Updated 2014: added PokerStars Bulgaria
In the ever changing world of online poker with the challenges it presents in terms of licenses and each country’s unique laws and legislation regarding online poker, Pokerstars the current world leader in poker traffic have needed to adapt their approach to retain their coveted crown of busiest poker room online.
We suspect 2012 will continue to bring out new laws and legal requirements for poker rooms to adhere to.PokerStars have done remarkably well despite being closed to the USA which was for many years was their main source of revenue.
In order to accommodate the changes and comply with local legislation, PokerStars have obtained licenses in those regions permitting them to do so and have opened several foreign domains to cater for the demand. In doing so, PokerStars now offer several new bonus codes which are region specific.
On the downside it can be a bit tricky for players not knowing where they can or are meant to play at this article will cover the basic information about PokerStars worldwide and the bonus codes they offer per region and respective domain suffix.
The up side of covering so many regions is that PokerStars now supports many languages by default and by doing so is making online poker truly global.
The Italian poker rooms with licenses to operate in Italy have now been allowed to offer cash games to their players. For the last two years online poker has been legalized in Italy, however players have been limited to playing only online poker tournaments.