Online Poker in Spain 2012

Modest beginnings for online poker in Spain, with “professionals and high-value customers” staying away from Spanish sites due to income tax confusion.

Important lingering questions over an existing unworkable tax code—that requires Spanish players to pay income tax on winnings without deducting losses—mars an otherwise successful launch of regulated online poker in Spain.

PokerStars, PartyPoker, 888 and skins on Microgaming and Ongame launch their segregated dot.ES online poker rooms.

With less than a day to go, there is still the question on whether players will be able to migrate existing accounts to new dot.ES rooms—or whether they face losing their VIP points and status.

Major poker rooms among 15 operators to confirm receipt of an online poker license; rooms will go live on the morning of Tuesday, June 5.

A last minute “clarification” from the Spanish regulator: Existing operators cannot transfer player accounts nor their balances, VIP points or statuses from dot.com to new dot.ES platforms.

It was apparently tempting fate when just yesterday pokerfuse reported that, “it appears that—for real this…

With the last-minute back-tax payments, settlements and rumor, which of the major poker rooms and networks can we expect to have a presence in Spain soon?

Operating cost will be split 50/50 with the players, as PokerStars leaves no doubt that they plan to be a major player in the new Spanish market.

Sportingbet is the latest operator to fall in-line with the demands of the Spanish Tax Authority, confirming in a…

PartyPoker should be one of the first to receive a license in Spain next month as bwin.party has agreed to pay €31m in…

PokerStars has invited representatives from leading Spanish community site Poker-Red and its sister training site…