PokerStars have followed up with their withdrawal from Israel, by pulling out of the online gambling market in Slovenia. The bad news is players only get three days notice. The good news is they plan to return.

Professional grinders who ply their trade in Slovenia have been left without a future today after PokerStars announced plans to shut down operations for PokerStars and Full Tilt in the country starting Monday 4 July. The decision comes days after a similar announcement made by PokerStars to withdraw from their market in Israel.

Formerly of Yugoslavia, Slovenia was declared an independent Republic, and recognised as a member of the United Nations in January 1992. Three years later, and the country introduced the Slovenian Gaming Act to regulate their brick & mortar casinos. Like most countries who adopted gambling laws around this time, or well earlier, nobody spoke the common tongue of online gambling legislation, and this allowed offshore online gambling companies to offer Slovenian citizens their products minus a license to do so.

PokerStars, like many other operators, have been operating in this market for some time. In 2012, the government started cracking down on companies who were offering their citizens online gambling routes from outside the country by blocking access. PokerStars was amongst those affected at the time. Online companies dealt with this problem by changing domain names.