Just a quick update on the story about Bodog founder, Calvin Ayre’s, bust:
Unfortunately for the police the raid was a bust. The agents arrived at the Bodog Compound on unfounded suspicions of illegal gambling. It now seems that these suspicions were based solely on an inaccurate article published in a Costa Rican tabloid newspaper, which erroneously reported on aspects of the Forbes magazine article that features Mr. Ayre as the subject of its cover story.
[tags]Calvin Ayre, Bodog, Costa Rica, Poker Bust[/tags]
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Hi, my name is Bill Rini and this is my poker blog. I've been blogging about poker and the poker industry since around 2003-ish. Like most people I started out playing poker as entertainment in home games whenever we wanted to sit around and smoke cigars, drink beer, and eat pizza, and needed a good excuse. I started playing online shortly after the first online card rooms opened and it wasn't long before I was playing 20, 30, or even 40 hours a week or more. One day I received a phone call about a program manager position at Tiltware which was the company that consulted to Full Tilt Poker on software development and marketing. After Tiltware I spent about 2.5 years working at Party Poker where I was the poker room manager.
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