Sigh...boys will be boys
From my brief reading of the thread it is my understaning that all the tournaments are online, is this correct?
If it is - Do Betfair vet people when they open an account on the site?
I dont have a betfair account so what is to stop me opening one as a female?
The tour is live. Betfred are hosting online satellites for the live events. There is nothing to stop you opening a 'female' account online which is why they decided it was pointless to try and claim only women were playing them. If a man were to win a seat, he is required to give Betfred the name of the woman he is giving the seat to and the venue she'd like to play at. On the day of the live event, the woman will have to provide photo ID matching the name which was turned in. Not an ideal situation but better than
no online satellites at all.
All that said and out of the way, when I mentioned this thread to my husband last night, he laughed. For the record, he's against women only comps and you can imagine the fun we have in this house at times. His take on it? 'Are you seriously arguing about who's on the other end of a
computer?! What's to stop a man playing on his partner's account? Who's going to prove the woman with the account was the one playing on the night and not a man?' How many of you have met someone from the forum in person and thought to yourself, 'Not at all what I expected'? At the end of the day, Betfred have been forced to throw the arms up and admit
there's no way to be sure online, but
they will be sure on the day of the live event. If you read my initial post you will see that I said I am sure that this goes on all the time but what I was annoyed about was that it was actually ENCOURAGED.
Anyway ive had my moan so im happy now.
I missed the turbo mtt tonight and logged on later to see who had won.
Happened to notice that they are now running stts sats, 5 seater $2 which was taking ages to fill, browsed the forum while I waited and Malcolm (The Rock) Harwood was kind enough to say hello and fill the last seat.
Stupidly called an allin ten high board with top pair so i was down to 125 chips...I put my blonde (comeback queen) hat on and went on to win it. I was well chuffed :-)
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