PokerStars Women’s Winter Festival Coming to London This November – The first-ever Women’s Winter Festival will include a ladies-only Main Event with a £100,000 guarantee, as well as a number of other exciting events focused around female… PokerStars has been spearheading efforts to encourage more women to play poker for some time, and these efforts will culminate in the Women’s Winter Festival , which will take place in London starting November 21.
Headlined by a £100,000 guaranteed Main Event , the Festival will feature several female-only events, along with an exciting 50/50 tournament and a handful of off-the-felt activities for all the players who make the trip to London in November.
First introduced at an exclusive Ladies Day Breakfast meet & greet, the Women’s Winter Festival was made into a reality by PokerStars Ambassador Kerryjane Craige , who will be taking charge of organizing the event and promoting it with the ladies over the next couple of months.
Craige commented on the upcoming Festival, saying: “I am so excited about this event, honing in on the schedule and finalising the details truly gave me goosebumps. Opportunities for women to have access to more inspirational poker events is a driver to all that I do.”
“The Women’s Only Main Event is to enable and encourage women to participate in live poker games with aspirational outcomes. The attention to every detail of this four-day festival has been amazing to be part of and I believe we have hit the mark. We have built an event around the audience – now I am hoping they will come.” Exciting Schedule with Unique Ladies Events
The inaugural PokerStars Women’s Winter Festival will run over a 4 day period and include four unique poker events, all focused around female participation.
The focal point of the entire Festival will be the £400 buyin Women’s Only Main Event with a £100,000 guaranteed prize pool, the biggest ladies’ event ever played in the UK.
The Main Event will feature three Day 1 flights, each giving players 30,000 tournament chips to play with, and advancing 20% of the player field to Day 2, where the […]
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