Wendeen Eolis in the News

By Laura A. Van Vleet and G. L. Norris Playing With the Big Boys (Book) 2002 Few poker goddesses are as successful , or colorful , as Wendeen Eolis. A true inspiration, Wendeen was the first woman to finish in the money in the prestigious World Series of Poker in 1986. A decade later, following […]

By Celia Lowenstein BBC Documentary 2002 Following the terrorist attacks of 9.11, Sir Harold Evans, the knighted publisher and journalist who once served as editorial director of the New York Daily News asked Wendeen Eolis to appear in a BBC television documentary, “Rudy, Mayor of America”. Ms. Eolis is the only woman advisor/confidante to the […]

By Paul Zielbauer The New York Times November 20, 2000 Like other tournaments, Foxwoods’ has attracted poker-playing men from around the world, as well as a few women, including Wen Eolis. A former aide to Gov. George E. Pataki of New York and one of the world’s top female poker players, she started gambling in […]

By Elizabeth Gilbert GQ August 2000 Within the macho world of high-stakes poker lie some hard-and-fast rules of survival. Tutored by a shrewd Chanel-wearing woman, Elizabeth Gilbert learns to hold ’em against the big boys. My poker coach is a brilliant woman in her mid fifties, and her name is Wendeen Eolis. One of the […]

By Court TV April 6, 2000 Court TV tapped Wendeen Eolis to guest anchor an hour long show with fiery former prosecutor and Court TV regular Nancy Grace during the Lonnie “Ted” Binion murder trial. A world class poker player at the Court TV table, Wendeen steers clear of making predictions on the outcome of […]

By Virginia Breen New York Daily News July 10, 1999 Throughout her Manhattan apartment, scattered photographs make it clear that Wendeen Eolis is a woman to be reckoned with. There she is shmoozing with Gov. Pataki. There’s Eolis with Mayor Giuliani. And isn’t that her again with former President George Bush? . “My game,” she […]

By Michael Konik New York Magazine April 29, 1991 “Wendeen Eolis, 46, a legal consultant who advised mayoral candidate Rudy Giuliani and is the only woman ever to make it to the Final Table in a major tournament.” The entire article is available here.

By William Glaberson The New York Times February 6, 1989 New York, they say, is just a collection of small towns. But that doesn’t only mean places like Bensonhurst and Little Italy. It refers to all the worlds that meet in the city that is the capital of so many Americas. On the fifth floor […]