Last week Anurag Dikshit agreed to plead guilty to a charge related to internet betting and pay the US authorities $300m.
Doyle can´t imagine what was going through his mind.
Dikshit was one of the owners of Party poker and became a multi-billionaire when Party went public.
It looks like he would feel a sense of obligation to online poker, the industry that made him a rich man. Instead, he folded up like an accordion and plead guilty to breaking some kind of mystery law and is paying a 300 million dollar fine and a possible 2-year jail term.
It certainly created some ill will from the other online poker sites.
I personally can't imagine what was going through his mind when he made his decision.
You can read the rest of doyles blog here.
Mr Dikshit was the technician behind Partygaming´s meteoric rise that resulted in a £5bn ($7.8bn) flotation in 2005 to become a FTSE 100 company.
He wrote the software that enabled it to become the world’s biggest online poker site before anti-gambling legislation in 2006 forced its exodus from the US. He retains a 27 per cent stake in the company.
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