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The Humble Rise of Internet Gambling Programmers

You may have heard the news already that the multi-billion dollar company and most successful poker room on the internet, Party Gaming, has flotated on the London Stock Exchange - the biggest in over five years.  However, you may not have heard just how this monolith company got its start in the early days of online gambling.

Party Gaming, which was started by the adult entertainer, Ruth Parasol, largely owes its existence to the people behind the scene, which in this case and many others, are techie wiz-kids from India.  Anurag Dikshit and Vikrant Bhargava were the first two hired by Mrs. Parasol to develop gaming software, which was only a speculative investment at the time.  The two had just graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology and had moved to the U.S. to capitalize on the dot com movement.  Mr. Dikshit had the knowledge to develop the software, while Mr. Vikrant was taken on the market the newly formed company.  The rest is history.

These days, many of the people behind the scenes at some of the world's most successful internet betting sites - online casinos included - are Indian computer programmers, website designers and just about anything else technically related.  Outsourcing is becoming even more common, with Indian web designers being hired at very cheap wages to create hordes of gambling websites, complete with content and all.  The final product is very good to say the least (in most cases), and is making some people in the online gambling business very rich.

Of course, this is frowned upon by the U.S. government, so most American investors in the industry must either be offshore or living on a very fine wire.  As for the graduates of the Indian Institute of Technology, there is nothing to worry about.  Highly skilled computer programmers are just as valuable as they were, if not more.

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