888 leaves Slovenia; Marathonbet leaves the Czech Republic

888 has withdrawn their services from Slovenia, and Marathonbet has done likewise in the Czech Republic as both countries prepare for a new dawn of regulated online gambling.

888 has taken the sensible approach and withdrawn from the online gaming market in Slovenia.

The world’s second-largest online poker room has now joined the largest on the sidelines of the online poker arena after the Red Spade also left the Slovenian market on Monday, 4 July 2016.

Slovenia achieved independence from Yugoslavia in 1991 and became a member of the European Union in 2004. Like most ‘new’ countries one of the last things on the government’s minds when establishing the laws of the land was the governance of online gambling.