How Big Is Online Poker In Europe??

[jjgold]

Does anyone actually know??

[k13]

HUGE.

Germany/Spain/Russia/England

[minet123]

France has now segregated player pool
Big in UK and Germany
The sites don't trust Eastern European because they are a bunch of cheating,scamming thieves so they do not promote as much there
but not even close with out US player pool

[P.F.Kasooff]

BIG

[FourLengthsClear]

Huge but it has fallen from its peak 3 or 4 years go.

[jjgold]

How about Ireland, Asia and Australia??

[P.F.Kasooff]

jj , you moving ?

[minet123]

Ireland big but with the "door closed and the Lights out" do to the big Catholic influence

Know one has had any measurable success in Asia when you look at how much they have spent on marketing

Australians will bet on anything but there has been a right wing movement there as well but has gained no steam

[MC PICKS]

I miss beating eurodonks out of their money on pokerstars.

[jjgold]

Seems like William Hill and paddy power average about 5,000 players online daily at any given time

[FourLengthsClear]

Seems like William Hill and paddy power average about 5,000 players online daily at any given time

The sportsbooks poker operations are generally part of bigger networks (Microgaming, iPoker etc.).

In terms of scale 888, PKR and PartyPoker are fairly big too. None of them were anything like as big as Poker Stars was when it accepted Americans, however.

[jjgold]

How are Euro players??

What type of skill level??

[FourLengthsClear]

How are Euro players??

What type of skill level??

I don't play very much at all these days, the easy pickings of 4-5 years ago don't exist anymore but the standards and playing styles are very similar to US players. The exception to this (as a generalisation) is Scandinavians who tend to be loose/aggressive. I used to hate having a good Swede or Norwegian at my table.

[jjgold]

Seems the bluffers are not around as much

Many guys playing only good hands, hard to win pots