High Heels Poker Tour
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With Women’s Poker growing at an exponential rate and Lauren Failla is offering women a chance to play in there very own Poker Tour aptly named the High Heels Poker Tour. This has been grown out of the emergence of many women entering tournaments all over the world along with many women playing more and more cash games at local casinos. The High Heels Poker Tour launched in Florida in 2007, the whole though process behind the tour was to give women not only a chance to play against women only but more so to give them the tools they need to be successful in both tournament play and cash play against all comers. The Mission Statement is as follows: “The mission of the tour is to empower women to become champion poker players…”
The High Heels Poker Tour has had a big impact on the poker world and was seen at this past WSOP where 50 – 60% of all Female competitors were from the tour, and they combined for more then $200,000 in prize money with two of the final nine in the ladies events being from the tour. High Heels Poker Tour is an official sponsor of WSOP Circuit Ladies Only Events. Buy-ins for High Heels Poker Tour Events range from $60 – $250 for Main Events, the tour is not with out its problems as is any tour. In a recent stop some men wanted to play so instead of causing a potential scene Lauren placed a bounty on the heads of the males and made the event that much more fun.
High Heels Poker Tournament
The next stop on the High Heels calendar is at The Isle Racing and Casino at Pompano Park on September 6, 2008 at 1pm with a $250 buy-in, and there are going to be satellites offered for the event on Saturdays leading up to the event.
Upcoming events for the High Heels Tour are:
Mid South Poker Open
Grand Casino Tunica
Tunica, MS
622-363-2788
Sun, Sep 7 at 4:00 PM Event #8 – Ladies – No Limit Hold’em $300+$40
Borgata Poker Open WPT Season 7
Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa
Atlantic City, NJ
609-317-1000 Toll-Free: 1-866-MY BORGATA
Sun, Sep 7 at 11:00 AM Event #5 – Ladies – No Limit Hold’em $300+$50
Californian Ladies State Championship
Ocean’s Eleven Casino
Oceanside, CA
760-439-6988
Thu, Sep 18 at 09:00 AM Super Satellite – No Limit Hold’em
Fri, Sep 19 at 10:00 AM Ladies – No Limit Hold’em L.I.P.S $175
Sat, Sep 20 at 10:00 AM Ladies – No Limit Hold’em Cal State Championship $250
Sun, Sep 21 at 12:00 PM Ladies Omaha Hi/Lo & Hold’em $200
United States Poker Championship
Trump Taj Mahal
Atlantic City, NJ
609-449-1000 Toll-Free: (1) 800-72-POKER
Sun, Sep 28 at 1:15 PM Ladies – No Limit Hold’em $300+$40
High Heels Poker Tournaments
Poker has traditionally been a masculine pursuit, but women have been making inroads into the game since the boom earlier this century. One only has to look at Annie Duke’s performance in the first WSOP Tournament of Champions or Vanessa Rousso’s runner-up finish at this year’s National Heads Up Poker Championship to realize that women are a formidable part of today’s poker world. A tournament schedule to promote female participation in the game, the High Heels Poker Tour, recently signed on PokerStars as a sponsor to further the number of women who participate in poker.
In an announcement late last week, PokerStars will help to support the tournaments that make up the HHPT schedule from this point on. “PokerStars has all of the attributes in a online partner that female players crave…an incredible variety of quick, entertaining games that range from low buy in sit and goes and cash games to serious tournament play, all in an environment where women can learn the game, develop their skills, and truly become champions”, Lauren Failla, founder of the High Heels Poker Tour, stated during the announcement. “With champions like Vanessa Rousso, Katja Thater, and Vicky Coren, our players have a whole new set of role models to emulate and challenge, online and at the tables.” As a part of the new sponsorship with PokerStars, the High Heels Poker Tour will be conducting their Grand Final as a part of the festivities of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas this January.
The first HHPT event, which was held on August 22nd at the Turning Stone Resort Casino, was won by Texas’ Kathy Talerico and leads into what will be a hectic two months of action on the HHPT schedule. After New York, the tour heads south to Florida, where four tournaments are set to take place across the state.
First up for the players on the HHPT is Dania, FL, and a $125 buy in tournament at Dania Jai-Alai. Set to begin at 4PM on September 12th, players will start out with 6000 chips and play down to a champion that evening. After the Dania tournament, players on the HPPT will have the opportunity to relax before heading into a three tournament run in the month of October.
On October 2nd, the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino will play host to the High Heels Poker Tour in Hollywood, FL. The tournament is scheduled to start at 6:30PM and, as of yet, the starting chip stacks haven’t been determined. The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino is demonstrating its support of the HHPT by making their tournament a prominent part of its “Main Event Tournament Week” schedule. The month of October finishes off with a couple of charitable outreaches by the HHPT with a trip to Tampa Bay Downs on October 10th for the “Battle of the Sexes To Battle Breast Cancer” and the organization will be in charge of the poker activities at the Trump International Beach Resort on October 17th for a benefit for the Friends of the Israel Defense Fund Casino Night.
The High Heels Poker Tour will be looking to expand to several different locations in 2010. While dates are not yet locked in for the tournaments, the HHPT is in discussion with such casinos as the Horseshoe in Hammond, Indiana, Harvey’s Lake Tahoe in Nevada, the Canadian Poker Expo in Toronto, Canada and others to hold HHPT events.
The High Heels Poker Tour also holds their very own Academy, with 2010 dates to be announced soon, that assists in teaching the game to more women. Such popular female players as Women In Poker Hall of Fame members Barbara Enright, Susie Issacs and Marsha Waggoner, along with current pros Kristy Gazes, Karina Jett and Joanne “J. J.” Liu, offer the wealth of their experience for other female players to learn from. For more information on the organization, visit the High Heels Poker Tour website to learn more.