All Hail the Italian Online Casino Market
New statistics within the online casino gambling and poker industries are
showing that the Italian market is a booming hotspot for poker action. Studies
conducted by StageUp Sport and Leisure Business and Ipsos noted that the market
has really surged in the past year and the number of online caisno and poker
gambling companies vying for a piece of the market has also increased. The
Italian government has slowly become more liberal in terms of the sectors of the
internet gambling industry allowed to operate. Italian regulations previously
only allowed online betting and the such but new policies have begun to allow
companies holding an Italian gambling license to offer skill based games –
including internet poker.
The legalization and expansion of online casino poker gambling in the Italian
market is still fairly new and the market analysis shows that as the poker
gambling companies begin to penetrate the market the number of poker gamblers
will rise significantly. Online poker gambling has previously been illegal and
there was little access to those types of sites. But with the legalization of
this sector of the market internet gamers and bettors who have never before
participated in the game are expected to head to the internet poker tables.
In addition to the organic growth of land and online casino poker within the
Italian market (and global market for that matter) growth of internet poker
stems from the widespread publicity of the major poker gaming events like the
World Series of Poker in Las Vegas as well as the frequent European Poker Tours
and the such. |