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PokerStars finds it difficult to deter data-mining for hand histories.

Key Takeaways

TonyBet has launched its Open Face Chinese (OFC) poker games in the regulated online market in Denmark.
PokerStars finds it difficult to deter data-mining for hand histories.
Turbo Poker has announced that it is suspending its VIP program.
The imminent introduction of national online gambling licensing in Portugal has led to a spate of reports of poker room exiting the market either in preparation for a license application or permanently.

The addition of Open Face Chinese poker to the Danish regulated market was a spot of positive news in a week dominated by poker room closures in the face of new gambling laws in Portugal.

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Jocelyn Wood, Editor Joss is a graduate in English from the University of Birmingham and has a Master’s Degree in Organisational Development from the University of Manchester. His career path has taken him from the British Army, through business & finance to seven years as a successful professional poker player. His experience of the European Union, law, accounting, finance, regulation and online poker provide the basis for his insights in the PRO specialist categories of Industry and Law & Regulation. As CEO he steered his own company through full Financial Services Authority regulation, and was asked by Morgan Stanley to take their UK mortgage business through the same process. Although British, he lives in Arequipa, Peru, set high in the mountains and surrounded by volcanoes. He is married to a Peruvian and has three children.

Article published on July 06, 2015.

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