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Denmark's Enforcement

Denmark’s Supreme Court has made a controversial ruling this month that has severely affected an Danish online poker player and has the ability to also have some other Danish players thinking twice about funnelling poker winnings into the country. The Supreme Court ruling upholds a long-standing and old Danish policy that forbids Danes from making a living from the gambling industry. The industry is barely legal in the country as it is, with online casinos a key target for the government, and now there are layers to the situation that could really affect other internet poker players living in Denmark.

The brunt of the legislation and enforcement lies in the fact that Danish law specifies that Danes cannot solely support themselves from the gambling industry. For professional internet poker players this is a big problem because poker is certainly their job and there is little time for full-time work in addition to a full line-up of online poker tournaments occurring all over the world. The other side of the situation though has lawyers for the Danish man forced to forfeit nearly 200,000 Kroner arguing that the servers for the online casino poker sites are located outside of Denmark and therefore out of the Danish government’s jurisdiction.

The courts though refuted that claim by noting that the personal computers are located within the country and therefore constraint to all Danish laws. In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that all foreign wins at the online casinos and poker sites are subject to the Danish laws. This is the current situation at hand, but the European Commission is actively working with the government to institute new and more inclusive Danish gambling laws.