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Greg Dinkin (DOB - ) is an author and businessman. He was born in (place of birth) from where he went on to study at (place) and (place) before taking up writing.
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[edit]Dinkin wrote The Poker MBA to explore the link between poker and business.[citation needed] He now writes about health, networking, money, poker, sports, communication, and relationships - with the unifying theme of decision making. He states his mission is to be "an example and a resource for optimizing and enjoying life". He also publishes a blog "Life’s Secret Sauce" where he writes about how to "feel free, fit and fulfilled".[citation needed]
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By walking in the shoes of others—a key component of his book The Poker MBA—and understanding how they think and learn, Greg is effective at making people better: better at business, sales, strategy, negotiating, and poker. Greg delivers personalized keynote speeches that can include poker lessons and tournaments that entertain, educate, and motivate. His clients include: Top of the Table insurance association, YEO, YPO, Apex Data Services, the Kauffman Fellows Program, Reed Smith law firm, the Cornell Club, and Eclipsys.
Greg started playing poker in high school and honed his skills during a college internship at the Mirage in Las Vegas, where he played poker whenever he wasn’t on the clock. He later worked at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles as a “prop” player, which meant he was paid $25 an hour to play with his own money. He won a Texas Hold’em tournament at The Bicycle and finished second in a World Series of Poker Seven Card Stud Hi-Low event, earning $102,542. He was a featured columnist for Card Player magazine, writing a column relating poker to business.
He leveraged the skills he learned at the poker table to co-found Venture Literary, a literary management and production company. He has sold more than one hundred thirty non-fiction titles to major publishers. In selling and negotiating deals, he relies on the skills he learned as a poker player such as reading tells and measuring expected value. While representing a wide-range of non-fiction authors, he also has carved out a niche representing poker players that include Phil Gordon, Amarillo Slim, Scott Fischman, Sam Farha, John Vorhaus and Matt Matros. In addition to representing several best-selling books, he has been involved developing films with actors Nicolas Cage and Tobey Maguire and Academy Award–winning producers Ed Saxon (The Silence of the Lambs) and Graham King (The Departed).
Greg has a B.S. in hotel administration from Cornell University and an MBA in finance from Arizona State University. He has worked as an internal auditor for Inter-Continental Hotels and as a management consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers. His sales experience includes positions with Lanier Worldwide, Olan Mills Portrait Studios, and Ameritech Construction Corp.
He is the author of The Finance Doctor: An 8-Step Prescription So You Can Stop Chasing Your Bills & Start Chasing Your Dreams (Vital), The Poker MBA: Winning In Business No Matter What Cards You’re Dealt (Random House), and he collaborated with gambling legend Amarillo Slim to write the award-winning memoir Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People (HarperCollins).
He can be reached at gregdinkin@gmail.com
Geography: Born and raised in Maryland’s D.C. suburbs. Currently living in Los Angeles. Traveled the world for two years--about a year in Thailand living on the island of Koh Samui next to a health spa. Spent roughly a month in Nepal, India, Bali, Australia, and Spain. Lived in New York City for three years prior. Has lived in San Diego, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Chicago, New Orleans, Florida, the D.C. area and Boulder since graduating from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
He is a 2009 graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Between living at a health spa in Thailand, losing 80 pounds, and turning $50,000 of debt into abundance, he share what he has learned to offer tools for others to live their best life.