Anurag Dikshit (अनुराग दीक्षित) (born 1973, in New Delhi), pronounced "Dix-it",^[1] is a billionaire Indian businessman, the richest man in Gibraltar and the 207th richest man in the world. As a co-founder of PartyGaming, parent company of the world's leading online poker site PartyPoker.com, he is one of the youngest billionaires in the world. The largest individual shareholder, he owns approximately 30% of PartyGaming after selling 23% of his stake in the company's Initial Public Offering. , This article is about the urban region that is the capital of India. ... PartyGaming Plc (LSE: PRTY) is an online gambling company, best known for its online poker room PartyPoker. ... Online poker is the game of poker played over the Internet. ... An initial public offering (IPO) is the first sale of a corporations common shares to public investors. ...

Born in New Delhi, Dikshit graduated with a Bachelor of Technology degree in computer science and engineering from India's Indian Institutes of Technology, Delhi in 1994. Following graduation, Dikshit worked as a software developer in the United States at CMC, as a systems analyst for Websci and later as a consultant for AT&T. With a current fortune estimated to be $3.3 billion he is one of the richest Indians in the world. , This article is about the urban region that is the capital of India. ... A Bachelor of Technology is an undergraduate academic degree in the United Kingdom, India, Ireland, Norway, Canada and other countries. ... Look up degree in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Computer scaence, or computing science, is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ... Engineering is the design, analysis, and/or construction of works for practical purposes. ... Location of IITs The Indian Institutes of Technology, or IITs, are a group of seven autonomous engineering and technology oriented institutes of higher education established and declared as Institutes of National Importance by the Government of India. ... A portion of IIT Delhis main building, with the wind tunnel (Wind T) The Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), is one of the topmost college of engineering in India situated in the south part of the capital. ... AT&T Inc. ...

PartyGaming

When Dikshit was twenty-five years old he met Ruth Parasol who asked him to write some proprietary code for PartyGaming's Starluck online casino to replace the software they were licensing. PartyGaming was founded by Parasol, an American lawyer who now lives in Gibraltar. She considered Dikshit's skills so crucial to the future of the business, she allocated him a considerable number of shares in the company. Ruth Parasol is a co-founder of PartyGaming with her husband Russ DeLeon. ... Online casinos, also known as virtual casinos or internet casinos, are online versions of traditional (brick and mortar) casinos. ...

In 2000, Dikshit hired a colleague from his alma mater, Vikrant Bhargava, to head the company's Caribbean operations. Party Poker was launched in August 2001, just prior to the poker industry on a whole enjoying a huge resurgence in popularity in America. As television programs, new books and celebrities got involved with poker, online poker sky-rocketed in popularity. Dikshit's platform, which allowed 20,000 simultaneous users, proved inadequate and new technology was adopted allowing 70,000 simultaneous users. Alma mater is Latin for nourishing mother. It was used in ancient Rome as a title for the mother goddess, and in Medieval Christianity for the Virgin Mary. ... Image:Vikrant Bhargava. ... A game of Texas holdem, the most popular form of poker, in progress. ...

Prior to the company's IPO, Dikshit was virtually unknown to the general public. He remains a chess aficionado and student of antiquities.

In May 2006 Dikshit stepped down from PartyGaming's board of directors to develop new products as head of the company's research and special projects.^[2] May 2006 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → May 1, 2006 (Monday) Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association outraged Vatican by planning to ordain another bishop, Liu Xinhong in Anhui Province. ...

Dikshit currently resides in Gibraltar.

Notes

1. ^ Forbes: Billionaire list
2. ^ Forbes: PartyGaming's Dikshit quits board

External links

• Financial Times article
• Red Herring article
• Guardian article