Poker is game played by all types of people including some US presidents, such as Barack Obama, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower. Richard Nixon, who was elected in 1968, claimed to have won enough money at poker online to fund some of his political campaigns. Another famous individual who gives some credit to poker for his road to success is Microsoft founder, Bill Gates. He played marathon sessions of the game while he was a student at Harvard University. In his autobiography, The Road Ahead, Gates says: “In online poker, a player collects different information - who’s betting boldly, what cards are showing, what this guy’s pattern of betting and bluffing is - and then crunches all that data together to devise a plan for his own hand. I got pretty good at this kind of information processing.” Gates’ own words make it easy to see how a software geek could get inspired by poker. During his college games, Gates made significant profits in his dorm room games - enough to fund some of his initial software start-up ventures. He also says, “The poker strategizing experience would prove helpful when I got into business.” With presidents and business tycoons crediting poker as a way to sharpen their intellects — through the repeated practice of math calculation, risk assessment, psychological insights, and acute observation — it is easy to see how poker skills and strategies can be transferred to the real world of business and political leadership.