Key Takeaways
- Closed liquidity may go down in online poker’s relatively short history as one of its greatest mistakes.
- Regulators have learned from mistakes made in Europe’s first closed liquidity markets.
- Shared liquidity is trending in Europe, the US and other jurisdictions around the world.
Closed liquidity may go down in online poker’s relatively short history as one of its greatest mistakes.
Often, it has been justified with legitimate concerns of consumer protection in mind. At other times, local bricks-and-mortar operators faced with the prospect of competing with established online operators convinced regulators to consider proposals that would “level the playing field.”
Whatever the reason, the last five years have seen the proliferation of segregated online poker. In major markets across Europe, the United States, and even South America, countries passed regulated online gaming with laws that restricted how operators could pool their players.
