Women’s Winter Festival in London breaks poker tournament record as PokerStars Pro hails ‘immense support’

POKERSTARS Pro KerryJane Craigie admitted the occurrence of the Women's Winter Festival was 'overwhelming'.

KerryJane - the manager of poker astatine London's Hippodrome Casino - has been a cardinal figurehead successful getting much women into poker.

She was precocious announced arsenic a caller PokerStars Pro, allowing her a greater scope with the backing of a immense organisation to enactment her theories into practice.

So seeing each spot filled successful a women's lone event, astatine her ain spot of work, was unquestionable a memorable sight.

In fact, it broke the record for the largest women’s poker tourney tract held extracurricular the USA. A full of 270 players took portion successful the £400 buy-in, £10,000 guaranteed Main Event.

The lawsuit is simply a certainty to enactment and it's perchance 1 that could beryllium taken connected the roadworthy successful years to come.

And contempt this being a imaginativeness travel true, some PokerStars are KerryJane cognize it's not the extremity of their goal, but simply a beardown start.

She told Poker.org: “When we discovered we’d breached the grounds it was astir overwhelming.

“We had a country afloat of women that were conscionable enjoying themselves, playing poker, talking. There were nary phones out, nary heads down, nary hoodies, and it was joyous.

"There was truthful overmuch laughter and that continued done each day.

“It has been astir similar ‘build it and they volition come’, but I cognize that there's so galore much players retired determination that haven't been capable to marque it for 1 crushed oregon another. I request a bigger boat!"

Given its success, KerryJane is adamant this is the commencement of thing special, hailing the 'immense support' PokerStars has fixed her, portion insisting hitting the close pricing constituent made it charismatic to players.

The worldwide PokerStars entreaty volition lone assistance that and KerryJane believes there's a monolithic premix of women they're yet to reach.

She added: “I've ever been a champion for women successful poker, and being fixed the accidental and the enactment from PokerStars has been immense.

“They gave maine a blank portion of paper, truthful we virtually sat successful a country and thought ‘Okay, what should we do?’ And, aft the archetypal day, we were like, ‘Okay, truthful what bash we do next?’”

“The terms constituent was thing that we discussed considerably. I deliberation we got it right, because we filled the room. We’ve had each spot filled, different than the formation A, but we inactive deed the fig that we were looking for, truthful I deliberation we got the terms constituent right.

"I deliberation we've created a brand, a sub-brand. We've created thing special, and there’s inactive this monolithic premix of radical and women that we haven't reached, similar Central Europe due to the fact that of the restrictions with online satellites.

"But we've got radical from Canada, Brazil, America, they've travel connected their ain buck, which is awesome and I tin lone spot this growing.”

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