In an announcement throughout EPT Cyprus, PokerStars revealed a groundbreaking addition to its model new poker collection, the Girls’s Winter Pageant. Set to debut in London this November, the competition will characteristic the model’s first-ever women-only £1,100 Excessive Curler occasion, kicking off on November 21 at The Hippodrome.
This Girls’s Winter Pageant was first launched again in September at EPT Barcelona, the place PokerStars outlined its imaginative and prescient to “encourage girls to take part in dwell poker video games with aspirational outcomes.” Now, with the addition of the £1,100 Excessive Curler, the Spadie model continues its push to create extra unique, aggressive alternatives for feminine gamers.
The competition, designed by Hippodrome Director of Poker and PokerStars Ambassador Kerryjane Craigie, responds to suggestions from girls throughout the poker group. Its purpose is to vary the narrative round girls in poker, providing extra avenues for girls to interact at greater ranges of play, all inside a supportive but aggressive surroundings.
“The Girls’s Winter Pageant is all about elevating the sport for girls and ladies’s participation in poker,” stated Craigie. “The addition of the Excessive Curler supplies our gamers with extra selection and extra video games they wish to entry.”
The Excessive Curler match aligns with PokerStars’ mission to extend alternatives for girls in poker, complementing the £100,000 assured Predominant Occasion. The £1,100 Excessive Curler is anticipated to draw notable feminine gamers, together with 2018 PCA Predominant Occasion winner Maria Lampropulos, PokerStars Ambassador Jen Shahade, and EPT Prague closing tablist Marle Spragg.
Spragg shared her pleasure to PokerStars, saying: “I’m actually wanting ahead to taking part in the Excessive Curler in London. Hopefully this would be the first of many extra occasions like this that make poker extra welcoming to all gamers.”
Cédric Billot, Affiliate Director of Dwell Occasions Operations at PokerStars, highlighted the importance of this occasion, stating: “It’s clear from speaking to our gamers that ladies need extra alternatives to play in excessive curler occasions, so this can be a implausible addition to the schedule that can make the Girls’s Winter Pageant a really unmissable occasion.”
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What’s on the Schedule?
Along with the women-only Predominant Occasion and Excessive Curler, the competition will characteristic a 50/50 NLH Freezeout on November 23. This £220 one-day match ensures an equal taking part in area by requiring pairs of women and men to enter collectively.
Whereas the occasion just isn’t a tag group format, added worth will likely be awarded to the partnership that accumulates essentially the most factors on the match leaderboard. Gamers are inspired to safe their companions early, with the Hippodrome providing help find an acceptable match from a pool of gamers.
The competition’s schedule additionally contains an open £220 NHL Single Re-Entry match on November 24 and a Girls’s Nearer Freeroll. The champion will obtain a girls’s package deal to EPT Prague, with extra prizes for these making the ultimate desk.
The Girls’s EPT Prague package deal is valued at €1,600 and contains:
€330 Girls’s Occasion buy-inThree nights lodging at Hilton Prague valued at €735€535 in bills
Qualifying Paths a Loads
Girls-only on-line satellites can be found on PokerStars for gamers within the .COM market. Moreover, gamers in France, Spain, and Portugal can redeem a Energy Path Silver Move for a devoted occasion package deal. PokerStars may even host dwell satellites in the USA and a £40 buy-in registration fee-free dwell qualifier on the Hippodrome on Thursday, November 21, providing 5 extra seats to the Predominant Occasion.
