfortunately while sexism may be wearing a new face it's still there.