Everyone loves the clothes and the shoes that the women wear, but something else that all of use women can appreciate is the conversations that these women have with the men in their lives and then in conversations about them with the ladies.

Here are just some of the most memorable and I’m sure there will be many more to add with the release of Sex and the City 2 which opens in exactly one week! continue reading...

From Gambling911.com:

The Independent on Monday features a lurid tale of how women of Ireland are being drawn into the dark netherworld of online gambling. Some are even bypassing the daily pub crawl in Dublin in order to get their fix. continue reading...

From PatriotLedger.com:

Throwing down chip after chip over the course of two days and beating out 204 entrants was a  cinch for Karen Goncalves, 35, of Abington.   She walked away with $32,018 at the first World Poker Tour Ladies No-Limit Hold ‘Em Championship at Foxwoods Casino in Ledyard, Conn., recently,  after beating out pro Kathy Liebert.
“I was so short-stacked that I shouldn’t have even come in 10th-place, never mind winning it,” said Goncalves, referring to the low amount of chips she had.
In a game predominately played by men, an increasing number of women are ponying up to the tables with aces up their sleeves.
Kat Kowal, director of casino and player relations for the WPT and a South Boston native, said that about 10 percent of poker players on the professional circuit are women.
“There’s a general trend in poker rooms around the country,”  Kowal said. “They’re really trying to make it a friendly environment for women.”
The Foxwoods tournament was one leg on the first ladies tour the WPT is  sponsored. The tournament it kicked off in January at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, N.J.  Goncalves’ win earned her a seat at the championship tournament at the Bellagio in Las Vegas that was held April 13-14.
Calling that tournament the quickest one she’s ever been in, Goncalves was knocked out in two hours.
“I didn’t do well at all, but it was an absolutely unbelievable experience,” said Goncalves, who is a staff accountant for Sentient Flight Group in Weymouth.
Like many women, Goncalves took up poker when she was young. She said she remembers sitting on her father’s lap as a youngster to watch him play.
“Ever since then I’ve always played,” Goncalves said. “In junior high I started playing nickel-and-dime games with boys.”
Goncalves calls the poker explosion among women “fabulous.”
“For the longest time I was usually the only girl at the poker table,” she said.
Although she has played in tournaments before, Goncalves said that she likes to play smaller venues.
“I play in home games, little weekend games.“ I think the biggest buy-in I did was a $100, and this one was $600,” said Goncalves, referring to the entry fees for the tournaments.
Goncalves said she’s not intimidated by the men and  said she feels more anxious playing against women.
“I’ve always played with guys,”  Goncalves said. “The guys – they get their ego in the way, you can catch them. With a girl, you can’t put a read on them.”
The WPT’s Kowal said women do make it to the final tables in mixed tournaments.
“They have been very successful on our tour,” Kowal said, adding the reason women were not as abundant at poker tables in the past was often due to their hesitance to play against men.
“I think in general, the intimidation factor influenced women,”  Kowal said.
However, she said that this phenomenon also goes the other way. continue reading...