WPT Global president departs after almost three years at the poker firm

The president of WPT Global, Alex Scott, has announced he is stepping down from the online poker operator.

With investors “pivoting to focus on the Asian markets”, he said it was the right time to exit the A5 Labs-powered platform.

Isle of Man-based Scott joined WPT Global as general manager in April 2022, becoming the fully remote startup’s seventh employee. He was appointed president in January 2024.

Under his leadership, the site grew to become at one point the world’s second-largest poker operator, generating nine figures of revenue and employing 100 people globally.

According to poker traffic resource PokerScout, WPT Global currently has a seven-day average of 2,500 players at the cash game tables, putting it in third spot among the leading sites.

Just slightly above WPT Global is PokerStars with a seven-day average of 2,700 cash-game players, yet there is a gulf between the pair and market leader GGPoker, which has an average of 11,000 cash-game players over the past seven days.

WPT Global, which has tended to steer clear of regulated countries and instead targeted grey markets, branched out into casino and sports betting in recent years. 

Scott said on LinkedIn: “I’m proud of what we achieved together in the past three years.

“Building a startup from scratch isn’t easy, and growing it to be the second-largest poker cash game pool in such a short space of time (not to mention a successful casino and sports betting operator as well) was beyond my expectations when I joined as employee number seven.

“With our investors now pivoting to focus on the Asian markets, it is the right time for me to step away.”

He didn’t reveal whether he was staying in the industry but said that he looked forward to “sharing what’s next soon”.

Starting out as a brand manager for the World Poker Tour in 2005, Scott transitioned to a freelance journalist and, in 2006, joined PokerStars where he was employed primarily as a poker room analyst.

In early 2011, he was hired by Full Tilt Poker as head of product design, shortly before the US Department of Justice seized the domains of leading poker sites, including Full Tilt Poker, in what was know in poker circles as ‘Black Friday’.

Scott later spent seven years between 2013 and 2020 working for Microgaming’s poker network, before a brief switch to the financial trading industry.

He then ran his own online poker consultancy business for almost three years ahead of the move to WPT Global.

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