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Liv Boeree, who won the San Remo leg of the 2010 European Poker Tour for just over £1 million [$1.5 million], discovered the game when she applied for a Channel 5 reality show after graduation. I asked her if ladies' events might discourage women from playing larger tournaments, but she doesn't think so: "If she did well in the [lower buy-in] competition, it may give her the confidence and the bankroll boost necessary to decide to play the main event, too."Considering women account for so few live tournament players, female players do make up an impressive number of high-profile wins. Might women just be better at poker full stop? Boeree says it's possible. "Becoming an excellent poker player mostly depends on your willingness to study and analyze your play, over and over," she told me. "There are definitely some live poker skills that are harder to teach, such as emotional intelligence, which is often stronger in women and thus can give them a big advantage on their road to becoming a great player."
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