best countries to play poker in ??

[TheMetetron]

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Argentina, hombre.
Living in Argentina thread

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Word.

I'm in the process of writing a ton of content about living abroad to play poker and all of the essential information that one would need. Give it a few weeks.

[sebbb]

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This is an article about the legislation in France but it's not completed yet.

http://www.clubpoker.net/showpage/?id=826

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Reading this gives me a headache. From what I understand, the law is not really up to date because it doesn't mention online play. Also, it seems that you do not risk anything as a player.

[xerxesthegod]

He is not there yet. He begins talking about online. Basically before the new law the players wouldn't risk anything. But we know nothing yet about the rest of the story. passed july they are gonna apply the laws to online gambling. We'll see what happens. In the worst case scenario you just get an appartement in a country with online gambling friendly laws and get there every once in a while to withdraw your money. Italy, spain, Holland, UK,...

[sebbb]

ok so there's a new law in France. So wait and see, I guess...

[_Apollo_]

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Do you know something about your neighbour countries Luxembourg and Belgium? Does anyone know whether Online Poker is legal in Denmark or Austria?

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In Belgium it's all a very grey area.
You have to pay taxes on your poker income but it's actually illegal to play online.
I'm not 100% sure about this (literally NOBODY knows for sure, but latest news is that you can get into trouble if you file as a pokerplayer. )
So belgium is not a good option if you want your winnings legalized.
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so what about italy??

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Please, someone tell me. I would love to move there later this year and I think it's a good country for poker from what I have read compared to other EU countries.
Found one topic in english about this:
http://it.pokernews.com/poker-forum/topic1629/