The Irish Times reported that the Dublin based Full Tilt Poker subsidiary, Pocket Kings, would increase employment from 700 to 800 people. Pocket Kings has acted as a service provider to Full Tilt Poker in Dublin since 2006. There is a close relationship between the two as one of Pocket Kings’s two directors is Ray Bitar, who is one of the founders of the US-based Full Tilt Poker that controls Pocket Kings.
A company spokeswoman said yesterday the numbers employed at the company had almost doubled from the 390 employed at the end of April 2009.
“This growth trend is estimated to continue at this strong rate for all of 2011 and beyond. All of our positions are for highly skilled technical and marketing positions with a significant number requiring a second European language.”
As Full Tilt has grown into many new markets, so has the specialization required for many of the new positions, some of which include fraud analysts for the Italian, German and French markets along with Norwegian, Japanese, Greek, Russian, Hebrew and Korean customer service agents.
“Ireland has always been an attractive location for us and continues to be so,” said the company spokeswoman. “The accessibility to a skilled and educated workforce in Ireland along with an attractive corporation tax rate continues to be deciding factors in our decision to remain here.”
