Jackpot! Online Poker Bosses Are Billionaires ; Secretive Four Will Share Pounds 4.2bn As Gaming Website Is Floated On Stock Market

Evening Standard - London › June 02, 2005

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AN INTERNET porn baron and two Indian graduates were today set to become billionaires as plans to float their poker website for Pounds 5.5billion on the London stock market were revealed.

PartyGaming, which runs partypoker.com, today formally announced the Footsie flotation plans and said their 1,100 staff - from Indian call centre workers to head office staff in Gibraltar - will be given Pounds 308million in shares, averaging Pounds 281,000 per employee.

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Jackpot! Online Poker Bosses Are Billionaires ; Secretive Four Will Share Pounds 4.2bn As Gaming Website Is Floated On Stock Market

Founders Anurag Dikshit, 32, and Vikrant Bhargava, 33, both graduates of the Indian Institute of Technology, own the c...

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