Do people from France, Germany, Spain etc play online?

[Freudian]

Because pretty much everyone I see online come from USA, Canada, UK and Scandinavia.

[MicroBob]

I've seen some French and German cities on Stars. Not nearly as much as Sweden and Denmark though.
Also on crypto.

Don't know if I've ever seen Spain.

[William]

Try the NL cash games at Stars, plenty of spaniards playing toghether at the same table...

[Duckstabber]

I've also wondered why I see so few people from the countries you mention... Maybe Bet&Win's pokerroom (Big Austrian bookie) draw in a lot of the Germans/Austrians/Swiss players. I've never played there so I don't know though.

I also wonder why the Danes outnumber the Norwegians by such a large margin as they do. Roughly the same population size etc...

[MicroBob]

wtf is that in your avatar?

[Duckstabber]

It's a reference to the EURO 2004 finals (soccer). Denmark and Sweden both needed a 2-2 draw to advance to the next stage which would eliminate Italy. The final result was 2-2 and the Italians couldn't stop whining. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

[MicroBob]

cool.


World Cup needs to change their qualifying structure. That kind of collusion-inducement is bad news.

[kruschel]

Since i am from Germany I can give you a reason for this: Poker is just not very poular over here. 99.9% of the people know poker only from the movies as the 5-card-draw variant and have never heard of Holdem or Stud or anything else.
There is no hype about poker like in the US and so the people are not drawn into online cardrooms.

[UncleDuke]

I've played against a couple from Spain on Crypto. Also a few from France. I'm not sure about Germany.

[pecto]

I'm spanish!!! Here in Spain poker is strting to become popular thanks to Carlos Mortensen and a few others!