Toronto Stock Exchange Gives Amaya Gaming Award

January 30, 2015 by

Amaya Gaming AwardDuring 2014, one of the biggest stories in the online casino world was the big gains that the Amaya Gaming Group were able to make in such a short period of time. The Toronto Stock Exchange has acknowledged this by giving an Amaya Gaming award for the Stock of the Year. What’s more is the their CEO David Baazov was also given the Tech Executive of the Year award. This is really interesting considering they’re currently under investigation, with no charges filed, for the same thing that’s gotten them these awards.

Importance of This Amaya Gaming Award

For the Toronto Stock Exchange to give such an important award to Amaya, it’s really a wake-up call to a lot of countries out there that online gambling can be done in a way that’s responsible and successful without taking advantage of people. Players want to have somewhere to play a variety of games, and with Amaya’s push towards multi-service solutions and their aggression in making this vision a reality, it’s easy to see that they are a great example of the direction that this industry need to be doing.

Multi-Year Considerations

It’s important to note that it’s not just what happened in 2014 that contributed to their award. Amaya first went public in 2010, and they have been consistently making great gains ever since. This is a great example of a company seeming like they went huge overnight when the reality of the situation is that it took years of hard work to put them in the position to be able to take advantage of big opportunities that came their way. Some people would say that it’s luck, but Baazov would tell you that you make your own luck by being prepared more than the competition.

It’s hard to tell what Amaya is going to do next. Some of their changes in PokerStars and Full Tilt haven’t been met with open arms by serious poker players, but they could be the changes that are needed to revive the online poker industry.

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