if you were worth $1.6-billion, would you change your name?
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The World's Billionaires #618 Anurag Dikshit
03.08.07, 6:00 PM ET
Age: 35
Fortune: self made
Source: online gambling
Net Worth: $1.6 bil
Country Of Citizenship: India
Residence: , Gibraltar, Middle East & Africa
Industry:
Marital Status: married, 1 child
Education:
Developmental engineer turned online gambling mogul enduring the wrath of U.S. government's crack down on Internet betting. Owns 32% of Internet poker darling PartyGaming; London Stock Exchange-traded stock down 70% since September when Congress passed laws banning financial institutions from facilitating bets for online gambling sites. Earned degree in computer science and engineering from Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi. First jobs at CMC, Websci, AT&T. PartyGaming founder, American Ruth Parasol, launched Starluck Casino on the Internet in 1997. Dikshit (pronounced Dix-it) joined a year later at age 25; wrote company's betting software, which enables gamblers around the world to play one another in poker. Parasol and husband J. Russell DeLeon no longer billionaires following stock slide last fall.
Originally posted by Tordan
...if i was worth 1.6B i wouldn't really care who made fun of my name. i'll be the one laughing.
+1
Jun-14-2007 01:00
DigDeep
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Registered: May 2002
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Dikshit > Shitdik
+ he's got 1.6 bil to boot.
Jun-14-2007 01:15
legendary_waz
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Location: Mississauga, Canada
id prolly do it for half that
Jun-14-2007 01:19
mnemonic.
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Location: I miss Japan...
with that kind of money i want to be King Mikey of the Principality of Monaco.
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Jun-14-2007 02:03
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Easy answer, yes.
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Jun-14-2007 04:05
yankeeBaby
Keepin it real....
Registered: Feb 2005
Location: Upper West Side NYC
I would make every other m*tha F*cka change their names!!!
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Jun-14-2007 15:46
DigitalMP
W.T.F., mate?
Registered: Jul 2003
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If my dick could shit, I'd be worth a hell of a lot more than $1.6B.
Jun-14-2007 16:49
Engine9
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Registered: Jun 2004
Location: Planet earth, tdot central
lol hes 35, has a wifey + kids and has 1.6 billion dollars
i dont think anybody is gone make fun of his name, nor does he give a dick shit
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Jun-14-2007 17:01
WillyWonka
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Originally posted by Engine9
has 1.6 billion dollars
Just change your name to Oprah Winfrey. She's worth 1.5 billion.
