It was a legal grey area until the Gaming Act was amended. So before 2022, you would have had operators operating their sites, many of whom are legal providers in other parts of the world. However, the act was eventually amended, and the regulator had the right to license and go after non-licensed operations since then. Most of the gaming act and the agco's role were pretty much set in the physical casinos/ racetracks era. Also, Poker itself fell into a legal grey area as the players played against each other, not the house. So, regulations had to be written to close all those legal grey areas.