Casino City's iGaming Pocket Directory - 2019 Edition

70 Sponsored by Casino City’s iGaming Pocket Directory Poker Poker POKER InduStRy OvERvIEw Online poker in Spain generated €60.7 million through the first nine months of 2018, according to the Directorate General for the Regulation of Gambling, already eclipsing the €59.7 million collected in all of 2017, with more than €5 million per month expected during the final quarter of the year. In the U.S., online poker continued to be the proverbial odd man out in an emerging iGaming market, with online casinos outperforming poker by as much as a 7-to-1 margin in recent years. In an effort to change that, Delaware, New Jersey and Nevada began shared liquidity for poker in May 2018, prompting WSOP.com ’s Head of Online Poker Bill Rini to call it “a monumental day for online poker in the United States.” However, modest numbers were reported in Q3 2018 (overall online poker revenue was down 14.5% year-over-year in New Jersey), meaning it will be even more “monumental” if Pennsylvania joins the fray at some point. The Keystone State is expected to launch a fenced-in online poker market in 2019, and with a population of almost as much as Delaware, New Jersey and Nevada combined, adding Pennsylvania to the shared pool would be a huge boost.