Английская Википедия:Isai Scheinberg

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Isai Scheinberg (Шаблон:Lang-he; born 1946 or 1947) is the Lithuanian Jewish[1][2] founder of the PokerStars online poker site. Scheinberg previously had been a senior programmer for IBM Canada.[3]

Biography

In about 1986, Scheinberg left Israel, and moved to Toronto. He settled there in Richmond Hill, where in 2011 he still owned the house he had bought in 1988.[2]

In 2011, Scheinberg was indicted on five criminal charges related to Pokerstars under United States federal laws.[4] In September 2020, he was sentenced to pay a fine of $30,000 with no jail time.[5]

Scheinberg sold his stake in Pokerstars to Amaya Gaming in 2014 for $4.9 billion.[6]

Well known for his sense of personal privacy, he gave his first ever media interview to Lance Bradley in 2021.[7]

See also

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