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Estonia Blocks Online Casinos

04/01/2010
  

It has been a law in the making for months and in the first of a two-tier strategy to implement its new Gambling Act across the country. The new regulations will see potential online casino and online poker players blocked from playing at many of the major online gambling sites, such as Party Casino, Full Tilt Poker and Pokerstars.

The Baltic country is determined to confine all online gambling operations to their native shores, only allowing punters to wager money at one of their licensed sites, such as Olympic-Online.com which is owned by land based casino operator, Olympic Entertainment Group. The site currently offers 150 in both English and Russian, however, this pales in companions to many of the larger online casinos that are now prevented from operating in Estonia.

The move will undoubtedly leave many natives feeling short-changed by the government who are imposing their will on local internet service providers in order to block outside casinos. Indeed, many of the country’s professional poker players have spoken out on the new regulations. Imre Leibold, a pro poker player, recently said: “The possibility that online poker gaming could be restricted is not good news for us. I believe and hope that the whole affair is resolved and that there will be several reasonable gaming locations on the market.”

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