PokerStars' Colombia Withdrawal: Closed Liquidity Makes Online Poker Licensing Unworkable PokerStars' Colombia Withdrawal: Closed Liquidity Makes Online Poker Licensing Unworkable
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Key Takeaways
  • “Our experience as the global leader in online poker is that access to shared global liquidity promotes a healthy consumer-operator-regulator relationship.”
  • PokerStars exited on Monday following the first online gambling block implemented last week.
  • A new licensing regime recently came into force and the very first license was issued for online sports betting last month.

The lack of sensible online gaming regulation in Colombia, which would require closed rather than open online poker liquidity, forced the online poker leader out of the market on Monday, PRO has learned.