The Stars Group Announces Launch of PokerStars Shared Player Pool in France and Spain

Toronto (ots/PRNewswire) - The Stars Group Inc. announced today that
PokerStars, its flagship brand, launched a shared player pool
yesterday between locally licensed poker markets in France and Spain.
PokerStars is the first online poker operator to offer a shared
player pool under license in France and Spain, which enables players
from both countries to compete against one another at PokerStars.fr
and PokerStars.es.

The launch follows the July 2017 agreement concerning online poker
liquidity sharing by gaming regulators in France, Spain, Portugal and
Italy. Portugal is expected to join the combined French and Spanish
markets later this year, while regulators in Italy have yet to
confirm details of the country's involvement.

"Shared liquidity in these markets will be great for players and the
poker category, generally," said Guy Templer, Chief Operating Officer
of Stars Interactive Group, the gaming division of The Stars Group.
"We applaud the French and Spanish regulators' efforts to facilitate
and enable a dramatic improvement in the quality and integrity of the
gaming experience in their jurisdictions. With combined liquidity,
players from France and Spain can access a larger player pool with
bigger prizes, promotions and a better selection of games, all with
the confidence provided by a trusted, licensed operator.

"We look forward to extending the combined player pool to Italian and
Portuguese players, and we offer our full support to the relevant
authorities in those countries to do so."

To celebrate the launch of shared liquidity in France and Spain,
PokerStars will be hosting a EUR5 million guaranteed online poker
tournament series, the France Espania Hold'em (FRESH), which will be
exclusively available to players based in France and Spain from
January 28 - February 11, 2018. As a result of increased liquidity,
players will also have access to additional promotions surrounding
the FRESH series as well as an enhanced daily tournament offering,
bigger prize-pools and guarantees, and potentially larger prizes in
the Stars Rewards customer loyalty program.

About The Stars Group

The Stars Group is a leading provider of technology-based products
and services in the global gaming and interactive entertainment
industries. Through its Stars Interactive Group gaming division, The
Stars Group ultimately owns gaming and related consumer businesses
and brands, including PokerStars, PokerStars Casino, BetStars, Full
Tilt, and the PokerStars Festival, PokerStars MEGASTACK, PokerStars
Caribbean Adventure, European Poker Tour, Latin American Poker Tour
and the Asia Pacific Poker Tour live poker tour and event brands.
These brands together have more than 115 million registered customers
globally and collectively form the largest poker business in the
world, comprising online poker games and tournaments, sponsored live
poker competitions, marketing arrangements for branded poker rooms in
popular casinos in major cities around the world, and poker
programming and content created for television and online audiences.
The Stars Group, through certain of these brands, also offers
non-poker gaming products, including casino and sportsbook. The Stars
Group, through certain of its subsidiaries, is licensed or approved
to offer, or offers under third party licenses or approvals, its
products and services in various jurisdictions throughout the world,
including in Europe, both within and outside of the European Union,
the Americas and elsewhere. In particular, PokerStars is the world's
most licensed online gaming brand, holding licenses or related
operating approvals in 17 jurisdictions.

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