London – Poker’s high-risk game is entering the workplace thanks to a passionate card player’s determination to share her skills to help employees master strategic thinking at work.
When it comes to poker, Jo Living knows his way on the table. She grew up on the card because her parents were both Bridge Teachers. She told CBS News that she could shuffle the cards when she was five years old. But she didn’t pick up one hand to play poker until she was in her 30s, and she didn’t really fall in love with the game until she traveled to Morocco about 10 years ago.
“I was pregnant and sat in a smokey Moroccan casino at four in the morning and I actually just beat 200 people to win my first international poker championship,” she told CBS News while sitting at the poker table, which she used to teach others the skills of the game. Her biggest victory in Africa gave her a big idea.
Life started hosting family games and taught her female friends that were often male-dominated games, saying she “will soon see them in confidence, ending customer deals and landing promotions.”
After several years of flying, Living founded her company, Aces High. She hosts poker workshops in the UK that aim to empower employees, especially women, to improve their games in a variety of businesses.
“People think it’s about bluffing and courage, but it’s actually a lot of female skills,” she said. “There are a lot of things.” Poker table skills It can be transferred to the board table through negotiation, communication, and in-depth listening. ”
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Stepping Stone Media is one of the latest companies to make premium makeovers, poker tables roll into London offices and come with cards, dealers and chips to bet.
“I mean, it feels good, I don’t mind having a poker table often,” David Mynard, managing director of the company, told CBS News.
Mynard said he goes all out if that will help his employees do their best at work.
“I really like to take poker games and think about how to translate, how we learn our own ideas, and hope to develop our skills in communicating and reading others,” he told CBS News.
More than a dozen employees sit at the poker table, some are new to the game, and some have experience, as they take decisions, take risks and reevaluate decisions to bring them to their game.
Dealer Jimi Sotimehin, who has been with the World Poker Competition, said he likes to bring games to the workplace.
He joked, “I have the best seat in the house and I will never lose!”
There is no cash hazard at ACES High Events. The fries are made of chocolate. Live saying it’s all about your own betting…whatever your hand is.
She hopes to eventually enter the Aces high-level workshop in the United States throughout the UK.
