By Brian Cherry, Sep 19, 2009
There was an old episode of the show “Seinfeld” where Kramer started taking Karate and quickly became the top fighter in his dojo. This was an impressive feat until it came out that he had enrolled himself in the kid’s class. His martial arts prowess seemed somehow less awe inspiring when it turned out he was fighting against 10 year old kids. This is sort of like what Abraham Korotki did when he used a legal loophole to participate in a Ladies event at Atlantic City’s Borgata casino. While I think any reasonable person can question whether or not Mr. Korotki has a functional set of testicles, technically he does not qualify as a woman and should have not been playing in this tournament. Abraham entered the Ladies event and in the end he beat Nicole Rowe for the $20,892 first-place prize money. He presumably followed this up by petitioning to be the new Ms. California and maybe get a spot in the next “Spice Girls” reunion tour. He can probably replace Baby Spice. In other words, this guy may be a man, but not really.
This was a mistake all around. He sold every shred of dignity he had for mere $20,892. The fact that he even signed up for a ladies event means he may not have had that much dignity to begin with, but he has now lost what little he had. While his winnings may be enough to subsidize his further poker exploits chances are it will not be nearly enough to get his reputation back.
There are a lot of people, some of them women, who do not agree with the ladies only events. That is a legitimate topic of debate. With that said, any man who feels the need to invade one of these tournaments may as well hand over their Y chromosome, start going to the gynecologist, and change their name to Shirley.
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