Regulation Insight
Key Takeaways
  • After some sixteen months out of the market, PokerStars received a license to operate online poker and casino games in Portugal.
  • An amendment has been proposed in France that would dissolve ARJEL.
  • More efforts to ban online gaming in the US have been discovered.

Portugal

After some sixteen months out of the market, PokerStars received a license to operate online poker and casino games in Portugal, only the fifth license to be issued in the country, and the first for online poker.