On Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 05:00 AM, access to online gaming portal Espacejeux was blocked for 24 hours while the PlayNow was blocked only for 6 hours. With the data that the Canadian Poker Network provides the PokerScout site , it is possible to estimate that the proportion of players of poker, cash games, which come from the PlayNow portal (British Columbia Manitoba +) compared to those of ‘Espacejeux (Loto-Québec).

Quebec Espacejeux covers a pool of 6,676,142 adults 18 years or older. Meanwhile, PlayNow has access to a pool of 3,694,277 adults 19 years or older in British Columbia and 866,655 adults 18 years or older in Manitoba. Therefore, if the interest in poker state line was the same across Canada, the portion of the customer PlayNow should reach 41% of the players in cash games. In reality, it is not even half. Unequivocally, outside Quebec, the appeal of online poker state is much lower in Canada. And say qu’EspaceJeux-poker does not work hard in Quebec …

With such an imbalance, fear is qu’EspaceJeux has on-recruited novice players or players who Espacejeux economic difficulty is the only hope of additional income. In both cases, the risk of economic leakage outside Quebec is important.