Jdigital applauded the positive impact of new regulatory changes while its President, Mikel López de Torre, explained that “these figures show the good work that is being done on regulatory issues in the field of online gaming in Spain, offering users an attractive and safe market at the same time.”
Shared liquidity will continue to provide a major boost to the poker sector after the DGOJ reported that online poker generated revenues of just €60m during 2015 – a 40% decrease compared to 2012 when online gaming was first regulated.
These figures were highlighted in May 2016 by founder of Jdigital Sacha Michaud in a statement. “If we go back to 2011, just before the sector was regulated, we see that online poker was one of the segments with the greatest potential with a progressive growth from 2007 to 2011, rising from €40m to overcoming the €100m barrier. However, hasty regulation without taking into account certain repercussions changed the .es platform and Spain into an unattractive destination for players.”
However, in July 2017 Spain agreed shared liquidity with France, Italy and Portugal meaning that licensed operators in Spain began to merge cash game pools from the three countries soon afterwards. Since then poker has been on the rise.
According to the latest statistics released by the DGOJ in its 4th quarterly report on the development of the online gambling market (October-December 2018) poker filed an increase of 6.40% over the previous quarter and an increase of 36.54% year on year. The increase is mainly due to cash poker, which recorded a growth in the quarter of 8.95%.
Source: GMB / Jdigital
