Calvin Ayre

Quick Facts

Full Name	Calvin Ayre
Occupation	Businessperson
Date Of Birth	May 25, 1961(1961-05-25)
Age	63
Birthplace	Lloydminster
Country	Canada
Birth City	Alberta
Horoscope	Taurus

Calvin Ayre Biography

Calvin Ayre is one of the most popular and richest Businessperson who was born on May 25, 1961 in Lloydminster, Alberta, Canada. Calvin Edward Ayre, a Canadian-Antiguan entrepreneur, was born May 25, 1961 in Lloydminster (Saskatchewan). He is the founder of the Ayre group and Bodog entertainment brands.

Ayre founded online gambling company Bodog in 2000. His success made him a billionaire. Ayre’s fame grew in the 2000s with online gambling’s popularity. He was featured on Forbes magazine’s annual Billionaires edition in 2006 and Star magazine’s “Most eligible Billionaire Bachelors List” in 2007.

In 2006, Ayre produced Bodog Salutes The Troops, a weekend of entertainment for US military personnel in Hawaii, footage of which appeared in a one-hour special on Spike TV. The event, which consisted of a poker tournament and a live musical concert featuring Snoop Dogg, was intended as a benefit for the Fisher House Foundation. Following the extensive damage Typhoon Haiyan inflicted on the Philippines in November 2013, Ayre donated $200,000 to local relief efforts. The Calvin Ayre Foundation also pledged to match gaming industry members’ individual donations to typhoon relief up to $1 million.

In 2006, the online gambling industry underwent realignment as US authorities made high-profile arrests of several online gambling executives. Ayre sold Bodog’s US-facing online gambling business to the Morris Mohawk Gaming Group of Kahnawake, Quebec, with Ayre retaining rights to the Bodog brand. He subsequently announced his retirement from the online gambling business.

Canadian Business reports that the Bodog name was part of a bold branding strategy Ayre had envisioned right from the beginning. It was an idea Ayre had while searching for brand names on the Internet. Ayre chose the name like a major corporation would choose a brand name for a new car or soft drink. It had to be six letters long, easy to spell, memorable, unique and have personality. This was an easy criterion to meet as most Bodog’s competitors prefer simple brand names like PartyPoker.com and Sportsbook.com. Ayre became the face of Bodog in the mid-2000s, as online gaming’s popularity exploded. Forbes 2006’s annual Billionaires issue featured him as its cover story. Star magazine’s list of “Most Eligible Billionaire Bachelors”, published in late 2007.

Calvin Ayre Net Worth

Calvin Ayre is one of the richest Businessperson from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Calvin Ayre 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ayre was raised on a farm near Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, and graduated high school from Salmon Arm, British Columbia. His parents were pig and grain farmers. He received a bachelor of science degree (BSc) from the University of Waterloo in 1984. In 1989, he also earned a MBA in management finance at City University of Seattle.

Ayre discovered that online gambling was the best option after reading an article in 1992 about a Caribbean-based company that offered betting services via the telephone. Ayre, who had studied Cisco Systems manuals and learned network design, transformed his Vancouver-based Internet incubator into a software support company for online gambling. Although he was able license his software to multiple online casinos, he soon realized that running his own gambling operation was the best way to make money. His gambling company was founded in 1996, and was located in Costa Rica. Bodog.com was founded in 2000.

In 2003, Ayre organized BodogConference.com in Las Vegas for sports handicappers, at which National Football League Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana was a special guest. The conference became an annual event, attracting gambling industry executives and figures from the sports world. In 2005, Ayre launched the Bodog Music record label. This led to the Bodog Music Battle of the Bands television series on Fuse TV, in which celebrity judges including former Sex Pistols singer John Lydon traveled across America to find the country’s best unsigned bands.

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Who is Calvin Ayre Dating?

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In February 2012, Ayre and three other individuals were indicted by the US Attorney for Maryland on charges of illegal gambling and money laundering related to conduct that occurred before the 2006 passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). Ayre released a statement via CalvinAyre.com saying he viewed the indictment as “abuse of the US criminal justice system for the commercial gain of large US corporations.” Ayre also noted that the US Attorney had seized Bodog.com, a domain that had been dormant since the Bodog brand revoked its licensing agreement with MMGG the previous year.

Facts & Trivia

Calvin Ranked on the list of most popular Businessperson. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Calvin Ayre celebrates birthday on May 25 of every year.

In 2016, Ayre’s foundation was operating in Antigua, where Ayre is based, and the Philippines, providing relief and rehabilitation assistance to a school and communities devastated by typhoons in Northern Samar located in central Philippines, and donating $200,000 to a fund dedicated to ensuring deserving Antiguan students get access to premier education.

Where is Calvin Ayre now?

He subsequently announced his retirement from the online gambling business. In November 2019, Ayre opened Canada Place , a $40 million, five-story office complex in St. John’s, Antigua that will host up to 600 workers by 2020.

What is Bodog worth?

Net Worth: $1.2 Billion
Profession:| Entrepreneur
Nationality:| Canada

Who runs CoinGeek?

CoinGeek founder Calvin Ayre , former online gambling mogul, bets on crypto. Former online gambling mogul Calvin Ayre is betting big on the prospects for cryptocurrencies. But he says it’s about investing in applications, not Bitcoin or other tokens.

What happened to Bodog?

The gambling website Bodog has been shut down and four Canadians indicted, including founder Calvin Ayre, for illegal gambling that generated more than $100 million in winnings, U.S. federal prosecutors say. The website’s domain name was seized Monday and the indictments, which were returned Feb.

Who owns Bovada Casino?

The current owner of Bovada is the Mohawk Morris Gaming Group (MMGG) , a company operating from Kahnawake, an Indian Reservation, in the province of Quebec in Canada. The CEO of MMGG is Alwyn Morris. He has won a gold medal as a sprint kayaker at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games.