Meet Our Team
The people behind Blackjack Federation who are passionate about innovation and gaming excellence.
Meet the Team Behind the Blackjack Federation
Paul Lamford
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Paul has written a dozen books on games and gambling including The Amazing Book of Casino Games, and the Harper Collins books Gambling and The Lottery.
He has created over 50 games including Holdem and Foldem, Kwik Kaluki and Mini Mah-Jong. Some of his games have been successful on Bet365, Boyles Sports, Sporting Bet, Betsson and Gromada Games. He also ran a multi-million pound syndicate trading on eight different sports.
He is a multiple winner of bridge and backgammon events, a Grandmaster at bridge and a former British Champion at backgammon. Also he has played for Wales in four chess Olympiads.
Gareth Adamson
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Gareth is a programmer with a background creating business software and database engineering for the insurance sector. He has designed many innovative products and test beds for the betting industry, including Rocabee and Fincore. He is experienced in C#, SQL, Java, Node/ReactJS, object-oriented and distributed software design, including cloud based systems.
Stefanie Rohan
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Our editor, is an English teacher and a bridge International and compiler of the Readers Digest Brain Stretchers and author of the best-selling Daily Star Poker in a Box.
Geoff Hall
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Geoff has been a casino games inventor for the past 25 years, setting up his own successful games company after launching his first product, Blackjack Switch, in the US by himself. He has worked with Shuffle Master and Scientific Games, who have both distributed his products.
Geoff’s most popular Blackjack variant, Freebet Blackjack, is installed in hundreds of casinos Worldwide. Geoff was also at the forefront of setting up the iPoker brand for Playtech, heading a team that worked on helping to design both the interface and back end of the platform.