Party Poker Founders on Fortune 400 List

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Sat, Sep 30th, 2006 @ 12:00am Party Poker founders J. Russell DeLeon and Ruth Parasol, who also happen to be husband and wife, are tied for 197th on the Forbes list of 400 richest Americans. They have an estimated net worth of $1.8 billion each. DeLeon and Parasol got into online gaming with the launch of Starluck Casino in 1997. A year later they met Anurag Dikshit, who started writing the software that became PartyPoker when it launched in 2001.

Party Poker is the world's largest online gambling site in terms of revenue and number of players. Their Poker network now boasts over 1.2 million active players. The pair became billionaires when PartyGaming went public on the London Stock Exchange in 2005. The IPO was London's largest since 2001, which pegged the value of the company at that time at roughly $9 billion.

Today DeLeon and Parasol serve as advisors to PartyGaming. Dikshit and marketing director Vikrant Bhargava, both Indian nationals who own part of PartyGaming, have also amassed impressive fortunes. Both were named to the Sunday Times' Asian Rich List in April 2006, with Dikshit's fortune being estimated at $3.2 billion and Bhargava's at $1.1 billion.

Parasol, now 39, began her career as a legal consultant to her father's phone-sex-chat business before moving with DeLeon, now 40, to Gibraltar to found the gambling business.

No other person on the Forbes list of richest Americans gained their wealth by online gambling. Brick-and-mortar casino businesses helped several others achieve their wealth, including: Sheldon Adelson, Las Vegas Sands Corp. (ranked third with a net worth of $20.5 billion); Kirk Kerkorian, MGM Mirage (26th, $9 billion); Donald Trump, Trump Entertainment (tied for 94th, $2.9 million); Stephen Wynn, Wynn casinos (tied for 107th, $2.6 billion); Phillip Ruffin, New Frontier (ties for 278th, $1.4 billion); William Boyd, Boyd Gaming (tied for 322nd, $1.2 billion); and William Hilton, Hilton hotels and casinos (tied for 374th, $1 billion).

Über Glücksspiele Las Vegas - Gambling in Las Vegas:

Las Vegas liegt im Westen der USA im Bundesstaat Nevada und ist das Glücksspiel-Paradies von Amerika.

Las Vegas hat rund 100 Spielcasinos. Im Bundesstaat Nevada sind sogar über 300 Spielcasinos registriert. Die grössten Casinos sind das Bellagio, Caesars Palace, Venetian / Palazzo, Wynn / Encore, MGM Grand, Mandalay Bay.

Weitere bekannte Casinos sind das Mirage, frühere Heimat von Siegfried und Roy, das Luxor in Form einer Pyramide oder das Casino Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino, in welchem jährlich die Pokerweltmeisterschaft (World Series of Poker WSOP) durchgeführt wird.

Die bekanntesten zwei Strassen sind der Las Vegas Boulevard, welcher auch als Las Vegas Strip bezeichnet wird. Daneben ist die Fremont Street eine gut besuchte Casino-Meile, wo beispielsweise das legendäre Casino Binion's (vormals Binion's Horseshoe) seine Spiele anbietet.

Las Vegas erstreckt sich über eine Fläche von 340 km2 und hat rund 650'000 Einwohner.

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