For credit card deposit this might be accurate. I managed to deposit and play (depositing through paysafe and skrill) without being fully verified yet. I have uploaded only the ID Card but no utility bill yet. Funnily enough they edited a couple datas of my account based on my ID, yet my country still says Spain (while I registered eith Country being Germany), yet at the tables I have seen people from numerous locations, including Germany, Russia and Slovenia/Slovakia (can't remember)

Can confirm. Looked up NL cash fields (50-200) and they seem to be really bad. Looks like people are just grinding rake. ...without the "back" part. Sad.

Wait a few weeks when all the Portuguese regs enter this market
, then it will be even "better".

Same issues. Atm you need two seperate numbers.

For every player from portugal there will be two players from russia etc. Just mark my words.

If Russians regs want to come to a reg infested market with small liquidity (reading what i see above) , we welcome them, they show for a start not to have a very good perception ability.

And dont worry when you see you cant win you can always go back , the others are not going anywhere because they cant.

A very considerable % of the players in Portugal are regs , playing in tables with 1 fish for the last 6 months.

No problem , gl

You are kidding about Portuguese regs, right?
The only problem are Soviet nit bots, they will destroy this network just as they are destroying online poker everywhere. I was planning to move to Italy to play when the shared market agreement was reached, but now there is no real incentive , it's a site like any other, even a bit on the reggish side.
I am trying to grasp the Pokerstars motivation for this surprising move. I guess one motives is getting traffic as high as possible so Winamax stays faaaar behind. A penny from russian nits, 3 pennies from casino games, Stars success formula.

Actually not , Portugal is one of the Countries in Europe with bigger Reg % (you probably dont know , but Pokerstars always said Portugal was a priority in oficcial statements , they know
what rake they made when the market was open)
even though small it has a considerable amount of pro and semi pro players , MTTs , Cash , HU , you will see many of the best players in the last years are from here , many are playing around Europe waiting to get back , ofc a 10 million country cannot compare to the USA with 300 million , im talking about the ratio per player
ATM here you have tons of decent/average players who surely are not going to be a lot profitable to play against even if you are good.
Just sign up and try it out , should take 2-3 months they say.

is there any page/faq that explains what is now accepted and not?

If I have a stars.FR account, and played on stars.fr until jan 2017 as a EU citizen, is it now OK to start play with it again? And would there be any reasons at all to create an .ES account instead?

u can't login on .ES with .FR account - http://prntscr.com/i6oalk . u gotta make new

whats the difference to logging in to stars.fr with a fr account and stars.es with a es account then? same pool right?

If you play from .fr your rake tax goes to France.

If you play from .es your rake tax goes to Spain.

That's the difference. Spanish tax is less heavy and a bigger % of the winnings goes to stars, that's why they want you playing from .es.

is the rake higher on .ES ? any difference with .COM?

the .ES software dont want to open

And poker is not the only product you can buy at .es

With the chest system it's impossible to track, but the expected worth of chests/promotions is probably also higher at .ES because of the lower taxes.

Are you running it as admin?

anyone tried playing on EU and ES simultaneously? is this ok?

Yes.

is it possible to deposit and cashout using skrill?

Portugal is ready (from the legal point) to enter this pool and that is expected in the next days!

Or months.

I heard the pen just ran out of ink by the time the legislation was going to be signed
They have a chinese supplier, lets hope its airmail.

As of Today shared liquidity is legal in Portugal. Let's see if PokerStars is as quick to include us as they were with Spain or if on the other hand they'll wait until the Turbo Series are over to merge the pools.

what's the rake like?

Awful if you are playing the smaller stakes. But the good news is with the 1st deposit bonus and the coffins you're actually getting a decent rb%.