Poland:
-888, ipoker, some other sites banned since ~2017 (rio, party and stars work)
-live cash games are prohibited, there are tournaments in some casinos with 25% tax withheld from the prizepool -.-, tournaments with non-monetary prizes worth up to I think 2k PLN are allowed outside casinos
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Originally Posted by thenewoldpro
My theory on this after talking to my Polish friends is that the polish government actually doesn’t want poker because it’s a skill game and a means to a good livelihood for a small percentage of skilled Polish — and man the average polish dude is smart. Look into how difficult it is for Polish to open their own businesses and sell overseas vs overseas businesses opening up there. It’s sad and depressing once you befriend a lot of Polish and see why so many are pessimistic about alll world views.
A state-owned company holds monopoly on lotteries & they recently started their own online casino and that's why they started banning online gambling in ~2017. Our politicians are not very smart tho so stars and few other poker rooms are still accessible here (although there is something called the registry of forbidden domains and for example pokerstars.eu is there and is banned by some ISPs but you can play using their client without problems).
I'm not sure if it's extra difficult to sell overseas as a Polish company but yeah, in general entrepreneurs have to face many difficulties here.