online poker liquidity-sharing<\/a> between his state and Nevada and Delaware offered a much-needed shot in the arm for the regulated US online poker market and another reason to be optimistic in 2018.<\/p>\nThe addition of New Jersey, with a population of nine million, will boost the potential player pool in the US online poker market to that of a small European country, roughly on a par with Belgium.<\/p>\n
To put that into perspective, several larger European countries sabotaged their own online own poker markets by opting to ring-fence them when they regulated internet play earlier in the decade. But these countries saw the error of their ways in 2017.\u00a0France, Italy, and Spain finally woke up and smelled the coffee (or caf\u00e9, or caff\u00e8) and in October entered into an online poker liquidity-sharing agreement, along with Portugal, which is roughly the size, population-wise, of Pennsylvania.<\/strong><\/p>\nPoliticians, at least in the online gaming arena, largely got it right in 2017. Now it\u2019s down to the regulators to seal these deals in the coming year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On October 30, 2017, Pennsylvania became the fourth US state to legalize online gambling and the first since 2013, when New Jersey, Nevada, and Delaware took that unprecedented leap. Pennsylvania’s push to make internet gambling legal had been in the cards for some time and there had been lots of pressure in Harrisburg to get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":65078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,19,13,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Pennsylvania Joins the US Online Gaming Fray in 2017<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n