Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Female Poker players: Booming

Previously, maybe most people would consider poker is such a game, which belongs to men no matter in China or other foreign countries. I still remember in “Friends” when girls want to play poker with boys, the boys’ reaction is kind of weird, because they think women are not supposed to play….

Time changes, things change. Now, female poker players boom at an unbelievable speed, which is like spring bamboo after rain. We could find female players everywhere wherever in real casino or online poker rooms.

There are many reasons for this trend, which could be generalized into several points.
Firstly, thanks to the technology development and higher and higher internet penetration coming into thresholds, more and more people no matter male or female could easily access to internet.

Secondly, females want to do some activities, relaxing and entertaining themselves, which could be another reason.

Last but not least, Poker games whatever online or offline are efficiently promoted through multi-channels. No one could deny those influences.

There are also some differences between male players and female players in terms of how to play poker games.

Male players tend to be younger. Males are also more motivated to gamble online for financial reasons when playing poker, and for excitement.

When it comes to female players, they are higher levels of motivation for social reasons or avoidance measures.

Men also more likely to play more frequently, for longer periods of time, with more of their money at the table, at higher stake tables and play more than one table at a time than women….

In a nutshell, no matter how different males and females play, it is true that more and more female poker players come to play poker games, from which they have a lot of fun.

1 comments:

Lisa said...

Did you get the article??

Lisa

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