A New Era for European Online Poker: PokerStars France and Spain Combine Player Pools A New Era for European Online Poker: PokerStars France and Spain Combine Player Pools
Key Takeaways
  • “The French and Spanish regulators have done an excellent job in enabling a dramatic improvement in the gaming experience in their jurisdictions.”
  • The Spin and Go lobby appears separate, tournaments above €250 buy-in are exclusive to France, and only Spain has a casino tab.

PokerStars has become the very first operator to share its online poker player pool between Spain and France, a key milestone in the path towards opening the player pools in regulated European markets.

On Tuesday afternoon, barely 24 hours after the Spanish cross-border liquidity sharing resolution was published in the state gazette, PokerStars announced that it had launched the world’s first Franco-Spanish liquidity pool.