The percentage of women in the field has been slowly increasing as the day’s progressed.
At the start of the day, women were just 2.2 percent of the field.
Now the field is 5.7 percent female.
There were no additional female entries throughout the day though, there’s just been a persistent duo of LAPT regulars who’ve made it to the last level of the day.
Aside from their gender, the two remaining ladies also share the same nationality.
Renata Teixeira and Ale Braga both hail from Brazil and are both looking for another LAPT cash.
Braga has four LAPT cashes and is considered to be one of Brazil’s top-three female players.
Renata Teixeira became the first female player to get heads-up for an LAPT title earlier this season and is now 4th in the LAPT8 Player of the Year race.
While it took eight seasons before Teixeira got heads-up for a title, another woman matched her finish the very next tournament.
In LAPT8 Panama, Ukraine’s Olga Iermolcheva got heads-up against Canada’s Shakeeb Kazemipur.
For the second tournament in a row, the LAPT was denied its first female champion on the final elimination.
Poker –especially in Latin America– has typically been a man’s game, but this season has strongly challenged that notion.
According to Teixeira, there are also more women playing poker in Brazil than ever before.
It’s not a matter of if anymore, it’s a matter of when a woman will win an LAPT title.
Both Teixeira and Braga are hoping that day will be this Tuesday.
Alexander Villegas is a freelance contributor to the PokerStars Blog.
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