France and Spain shared player pool is live on PokerStars!
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Originally Posted by NL Eagle
Hood, i think this cant be correct. It took years and years to come to a player pool with France, PT, IT if all foreign countries are allowed to play from a Spanish license that would be complete ridiculous regarding the enourmous amounts of time they had to put into a seperate pool.
I can assure you, that is the case. I am quite familiar with the rules in Spain. The Spanish regs allow anyone - even outside of Europe - to have a Spanish account. 888 did this for a while when they opened their Spanish site.
edit: so did partypoker
http://pokerfuse.com/news/law-and-re...anish-players/
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Besides that, in Spain we have to apply for a NIE tax number/social number and show a recent utility bill with our name and Spanish adress to all Spanish pokerclients.
The law states that this is needed for Spanish citizens. For international players, some other form of equivalent ID is all that's required.
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Cellphone invoices etc are not allowed, they are very strict and obviously because of government demanding this.
Much of this is operator-implemented KYC and/or internal decisions to keep the player pool Spanish only. PokerStars learned from their mistakes in France and kept Spanish player pool Spain only (tho they did let you play when outside the country, at least for a period. I have an NIE and played outside the country until i think 2014-2015 until they changed their policy.
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My 2 cents: Winamax will create two seperate servers/clients. Winamax for the ROW, and the new Winamax with the French/Spanish/Portuguese/Italian where they can always add other countries into in the future if those countries manage to get legal entry into this newly created playerpool.
This is absolutely an option open to them, but they've showed no interest in operating in ROW as yet. They have no Malta/IOM license, they withdrew from the UK when POC laws game in (rather than launch a seperate player pool).
The UK is by far Europe's largest regulated market; if they didn't fancy operating there, i'm not sure they want to operate a seperate player pool for their, i'm assuming quite minor, German and Skandi player base.
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Originally Posted by fuufuufuu
That would require a change in French laws for Winamax.fr to kick EU players out. Of course it's possible that there is a requirement for that in the new agreement.
I would agree. Same with Spanish regs.
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""ARJEL said the operator must ensure that its brand only shares liquidity within the borders of the jurisdictions that participate in the project.""
I do not agree with this intepretation that was published a month or two back from some media outlets.
Last edited by Hood; 01-16-2018 at 11:54 AM.