Channing named CEO of Black Belt
Majority shareholder takes over responsibility from former chief Warren Wooldridge.
Black Belt Poker majority shareholder Neil Channing has been named as the new chief executive of the poker skin, eGaming Review can confirm.
Channing, who was one of the founders of the company in 2009, takes over from Warren Wooldridge, who is moving away from the operational side of poker and looking forward to this summer’s World Series.
Before turning to poker, where he has just shy of US$3m in live tournament earnings, Channing worked in the egaming industry through spells with the likes of IG Index. Wooldridge, meanwhile, is a former CEO of EasyOdds.
“For a while now I’ve been getting excited at the prospect of the next online poker boom and being much more involved day-to-day to see it evolve has got me leaping out of bed at times when poker players are usually arriving home,” Channing told eGR.
Black Belt Poker, a white-label of Boylesports, sits on Playtech’s iPoker network.