However, there are no such regulatory concerns in some of the other jurisdictions-such as Bulgaria, Slovenia and Lithuania-so other business reasons better explain today’s announcement: Maintaining operations in smaller nations will incur additional costs in areas like customer support, payment processing and fraud prevention. Two countries on the list-Belgium and Estonia-have recently introduced online gaming regulations and require licenses to operate, which likely explains their inclusion on today’s list others, such as Russia, are grey-market.
“The Bodog brand is known for its high level of customer service & spreading ourselves too thinly to try and cover a huge amount of smaller markets was proving logistically difficult.” “It is better to concentrate on our strengths and where we can offer the best product,” said a Bodog spokesperson in a statement to pokerfuse. Existing customers have been informed that they should request withdrawals before this time. uk, a brand on the Bodog Poker Network, has announced that it will withdraw from 20 countries, including Belgium and parts of Eastern Europe and the Middle East, by the end of August.
