With the recent concerns from World Series of poker tournament players that the Las Vegas World Series of poker tournament for ladies is redundant and unnecessary, there has been much talk about doing away with the venerable tournament as an outdated concept and simply conglomerate the genders into one large player base.  While this is not actually detrimental to many players, it is somewhat annoying and many players would prefer to see the women's and men's tournaments join together in one big tournament.  But, there has been much resistance from unexpected sources, such as the female players who enjoy the World Series of poker tournament in Las Vegas and the female only events that it sponsors.  With the ladies only events, there is much speculation as to what type of draw and allure they have for the player.  In many cases, the attraction of these types of events has more to do with the people that the player has to put up with at the poker table during the tournament more than what type of ranking or competition that the player faces.  It is certainly a definite factor that when setting at the women's table, the player will likely hear less coarse language and foul talk from the other players at the Texas Hold'em poker tournament table.

With the focus on doing away with the ladies only part of the event, players have come out of the woodwork defending the ladies World Series of poker tournament event as a strong and profit generating method of bringing more female players in to the table, an aspect of the regular Texas Hold'em poker tournaments that is very often glossed over.  Less females play at these types of poker events when they are not specifically aimed at the ladies playing poker demographic.  With the mixed events, the male population dominates and generally leaves very little room for competition, but in the ladies only World Series of poker tournament events such as Texas Hold’em and other types of poker, the ladies have first choice and last choice, and do little more than compete against each other.  With this focus on ladies only play; many have claimed that this is discrimination.  These concerns have been largely brushed aside and the ladies only World Series of poker Texas Hold'em tournament has survived for another year, despite attacks from so many detractors.