While many in the poker media have got excited about France, Italy, Spain and Portugal sharing online poker liquidity, not everybody feels as optimistic.
If you get your online poker news from a variety of news sources, you may have noticed a fairly positive reception for the news that regulators in France, Italy, Spain and Portugal have signed a shared liquidity agreement that will merge their four ring-fenced markets into one pan-European online poker market.
“Many industry observers feel that merging the four ring-fenced markets into one will halt their respective declines and herald a new dawn for online poker in Europe”
On Twitter, Alex Dreyfus (CEO of Mediarex) described the shared liquidity agreement as great news … for poker consumers and fans in Europe.
However, not everybody agrees. Although a pan-European online poker market should result in more cash action during peak hours and more valuable tournaments at weekends, concerns have been raised that French players will dominate the new market, resulting in online players from other jurisdictions (READ SO: BRAZIL PUTS IN RISK THE GLOBAL POKER SHARE LIQUIDITY) looking elsewhere for their poker action if they bother to join the new player pool at all.
