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Crispin Leiser

Crispin Leyser is a Los Angeles-based TV executive and professional poker player, co-founder and lead presenter of The Winning Hand, an executive training program that uses poker to teach decision-making.

Sep 1, 2026

0:58
Can you please introduce more about yourself that I miss?
1:03
Sure.
1:04
My name is Crispin Leiser.
1:05
I'm the co-founder and co-owner of a business called The Winning Hand, the website of which I can see in a nice box on my screen, www.the-winning-hand.com.
1:21
But I have a mixed background.
1:26
I mean, if you want to go all the way back as to what led me here, we can go back to my childhood, even when a number of things kind of led me to this point.
1:36
I've always had a keen eye on the and the idea of odds and gambling i i was a i worked as summer jobs in a bookmakers um i um also have a degree in social psychology from the london school of economics so a keen understanding of um reading people and reading the room and understanding human behavior um and uh Yeah, I mean, a number of things I think have kind of added up together to bring me to this place.

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