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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Denmark is basically a model country of how gaming liberalization was supposed to work. However… this has not been beneficial to land-based casinos.
Nonetheless, just wanted to share some great info on a legalization “how-to” that I’d wish more countries would try to follow. Ahemmmm… the US.
[/FONT]Denmark Online Gaming Laws[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Question to our Danish player focused affiliates- what are your thoughts of this market currently? What are the do’s and the don’ts of this niche?[/FONT]
Its a hard marked, not easy to make money with a danish licens, my guess is many sites will close in the next 12 months an PokerStars / Danske Spil (Danske Spil use same software as Party Poker) will split the danish marked between them, maybe a few more will survive.
First poker room with danish licens are already in problems an will close tonight (http://www.redclubpoker.dk)
Here can you find list over danish sites with licens http://www.skat.dk/getFile.aspx?Id=92058
From a general point of view, it is positive that the gambling market is now regulated.
Looking at it from a player’s point of view, I don’t think much has changed. It has been a bit more inconvenient to log in to your accounts with the gambling operator because of new technical measures to identify customers, the number of available games has decreased and actually there have not yet been as many promotional offers etc. as I would have expected. On the other hand, players will benefit from gambling at a licensed operator in many cases, because the requirements to obtain a license result in fewer, but more honest and secure operators. It is yet to be seen, but I think it will obviously be easier for a player to complain in cases of disagreements between players and gambling operators.
Looking at it from gambling operators’ point of view, it is obvious that the number of legal competitors has decreased, and I would assume that most Danish players will now choose licensed gambling operators, because of the above mentioned reasons. But the business conditions for gambling operators have been made more difficult for the licensed gambling operators, because they now have to pay Danish taxes. This will of course also affect affiliates, because this will be deducted when calculating rev share.
It is a bit early to predict the results of these contrasting effects, but even though it is not just positive for either players nor gambling operators and affiliates, regulation of the gambling market is without a doubt the right thing to do.
