Pokerstars withdraws its Spanish online casino offering

December 30, 2014

The Spanish real money online casino offering from Pokerstars has been withdrawn from the market after just two months of operations. The company claims that the withdrawal is necessary for technical tweaks in order to comply with local regulatory requirements on the availability of hand histories. However, industry observers report that the the new enterprise […]

Spain tops in international poker tourney

December 23, 2014

Spain has emerged victorious from the Pokerstars World Cup of Poker online competition which this year – its tenth anniversary – saw players from 96 nations commence battle at the end of November, working through a series of levels and groups until a winner was decided. The NLHE tournament this year was based on free-to-play […]

Pokerstars Spain integrate online casino games

October 2, 2014

Online poker giant PokerStars launched blackjack and roulette in Spain today (Wednesday) via its PokerStars.es domain. The integration of casino games marks the first time PokerStars has offered games other than poker on its platform. The addition of the games and continued growth in social gaming options will help maintain the brand’s leading position in […]

Are Spanish poker players smarter?

March 19, 2014

A new independent study based on 1,027 respondents and commissioned by the Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego – Spains online gambling regulator – suggests that online poker players are on average better educated than the average player encountered in online gambling. The interesting results gleaned from the recently completed survey suggest that: * The […]

No online poker player sharing for the French

December 20, 2013

Regulators from France, Spain and Italy have been discussing the practical need to increase player liquidity in their ring-fenced regulatory regimes by pooling their poker players for months, but on Wednesday the concept – recommended to France’s lawmakers by regulator ARJEL – was shot down…and without much debate. The politicians chose isolation rather than permitting […]