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If there were any doubts that Winamax was very serious about its expansion across Europe, the French online poker room has been doing its best to clear these completely. It announced on Tuesday that two more non-French poker pros have joined its team of sponsored players to promote its brand across Southwestern Europe.
Portuguese player João “Naza114” Vieira and his Spanish colleague Leo “LeoMargets” Margets have become the latest brand ambassadors of the French operator. The addition of these two particular poker professionals to the team indicates two important things. In the first place, it seems that Winamax is inching closer to entering the Spanish and Portuguese online poker markets. And in the second place, the online poker room also seems to be closer to joining the shared online poker liquidity project.
Winamax first announced its plans to expand its footprint across Spain, Italy, and Portugal early last year, when the shared liquidity was still under consideration by the gambling regulators of the aforementioned three countries as well as by the French gambling regulator.
Vieira is one of Portugal’s most popular and successful poker players. With live tournament earnings of nearly $1.3 million, he is his country’s fourth most profitable player. An eight-place finish in the 2014 PCA $25,500 High Roller secured the player with his best live cash of $157,940. Vieira has been spotted at the tables of a number of other prestigious tournaments over the years.
His online poker career also seems to have been thriving. Last year, the player recorded more than 3,000 final table participations in online tournaments. And last month only, he appeared at 57 online poker final tables.
Based in Barcelona, Leo Margets is one of the stars of Spanish poker. She is her homeland’s 16th most profitable player with live tournament earnings of a little less than $1 million. With her performance on the felt, Margets has been a formidable force for female poker pros.
News about Winamax’s new sponsored players came just days after the online poker room teased about its nearing entry into the Spanish market with the launch of a Winamax.es landing page. The poker room still needs to obtain a license from Spain’s gambling regulator DGOJ, but it seems that it might not be long before it is able to operate in the country.
Portugal Close to Joining PokerStars Europe
According to recent reports from Portuguese media, PokerStars, the only poker operator licensed to operate in Portugal, is set to integrate the Seat Me feature to its .pt website next week. In a message to local players, the poker room has said that it is targeting a March 6 rollout of said feature.
This means that Portugal will be able to join PokerStars’ European network that currently features shared Franco-Spanish poker tables.
Generally speaking, the Seat Me feature prevents players from selecting their tables. It was first introduced in the Spanish poker market and was then rolled out in France, prior to the launch of PokerStars’shared liquidity network in January. The online poker room has previously explained that the feature aimed to protect less experienced players from being targeted by their seasoned peers.
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