Cash Game Online Poker Revenues the Black Mark in Spanish Market Q1 Report

Poker revenues drop over 6% while revenues from other gambling activities rise.

Key Takeaways

The first quarter report from DGOJ shows that revenues from regulated poker decreased by 4.9% over the same period last year.
The total number of poker players was down 4.6% on last year, with 573,000 players recorded by the regulator.
Revenues from cash game poker were down 6.29%, and from tournament poker they dropped 0.4%.

The first quarter report from Spanish regulator DGOJ shows that revenues from regulated poker decreased by 4.9% compared to the same period 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 June 09, 2014.

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