Key Takeaways
- Until last week, Spanish players seeking an alternative to playing on their own nationally regulated online poker rooms could play on the French regulated Winamax.
- Winamax has now begun closing the accounts of players resident in Spain, and automatically returning their deposits.
- The French regulatory system does not prevent the company from accepting players from other countries in the EU, although Winamax has adopted a “pick and mix” strategy—which it has not publicized—of accepting players from some EU jurisdictions and not from others.
- What is worrying is that Spanish and Italian players who have already rejected their own country’s nationally regulated poker rooms to play on Winamax, may well seek another offshore poker room that provides much less consumer protection than they received under the French regulated system.
Until last week, Spanish players seeking an alternative to playing on their own nationally regulated online poker rooms could play on the French regulated Winamax. Winamax has now begun closing the accounts of players resident in Spain, and automatically returning their deposits.
