Italy, France, Spain & Portugal to share liquidity

Europe's four main segregated markets will come together for a more competitive offering with greater game selection.

Next week an agreement for four of Europe's segregated poker markets to share online poker traffic is expected to be signed.

In a joint statement from their regulators they confirmed the agreement on July 6, saying:

This agreement will set the basis for cooperation between the signing authorities and will be followed by further necessary steps within each of the jurisdictions involved in order to effectively allow for liquidity poker tables.

Currently Spain, France, Portugal and Italy only allow poker players to play against others from their own region, but this deal will see the creation of a new Western European shared liquidity, one to rival the main global .com liquidity. This will ensure more game selection and availability, as well as bigger guarantees for tournaments.

No word yet on when to expect this new arrangement to roll out, but technical software testing could begin in September.