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Regions and Circuits

Regional circuits are drawn along licensing lines more often than geographical ones. A single market with its own regulator will frequently be treated as a circuit in its own right, while several smaller neighbouring markets are grouped together. The entries below set out the groupings most often seen, and note what tends to unsettle them.

Entries in this branch (4)

• European circuit

  A dense set of separately licensed markets, which is why European slates so often carry per-market divisions on top of the general ones.

• North American circuit

  Organised state by state and province by province, so circuit membership tends to be described by jurisdiction rather than by country.

• Asia-Pacific circuit

  A wide grouping spanning very different regulatory positions, from established venue markets to jurisdictions with no licensed online channel.

• Latin American circuit

  A grouping that has been redrawn repeatedly as individual markets moved from unregulated activity to formal licensing.