{"id":10391,"date":"2021-03-21T17:08:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T17:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlinepokeramerica.com\/news\/?p=10391"},"modified":"2021-03-21T17:08:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T17:08:09","slug":"pokerstars-to-host-a-celebratory-womens-tournament-on-march-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinepokeramerica.com\/news\/pokerstars-to-host-a-celebratory-womens-tournament-on-march-27\/","title":{"rendered":"PokerStars to Host a Celebratory Women’s Tournament on March 27"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
PokerStars seeks to empower women in a new free-to-play tournament held on March 27 to celebrate this Women’s History Month. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n PokerStars is hosting a women-only online poker tournament to take place on March 27 and commemorate Women’s History Month<\/strong>. The event will be played in a free-to-play format backed by Poker Powher, a company that is focusing on involving more women in poker and making the game more acceptable to the fair sex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The PokerStars event will be hosted in collaboration with World College Poker<\/strong> (WCP), which is an online portal focusing on education and onboarding new players. Poker Powher is already lining up interesting prizes for the nine individuals to make the final cut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All events will be played on PokerStars.net, the company’s global platform, and the final nine players will get a chance to win numerous treats, including a holiday to Cancun, which is funded by PLOQuickPro.com. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Other prizes here include private coaching sessions with Jonathan Little<\/strong>, a popular poker trainer, and WCP head coach Alex Fitzgerald<\/strong>. The event will bring some remarkable female players who will showcase their skills and know-how for poker, with Melanie Weisner<\/strong> and Xuan Liu<\/strong> taking a seat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In the meantime, WCP is already launching a 101 webinar on YouTube, and the company hopes to ramp up interest in the event ahead of the official launch. Speaking about the latest initiative, Poker Powher, managing director, and general manager Erin Lydon<\/strong> said that the organization is committed to helping female players fin their place at poker tables, whether this is offline or online.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPokerStars Seeks to Empower More Women in Poker <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Give Female Players an Incentive to Join <\/h2>\n\n\n\n