According to the HighStakes report, the leader of the list is Mark Scheinberg, with a fortune estimated at US$ 4.5 billion. He was the co-founder and CEO of PokerStars. He retired from the industry in 2006. Scheinberg’s fortune also comes from the sale of the Rational Group in 2014 to Amaya Gaming. The firm was sold for US$ 4.9 billion and Scheinberg had 75% of it.
Number 2 on the list is Denise Coates, founder and CEO of Bet365, whose fortune amounts to US$ 3.6 billion. Denise got a bank loan of £15,000 in 2001 to found her company as she believed she had the recipe for what the future of the gaming would be. The 2016 fiscal year reported that Bet365 billed more than US$2.1 billion. Coates owns more than half of the company.
The top three list is completed Teddy Sagi, the founder of Playtech, with a personal fortune of US$ 3.1 billion. This Israeli entrepreneur began to develop Playtech in 1999. Today, the company is the creator of several softwares for online gaming (bingos, lotteries, sports betting, social gaming and poker). Some of Playtech's clients are Bet365, Betfair, William Hill, Ladbrokers, Coral and Paddy Power.
Source: GMB / Highstakesdb.com
