WPT Ladies Night IV lineup guesses

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My educated guesses for the lineup for WPT Ladies Night IV:

1. Jennifer Tilly (Winner of WPT Ladies Night III)
2. Stacy Matuson (5th place at Aruba)
3. Vanessa Rousso (7th place at WPT Championship)
4. Erica Schoenberg (16th place at WPT Championship)
5. The WSOP Ladies event winner, if she is photogenic and is not either Chinese or Vietnamese
6. The winner of $125 buy-in event at the Bike on August 16

J.J. Liu, who finished 4th at the Bellagio 5 Diamonds during WPT Season IV, has NOT been contacted by the WPT regarding Ladies Night IV as of June 29.

Both Liu, who is Taiwanese (Taiwan Chinese), and her fiance Dan Alspach, are NOT happy that Liu is apparently being excluded from WPT Ladies Night IV for "business reasons".

Liu and Alspach both understand that Liu's apparent exclusion may have to do with real money online poker being explicitly outlawed in China.

[Burdzthewurd]

Jean Gluck?

[mephisto]

I second that.

[Phntm]

This is the kind of crap that really bothers me. If you are going to award seats to invitational free-rolls based on performance, than so be it. JJ has done better than any other female on the WPT, but yet she gets no chance. These are the same people that pump up "attractive, young, marketable" females, like Anna Kournikova, Eveylyn NG, etc etc
Based on merits alone, I think that Jen Harman is the only female on tour that would garner any sort of support if she was male...
Not to mention, poker is one of those sports where there should be no gender bias. I have never understood why in games like, pool, poker etc etc there has to be a distinction between women's events and the open events.

[Phntm]

I can understand at the lower levels, and introductory stages of poker development, this can be helpful, but once a female has reached the "pro" level, or acheived sponsorship, she should be forced to play only in the open events...

[Burdzthewurd]

What about Susan Kim that placed 5th in the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Stars FT in Season 2?

[archangel]

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Liu and Alspach both understand that Liu's apparent exclusion may have to do with real money online poker being explicily outlawed in China.

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they don't really believe that's the reason JJ isn't being invited, do they? talk about rose-colored glasses ...

we all know she's not being invited because she isn't as young/attractive/famous as the rest of the probable invitees.

btw, i think you're dead-on with the line-up ...

[chicken10der]

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we all know she's not being invited because she isn't as young/attractive/famous as the rest of the probable invitees.

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There's been at least one at each: Maureen Feduniak, Wendeen Eolis, Marsha Waggoner. None of which ever made a WPT final table.

[Kevmath]

Feduniak made the final table of the WPT Party Poker Cruise in season 1.

[olivert]

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we all know she's not being invited because she isn't as young/attractive/famous as the rest of the probable invitees.

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There's been at least one at each: Maureen Feduniak, Wendeen Eolis, Marsha Waggoner. None of which ever made a WPT final table.

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Wendeen Eolis is a well-connected political consultant based in New York. She was also the first woman to cash at the WSOP main event. She also won an major event at the Isle of Man several years ago.

Maureen "London Mo" Feduniak made the final table of the Party Poker Million II cruise during WPT Season 1.

Marsha Waggoner finished 2nd at the Bay 101 PPT Season 1 event March 2005.

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I am willing to give Steve Lipscomb the benefit of the doubt and wait until the 2006 WSOP Ladies Event bracelet winner is crowned on July 10 before re-visiting the J.J. Liu situation.