The Stars Group Adds Portugal to Pokerstars Southern Europe Shared Player Pool

Toronto (ots/PRNewswire) - The Stars Group Inc. today announced that
PokerStars players in Portugal have joined the existing PokerStars
shared player pool between France and Spain. PokerStars, The Stars
Group's flagship brand, is the first online operator to offer such a
shared player pool among the three previously ring-fenced markets,
allowing players on the French-, Portuguese- and Spanish-licensed
offerings to face each other across real money poker tables.

PokerStars.pt joined the shared player pool following a July 2017
agreement among regulators in Portugal, France, Spain and Italy to
form an online poker compact in those countries.

Rafi Ashkenazi, Chief Executive Officer of The Stars Group, said:
"Adding Portugal to France and Spain will expand the pool of players
in Southern Europe. This is great news for players, who will benefit
from larger player pools with bigger prizes, better promotions and a
wider selection of games, which we hope will continue to deliver
positive results in those markets."

The January launch of shared liquidity in France and Spain has
already had a positive impact for PokerStars and its players. Italian
regulators have yet to confirm details of the country's involvement,
but are expected to join the other countries next year.

To celebrate the launch of shared liquidity in Portugal, PokerStars
will host a EUR5 million guaranteed prize pool online poker series,
known as the Trio Series, with a EUR500,000 guaranteed Main Event.
PokerStars currently anticipates launching the Trio Series in June
2018.

The Trio Series follows the successful France and Spain edition of
the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) in April, which
surpassed its EUR10 million advertised guarantee to reach EUR11.7
million, attracting 37,000 unique entries across more than 100
scheduled events. The FRESH (France Espania Hold'em) Series, which
took place from January 28 through February 11, was the first joint
series between French and Spanish players and attracted more than
30,000 unique entries across 50 scheduled events and generated a
total prize pool of more than EUR6 million.

About The Stars Group

The Stars Group is a leading provider of technology-based product
offerings in the global gaming and interactive entertainment
industries. The Stars Group directly or indirectly, including through
its Stars Interactive Group division, owns gaming and related
consumer businesses and brands, such as PokerStars, PokerStars
Casino, BetStars, Full Tilt, and the PokerStars Players No Limit
Hold'em Championship, European Poker Tour, PokerStars Caribbean
Adventure, Latin American Poker Tour, Asia Pacific Poker Tour,
PokerStars Festival and PokerStars MEGASTACK live poker tour and
event brands. These brands together have millions of 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 and other
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 product offerings in various jurisdictions
throughout the world, including in Europe, both within and outside of
the European Union, Australia, 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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