Associação Nacional de Apostadores Online, a group established to protect the interests of online gamblers in Portugal, has urged its members to boycott emerging ring-fenced sites within the new Portuguese market.

Online poker players based in Portugal are facing some tough times ahead.

A month ago, Manuela Bandeira, the Director of Serviço de Regulação e Inspeção de Jogos (SRIJ), and Head of Online Gambling, in Portugal, shocked the online poker community by announcing plans to ring-fence liquidity in the Portuguese market.

It’s a model that doesn’t work.