What Would a Combined Italian and French Online Poker Market Look Like? What Would a Combined Italian and French Online Poker Market Look Like?
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Key Takeaways
  • Italy could be the first to ink an international liquidity sharing agreement with France. The pair share the closest parity in regulations, with similar restrictions on games and stakes.
  • PokerStars would, naturally, be the immediate biggest beneficiary. Its combined PokerStars.FR+IT network would be so large it would be approximately the same size as 888poker—and competing to be the second largest online poker room the the world.
  • Already ranked fifth globally, Winamax should easily stake out a position in Italy and carve out a solid position if it could pool French and Italian players.

Last week, the French senate approved amendments that would allow operators in the French market to share liquidity with other countries that have a similar “high level of regulation.”