WAG Magazine: Success is in the Cards

PokerWoman and author Ellen Leikind has been featured in WAG Magazine.

According to Ellen Leikind, author of PokerWoman: How to Win at Love, Life, and Business Using the Principles of Poker (Mary Ann Liebert Inc., Publisher, 2010), the skills that make a poker player a winner at the table are the same skills that can make her a success at life. Whether you’re looking for a soul mate or a corner office, Leikind says, you’ll need to know your hand (where you’re strong and where you’re weak), bet strategically, and understand your opponents. “Good poker players know you play the players, not the cards,” she says. Leikind, who is not a professional poker player, but an accomplished professional with an MBA, deals us in.

What Clients Are Saying

This is an entertaining and enlightening book. And dangerous. Take the title seriously: It really is written to give women an advantage in virtually every area of life, from poker to business to personal relationships. Which is the reason every male and female poker player, and non-poker player, should read it. Ellen Leikind analyzes the games of poker and life in a straight-forward manner, with many examples, to make the lessons easy to apply. The transitions can be fascinating. Take ‘Playing with Fire: Trading on Attraction,’ Read it, if only in self-defense.

– Nelson Rose, Editor and Chief, Gaming Law Review