Market Report: Italy’s Online Poker Traffic Continues Decline

Switch from unregulated to regulated sites not enough to stem the drop in revenue from online poker, AAMS reports.

Key Takeaways

Despite increases in other forms of online gambling, revenue in Q1 2013 for online poker continues is precipitous decline.
PokerStars.IT has actually increased in this time; declines come from other operators.

Italian Regulator AAMS has again reported large falls in online poker revenues. Tournament poker is down over 36% and cash games down over 34% based on the same quarter last year.

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Jocelyn Wood, Editor Joss is a graduate in English from the University of Birmingham and has a Master’s Degree in Organisational Development from the University of Manchester. His career path has taken him from the British Army, through business & finance to seven years as a successful professional poker player. His experience of the European Union, law, accounting, finance, regulation and online poker provide the basis for his insights in the PRO specialist categories of Industry and Law & Regulation. As CEO he steered his own company through full Financial Services Authority regulation, and was asked by Morgan Stanley to take their UK mortgage business through the same process. Although British, he lives in Arequipa, Peru, set high in the mountains and surrounded by volcanoes. He is married to a Peruvian and has three children.

Article published on May 15, 2013.

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