WASHINGTON—What are the odds?
If anyone would know, it would surely be Calvin Ayre.
The lad from Lloydminster, Sask., is today Canada’s newest billionaire and cover boy at Forbes, the U.S.-based magazine that keeps the world’s scorecard on the rich.
The 44-year-old Ayre moved into one of the globe’s most exclusive clubs as founder of Bodog.com, the online gambling behemoth he operates out of Costa Rica because what he’s doing has never been licensed by a government in Canada.
