WPT Global (WPTG) President Alex Scott said his company has the US “very much on our radar” but cautioned that there would no immediate launch state-side.
Scott told that WPTG was obviously thinking about entry into the United States, though its first step into a regulated market would be somewhere with international liquidity.
“The US is the home of poker,” Scott said. “There is no market like the US when it comes to poker. People grow up playing it. It’s really part of the national culture.”
“Really, if you want to maximize the value of anything poker, the US has to play a part in that,” he added. “Yes, obviously, we want to be in the US in the future.”
However, he said the company is looking at several months of work — involving software development, real-time integration, and organizational changes, among other things — before entering any regulated markets, and closed ones like the US will not be top priority.
“It’s a slow process,” Scott said. “There’s an enormous amount of work required to enter all of the regulated markets that are out there. We definitely aspire to be in as many of those regulated markets as we can, but we also know it’s going to be a very difficult challenge.”
