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Women players at World Series of Poker still rare sight

JUL 01, 2015 2:56p ET

JUL 01, 2015 2:56p ET

LAS VEGAS (AP) Women at the World Series of Poker are like a royal flush: rare.

Last year, the gender split for the Main Event of the weeks-long tournament in Las Vegas was almost 24 to 1. This year's highly popular Colossus event attracted more than 22,000 entries but only 1,416 were women, just 6 percent.

Making poker more appealing to women has been a long-standing quandary for industry observers and players who wonder what it will take to get more women to the table.