Originally Posted by coach belly View Post
Originally Posted by regnis View Post
On a dreary Tuesday at the track you will be hard pressed to find a woman (or a human for that matter), but on weekends it is probably 35-40%.
You are noting attendance, not necessarily gambling...correct?

In my observation, nearly all men at the track are betting, while many of the women are not betting, but accompanying men who bet. I notice the same thing at the table games...the men are playing, the women are spectators.

But I was asking the ditz about actual entrants in his sports handicapping contests, the numbers are likely available to those who enter.

He declined to provide the statistics, and neither did he supply any registration statistics for bingo.

Here are the stats from the 2018 WSOP, totals are for all events:

Male Participation*: 95.14% (111,837 entries)

Female Participation*: 4.86% (5,717 entries)

These are all gamblers, their website didn't provide any gender-specific spectator statistics,
or any anecdotes, estimates or observations about who gambles in their event.


I suggest all readers simply google "U.S. gambling statistics by gender" and draw their own conclusions, and (for those sufficiently motivated) go to their local university to survey papers in the appropriate academic journals. Cherry picking WSOP stats would be like cherry picking registration stats for bingo events. There have been thousands of studies done on gender and gambling. Readers should simply do their own research and draw their own conclusions.