Portugal’s online gamblers will have to remain patient after a meeting between the gambling regulator Serviço de Regulação e Inspeção de Jogos do Turismo de Portugal (SRIJ), and the pro-online gaming faction Associação Nacional de Apostadores Online (ANAon) reveal the first licenses will be delayed until June.

And the date keeps getting knocked back.

It must suck balls to be an online gambler living in Portugal right now. Things were bumping along rather swimmingly until the Serviço de Regulação e Inspeção de Jogos do Turismo de Portugal (SRIJ) decided the whole system needed a shake up back in the early months of 2015.

The dam broke, murky grey waters rushed into the online gambling market, and rather than drown in the confusion of it all, most of the operators deflated their rubber dinghy and took it elsewhere.