The Italian Market Decline: Lack of Interest--or the Impact of the Gray Market?
Key Takeaways
  • The latest estimates of the fall in online poker activity in Italy’s regulated market make for dismal reading.
  • Dollaro’s traffic has seen some of the global decline, but it has outperformed the regulated Italian market by 20%, most of which has occurred in the last six months.
  • The success of such “gray” market operators provides a strong argument that players in Italy are deserting the regulated market, rather than deserting online poker itself.

The latest estimates of the fall in online poker activity in Italy’s regulated market make for dismal reading. In the past, regulator AAMS has attempted to dismiss this as the result of a lack of interest in online poker.