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Jose Amado "Ahmed" Cruz Estrada Born July 23, 1978 Davao City, Philippines

Jose Amado Cruz Estrada is the entrepreneur behind the AEGrand Gaming Consultancy, who invented the Roulett Cinq, Bankerplus, Playerplus, Underdog's Baccarat and the Lucky 9 Favorites, all of which, duly trademarked and patented.

Ahmed Estrada is the third and youngest child of the late Atty. Jose Castro Estrada, Ateneo de Davao University professor, law practicioner, ex-judge in Mati, Davao Oriental, and ex-dean at the College of Law in the University of Mindanao, and Ma. Pomona Cruz Estrada, a University of the Philippines Alumnus, a businesswoman, an ecologist and a philantrophist. His two siblings are Jason Joseph Estrada, PTRP, a licensed Real Estate Broker and a businessman in the automobile buy & sell industry, and Maria Indira Estrada-Braxmeier, PTRP and a Registered PT in the United States.

Ahmed started his career in the Gaming Industry at a very young age of 12 as a player or a playing customer. Russian or 13-card poker was his first, then the underground High-Low until it was abolished around 1996. And then into the Casino. Having heard of the similarity of the Big & Small game to the underground High-Low, he started his occasional visits to the local casino. Inside, he was able to observed and shifted to other games like Pai Gow, Blackjack, Roulette and Baccarat. A few months after graduating at the Ateneo de Davao University in 1999, the 21 year old was invited by a friend to take a 1-hour qualifying exam for Table Supervisors(croupiers or card dealers) which he finished in 25 minutes with flying colors, topping the 500 or so wannabe Dealers. He did not stop his stellar performance by being in the Top 5 out of the 55 trainees. Of the 55, 39 were outsiders and 16 were Pagcorians.

After 9 and a half years and 5 branches, in 2009, he was promoted to Pit Supervisor(formerly AGAM or Assistant Gaming Area Manager and now Pit Officer). In this stage in his life he went through some crisis and during recovery, he pursued his almost forgotten ideas. Years of formulating and the instant access of information was the final ingredient of his project.