CBS Radio Exec Recalls Daring Poker Gambit

The “In His Own Words” piece in Radio Ink magazine by George Bouloukos (pictured), a senior VP market manager with CBS Radio here in New York, positively drips with cigar-smelling nostalgia.

It’s all about his early career days in Chicago. He used to make sales house calls from 7 a.m. to midnight. And just as he was gaining a foothold in the radio sales business, there was this memorable poker table experience:

I found myself in a Liars Poker game at the Corona Café, a restaurant and bar frequented by agency buyers and radio and TV AEs and managers.

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