Regulation
kicks in worldwide and more and more countries explore the enormous opportunity
that goes along with handing out licenses for online poker and gambling /
sports betting. A side effect for each of those national licenses is a higher
rake, the fees that each operator has to pay and may be unwilling to do so with
higher taxes and segregated player pools that guarantee less profit in the long
run. If you by any chance followed the business news as of lately for Central
Europe, you may have noticed the financial troubles and huge debts for some nations
and it is not surprising that some of them try to establish a new income
through online poker.
According
to a news article on Pokerfirma,
the Portuguese Santa Casa da Misericordia de Lisboa
(SCML), the L’Amministrazione Autonoma dei Monopoli di
Stato (AAMS), the Autorité de Régulation des Jeux En Ligne
(ARJEL) as well as the Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego
(DGOJ) recently discussed ways to
improve the situation. Ultimately, a first step was made when Italy, Spain,
France and Portugal agreed on a more intense cooperation with the purpose of
uniting its player pools to a certain degree in the long run in order to
increase the overall revenue. The project name of this South European Conglomerate
may very well be the following when you consider the current economical climate
of them:
Broke Inc Network (BIN)
Too sarcastic? I don't think so. I am just
trying to figure out how other countries such as Germany try to fit in there as
well since they always want to protect us from the evil gambling addiction
unless we play in live casinos by the state or participate in the national lottery.
And the United States of America may even take on that idea to establish their
own system to offer a national poker network instead of fussing around with
dozens of different licenses by each state. But we will still have to wait for
a while because both presidential candidates have to focus on their election
campaigns for November instead of pulling the economy out of the dirt.
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