It has become more and more evident that women are taking much more of an active role in gambling games such as poker than ever before. Take, for example, a woman like Shirley Rosario, who began playing poker at the age of 21 just for fun whilst she worked in a casino as a waitress and also studying at California’s L.A. Harbor College. Gradually the hobby became a passion and now at the age of 40 Rosario is a professional poker player and also runs a poker blog and info site called “Poker-Babes.com”. Rosario’s favored game is Omaho Hi-Lo and she can often win (and occasionally lose) amounts in excess of $30,000 per month playing online as well as at land-based casinos.
There were relatively few women playing poker when Rosario first started out, she commented, and while since then the number of women involved in the game has increased they are still a relative minority compared to other players. Rosario, who now lives in Southern California in order to be near to Los Angeles’ many casinos is typical of what the University of Connecticut’s gambling experts have termed an evolving gambling culture and one that continues to attract more and more women due to the increased opportunities for active gambling games such as poker and craps.
Jonathan Beazley, who is an interventionist at the University of Connecticut’s Counseling and Mental Health Services, has also seen first-hand the number of gambling women rise higher and higher during the period of the past decade. He believes that, as our societal ideas regarding women and gambling have evolved, women have gradually felt more and more accepted into the general gambling culture and the games connected to the culture. He added that, as a result, there was considerably less stigma attached to women who gamble.
Research has indicated that college women are still gambling less than their male counterparts are, and men are still twice as likely to develop gambling problems. In 2008 women aged between 20 and 29 that called the Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling’s Helpline accounted for just 9.6% of the total of problem gamblers, whilst men within the same age range accounted for 23.3%.
It is widely believed that part of the added attraction for women is the heavy and glamorous TV coverage of poker, as well as heavy advertising for other forms of gaming, whether at casinos or online. Some also believe that women are actually better suited to poker, as their egos do not interfere with the playing of the game.
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