Poland Set To Ban Online PokerPresident Signs Amendment Which Will Ban Online Poker |
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Poland is in the grip of an online poker crisis after President Bronislaw Komorowski signed an amendment to an upcoming law which will ban the Internet pastime.
The law is expected to come into effect later in the summer but does not affect sports betting which, according to a Polish news report in Bankier.pl, relates to events in the “real world”, providing servers are located within the EU and the company has a .pl domain name.
According to Jacek Kapica, undersecretary to the Ministry of Finance, "Poker is a gambling game, based on a random element (a hand of cards). Worse, it’s a game, leading to addiction.
However as a member of the European Union Poland is now likely to come under fierce pressure from other countries which believe the new law to be in contravention of EU competition rules.
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