RuPoker Launches in the CIS and Russian Markets RuPoker Launches in the CIS and Russian Markets
Key Takeaways
  • RuPoker has launched a Russian language poker room targeted at customers in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
  • Poker operators targeting this market have had considerable success in the last couple of years.
  • Russia has begun actively suppressing online poker sites with their addition to a blacklist of internet sites, and court rulings that forbid Russian internet service providers from allowing access to gambling sites.

RuPoker has launched a Russian language poker room targeted at customers in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

The poker room uses a poker client developed by Connective Games which was recently shortlisted in three categories in the EGR B2B Awards for 2015, including for Poker Software.