2026 World Series of Poker May 26th - July 15th

Victim mentality/main character syndrome mixture.

She is literally too stupid to realize that the men who are against biological men in female spaces are doing it for their safety and that those same men instinctively put the safety of females above their own.

WTF is Caitlin Comeskey gonna do? Fire of 10,000 suns GTFO with that lol. Like somebody can't scream back in your face.

Did he/she pay $10k or $1k to enter?

Mods working OT deleting comments on the stream. lol

The Tamayo situation isn’t analogous for a host of reasons. A trans woman playing a ladies event has nowhere close to the ramifications for poker as compared to the rules for using solvers on the rail, which is a rules issue that impacts literally every WSOP event.

What is the “evident suppression” of concerns by “potential entrants” to the ladies event? I haven’t seen a single woman complain about trans women playing the ladies event. Is there a source for this?

And as for “prohibiting conversation,” this discussion is devolving into something that has nothing to do with poker and is entirely about the legitimacy of people identifying as trans, whether trans women should be able to compete in women’s sports/activities generally, etc. It’s just straight “politarding.”

That was not my point. The point was who has "standing" to discuss something. It does not need to be "analogous" to merit "standing".

I am speculating, but I don't think it unreasonable to assume that these conversations have been suppressed to some degree, as can be seen here and in the live forum. Would a potential entrant feel uncomfortable raising possible concerns? I don't think that is a huge leap, being the subject seems to be quite contentious and might bring unwarranted attention to those raising any concerns. You may disagree, that is why we have conversations about it.

You have your POV that this matter does not involve poker. Other people with sincere concerns may not agree with that. Characterizing those who disagree with you as "politards", "pearl-clutching", or "old men" does not encourage sincere conversation about the matter.

Waiting so late to start then also taking the dinner break on your delay, this ain't working for me a lot of wsop coverage I guess is just poker after dark. I don't get why you can't run on an hour and a half delay later on but whatever it's free and I don't have to watch.

Oh no not the horrendously unfunny Catlin Comseksy's rath. People must be shaking in their boots.

PokerGO was essentially free ($15 isn’t going to be a make a difference in anyone’s life) but it had no ads and much shorter breaks.

You also got quite a bit of free streams on PokerGo, 15 hours of days 3 and 4 of PPC and early days of main event. This year to watch the main event before final table you must get espn+. Also you couldn’t even get timely written reporting of PPC this year on Day 4 because they moved them into streaming area but didn’t show any hands.

You aren’t really doing it, but many people are telling people to shut up, it’s free.

But yeah they shouldn’t take a one hour break when there’s a 2.5 hour delay and it starts around 10pm on east coast

"I go around touching women inappropriately all the time and they don't say a word therefore I must have had their consent!" - you probably

Is that the defense you're going for? Women aren't verbally complaining therefore you think that they're okay with it?

I've had my account banned on this forum before simply for stating that I don't believe humans can change genders. It's crazy the level of discourse that's allowed, if you don't agree with trans ideology you are advocating for their genocide which obviously deserves a ban. Agree or be banned.

I love that Tilly is the analyst, lol

"After her Borgata victory, Williams said there were a slew of hateful and transphobic comments on social media. But she says the internet trolls do not reflect how other players treat her at the table."

"It's like the same thing (when) BetMGM posted some clip of me a couple months ago," Williams said. "And then I go to the Borgata the next week and everyone's super nice to me. I don't know. The internet's not a real place."

https://www.pokernews.com/news/2026/06/poker-player-brushes-off-hate-in-ladies-championship-51696.htm

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Transgender Woman Brushes Off Hate Amid Deep Run in WSOP Ladies Championship

No, my position is that the women playing the event don’t need the paternalism of men on the internet telling them who should be allowed to play in their event. And your suggestion that this somehow means I’m in favor of sexual assault suggests that you are either posting in bad faith or lack any nuance in your views on sex and gender relations - and whatever the explanation, I have no interest in further discussion with you on this.

My broader point is that this is the WSOP thread and this isn’t the politics sub forum. If people want to debate trans issues they should be free to do it in a separate politics thread. I don’t, and I imagine most posters, don’t come to this thread to read lukewarm takes on identity politics.

I didn't mean to suggest you were in favor of sexual assault but rather that you are oblivious. My point about sexual assault is not all women are super vocal about everything which was in response to you saying something stupid like "well the women aren't complaining therefore they are fine with it". That's the gist of what you said and I wanted you to realize how stupid that is by comparing that attitude to someone who gropes women and doesn't realize they don't like it.

Sometimes when people (especially women) are in uncomfortable situations they aren't super confrontational. So using them not being confrontational as evidence of anything is stupid.

Believe it or not you actually aren't free to debate trans issues in the trans thread! I was banned for posting in there that I don't believe human beings can change genders, that's it. The rule on this forum is that if you don't believe humans can change genders than you are engaging in transphobia and it's not allowed. So very normal takes like mine will get you banned. The mods on politics forums are enforcing their world view over there and don't allow dissent. This is not a free speech website, I'm pretty sure this website is Canadian and they don't have the same freedoms us Americans have. They still worship the King of England in fact!

Agreed, thoroughly enjoyed it. She is so engaging and nice AND knowledgeable (I'm not claiming she's a crusher, but I love that she willingly plays the high rollers as a smallish dog and definitely knows more than most). One of my favorite players.

Serious question, I understand why women and men don't compete in sports due to physiological differences, but why do they need a separate event in poker? Same with seniors, can't everyone just get along or is there a reason to generate controversy?

It is about generating money, as in profit.

There are literally hundreds of women at the WSOP, who would not be there if it wasn't for the Women's event.

And some of these women, now that they're in town, enter other WSOP events.
And they are spending money while they are in town.

Same with the Seniors, probably to a lesser extent.

This was just posted on the previous page of this thread:

Same reason they don't compete in sports, physiologically men's brains are 10% larger on average than women's. And yes there is a correlation between larger brain volume and intelligence. That's why there is a women's chess as well and the best female chess player barely cracks the top 100 overall. That's why in the history of mankind the majority of scientists and great thinkers have been men. The evidence is all there yet it's impolite to say it out loud.

As we age our mental acuity also diminishes hence the offering of a senior's event. Perhaps these groups also enjoy the company of their peers.

Now that you mention the seniors event, I would love to see an experiment, put male crushers in all the women's events, and put young crushers in the all the senior events, and see which group would come up with the best course of action to remove the people who don’t “qualify.” I personally think the seniors, in solidarity would eventually refuse to participate at venues which allowed this, but I don’t think the women fields would do the same.

This is not the reason there is a women’s event at the WSOP. The reason, which has been quoted multiple times in this thread, is to encourage women’s participation.

And your assertion about men being more intelligent because the have larger brains is just completely false. Men and women are equally intelligent on average, and this has been demonstrated in countless studies.

The difference that -has- been supported in studies is that men tend to be more autistic than women. This means that a lot more men are willing to devote their lives to study of pursuits that the majority of people would consider trivial or uninteresting. Thus, there are more men than women who -want-to be great chess or poker players, and willing to put in the effort to do this.