Spain awards first online licenses

PokerStars, bwin.party, 888 Poker and Ladbrokes are among the 15 poker rooms that were issued operating licenses in Spain. Although no official list has been released by the Spanish Gambling Commission (DGOJ), several private companies have confirmed that they were granted a license. Recently, many online betting companies paid back taxes to Spanish authorities to clear the way for receiving the licences. These companies were among the first to be allowed to operate in the newly regulated market.

In a press statement issued to Pokerfuse.com, PokerStars stated that it has “plans to launch PokerStars.es on June 5th. For now, Spanish players can continue to compete on www.pokerstars.com as normal and don’t need to take any action.” PokerStars runs other segregated sites, such as ps.It and ps.Fr, with tremendous success.

It seems that bwin.Party will use the Spanish market to finally merge bwin and PartyPoker into a single network. According to a financial report, the company considers that Spain will be a "key merger integration milestone for bwin.party." The report also mentions plans to merge the products “on a new, technologically advanced and fully integrated gaming platform.” It's probable that players with account on bwin.ES and PartyPoker.ES will share the same player pool.

The dot.ES poker rooms will go live on June 5.

oh man...bwin and pp as one spanish network...brb guys moving to spain.

Playing poker in the Canary Islands would be pretty sick. The front lawn of your hotel is the beach.

More player pool segregation :/.

On June 03 2012 16:25 InsideMan wrote: More player pool segregation :/.

yeah terrible. can't stars fight these segregations with the EU? does anyone no if they've tried?

We just need Germany to segregate too, and voila.. no more shortstackers

On June 03 2012 18:01 handbanana21 wrote: We just need Germany to segregate too, and voila.. no more shortstackers

yeah and no more people to play against, excellent.

We're going to be left with Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, China if this continues.

LOL JUICY


not

Yeah retarded... god damn

On June 03 2012 14:02 Zep wrote: oh man...bwin and pp as one spanish network...brb guys moving to spain.

you can actually play on the .es sites. The Spanish regulator "allows" non-spanish to play on .es (as it is on pokerstars.fr) but then it's up to the operators to allow or not the foreigners to sign up.