GPWA Times Magazine - Issue 10 - Sept 2009

39 :: GPWA Times When will Bodog begin accepting Canadian players and under which licensee? What will be your involve- mentwith thisprocess? Canadianplay- erswill beable toaccessaCanada-specific product suite from www.bodog.ca start- ing in the fall of this year. I aggressively renegotiated the Bodog Europe brand li- cense agreement to acquire the rights to theCanadianmarket earlier this year and Iwould expect theCanadianmarket– ex- tremely technologically literate, sports lovers and a very significant poker base – to be a huge success story in 2009 and 2010. The productswill be offeredpursu- ant to theAntiguangaming licenses. There are quite a few big iGaming conferences coming up. What kind of presence will Bodog Europe have at such events? We will be looking to attend all major conferences to spread the word about Bodog Europe’s exciting future developments. I’ll personally be speaking this September at both the affiliate conference in Budapest, where I’ll be joined by members of our affiliate team, andEiG inCopenhagen. “Work hard, play hard” is a famous Bodogslogan.Howdoyouworkhard and play hard? It’s a famous slogan, but never has it been more true. Those who are successful at Bodog manage to combine the two very effectively. Quite often the divide is blurred, quite literally, but in some ways that’s what makes it so special. You never quite switch off from business but you never quite switch off from having fun. It’s certainly a unique factor to the Bodog experience and one I’ve thoroughly enjoyed since joining the brand licensee family. Tell us about your experiences in Antigua, home of the U.K. licensee headquarters.What is theoffice like? What do you do for fun?What is the nightlife like? Is it really as quiet as we hear? Antigua really is spectacular. Tell me another office location where you can get up early in the morning, go wakeboarding, snorkeling and submarine diving, all before having a healthy beach breakfast and being in the office by 9am? Thenightlife is great, and thereareplenty of beach bars and clubs to enjoy the local rum cocktails in, but for me Antigua is all about the beach and sea life and those early sunnymornings. We’veheardrumorsthatyouareafan- tasticwakeboarder. Are these rumors true? Can youwalk us thorough your very first wakeboarding experience? Ha ha...no comment. Let’s just say since my first “effort” I’ve been practicing at homeonan ironingboard lyingflat on the ground. I can just about balance on that now, sowill give the real thing another go very soon. Bodog shooting for the stars