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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD align=left VALGIN="TOP">5/26/2005</TD></TR><TR><TH align=left VALGIN="TOP">Interview with Ken Weitzner</TH></TR><TR><TD align=left VALGIN="TOP"><META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1498" name=GENERATOR><STYLE></STYLE>
Who is Ken Weitzner?
While many consider me to be one of the pioneers and visionaries of the offshore sports betting industry, my true friends who really know me - all 3 of them! - would say that Ken Weitzner is the most competitive, cutthroat individual they know. I don’t accept failure. I don’t get involved in anything unless the odds are stacked in my favor. I will do what it takes to succeed. It is this unyielding spirit to be the most successful gambler and competitor that drives me.
I see life as being a series of opportunities. What separates the winners from the losers is how they handle those opportunities. The winner will run toward it, while the loser either won’t recognize the opportunity or will shy away from it. I am committed to being a winner.
When and why did you decide to launch TheRx?
When I bought my first computer back in 1995, I was a moron. I didn’t know the difference between AOL and the internet! In fact, I thought they were the same thing. While surfing around one night, I happened to run into an ad for WSEX.com. When I visited their website, I expected to see nude women but instead found something I love even more, GAMBLING!!! I was so impressed that I could gamble online, that I thirsted for more knowledge of this industry. In fact, I attended the First International Symposium on Internet Gambling Law & Management in Washington D.C. shortly thereafter.
Lo and behold, one of the founders of WSEX.com was a featured speaker. After listening to him, along with 20 others - all much younger, wiser, and more importantly, wealthier - I wanted in. Some of them were millionaires and only half my age! Although I wanted so badly to open up an offshore sports book, a voice inside me kept whispering that I could end up in prison. More importantly, I knew that my wife would not want to relocate to a third world country. Suddenly I was hit with the idea that since I only lucked into finding an online sports book, that there was a need for a web-based platform with whom sports books could advertise! Being a Psychiatrist, I founded TheRx.com - a complete misnomer - but it worked. I tried to make it everything that a gambler would want so that eventually, advertisers would come knocking on my door. The rest, as they say, is history.
Has directing TheRx changed your personality and your lifestyle?
Yes. I would be lying if I didn’t say that making money has changed me to some degree. This is inevitable in most circumstances. But as far as my personality is concerned, I have probably changed for the better. I don’t trust everyone as easily as I used to since I have been burned and sued so much in this business. But more importantly, I am so grateful to be where I am in life. I remind myself constantly of my roots when reaching out and talking to others. Because I grew up in a very difficult home, I judge people by the size of their heart, not the size of their wallet. However, some things about me will never change; I am a risk taker as always and I still fear failure.
Which would you consider you biggest achievements?
My biggest achievements? Well, not necessarily in order they are: being a good husband to my wife, a good son to my mother and a proper role model to my children and five beautiful grandchildren. Others include graduating from medical school, receiving my MD and completing a residency in Psychiatry. Lastly, being the founder and leader of what many consider to be one of the most respected online gambling portals of them all, TheRx.com, makes me very proud.
And which are your biggest mistakes?
One of my biggest mistakes would be not listening more closely to my wife’s suggestions. The saying that there is a great woman behind every successful man could not be more true of my wife, Jackie. Without her, I would probably be dead today. I am not kidding.
Looking back, would you do anything different?
I try not to have regrets in life, so I am not sure what I would do differently. Perhaps, if anything, I would have recognized the importance of a close family life earlier in my childhood. My father was a terrible alcoholic and I learned to hide my feelings most of the time. I craved for some sense of normalcy in my family. So I married into one. I have learned so much through the years and the older I get, the more my family means to me.
Ken Weitzner and betting: what kind of gambler are you?
Many would consider me a sharp gambler, but I am not as hard to beat as some bookmakers might tell you. To be honest, though, I don’t know of any that I have lost money with over the past five years. I have been kicked out of more sports books for winning than I care to mention. I love underdogs and unders as a rule because quite often there is more value betting them, particularly since the public generally loves the favorites and the overs, especially in the NFL. I can be emotional and have been known to break a few television sets as well, so I don’t watch the games as often as I used to.
What do you think about legislators attempts to prohibit gambling?
Legislators can try all they want to prohibit internet gambling, but they won’t be able to do so. They have screwed themselves by allowing for some exceptions to their morality argument, such as allowing people to wager online with parimutuel horce racing. Also, the rising popularity of poker really hurts any chance of them being able to outlaw this industry. It’s hard to tell millions of adults that a simple game they play online is immoral. Please don’t get me started on how arrogant their position is to begin with. Let’s just say I’d be willing to place an online wager with any sports book for a limit bet that internet gambling will be around longer than I (so long as a family member of mine can collect, of course.)
What’s in Ken Weitzer future?
If I told you what was in Ken Weitzner’s future, I’d have to shoot you immediately! I will give you the first hint by suggesting there needs to be a website for gamblers that incorporates the BEST of what some of the BEST do already.
Now wouldn’t that be nice?
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courtesy of www.theoffshorewire.com
THE NEWS WIRES
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD align=left VALGIN="TOP">5/26/2005</TD></TR><TR><TH align=left VALGIN="TOP">Interview with Ken Weitzner</TH></TR><TR><TD align=left VALGIN="TOP"><META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1498" name=GENERATOR><STYLE></STYLE>
Who is Ken Weitzner?
While many consider me to be one of the pioneers and visionaries of the offshore sports betting industry, my true friends who really know me - all 3 of them! - would say that Ken Weitzner is the most competitive, cutthroat individual they know. I don’t accept failure. I don’t get involved in anything unless the odds are stacked in my favor. I will do what it takes to succeed. It is this unyielding spirit to be the most successful gambler and competitor that drives me.
I see life as being a series of opportunities. What separates the winners from the losers is how they handle those opportunities. The winner will run toward it, while the loser either won’t recognize the opportunity or will shy away from it. I am committed to being a winner.
When and why did you decide to launch TheRx?
When I bought my first computer back in 1995, I was a moron. I didn’t know the difference between AOL and the internet! In fact, I thought they were the same thing. While surfing around one night, I happened to run into an ad for WSEX.com. When I visited their website, I expected to see nude women but instead found something I love even more, GAMBLING!!! I was so impressed that I could gamble online, that I thirsted for more knowledge of this industry. In fact, I attended the First International Symposium on Internet Gambling Law & Management in Washington D.C. shortly thereafter.
Lo and behold, one of the founders of WSEX.com was a featured speaker. After listening to him, along with 20 others - all much younger, wiser, and more importantly, wealthier - I wanted in. Some of them were millionaires and only half my age! Although I wanted so badly to open up an offshore sports book, a voice inside me kept whispering that I could end up in prison. More importantly, I knew that my wife would not want to relocate to a third world country. Suddenly I was hit with the idea that since I only lucked into finding an online sports book, that there was a need for a web-based platform with whom sports books could advertise! Being a Psychiatrist, I founded TheRx.com - a complete misnomer - but it worked. I tried to make it everything that a gambler would want so that eventually, advertisers would come knocking on my door. The rest, as they say, is history.
Has directing TheRx changed your personality and your lifestyle?
Yes. I would be lying if I didn’t say that making money has changed me to some degree. This is inevitable in most circumstances. But as far as my personality is concerned, I have probably changed for the better. I don’t trust everyone as easily as I used to since I have been burned and sued so much in this business. But more importantly, I am so grateful to be where I am in life. I remind myself constantly of my roots when reaching out and talking to others. Because I grew up in a very difficult home, I judge people by the size of their heart, not the size of their wallet. However, some things about me will never change; I am a risk taker as always and I still fear failure.
Which would you consider you biggest achievements?
My biggest achievements? Well, not necessarily in order they are: being a good husband to my wife, a good son to my mother and a proper role model to my children and five beautiful grandchildren. Others include graduating from medical school, receiving my MD and completing a residency in Psychiatry. Lastly, being the founder and leader of what many consider to be one of the most respected online gambling portals of them all, TheRx.com, makes me very proud.
And which are your biggest mistakes?
One of my biggest mistakes would be not listening more closely to my wife’s suggestions. The saying that there is a great woman behind every successful man could not be more true of my wife, Jackie. Without her, I would probably be dead today. I am not kidding.
Looking back, would you do anything different?
I try not to have regrets in life, so I am not sure what I would do differently. Perhaps, if anything, I would have recognized the importance of a close family life earlier in my childhood. My father was a terrible alcoholic and I learned to hide my feelings most of the time. I craved for some sense of normalcy in my family. So I married into one. I have learned so much through the years and the older I get, the more my family means to me.
Ken Weitzner and betting: what kind of gambler are you?
Many would consider me a sharp gambler, but I am not as hard to beat as some bookmakers might tell you. To be honest, though, I don’t know of any that I have lost money with over the past five years. I have been kicked out of more sports books for winning than I care to mention. I love underdogs and unders as a rule because quite often there is more value betting them, particularly since the public generally loves the favorites and the overs, especially in the NFL. I can be emotional and have been known to break a few television sets as well, so I don’t watch the games as often as I used to.
What do you think about legislators attempts to prohibit gambling?
Legislators can try all they want to prohibit internet gambling, but they won’t be able to do so. They have screwed themselves by allowing for some exceptions to their morality argument, such as allowing people to wager online with parimutuel horce racing. Also, the rising popularity of poker really hurts any chance of them being able to outlaw this industry. It’s hard to tell millions of adults that a simple game they play online is immoral. Please don’t get me started on how arrogant their position is to begin with. Let’s just say I’d be willing to place an online wager with any sports book for a limit bet that internet gambling will be around longer than I (so long as a family member of mine can collect, of course.)
What’s in Ken Weitzer future?
If I told you what was in Ken Weitzner’s future, I’d have to shoot you immediately! I will give you the first hint by suggesting there needs to be a website for gamblers that incorporates the BEST of what some of the BEST do already.
Now wouldn’t that be nice?
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