| Former WSOP Director agrees to join DGH Board of Directors |
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| Written by Robert Johnson | |||||||
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Thursday, 17 May 2007
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 DG Holdings, Ltd. (DGH) has announced that Robert Daily, former World Series of Poker Tournament and Events Director has agreed to become a member of the DG Holdings board, leading the company's online gaming platform division. DGH is a privately-held, international investment group with offices in Europe, Asia Pacific and South East Asia. The DGH gaming division was formed more than four years ago to develop a state-of-the-art gaming platform that enables fully-integrated, on-line gaming operations. Mr. Daily leaves Harrah's after 11 years in various capacities. During his tenure, he served as the 2005 WSOP Event Manager and 2006 WSOP Tournament Director. Bob received the prestigious 2007 Chairman's Award for his efforts. "I have greatly enjoyed my years with Harrah's, and especially the World Series of Poker," said Daily, who was again appointed as the upcoming 2007 WSOP Event Director before announcing his departure. "I have every confidence this year's WSOP will run smoothly and efficiently and if I did not feel strongly that the tournament was ready, I would not have left at this time. "After my resignation, DGH approached me to join their group as a board member to provide leadership to their online gaming platform – especially poker – and I couldn't pass up the opportunity. I have made many great friends within the poker industry and I look forward to working with them in the future from a different perspective." "We've had our eye on the industry's 'Poker Czar' for some time. Bob is the perfect person to provide our board with the needed gaming insight and to lead our online gaming initiative into the future," said a company spokesperson. "With the launch of our first licensed poker site next month, we feel the timing of his appointment and this announcement could not be more perfect." Robert Daily is a passionate poker player with more than 30 years of experience in the gaming, casino, and poker industries. His wealth of knowledge and competent management ensured the 2006 WSOP was the biggest, most successful WSOP in history, and the richest sporting event ever. BetUS.com has posted betting odds on which professional poker players will make the Final Table at the World Series of Poker Main Event: Phil Ivey: +1400 Phil Hellmuth: +2500 Chris 'Jesus' Ferguson: +2500 Daniel Negreanu: +1800 Erik Seidel: +4000 Scotty Nguyen: +4000 Dan Harrington: +4000 Johnny Chan: +3000 Gus Hansen: +3000 Howard Lederer: +4000 Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliot: +4000 John Juanda: +4000 Erick Lindgren: +5000 Michael 'The Grinder' Mizrachi: +4000 Carlos Mortenson: +5000 Scott Fischman: +5000 Mike Matusow: +5000 Phil Laak: +5000 Antonio Esfandiari: +4000 Ram 'Crazy Horse' Vaswani: +5000 Greg 'Fossilman' Raymer: +5000 Marcel Luske: +5000 Barny Boatman: +6500 Josh Arieh: +6500 Men 'The Master' Nguyen: +5000 Harry Demetriou: +6500 Julian Gardner: +6500 Pascal 'Triple P' Perrault: +6500 David Williams: +6500 Andy Black: +6500 Tuan Le: +6500 Robert Williamson III: +6500 David 'The Dragon' Pham: +6500 Allen Cunningham: +2500 Rob Hollink: +6500 Dave Colclough: +6500 Todd Brunson: +6500 Tony 'Tony G' Guoga: +6500 Chris Bjorin: +6500 Humberto Brenes: +6500 Layne Flack: +6500 Alan Goehring: +6500 Ted Forrest: +6500 Jamie Gold: +6500 Willie Tann: +6500 Chip Reese: +6500 David Benyamine: +6500 Hasan Habib: +6500 Huck Seed: +6500 Mel Judah: +6500 Barry Shulman: +6500 Mike Sexton: +6500 Amarillo Slim Preston: +6500 Barry Greenstein: +6500 David Grey: +6500 Phil Gordon: +6500 Sam Farha: +6500 Chris Moneymaker: +6500 T.J. Cloutier: +6500 Annie Duke: +6500 Kenna James: +8000 Dewey Tomko: +8000 Jennifer Harman: +8000 Doyle Brunson: +8000 Mark Seif: +8000 Freddy Deeb: +8000 Joseph Hachem: +8000 David Sklansky: +12500 Robert Varkonyi: +10000 Ben Affleck: +15000 Matt Damon: +15000 Grant "G-Rob" Robinson: +100000 Chris "Fullhouse" Fuller: +100000 Jennifer Tilly: +8000 Tim Zalac: +100000                        |
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