After the monumental agreement was struck between France, Italy, Spain and Portugal to allow their respective countries to share online poker player pools for the first time, the poker world — or at least those lucky soon-to-be beneficiaries in Europe — rejoiced.
That was back in July. As the end of 2017 approaches, interested parties are naturally beginning to wonder, when will the shared liquidity take effect?
France’s online gambling regulator ARJEL is one of the more vocal interested parties. Italy's AssoPoker reported on Monday that ARJEL President Charles Coppolani contacted their Italian gambling regulator counterpart in an effort to gauge the country’s progress toward shared liquidity realization.