Lyle Berman, a legendary Minnesota businessman and a member of the American Gaming Association’s Gaming Hall of Fame, is getting into the emerging esports gaming industry and is reuniting with one of his previous gaming businesses in his latest venture.
Berman, 77, a co-founder of Grand Casinos Inc., is using a special-purpose acquisition company based in Minnesota, Black Ridge Acquisition Corp., to buy two companies and form Allied Esports Entertainment.
“Esports is going to explode,” Berman said. “By everybody’s prediction there are more people who will be watching it [esports] in a few years than watch the NFL, NBA and baseball combined.”
Full article: http://www.startribune.com/casino-industry-veteran-lyle-berman-bets-on-esports-gaming-company/503571412/
Submitted January 03, 2019 at 02:14AM by Visionswas http://bit.ly/2LNdSeB
