The ARJEL reported that 2 new online poker sites have been approved for operation of their sites on the French territory. Winga.fr Mypok.fr and are newcomers to this sector of online gambling in France. The company operates the site Winga.fr Wing and the company runs the site Mypok.fr Scale
Both companies have their own poker software, which also were approved by the ARJEL.
The site Winga.fr begin operations December 27, 2010. Mypok.fr site is still under construction and gives no date for the start of its operations.
To date there has so many online poker sites approved by the ARJEL for operation on the Hexagon: unibet.fr, winga.fr, 888poker.fr, pokersubito.fr, bwin.fr, betclic.fr, poker83.fr, everestpoker.fr, pokerxtrem.fr, chilipoker.fr, poker365. fr, joaclub.fr, barrierepoker.fr, poker.pmu.fr, partouche.fr, pkr.fr, pokerstars.fr, fulltiltpoker.fr, sajoo.fr, mypok.fr, 200pourcentpoker.fr, eurosportbet.fr, Winamax. fr, titan.fr, tranchantpoker.fr, unibet.fr, winga.fr.
Competition in this sector is fierce, and each site must invest heavily in marketing, promotions and advertisements to carve a name and a place in this industry online poker authorized in France.
French regulations on gambling online allows two forms of poker: Texas Hold’em Poker and Omaha Poker 4. Poker Texas Hold’em is a form of poker in which players have two cards face down and five community cards visible. The French legislation allows 3 versions of Texas Hold’em poker. Texas Hold’em Limit has a limited amount of each stimulus. Pot Limit Texas Hold’em has a limited amount of each stimulus three times the amount of last raise in excess of the amount of the pot. No Limit Texas Hold’em has a limited amount of each raise the value of the carpet of each player.
The ARJEL also said the company Fiducial HSC was scored by the ARJEL in the list of certification centers. This brings the number to 10 companies that carry out certification audits and reviews requested by the ARJEL to approve an operator. These companies are certified: Advans Ltd, Eurogroup Consulting Sas, Herve Schauer Consultants Eurl, Innovene Sas Sas intrinsece, On x-Sa, Oppida Sarl PDGB Scp, PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit SA, Thales Security Solutions & Services Sas.
Regarding the controversy over the tax rate too high for the operators, a major player in the sector joined the discussion to share his position. Olivier Goulon who created the site’s information paris RueDesJoueurs sports, said he must relativize attacks operators on the rate of taxation, too much according to them.
According to Olivier Goulon the opening of the gambling market in France is a spectacular success, and losses of operators are partly due to their marketing budget advertising, about 100 million euros. Olivier Goulon think these criticisms operators really give a bad image of the industry.