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Offer reduced, less money to win, accounts re … In the ongoing debate on the law relating to gambling online, a voice is not audible. The omaha poker players, accustomed to illegal sites, which are the big losers of the new legislation. Explanations signed L’Expansion.
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The Senate last week adopted on first reading the draft law on opening the market for gambling online. This law aims to regulate the market paris sports and poker on the Internet, including by establishing an authority to distribute licenses to new operators of play today, this market is subject to monopoly in France, granted to the PMU for horse paris, and French Games for gambling. Poker, it is not meant to be played outside of casinos and licensed clubs. Yet the French are more than 500,000 in play money poker on the Internet each month. A market of 300 million euros per year.
The entry into force of the law, the budget minister Eric Woerth hopes will come before summer, is eagerly awaited by operators of online gaming, there are a huge market. This is not the case with the hundreds of thousands of poker players, for whom she could turn into a nightmare.
More taxes
Operators who have obtained approval in France will logically be subject to French taxation. The bill provides for poker, a 2% levy capped at 1 euro per deal. “Today, we take 3% of the pot, capped at $ 3 per hand. The removal of the state will add a surcharge of 40%. We will take over part by reducing our margins, but despite this the tender will necessarily be more expensive for the players, “said Alexandre Dreyfus, founder and patron of ChiliPoker company of 35 people based in Malta, whose sales totaled $ 11.7 million in 2009, and seeks the approval in France.
In this account there, Michael, a regular at the poker on the Internet, has made his calculations. “Today, I am winning in the long term. On the basis of an equivalent gain in wages and a half year, with new samples, I will gain nothing. These samples quickly reach enormous sums when the we play multi-table. ” Thus, the proportion of winning players according to him should decrease significantly.
Less choice
A provision of the bill provides that the French players can not play on the address. “Com” site that gets French approval. Conversely, clients. “Com” can not log on. “En”. As for sites that do not have accreditation which would turn the French market, they are likely to be blocked on a request to the judge. Specifically, the French players will no longer play against strangers. The main point of the black law to Alexandre Dreyfus. “This reduces the choice of play and the possibility of tournaments. It is the economic interest of the French game that was privileged at the expense of players.” Besides the tournaments, this provision would also penalize the game variants less popular. “On other styles of play as Texas Hold’em, there will be no one!” Laments Michael.
To overcome this problem, some operators offer that Arjel enter into agreements with its European counterparts to allow sites with multiple approvals in various countries to be allowed to play all their members residing in these countries.
Loyalty Bonus: back to square one
The bill also requires players who had a business operator or paris games online destination for players residing in France prior to the enactment of the Act, a reset of accounts of these players. Hailed by the PMU, the French Games or Gambling France, this boosted the competitors, who must close any accounts without being able to automatically re-register once approval obtained. For gamers, this means that it will withdraw all the money on their behalf, re-enter all their personal information to re-enroll, all loyalty points (sort of miles accumulated by the level of activity site, exchanged as gifts) not used will be lost, and seniority bonuses too … Better to think about before and all the spending, which plans to have Michael, who hesitates between an LCD and a digital SLR.
For operators, this looks like a puzzle. “Only a few thousand French players play for money at us, which represents about 15% of our turnover. We will therefore be less affected than other operators. So we will not try by all afford to retain those players, and prefer to focus on our partnership with Free to recruit players. ” For other sites like Winamax very present in France, there is great risk of losing subscribers for the benefit of competition. Especially since the majority of poker players usually play two or three different sites, says boss Chilipoker.
The legal implementation of this article also looks tricky, as explained Mr. Pelletier Perrine, a lawyer Ulys. “The French state could there be to close accounts players freely opened by French residents, who are not held criminally responsible for play on these web sites is difficult to imagine that this is not of an obstacle to the free delivery service, a violation of freedom of contract and heritage legislation, if a refund is not implemented. ”
Tabula rasa
It is certain that opening the market, and debauchery advertising to win market share that will follow, will attract a new audience for poker sites. Those who did not play for money will probably feel better knowing they can credit an account managed by the French Games. Addicts in international tournaments will certainly continue to play on illegal websites, or dwell upon them. But a big part of the regular players, measured, informed, anticipate that the closure of illegal sites and will find more interest in the Franco-French sites, is likely to bed earlier than expected. One can argue that the law will encourage monopolies and former players who remain illegal, to the detriment of those seeking accreditation. But ultimately, the real losers are the players.
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