Calvin Ayre / Cole Turner

The thieving allegations by Mayan Sports escalated in after years when it was found the Bodog founder and CEO, then using the alias Cole Turner, was actually Calvin Ayre. This was controversial since at the time, the industry wasn’t yet aware that he was supporting El Moro Finance Ltd. (BVI). The true story came out later that he’d raised capital for Cyberoad as a”consultant”, it failed, and a firm he commanded acquired all the assets, in which time he started using an alias (Cole Turner).

This was not the first questionable business dealing between Calvin Ayre.
Calvin AyreThe self-told story about his past is that he had been born to Canadian pig and grain farmers in 1961. After college and several failed business ventures, he sold everything he owned to raise $10,000 in 1994 to start a software company that would become Bodog. What’s frequently omitted from the narrative is that his dad was detained in 1987 for smuggling 750 lbs of marijuana. While Calvin was not charged or arrested, he was referred to by the judge as a co-conspirator who”definitely played a part” In another run in with the legislation, in 1991 he was civilly charged with insider trading, but settled for a $10,000 fine and was banned from the Vancouver Stock Exchange before 2016.

When it was discovered that Cole Turner was really Calvin Ayre (the proprietor of Bodog and eSportz), this made Mayan Sports and many Cyberoad investors mad. It is reasonable to say that Calvin Ayre had no lack of enemies within his early career. But looking ahead to today, Bodog has ever been an honest and respectable gaming site that has paid all winners. Mayan, on the other hand, proved to be a rogue gambling website (D+ rated now ). It is hard without all the details about implicate Calvin Ayre of much, but based on track records conducting a gaming website, Calvin Ayre’s reputation is spotless from the perspective of both Bodog account holders along with their obligations.

The Big Book Closing

To get back on track with the timeline of Bovada history, as mentioned, the company that started Bodog, eSportz was powering The Large Book and sharing a workplace. Each company used the same payment and accounting company too. The narrative of the falling out with Bodog involves a woman named Viktoria Zazoulina (known as Vika) who had immigrated from the Ukraine into Vancouver, BC, Canada in early 1990’s.

Vika chose a position with Kazootek Technologies Ltd. at their beginning (strongly believed to have been a different Calvin Ayre company) that did all the financial accounting for the ebanx payment system. Vika began as a professional accountant and had such a good (perceived) work ethic her managers increased her cover and covered her schooling towards a CGA designation (Canada’s term for CPA). She finally reached the top of the business and hired her buddy Tatiana Kostiouk (known as Tanya).

With time, both Vika and Tanya became signing officers in most of the company’s Kazootek Technologies Ltd. (meaning they had access to all bank accounts). By this time, Vika was a true immigration success story earning over $100,000 each year. But on June 15th of 2001, life shifted. This was the date on which Vika and Tanya signed the first of many tests utilized to embezzle large sums of cash from customers, most of which considered them near buddies. As they stole and got away with it for decades, their confidence rose. They enrolled a new employee, Greg Tanner, to help start a competing firm, which used technology stolen from Kazootek and fund money from their clientele.

According to a article (no longer online) we suspect was written by Calvin Ayre, they soon dragged The Big Book into a plan to become a customer and started conspiring how to steal the source code from eSportz. With an investigation under way to the strange behaviour seen from Vika lately, alarm bells went off when she gave her inaugural notice in mid-2003. Not allowing her to ruin evidence for the subsequent two weeks, she was promptly escorted out of the building, and her computers and office were locked down for forensic audit. The wake was the filling of a lawsuit, and Bodog ending its partnership with The Big Book. From this day forward, Bodog.com was the sole brand powered by the eSportz computer software.

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