Meet Wendeen Eolis - Editor's Introduction

Conversant in French and Spanish, she's attractive, aggressive, plays one hell of a game of poker, and has a political background longer than a presidential candidate's. As a classical pianist, she has performed at Carnegie Hall. She has won an international table tennis award. She's active in trade and civic activities.

She's Wendeen Eolis. Possessing a dynamic personality, she's strong, intelligent, and excels in a profession dominated by the male gender.

Since 1969 she has served as chair and CEO of her own successful company, the Eolis International Group, Ltd., specializing in evaluating the credentials, experience, and reputations of both attorneys and law firms worldwide. A graduate of New York University (with honors), her involvement in politics and policymaking in New York has resulted in extensive coverage of her achievements in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, various legal trade journals, and a slew of other publications.

Her trade and civic activities are too many to list here, so let's use our remaining space to describe her poker prowess. Out of 12 annual, major tournaments played, she's made it into the money in seven of them — including being the first woman to finish in the money at the World Series of Poker championship event (1986, 25th place) and again in 1993 (20th). She placed sixth in the $5,000 Hall of Fame championship in 1988.

Eolis has been the subject of numerous TV and print media coverage. In her latest appearance in the August 2000 issue of GQ, the reporter journeys through the world of "big boy" poker.

With this brief overview of Wendeen Eolis, you can see from her credentials why her story was selected to run in Poker Digest to answer the question, What Happened to New York Poker?