[1] In connection with PartyGaming, in 2009 he pled guilty to one count of online gambling in violation of the Federal Wire Act and received a $300 million fine.
[5] Following graduation, Dikshit worked as a software developer in the United States at CMC,[citation needed] as a systems analyst, and later for Websci and AT&T as a consultant.
[7][5] In 1997, he and his college fellow alumni Vikrant Bhargava founded PartyPoker.com,[2] with American Ruth Parasol hiring Dikshit to write the software in 1998.
[7] He joined in 1998, one year after it was founded by Parasol,[7][1] and wrote the software that "allowed gamblers in different parts of the world to pay poker with one another.
"[1] Starluck Casino was launched as PartyPoker in 2001 after Dikshit and Parasol switched their focus from roulette and blackjack to poker.
[7] In May 2006 Dikshit stepped down from PartyGaming's board of directors[1][2] and took a position as head of the company's research and special projects.
[11][1][12] "I came to believe there was a high probability it was in violation of U.S. laws", Dikshit told U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff in New York, referring to PartyGaming's activity.
[4][13] According to Forbes, he donated the proceeds from the sales to the Kusuma Trust, a charity he'd founded several years prior to aid at-risk children.