In February 2024, Russia invaded Ukraine, which considerably changed the geopolitics of these two countries for still indeterminate times. Very often, the attempts to ceasefire were complicated when they did not remain in the diplomaticly speaking dead. From a humanitarian angle, there are no longer the terrible disasters, not to mention the profound changes that affect current financial affairs.
Thus, the ENTAIN company that governs the Partypoker website has been given up its boom in Russia while another site of online poker, Pokerstars, also changes his rifle. This is not the first setback of medal in Russia for the world of Igaming since in Crimea, the work to set up the Golden Coast gaming area had already been compromised in 2020. Here is how hard blows , the casinos bounce back in resistance by firing their faces of the game.
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Among operators of Online casinos, the first to have completely opposed the recent policy of Russia by closing its Moldovan and Russian online casinos are the leaders of the Entain Company based on the island of Man, formerly called GVC Holdings. Created in 2004, this company gave birth to PartyPoker which brilliantly received in 2019, and for the third consecutive year, the coveted Prix of the Poker Operator of the Year during the EGR Operator Awards in London!
Already in 2021, the company had decided to ignore the gray markets that the three European countries of Lithuania, leton and Latvia practice. With the objective of breaking at the dawn of 2024 all links with the unregulated markets, ENTAIN now attacks the American network despite the difficulties that online casinos have in place in Nevada, with major license reinforcements provisional ... and hope!
In the wake of PartyPoker, we find the world famous Pokerstars which is reluctant to completely drop this Russian financial windfall. Even if he has been able to refuse other illegal sources from China, Cyprus or even Serbia, it seems that Pokerstars has circumvented the problem by creating a more responsible platform in Sochi. History will say if, at a long time, this trip will prove to be profitable or not.
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Straight casinoto projects: History is repeated!
Only four regions in Russia are likely to host the casinos games, including the Primouré, Sochi and Crimea. Precisely the first Casino of the Golden Coast was to be inaugurated in the latter before 2024. But once the agreement passed, Vladimir Putin and especially Sergey Aksyonov returned to their decision ... condemning the Golden Coast, future paradise of Games of chance and money, not to see the day soon, despite $ 48.7 million ready to be injected by investors holding to remain anonymous!
It must be said that Crimea annexed since 2014 no longer attracted foreign funders. And in any case, its deplorable infrastructure alone absorbed all the budgets! With the exception of the planned area in Primorye which continued to arouse the enthusiasm of any international partners who do not wish to take advantage of the situation.
The delay in the construction of casinos or their posted online, it does not date from yesterday when we see how poker was set up in the United States, sometimes on the Mississippi river sometimes on earth! Similarly, Russia must gradually get used to a Casinotier desert in view of the defection of sponsors and other promulgations of embargoes. It looks like the Casinos have given themselves the word To no longer deal with Russia!
What future for thes players of POKER In these murdered countries?
A few years ago, one of the best Russian professional players, Liliya Novikova disappeared in a mysterious domestic accident which is not without recalling that of the singer Claude François in USA. On June 12, 2019, she was found dead in her bathroom in Moscow, probably electrocuted by her hair dryer. The PokerStrategy site paid tribute to him by calling it a “very active member of the Poker community”. At just 26 years old, Liay5 leaves nearly 15,000 followers on Instagram behind her who will regret her!
As for Eugene Katchalov, the former professional player posted photos of a bombing on February 26 on Twitter. Having lived live the invasion of kyiv by the Russians. Fortunately, the winner of the 2011 World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the 7 cards studded unscathed by escaping to Hungary like half a million other Ukrainian refugees with him. Others did not have this chance ...
Directly impacted by the conflict, poker and its actors seem to live in dark hours in the two formerly close but become rivals, which does not prevent online casinos from mobilizing to fight but also to continue to live Better the game!
