When Trevor Croker was appointed to run poker machines giant Aristocrat Leisure in March 2017, investors worried he wasn’t up to it .
The stock dropped as much as 12 per cent that day and all the attention was on the outgoing Jamie Odell – an Australian pokies hall-of-famer, if there was such a thing – and how hard he’d be to replace.
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