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Billionaire bookie who went from farmboy to playboy

Calvin Ayre has come a long way from a pig farm in Saskatchewan to a billionaire playboy life spent partying with rap artists and bikini-clad women in the Caribbean. The son of a convicted marijuana smuggler, he runs Bodog, one of the largest online gambling operations in the world. According to the authorities, the site continues to accept wagers from America where it is illegal to do so. He is in London preparing to target British and European customers.

Within five minutes of welcoming us into his Mayfair hotel suite, Ayre picks three oranges from a fruit bowl and starts juggling, inexpertly. “Did you get that?” he asks the photographer, retrieving an orange from the carpet. “No? Let me try again.”

Other wealthy online gambling pioneers prefer anonymity or are fiercely private, on the advice of their lawyer

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