Online Casino Owners

Monday, 05 February 2007

Bellow one will find short introduction of the biggest and most known land based and online casino owners. The lives of those people are sometimes astonishing and can be motivational for other people. Those histories help to understand who exactly is behind all the games we enjoy. We hope you will find that information interesting. If you visit this site more often you can also see the newest additions.   Stanley Ho Sometimes he is called the “King of Gambling” because for 35 years he held monopoly for the gambling industry in China. He owns many casinos in Macau and Hong Kong and because of that is also called `Ho Hung-sun`. According to Forbes magazine, in 2005 he was 151st richest man on the world. His wealth was estimated to $3.6billion. He is the owner of eight casinos. The biggest ones are in Macau, Lisboa. Stanley Ho continuously invests in the gambling industry but not only there. He also owns bank, tourism airlines, shipping and many other industries. Donald Trump Many people know him as “The Donald’’. He is known not only for his TV shows, development projects or New York skyscrapers. He is also famous for being a major figure in the gambling industry and for his `Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts` Company. Trump owns four casinos and the most famous one of them is Trump Taj Mahal situated in Atlantic City. Trump was many times forced to fight for his business but till now he is in a group of the most successful people in the gambling industry and his part of it is worthy over $2.6 billion. Sheldon Adelson The son of a taxi driver is now the leader on the Forbes list of gambling industry billionaires. His business is worthy more than $11.9 billions. He built such casinos as Sands Expo convention center in Macau And Sands Macau and The Venetian. Now Adelson is building Palazzo, which is going to be a new mega resort situated across the streets from new Venetian Macau and The Venetian in Vegas. He also plans to build six new casinos in the Macau resort. Adelson’s owns much to his excellent idea of December offering in his Las Vegas Sands. At that time the stocks rose 61%. Kirk Kerkorian His gaming business is worthy approximately $9.5 billion. Kirk Kerkorian is the former WWII pilot and used to work as manager MGM Mirage. Now he took over the Mandalay Resort Group and manages almost the half of all the hotel rooms in Las Vegas. He was the leader of the Las Vegas boom and is thought to be a very reliable person. He is on 41st place according to The Forbe’s ranking of the richest men on the world.   Ruth Parasol, Anurag Dikshit, Vikrant Bhargava and Russell DeLeon - The Gibraltar Group They are a group of four people from Gibraltar who opened their online gambling company named PartyGaming this June in London. They become first online gambling billionaires. Their company is estimated to be worthy in total $8 billion. It was Parasol who in 1997 founded this precursor company. Before that she run porn sites. One year later she bought Dikshit to the group to develop proprietary software. Now parasol wit her husband DeLon consults, Bhargava takes care of the marketing and Dikshit runs the entire group.