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Last month, Poland's Council of Ministers adopted an amendment to the Polish Gambling Act allowing for more games to be offered online for real money and for land-based poker tournaments outside of casinos. However, ring games and sit-and-go tournaments will still be prohibited outside of casinos.

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The Polish Gambling Act of 2011 prohibits online poker altogether and the only online gambling it permits is sports betting at one of four licensed online sites. Novomatic produces the most played real money slots in Poland – both online and offline –with Sizzling Hot Deluxe, Lucky Lady's Charms and Lord of the Ocean among the best-loved games. It’s a good idea to check the game selection of online casino sites in Poland. Clarifying The Online Poker Landscape in Poland August 05, 2016 Jason Glatzer 0 Last month, Poland's Council of Ministers adopted an amendment to the Polish Gambling Act allowing for more games to. Online poker in Pennsylvania is played strictly on licensed sites, and owners paid huge application fee to offer these games to public. Participating is safe for both sides - casino and player. Fast and guaranteed payments via different methods are distinctive features of online poker.

Despite many earlier reports by poker news outlets, including ours that stated there would be a path for foreign online poker operators to be licensed in Poland, most online gaming including online poker are planned to be strictly controlled by a state-owned monopoly. Due to conflicting information reported about this, we asked DLA Piper legal gaming expert Anna Wietrzynska-Ciolkowska for some clarification who confirmed that, 'Online poker will be covered by the state monopoly.'

While more online games will be available to players, including online casino games and video-slots, these games are also planned to only be legally offered though the state-monopoly. One reason for this could be that the Council of Ministers consistently stating that slots are 'one of the most addictive forms of gambling.'

Many believe that with such restrictive offerings, little will be done to reign-in the huge grey-market existing for online gaming in Poland. However, the amendments which are proposed to be effective on January 1, 2017, also call for telecom companies to blacklist unregulated website and block IP address of unlicensed operators.

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Only offering online poker and casino games through a state-monopoly could prove problematic for Poland. Wietrzynska-Ciolkowska also raises concerns sharing with PokerNews that, 'I don't find any justification to the draft and arguments to the adequacy of proportionality of such measures of the state monopoly [to EU law]. Just that it protects the customer. So that might be some grounds for other countries to raise objections or for the European Commission to raise objections.'

Stay tuned at PokerNews as more develops in the Polish gaming marketplace.

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To play online poker, we don't need anything special except basic computer skills or a mobile device. Depending on where we play, you must create an account, download special software and log in to previously registered data. This is how online poker looks in a nutshell. And how is this in practice?

If you visit various types of poker forums or good bookmaking blogs, you certainly know that in our country there was a gambling act in 2017 that turned gambling in Poland upside down. After it entered into force, in our country you can not play with illegal bookmakers who do not have a license to organize betting. However, such a license and permit is issued only by the Polish Ministry of Finance. The entity applying for a concession must meet a number of conditions that are not always simple. Usually the authorization procedure takes up to half a year.

Unfortunately, together with 2017 in Poland hard times have come for online poker fans. It is because of the aforementioned Act that currently there is no such thing as legal online poker in our country. At least, not exactly as some people would wish. More on this in a moment.