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Global Online Poker Market Size/Share Worth USD 170 Billion by 2030 at a 12% CAGR: Custom Market Insights (Analysis, Outlook, Leaders, Report, Trends, Forecast, Segmentation, Growth, Growth Rate, Value)

Published

2 years ago

April 26, 2023

Custom Market Insights has published a new research report titled “Online Poker Market Size, Trends and Insights By Device Type (Mobile, Desktop), By End-user (Gambling Enthusiasts, Dabblers, Social Exuberant), and By Region – Global Industry Overview, Statistical Data, Competitive Analysis, Share, Outlook, and Forecast 2023–2030” in its research database.

“According to the latest research study, the demand of global Online Poker Market size & share was valued at approximately USD 85.4 Billion in 2022 and is expected to reach USD 96.2 billion in 2023 and is expected to reach a value of around USD 170 Billion by 2030, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of about 12%during the forecast period 2023 to 2030.”

CMI research report offers a 360-degree view of the Online Poker market’s drivers and restraints, coupled with the impact they have on demand during the projection period. Also, the report examines global opportunities and competitive analysis for the Online Poker market.

Online Poker Market: Overview

Online poker is incredibly popular and will only continue to grow in popularity as a result of the widespread use of smartphones, acceptance of Bitcoin and other digital currencies, and ease of access to casino websites. Aiming to promote the desired level of confidence in the online betting business, technological developments coexist with the annual expansion of online poker.

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For example, virtual reality in gaming creates a simulation of the surroundings; users can interact with them in a real way with specialized equipment such as gloves with sensors.

VR delivers a more realistic gambling experience, higher sound quality, and a realistic game design, as well as allowing players to interact with other players and dealers. Through the creation of new growth potential, VR has assisted the market in improving the gambling experience.

Growth Factors

The market is being driven by expanding internet penetration as well as a rise in the number of people using their mobile phones to play online games both at home and in public. In addition, factors including legal and cultural acceptance, simple access to internet gambling, celebrity endorsements, and corporate sponsorships are promoting industry expansion. The industry is expected to grow more as a result of the affordable mobile applications that are readily available everywhere.

Online poker games place a strong emphasis on creating informational tools that help and support players, protect the integrity of gambling, and guard against fraud. Many online gambling websites provide a free-play version of their games, which presents company growth possibilities.

Many nations have legalized gambling because it creates jobs and generates more tax money for municipal and state governments. In places where casinos play a part in tourist vacations, gambling has also had a good impact on local retail sales for the hotel industry, which has helped the business grow quickly.

Additionally, the adoption of blockchain technology has significantly impacted market expansion. Transparency in gambling activity is ensured by the blockchain’s ability to make safe payments. Due to the speed and security of Bitcoin transactions, gambling offers a wide range of chances. Because bitcoin transactions are subject to fewer regulations, they are now widely employed in online gambling.

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Segmental Overview

The market for Online Poker is segmented into device type and end-user. By device type, the mobile segment is anticipated to witness a tremendous CAGR during 2023-2030. Innovative mobile phone technologies have produced stunning smartphone gaming images, increasing access to online gambling on mobile devices. It’s convenient for gamblers to use their mobile devices to place bets. The easy availability of mobile phones at affordable rates, together with cutting-edge features like improved graphics and larger storage capacity is credited with driving the sector’s growth. Players can enjoy a number of benefits from mobile online gambling, including loyalty points, more deposit choices, and multiplayer opportunities with players from all around the world.

Regional Overview

Europe is expected to hold the largest share of the online poker market. The majority of the growth is attributed to the legalization of online gambling in countries such as Italy, Germany, the UK, Italy, Poland, Malta, and Spain. Moreover, the high disposable income, high spending on leisure, and growing popularity of online gambling, in the region is supporting the market growth. Whereas, the Asia Pacific region is projected to witness a high CAGR during 2023-2030. The relaxation in government rules across Asian countries concerning online betting is boosting the market. Also, increasing spending the population on leisure activities is expected to fuel the market. However, the negative mental impact on players and bans in certain countries is hindering the growth of the market in the region.

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Competitive Landscape – Top Key Vendors and Other Prominent Vendors

Report Scope

Feature of the Report	Details
Market Size in 2023	USD 96.2 Billion
Projected Market Size in 2030	USD 170 Billion
Market Size in 2022	USD 85.4 Billion
CAGR Growth Rate	12% CAGR
Base Year	2022
Forecast Period	2023-2030
Prominent Players	Tencent, Playtika, Zynga Inc., PokerStars, Arkadium, Baazi Games, MPL, Quadrific Media Pvt Ltd., Pocket52, BLITZ POKER, Ignition, Americas Cardroom, BetOnline, Every game, True Poker, Bovada, Juicy Stakes and Others
Key Segment	By Device Type, End-user, and Region
Report Coverage	Revenue Estimation and Forecast, Company Profile, Competitive Landscape, Growth Factors, and Recent Trends
Regional Scope	North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa, and South & Central America
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Competitive Landscape

By examining market segments and projecting market size, the reports also aid in understanding the dynamics and organizational structure of the global Online Poker industry. The study serves as an investor’s guide thanks to its clear depiction of competitive analysis of key companies by product, price, financial condition, product portfolio, growth plans, and regional presence in the worldwide access control market.

March 2022: PokerBaazi.com, India’s biggest online poker platform from the house of Baazi Games, on Monday (March 14), launched the #BaaziBillion campaign to mark the unique milestone of clocking a total of 1 billion hands on the platform and commemorate the seven-year journey of the brand in contributing to the poker economy of India.
April 2023: Juicy Stakes came up with a Blackjack Quest and Almost 400 Free Spins Up For Grabs
February 2023: GGPoker revealed the details of the upcoming WSOP Spring Circuit online tournament series
April 2023: The company came up with online poker’s biggest PKO tournament
July 2022: PokerBaazi.com has launched a new advertising campaign called ‘You Hold the Cards,’ which stars brand ambassador Shahid Kapoor. The brand’s ‘You Hold the Cards’ campaign aims to raise awareness of poker as a skill-based sport and establish it in Poker.
June 2022: PokerStars, part of Flutter Entertainment, announced today it has been granted full registration to operate in the Canadian province of Ontario, by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO).

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Some of the prominent players

Tencent
Playtika
Zynga Inc.
PokerStars
Arkadium
Baazi Games
MPL
Quadrific Media Pvt Ltd.
Pocket52
BLITZ POKER
Ignition
Americas Cardroom
BetOnline
Every game
True Poker
Bovada
Juicy Stakes
Others

The global Online Poker market is segmented as follows:

By End-user

Gambling Enthusiasts
Dabblers
Social Exuberant
Teenagers
Adults

By Type

Texas Hold’em Poker
Omaha
7-Card Stud
5-Card Draw
Follow The Queen

By Application

Gambling
Entertainment

By Platform

PC
Tablet
Smartphone
Gaming Console
Arcade Games

By Payment Mode

Credit Cards
Debit Cards
Net Banking

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On the basis of Geography

North America

The U.S.
Canada
Mexico

Europe

France
The UK
Spain
Germany
Italy
Rest of Europe

Asia Pacific

China
Japan
India
Australia
South Korea
Rest of Asia Pacific

The Middle East & Africa

Saudi Arabia
UAE
Egypt
Kuwait
South Africa
Rest of the Middle East & Africa

Latin America

Brazil
Argentina
Rest of Latin America

This Online Poker Market Research/Analysis Report Contains Answers to the following Questions

What Developments Are Going On in That Technology? Which Trends Are Causing These Developments?
Who Are the Global Key Players in This Online Poker Market? What are Their Company Profile, Product Information, and Contact Information?
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What Are Projections of the Global Online Poker Industry Considering Capacity, Production and Production Value? What Will Be the Estimation of Cost and Profit? What Will Be Market Share, Supply and Consumption? What about imports and exports?
What Is Online Poker Market Chain Analysis by Upstream Raw Materials and Downstream Industry?
What Is the Economic Impact On Online Poker Industry? What are Global Macroeconomic Environment Analysis Results? What Are Global Macroeconomic Environment Development Trends?
What Are Market Dynamics of Online Poker Market? What Are Challenges and Opportunities?
What Should Be Entry Strategies, Countermeasures to Economic Impact, and Marketing Channels for Online Poker Industry?

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Online Poker Market Report provides qualitative and quantitative analysis of the market based on segmentation involving economic and non-economic factors.
Online Poker Market report outlines market value (USD) data for each segment and sub-segment.
This report indicates the region and segment expected to witness the fastest growth and dominate the market.
Online Poker Market Analysis by geography highlights the consumption of the product/service in the region and indicates the factors affecting the market within each region.
The competitive landscape incorporates the market ranking of the major players, along with new service/product launches, partnerships, business expansions, and acquisitions in the past five years of companies profiled.
Extensive company profiles comprising company overview, company insights, product benchmarking, and SWOT analysis for the major market players.
The Industry’s current and future market outlook concerning recent developments (which involve growth opportunities and drivers as well as challenges and restraints of both emerging and developed regions.
Online Poker Market Includes in-depth market analysis from various perspectives through Porter’s five forces analysis and provides insight into the market through Value Chain.

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The study provides a thorough overview of the global Online Poker market. Compare your performance to that of the market as a whole.
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Drivers, restrictions, and opportunities are among the qualitative elements covered in the worldwide Online Poker market analysis.
The competitive environment of current and potential participants in the Online Poker market is covered in the report, as well as those companies’ strategic product development ambitions.
According to the component, application, and industry vertical, this study analyzes the market qualitatively and quantitatively. Additionally, the report offers comparable data for the important regions.
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AGCO: Casino Days Penalized $54,000 for Deceptive and High-Risk Bonus Offer

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2 hours ago

June 18, 2025

GamingAmericas.com

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The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) has issued a $54,000 monetary penalty alleging Well Played Media, Unipessoal LDA promoted a deceptive bonus on its Casino Days website. The bonus offer is alleged to have encouraged high-risk behavior and failed to properly disclose key terms.

The AGCO launched an investigation triggered by a player who complained that more than $8500 in winnings had been confiscated by Casino Days. The investigation reviewed a so-called “welcome bonus” that promised new players up to $2000.

However, to qualify for the full bonus amount, players had to:

Deposit $2000 of their own money;

Wager $70,000 (35 times the deposit);

Keep each wager at or under $5; and

Complete all wagering requirements within 7 days.

Investigators also found that certain terms of the bonus offer were difficult to find, buried behind multiple links on the site.

AGCO’s analysis showed that the average player would first lose $3640 trying to earn the $2000 bonus.

According to Ontario’s igaming rules, registered operators must not offer bonus promotions that encourage harmful gambling behavior and fail to disclose key conditions appropriately. Further, operators are not permitted to entice players with bonuses that cannot reasonably be attained without significant gambling losses.

These rules are in place to protect players and support a safe, regulated market—one that stands in contrast to the risks of unregulated gambling sites.

An igaming operator served with an Order of Monetary Penalty by the AGCO Registrar has the right to appeal the Registrar’s decision to the Licence Appeal Tribunal (LAT), an adjudicative tribunal that is part of Tribunals Ontario and independent of the AGCO.

“Player protection is a non-negotiable priority for the AGCO. We expect operators to be truthful and transparent about their promotions, and we also require them to ensure that those promotions do not encourage reckless or harmful patterns of play. An offer that requires a player to sustain substantial losses for a perceived benefit is not a fair offer. This penalty sends a clear signal that we will not hesitate to take action against operators who fail to meet their obligations to protect Ontario players,” Dr. Karin Schnarr, Chief Executive Officer and Registrar of AGCO.

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What’s next for online gambling in Canada?

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3 hours ago

June 18, 2025

GamingAmericas.com

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Having provided the perfect case study for the benefits of legalised online gambling in Canada, we caught up with Bede’s Chief Executive Officer, Colin Cole-Johnson, to discuss why other provinces may look to follow Ontario’s example in the future and what challenges operators will need to be ready for when they do.

With the regulated online gambling market in Ontario recently being recognised as one of the largest in the world, operators will feel there’s plenty of untapped potential to be realised not just in the province itself, but in Canada as a whole, over the coming months. And for good reason too.

Since legalising online gambling in 2022, the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) has established a go-to framework for how regulators introduce rules and standards that protect players and enable operators to flourish – and no better is this illustrated than in the performance of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG), which has continued to make a hugely positive contribution in the province over the past few years.

Having already paved the way for successful open market regulation through a number of progressive initiatives, with even more yet to come – such as the proposed centralised self-exclusion model – it certainly wouldn’t be a surprise to see other organisations turn to AGCO as an example of how regulations can be introduced both sustainably and profitably; and this will likely present several opportunities for operators as well.

From Bede’s experience in the country, Canadian regulators are thorough and well organised. Any province looking to follow the success of Ontario will no doubt look to AGCO for inspiration, and this may lead to similar regulatory frameworks in other new territory launches. As the gaming community in Canada is so connected, we’ve already seen cross-operator interest in sharing regulatory knowledge, meaning there’s a wealth of information waiting to be leveraged.

As the most likely province to regulate next, Alberta has already shown a preference for following an open-market model similar to Ontario’s, with the input of various industry stakeholders set to guide the way. The onboarding process for operators seeking to enter this potentially vibrant new market is likely to follow promptly after the new framework is enacted, so existing experience and relationships within the Ontario market should prove advantageous for those looking to hit the ground running.

For Bede, our years working closely with AGCO leave us well positioned to enter additional provinces in the future, and we greatly value the guidance and support we gain from having a direct relationship with the regulator. We aspire to grow even further in Canada by forming more provincial partnerships, and our learnings from Ontario will undoubtedly form a key part of this.

Internally, we have a strong framework for new market entry and regulatory compliance that includes cross-functional representation across the business. We understand the heavy lifting that goes into a launch and the complexity of licensing and delivering a new technical solution. Our approach always involves an analysis of the requirements from a compliance, risk, audit and financial perspective, as well as identifying any gaps where our products can make an impact with the right strategic solutions.

Taking the Ontario market as an example, we’ve seen some noticeable changes in player behaviour in recent years, meaning operators must be prepared to adapt in order to keep up with emerging trends. Although we’ve seen growth for our partners in the digital space, retail remains a predominant revenue stream for Canadian operators. As digital continues to grow, it’s important to provide a seamless end-to-end experience for players across channels, to be effective omni-channel solutions.

As more choice becomes available in the market, offering competitive payment and withdrawal options will be important. A critical part of the player journey that is often overlooked is the preference among players for easy access to preferred payment methods. A great example of innovation in this area is our Lottery Direct Pay method, where players can purchase tickets directly from their card without first having to load their wallet – creating a faster user journey that appeals to a wider audience.

Aside from these payment considerations, it’s worth noting that community engagement features and personalisation are both playing a more prominent role in the Canadian gaming landscape. Particularly among younger audiences, having the ability to offer a shared experience is becoming increasingly important to generating sustained engagement. For example, we’ve already seen OLG enjoy a significant uplift in overall ticket sales since launching the innovative Lottery Group Play tool.

Similarly, the power of personalisation cannot be understated when it comes to building player activity and retention. Through partnerships with companies such as XtremePush and Future Anthem, Bede has endeavoured to utilise more machine learning and AI systems that can broaden the customisation options available for customers, while our dynamic segmentation tool enables them to target user groups more effectively and automate the player journey in real time.

Of course, from the moment Ontario launched a legalised online gambling framework, regulators were required to focus their efforts on keeping up with increased accessibility and, therefore, increased risk of harm to the public. Should another province like Alberta also legalise online gambling in future, the same challenges will exist – and this presents an important opportunity for operators to both educate players on responsible gaming protocol and enforce it.

Given Bede has been operating in highly regulated markets for over 13 years, we have both an established suite of RG tools and in-depth knowledge of how to use them effectively. Evidenced in the UK market and beyond – Bede has developed its platform to meet the tightening controls that have been issued over every aspect of online gambling – enabling operators to create their own tailored mix of tools that best support their players.

Notably, the upper limit functionality in our RG toolset gives our customers the option to monitor and respond to potential problem behaviour by setting maximum limits for specific players. The players may opt to further decrease their own limits, but they’ll be unable to exceed the maximum setting until/unless the operator removes them, reducing the harm they could potentially experience. As well as outright prevention, being able to educate a player in such a moment is equally important – and using our platform, operators can send appropriate, personalised messages to users that encourage them to alter their play and even think about setting time out periods where necessary. For example, our partners can use our Player Interaction feature to set alerts from the front end based on pre-defined player behaviours, and then use that information for RG activities; if a player returns to a page a certain number of times, it can automatically trigger personalised messages to encourage the player to set a limit.

As responsible gaming is a constantly evolving topic in Ontario and other new markets in Canada are likely to experience similar growing pains, supporting regulatory efforts through the smart adoption of harm prevention tools will be a key part of gaining a foothold. This, coupled with the other regional considerations we’ve outlined in this article will be crucial to any operator’s future success in the country; and there are definitely big opportunities on offer for those who get it right.

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Thunderkick’s portfolio makes Ontario debut through SkillOnNet brands

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1 day ago

June 17, 2025

GamingAmericas.com

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Global entertainment brand SkillOnNet is deepening its existing partnership with Stockholm-based game studio Thunderkick to launch the developer’s unique, engaging slot titles in Ontario.

The Canadian province is one of the most exciting regulated markets in North America, and the Ontario players will now gain access to Thunderkick’s full portfolio of highly acclaimed games via SkillOnNet-powered online casino brands such as PlayOJO, SlotsMagic, and SpinGenie.

Thunderkick is known for its independent, boundary-pushing slot games like Pink Elephants, Esqueleto Explosivo, and Beat the Beast and has established a strong reputation for creativity and originality in the iGaming space. The deal allows the studio to further expand its global footprint while giving Ontario players the chance to enjoy a fresh wave of premium content.

Ontario’s regulated online gaming market, which officially opened in 2022, has quickly become a key market for the iGaming industry, and SkillOnNet was among the first brands to secure licensing in the province. The expansion reinforces SkillOnNet’s commitment to delivering top-tier entertainment in regulated markets globally.

Jani Kontturi at SkillOnNet said: “Thunderkick has been a key partner of ours in other markets, and we’re delighted to bring their outstanding content to Ontario. This region is fast becoming a vital part of our operations, and we’re confident players here will respond just as positively to Thunderkick’s games as they have elsewhere.”

Mariam Dodosh, Account Manager at Thunderkick said: “We’re thrilled to expand our relationship with SkillOnNet and enter the Ontario market together. Our games have a track record of strong performance, and we’re excited to see them go live in one of the most dynamic new regions in iGaming.”

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