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Big sites included on new Belgian online gambling blacklist
Belgian authorities have released an expanded list of operators who continue to offer online gambling to Belgian players without a license, Pokerfuse reports.
The Belgian online gambling market was liberalized at the beginning of this year with the introduction of a new license-based system.
The new system allowed for a limited number of operators to offer online poker within the nation's borders, and at the same time prohibited other unlicensed sites from operating without a license.
The list of unlicensed operators who still offer games illegally already includes
888poker, 
Everest Poker, 
Titan Poker and 
Chilipoker, and will now be expanded with a number of major European operators.
The expanded blacklist brings the total number of illegal sites to 30, and now includes Betsson, Betclic, Expekt, Betfair, William Hill and Stan James, who all according to Belgian authorities continue to break the new laws of the Belgian online gambling market.
According to Belgian law, players who play on the blacklisted sites could face fines of up to €25,000, meaning that it is the players' responsibility to keep up to date with which sites are legal and which are not.
Operators who fail to withdraw from the market or obtain a license can also face big fines, as well as Internet service providers will be asked to block access to the illegal sites at the request of the Belgian Gambling Authority.
The first three sites to obtain a Belgium license were
PokerStars, Partouche Poker and Casino777, with GoldenPalace.be and Win2day being the two most recent additions.
The Belgian online gambling market was liberalized at the beginning of this year with the introduction of a new license-based system.
The new system allowed for a limited number of operators to offer online poker within the nation's borders, and at the same time prohibited other unlicensed sites from operating without a license.
The list of unlicensed operators who still offer games illegally already includes
888poker, Everest Poker, Titan Poker and Chilipoker, and will now be expanded with a number of major European operators.The expanded blacklist brings the total number of illegal sites to 30, and now includes Betsson, Betclic, Expekt, Betfair, William Hill and Stan James, who all according to Belgian authorities continue to break the new laws of the Belgian online gambling market.
According to Belgian law, players who play on the blacklisted sites could face fines of up to €25,000, meaning that it is the players' responsibility to keep up to date with which sites are legal and which are not.
Operators who fail to withdraw from the market or obtain a license can also face big fines, as well as Internet service providers will be asked to block access to the illegal sites at the request of the Belgian Gambling Authority.
The first three sites to obtain a Belgium license were
PokerStars, Partouche Poker and Casino777, with GoldenPalace.be and Win2day being the two most recent additions.
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1114
1 year ago
It is all stupid rule of government it is not letting ppl be happy and enjoy play poker i hope it would not happen for mine country then we wont be able play as no Las Vegas also to catch flight to only Casino Royale and other casinos in Goa it v.good but maybe go once twice a year so hopeful online would always be.
Information of this article is not completely exact.
We have only 3 poker rooms legalized in Belgium: Partouche.be (only with belgian players), Golden Palace.be (Ongame) and Pokerstars.be, these 2 with acces to international tournament board.
Others name are simply Online Casino.
The Belgian regulator requires that each granted license be connected to a real Casino or Gaming room.
We have 11 casinos in Belgium: Groupe Circus (partner of Pokerstars) holds 2 of them, Partouche holds 4 of them. Golden Palace is owner of 6 gaming rooms.
The real problem is that the Belgian regulator communicates very little with the players. Some rooms banished the Belgian players, sometimes on standby of a license ( for example: Poker770). And as long as the regulator will not tell me that Carbon is prohibited, I do not see what would prevent me from playing…
We have only 3 poker rooms legalized in Belgium: Partouche.be (only with belgian players), Golden Palace.be (Ongame) and Pokerstars.be, these 2 with acces to international tournament board.
Others name are simply Online Casino.
The Belgian regulator requires that each granted license be connected to a real Casino or Gaming room.
We have 11 casinos in Belgium: Groupe Circus (partner of Pokerstars) holds 2 of them, Partouche holds 4 of them. Golden Palace is owner of 6 gaming rooms.
The real problem is that the Belgian regulator communicates very little with the players. Some rooms banished the Belgian players, sometimes on standby of a license ( for example: Poker770). And as long as the regulator will not tell me that Carbon is prohibited, I do not see what would prevent me from playing…
926
1 year ago
More European countries are still adding to leguislar to online games.
It is therefore important that you make the laws in the world, so that all players are playing online proteguidos.
But the trouble is that it is fragmenting, the world of poker and removing the right of each player to participate in the rooms more like them.
This will make sooner or later the competition in each country is more limited.
It will be a shame, because we as players online, we can not do much to change this.
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It is therefore important that you make the laws in the world, so that all players are playing online proteguidos.
But the trouble is that it is fragmenting, the world of poker and removing the right of each player to participate in the rooms more like them.
This will make sooner or later the competition in each country is more limited.
It will be a shame, because we as players online, we can not do much to change this.
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