Cocktails & Cards - Deal Her In

A fun night of life skills, drinks, new friends & poker (yes, poker!). No experience needed.

Skip the usual wine bar. Come to the Ivy Room — a hidden ivy-covered courtyard tucked into River North — for a high-energy evening of life skills, a signature welcome cocktail, and the kind of conversations that don't happen over a group text.

This isn't a poker lesson. It's an evening of life skills you'll actually use — confidence, strategic thinking, negotiation, and social intelligence — taught through a game that gets you using them in real time. Poker is the method. The skills are the point. And you'll use them in your next meeting, your next hard conversation, your next negotiation.

Poker Power has shared the power of poker with 370,000+ women, across 400+ companies, in 70+ countries.

Here's what the evening looks like

• A signature welcome cocktail, plus wine, beer, and non-alcoholic drinks throughout — and light bites
• A fast, energetic kickoff — no experience needed, nothing that feels like a classroom
• Live, interactive play at your table with a Poker Power instructor guiding every hand

Who it's for

Women, 21+ — recent grads, mid-career pros, and everyone in between. Bring a friend or come on your own. Tables mix you with other women doing exactly what you're doing, so by the second hand, you'll know everyone at yours.

What you'll walk out with

• Skills you'll use in your next meeting, not someday
• A story you'll be telling at your next dinner
• New friends — the kind of women who signed up for the same unexpected Wednesday night
• The quiet satisfaction of having spent a Wednesday on something that actually counted

A few things worth knowing

• No poker experience required. Really.
• No gambling. Poker Power is for educational purposes — no money is ever exchanged at the table.
• Wear whatever makes you feel great.

Deal yourself in.