Winamax All Set for The Launch in Spain

French online poker operator Winamax teased Spanish players by rolling out a Winamax.es Spanish-language landing page. The poker room was recently licensed by France’s online gambling regulator ARJEL to launch shared Franco-Spanish poker tables and it is now preparing to go live in Spain.

The operator still needs authorization from the Spanish online gambling regulator, DGOJ, but given the recent launch of its .es page, it will probably not take long before this happens.

Portugal recently published its technical standards in its Official Journal, which means that the country can now officially enter the project. PokerStars, which rolled out Franco-Spanish poker tables in January, is currently the only operator to be licensed by SRIJ, the Portuguese gambling regulator, and is expected to open its PokerStars Europe shared liquidity network to local players within the next few weeks.

The world’s largest online poker room launched its Franco-Spanish tables immediately after Spain’s technical standards were officialized. However, PokerStars first needs to launch the Seat Me feature in Portugal. Said feature had been available in Spain and France, prior to the launch of the shared liquidity project. Generally speaking, it prevents players from selecting a table when entering the PokerStars Europe network. They are thus assigned a table automatically.