Women and Poker Part Ii: the Exploitation of the Female Form

July 26th, 2010

Some of the main hubs of poker are also the most sexualized cities in the United States, name New Orleans and then Las Vegas. These cities are absolutely oozing with sex, and even if this document is not trying to make a moralistic argument decrying these wild citiesâ???? lifestyles, have a lot of these pictures stuck to the poker itself. Perhaps this phenomenon would not be so bad if it played out evenly between the two sexes, but all you see is the portrayal of partially disrobed women advertising for poker sites. One need only log onto the internet and search for one???? Women and Poker???? to have a dozen women in bikinis pop up instantly on the screen.

In fact, the undersigned actually did a search specifically for one???? Women and Poker ????, and here are some of the surprising results. In no particular order we present 10 of the tastiest online poker room:
/> -Pokerium Poker and Casino: The first page of the website is a model of good taste and restraint. Many of the searches that yielded interesting results, but this site was head and shoulders forward. When you access the website you will find an example of a lightly dressed-brown-haired shrew with a flower in her hair (no real women were harmed during the production of this design). The interesting thing about this drawing is that she is inside a huge ace. In the middle of the card, where the woman is located, is a very big club, and the neck of the club say happens in the middle of the Woman???? S branch. Although there is a possibility that this not-so-subtle innuendo was unintentional, we would not bet on it.

-Next on our list is wonderfully tasteful ad on Hollywood Poker. com for their â???? Babes & Bountiesâ???? tournament. To begin with, the title itself should be enough to ruffle the feathers of most women poker players. Since the image used on the page is a woman in a bikini with money in the background behind her. And finally, for those players who Arena???? T sold by the picture in the center, the site claims that one???? 12 of the sexiest poker hostesses in the game???? will be present at the table. Itâ???? So good too, for the most serious poker players refuse to play in tournaments with no less than eight sexy poker hostesses. Finally, jus tto make sure that you can notice all the different features of the page is a picture of a woman on the left side of the screen dressed in her rather not support underwear lying in front of a laptop computer with poker chips lying around her body. She is happily wearing a pair of flattering white high heels so that she can model at any time during his poker game. A truly elegant website.

Poker-World. com, an up and coming online card room, is another tastefully designed website, with nothing to offend save for their new â???? Topless Bonus ????. It â?? Topless Bonus: The Shape of Things to Come???? seems a stretch: with this campaign, the â???? top UPA???? your account with a free 20% bonus. The efficient bonus not only falls way short of the 200% bonuses floating around in different locations, it also violates the eye. They advertise it with a small silhouette of a woman, hardly revealing anything at all. Why they chose to try to correlate with a 20% topless women are a mystery, but they certainly went for it.

Not to be outdone, has its own female Jungle Poker spokeswoman: none other than the lovely Cheynelle Fraser, a bartender / model who is now the official face of Jungle Poker. Why a poker site would have one sizzling hot model as a spokesperson is a great mystery. We suspect it is because the images from Cheynelle â???? which contains several good cleavage shots â???? certainly has everything to do with poker and nothing with selling sexuality. Although the site can use the good looks of beautiful Cheynelle help promote their website, they are not just about T & A on their website on the first page of the site has an ad for their heads up Sit & Go tournaments, with two headshots of a man and a woman, both fully clothed, challenge each other to a card game. Hurray for equality!

-The EU is no exception when it comes to using attractive images of the female form to help them sell their products. In a recent article published on poker. play. co. uk, the author of the upcoming Great British Poker Tour, and in the center of the image of this item is a naked woman relaxing in a bathtub full of poker chips. Itâ???? So good that they posted this picture, because nothing says Great British Poker Tour better than a woman bathing naked in poker chips.

-The most morbid results were found during the search came from the best poker rakeback. NET on their rakeback Advertising, which has a frightening picture of the zombie woman in a corset, fishnet stockings, heels and a short skirt using a rake to gather up some playing cards that must have fallen off a tree. Although the idea of someone literally raking poker cards are cute, weâ???? Are not sure about the need for a sexy undead woman.

Games blog Oddjack-acclaimed women in poker in an article entitled â???? Top 10 Sexiest Women of Poker ????. This enlightening four part series will take readers through their list of what they think is the sexiest women in the poker world. Just to give a small taste of their depictions of these women, we will go through the first three women they talk about. Every woman has a picture with a caption beneath it. As the number ten on the list is Courtney Friel, a TV hostess for the World Poker Tour. The picture they have of her is in a lacy linen: so be it. Shea???? Is apparently OK with the picture considering she is a model for it. Below the picure is a caption that says???? Stop teasing us Courtney, shred the laces off! Â????

Next featured profile is the Evelyn Ng. Below her picture they put a quote that says â???? Evelyn is sure a sweet ride? | Â???? Sadly, they do not even try to be creative with this comment, the only possible significance to this note a sexual one. They also argued in her profile that she won the WPT Ladies Night and that one???? Yep, she kicked ass. Donkeys belonging to Annie Duke and Kathy Liebert. Donkeys I dona???? Do not see something soon. No matter how much they pay me. â???? This funny joke about the physical assets of two of poker???? S greatest female player was insulting to say the least.

As the number 8 on the list is none other than Lily Elviro. This strong poker player who, besides being a strong player, is physically well-equipped too. The picture they used for her was taken during a poker tournament she played in and show her at the table holding a few cards. She leaned forward a little showing a fair portion of her not so small breasts. Could not resist, the comment under the picture says â???? Itâ???? Is hard for Lily to always carry a heavy set of puppies like that. â???? If it wasnâ???? T such brilliant writing, most of us would completely miss out on those hard to miss features.

-Next on our list is an article written by Toby Bandanas on his poker blog. This photo-article, appears on about. com, is called â???? The hottest female poker ????, and it is essentially an amateur photo gallery of professional female poker players. The women who appear in this article are Evelyn Ng, Shannon Elizabeth, Clonie Gowen, Jennifer Tilly, Liz Lieu, Vanessa Rousso, Isabelle Mercier, Cyndy Violette, Jennifer Harman, Annie Duke, Kristy Gazes, Chantel McNutty and Jennefer â???? Jennicideâ???? Leigh. Perhaps the most worrying part about this gallery is not that these women have their pictures posted, but that none of the pictures were studio pictures. They all seem like photos that were taken on a secret about a digital camera. Does this strike anyone as scary?

-Coming last on our list is none other than Full Tilt Poker, who recently issued a challenge between Paris Hilton and Clonie Gowen. Their hearts were definitely in the right place: they were to host a heads-up challenge between two men and the winner would take the $ 100,000 prize and donate it to charity of her choice. This sounds good, so why does our garbage list? Well, if you go to this page, the page they created for this challenge, these two women stacked up next to each other. The title for their statistics is called their â???? Sexy stats ????, and just to ensure that the best poker player wins, they added to a â???? Who is sexier? Â?? survey at the bottom of the page.

Thus concludes our trashy website list, (think of a way to pitch this article). Part IV will conclude one???? Women and Poker???? by addressing what the future of women and poker may hold.