There is a reason why the sports world splits up their leagues and organizations into male and female divisions: men have an obvious advantage over females in most sports due to the fact that (on average) they are larger, have more muscle mass, and produce more testosterone. And until the recent controversy involving a female runner with both male and female parts, this division has been kept in tact in most sports without any incident.
The game of poker is different though since there is no athletic ability involved and females and males can compete on a similar level. Because of this fact, some people in the poker community don’t understand why there are female-only tournaments since they are perfectly capable of playing with the men. Still though, these tournaments exist and men are supposed to stay out of them.
But that wasn’t the case recently when a man jumped in an Atlantic City ladies poker tournament and actually ended up winning the thing. Abraham Kortoki was the culprit and he said he played in the tournament because he needed to get ready for the WPT Main Event that is going to be held in the same city. During his tuneup, Kortoki was able to beat a field of 260 women which made many of the female players mad.
After his big victory, Kortoki claimed that he didn’t do this because of the money and instead was just practicing. Frankly, I don’t know why he was allowed to enter the tournament in the first place if it’s supposed to be a ladies event, but I guess I didn’t organize the tourney.