Partypoker to benefit from European shared poker player pool.

By RP, June 1, 2018

The French gambling group Pari Mutuel Urbain (PMU) which operates on the PartyPoker network, has announced that it will launch into the joint liquidity pool of France, Spain and Portugal next Monday.

“Starting Monday, June 4th, the table sharing with Spain will be effective on PMU Poker. As good news never comes alone, we take the opportunity to announce our new MTT schedule with more than Euro 5 million guaranteed in a month” the French online poker operator revealed in a Twitter post.

InfoPowa readers will recall that in April this year the French regulator ARJEL approved PMU and B.E.S. SAS for online poker liquidity operations with the three other European Union member states that have agreed to share their regulated market’s online poker players.

B.E.S. SAS is the local subsidiary of Bwin, the sports betting brand of GVC Holdings, which also controls the PartyPoker online poker brand.

PartyPoker now joins pioneer PokerStars in the shared plyer pool. ARJEL has also approved Kindred Group and Betclic Everest Group on the iPoker network for shared liquidity operations, and back in February this year France’s leading online poker operator Winamax received approval.

The fourth nation in the shared player pool project – Italy – has yet to join Spain, France and Portugal due to regulatory and political delays.