Women’s Event at NAPT Las Vegas Will Feature $30,000 Guarantee

PokerStars listened to suggestions from feminine poker gamers on how to attract girls to the sport, and now the poker web site is responding.

The upcoming PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Las Vegas pageant will characteristic a $330 buy-in Ladies’s Occasion on Nov. 5. Notably, the occasion has a $30,000 assured prize pool hooked up.

Final 12 months’s NAPT Ladies’s Occasion had a $360 price ticket and drew 94 entrants for a prize pool of $28,200. Which means PokerStars is anticipating this 12 months’s occasion to be a fair higher success.

The Ladies’s Occasion will get underway at 12:30 p.m. native time on Nov. 5 and permits for limitless reentry. The occasion will characteristic 30-minute ranges and can see gamers beginning with stacks of 30,000.

Poker content material creator Abby Merk wrote on X that PokerStars introduced a gaggle of feminine poker gamers to brainstorm methods to make the NAPT Womens Occasion “greater, higher and safer.”

“We leaned IN to pitch concepts to make this the perfect girls’s occasion but. you don’t need to miss this one,” wrote Merk.

Learn Extra About Final 12 months’s NAPT Women Occasion!

Play With Final 12 months’s Winner Kyna England

When the NAPT made its long-awaited return final 12 months, the Ladies’s Occasion was among the many pageant’s points of interest. It drew the likes of Poker League of Nation’s Lena Evans, latest World Sequence of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) Commerce winner Jessica Vierling and Ladies in Poker Corridor of Famer JJ Liu.

Kyna England shipped the occasion for $7,520, a rating that pushed her reside earnings previous seven figures. England, a former Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) Participant of the 12 months and present co-host of the PokerNews Podcast, defeated her good buddy Lindsey Kludt, one other well-known grinder, throughout heads-up play.

England might be taking part in in an upcoming PokerNews Meet-Up Recreation at Resorts World Las Vegas to advertise a $10,000 Gold Cross giveaway to NAPT Las Vegas.

Hear extra in regards to the upcoming Meet-Up Recreation on the most recent episode of the PokerNews Podcast.

Connor Richards is an Editor & Dwell Reporter for PokerNews and host of the Life Outdoors Poker podcast. Connor has been nominated for 2 International Poker Awards for his writing.