UK Gambling Commission initiates review on peer-to-peer poker

The UK Gambling Commission is set to review the regulations governing online poker, particularly on whether the use of third-party software could lead to cheating episodes.

Through its website, the commission announced that “regulations governing online poker where players play against each other—as opposed to playing the operator—are being reviewed.”

The review will involve several stages. For the first stage, the gambling authority will seek information from its licensees about collusion and cheating, including the use of automated poker robots and third party software.

“We want this information in order to assess whether the current controls in Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice and the Remote Gambling and Software Technical Standards are sufficient to ensure online poker is crime free, fair and open, and children and vulnerable people are protected,” the commission said in a note.