The Stars Group’s flagship PokerStars brand has become the first operator to offer shared liquidity between its French- and Spanish-licensed sites.

Just one day after Spain published its liquidity-sharing rules in the Official State Gazette, PokerStars announced that its PokerStars.es and PokerStars.fr players could now match wits and bankrolls across their shared national border.

Stars Interactive Group CEOO Guy Templer called the new shared reality “great for players and great for the poker category.” Templer praised gaming regulators in France and Spain for doing “an excellent job in enabling a dramatic improvement in the gaming experience in their jurisdictions.”

France, Spain, Italy and Portugal inked a four-way liquidity sharing deal last summer, and PokerStars received the go-ahead from French gaming regulator ARJEL last month. PokerStars is the leading poker operator in Spain and second only to local outfit Winamax in France’s regulated online gambling market.