It emerged a few days ago that Norwegian lawmakers would look to crack down on gambling ads broadcast on television by introducing tighter rules in relation to the way gambling services are advertised within the country’s borders.
In Sweden, the local gambling regulator, Lotteriinspektionen, warned free daily newspaper Metro, which is known to be read by more than one million residents of the country, to cease and desist advertising international gaming operators or otherwise face the consequences of its actions.
Here it is important to note that internationally licensed operators have long been targeting players from both countries, despite the fact that their activities are not regulated there. What is more, such operators have been advertising their products quite aggressively in both Sweden and Norway, which has oftentimes made them subjects to heavy criticism from regulators.
Norway’s Looming Crackdown on Gambling Ads
However, international gambling operators have been able to circumvent the existing rules on gambling-related ads content by advertising their products on Norwegian TV channels that broadcast from outside the country.
Studies show that an average number of 62 gambling-related commercials are broadcast on Norwegian television every hour. These are all promoting services offered by foreign operators. It is namely this portion of ads that Norwegian politicians are determined to crack down on. Local media reported citing the country’s Culture Minister Linda Hofstad Helleland that an official proposal for the implementation of certain changes will likely be introduced next spring so that they are approved before the summer.
One more indication that Norwegian politicians and regulators have grown tired of international operators targeting local players emerged earlier this week. The Norwegian Gaming Authority (Lotteri- og stiftelsestilsynet) scolded two online payment service providers – Trustly and Entercash – for never cutting off cash flows between Norwegian players and foreign operators.
Swedish Regulator’s Rage against Gambling Ads
Lotteriinspektionen also went on to explain that it had previously warned Metro to cease and desist and that any future violations will be punished with heavy fines. The newspaper is thus facing a penalty of SEK250,000 (approximately $30,000), if gambling advertising content does not disappear from its pages.
Sweden is in the middle of creating a new gambling regulatory framework that when adopted, will scrap the current monopoly system and will replace it with one that will allow international operators to enter the local market. It is believed that the new gambling law will be implemented in early 2019.
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The world of live tournament poker never fails to offer excitement to both those playing and those deriving pleasure from following action at the tables as spectators. Needless to say, the fact that poker offers players the chance to win life-changing amounts of money contributes to the game’s global popularity. 
Winning over $8.5 million this year, Kenney even outpassed the WSOP Main Event Champion, Scott Blumstein. It can be said that 2017 was actually Kenney’s most successful year in terms of money earned from live tournaments. 
Blumstein became this year’s WSOP $10,000 Main Event champion. The player collected $8.15 million for remaining the last man standing from a field of 7,221 entries. Needless to say, this was his largest-ever cash.
A prominent trend from this year was German poker professionals winning a great number of the higher buy-in tournaments to have taken place over the globe in the past twelve months. This is why it is not a surprise that the top five of the 2017’s live tournament poker money list is comprised namely of Germans. 
Sontheimer was another German player to make quite some headlines this year. It can be said that his lucky streak began in May when he finished runner-up to his fellow countryman Christian Christner in a $100,000 Aria Super High Roller. Sontheimer collected $1,223,264 from that event. 
Fedor Holz, the leader of Germany’s all-time money leaderboard, also had quite a profitable year. Although the player announced that he was retiring from professional poker in 2016, we still got to see a lot of him during 2017. 
