Isai Scheinberg
Canadian businessman
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Isai Scheinberg (Hebrew: ישי שיינברג; born 1946 or 1947) is the Lithuanian Jewish[1][2] founder of the PokerStars online poker site. Scheinberg previously had been a senior programmer for IBM Canada.[3]
Isai Scheinberg | |
|---|---|
ישי שיינברג | |
| Born | 1946/47 |
| Occupations | Co-founder and former co-owner, PokerStars |
| Children | Mark Scheinberg |
Biography
In about 1986, Scheinberg left Israel, and moved to Toronto. He settled there in Richmond Hill, where in 2011 he still owned the house he had bought in 1988.[2]
In 2011, Scheinberg was indicted on five criminal charges related to Pokerstars under United States federal laws.[4] In September 2020, he was sentenced to pay a fine of $30,000 with no jail time.[5]
Scheinberg sold his stake in Pokerstars to Amaya Gaming in 2014 for $4.9 billion.[6]
Well known for his sense of personal privacy, he gave his first ever media interview to Lance Bradley in 2021.[7]