PokerStars was the first online poker room to take advantage of the historic shared liquidity arrangement, that allows operators to merge their player pools from four European countries. They first combined its French and Spanish pool back in January and expanded the pool further by including Portuguese players in May.
A month later, GVC’s online poker room Party Poker became the second operator to launch shared liquidity in Europe’s closed online markets. And now the market has received the third operator, Winamax who opened its door to Spanish players for the first time since its inception and combined pools with their French players.
However, the competition will become heavier soon due to Playtech’s iPoker and 888poker will join the market anytime soon. The firstone already received the license to operate, while the second one operates already in Spain and Italy and is also eyeing a player pool merger.
This competitive environment gives the opportunity to the Pro players to take closers looks at their promotions, game offerings, weekly tournament guarantees, and rake.
European Shared Liquidity Networks Actuality
