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Switzerland Looking Favorable To Online Gaming

Country Looking To Let Its Casinos Offer Web Games

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According to reports, the country of Switzerland is looking at regulating online gambling.

Existing brick-and-mortar casinos in the country will be given the opportunity to run the games, as operators based in foreign countries apparently will not be allowed in the mix.

There is still some work to be done to figure out how regulation would work—especially with regards to if a federal authority would be in control or if it would be left up to more local jurisdictions. Nothing is finalized yet.

Switzerland is a country of around eight million people.

In 2010, Switzerland’s Federal Council upheld an earlier Supreme Court ruling that viewed poker as a game of luck, meaning that it could not be played outside a casino environment.

 
 
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