One of the industry's leading advocates for the highest ethical standards in poker competition, Wendeen H. Eolis is also a champion of women's issues in the poker world.

Member, WSOP Player Advisory Council

Chair, WSOP International PAC

Past Chairman, World Poker Association

Advocate for Civility in Competition

Poker Print and Broadcast Journalist

Anti-smoking Crusader

Public Speaker on Poker Business

Host, Charitable Poker Events

Elevating Standards of Sportsmanship in the Poker Room

Wendeen Eolis has been a leader in taming a macho poker world with persistent efforts to enhance civility and non-abusive conduct in poker competition. She was largely responsible persuading the biggest poker room in Atlantic City to publish a zero tolerance policy toward abusive conduct and followed up in Connecticut tribal gaming lands to obtain permanent eviction of an uncompromising offender.

Celebrating the Poker World

A long time media magnet, Ms. Eolis has used her celebrity to highlight the colorful poker world. She selected Jack Binion's World Poker Open in Tunica, Mississippi to film a segment of an A&E Biography Special that profiled her life. She co-anchored with Nancy Grace on CourtTV, a one-hour segment on the Binion legacy to the gaming world as part of a piece on the Ted Binion murder trial. And she trekked across the United States as a poker coach with author Elizabeth; the story was published in GQ Magazine.

Stepping Up to The Plate for Unique Poker Events

Ms. Eolis directed and anchored the first live tournament podcast of a major competition at the United States Poker Championship in 1999. In 2001 she co-anchored the filmed production of Tournament of Champions which served as the pilot for Steve Lipscomb's World Poker Tour. Since her first guest commentating gig for ESPN (the first woman) in 1987, Eolis has done color commentary for more than a dozen different poker shows including a special appearance durng the last WSOP hosted by Binion's Horseshoe.

Using the Media to Raise Awareness of Issues

Eolis has also been a pioneer in poker trade publications, digging deeply into the culture, the business, and legal issues of the industry while others were still concentrating on lighter hearted fare primarily focused on promote poker rooms and their events. Since 2000, Eolis has published penetrating articles for virtually every major poker publication incluidng major investigatory pieces.

Giving Heart to Charitable Poker

In 2006, Eolis was selected as a sponsored participant on the Elle Magazine/American Heart Association Inaugural Queens of Heart team at the World Series of Poker Ladies Event, pledging to donate part of her winnings to women's health programs. In 2006 and again in 2007 Eolis donated poker coaching sessions and people reading seminars to charitable events including auctions at New York University Law School.

Championing Players Rights

Ms. Eolis was a participant in the successful effort to ban smoking in California. She was a crusader on behalf of players with disabilities-persuading casinos to protect such patrons against abusive smokers at poker tables. And she helped to spearhead a successful anti-smoking campaign that resulted in smoke-free poker in many poker rooms--including the WSOP.

Ms. Eolis joined the World Poker Association in 2006, was elected to its first Board of Directors in 2007. She served as Vice Chair and in late accepted the added duties of Chair of the Executive Committee. In 2008, Ms. Eolis became the first WPA Chairman to be elected by the Association's membership. She was the the principal architect of the WPA Ethics Code and the overseer in the development of Bylaws that won approval by the membership at its 2008 Annual Meeting.

Ms. Eolis also established WPA's first educational conference and a partnership between the WPA and the WSOP to produce the WPA's first tournament, obtaining support by the WSOP for several newly formulated WPA tournament rules. Eolis also settled the famous 2008 "dust up" between a women's group and the World Poker Tour .

Ms. Eolis currently serves as a member of the WSOP's Players Advisory Council and has been an active member of its sub-committee on Rules. She also helped Harrahs to organize the International Players Advisory Council of the WSOP and serves as its Chairman.