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HEADLINE: FRENCH ACT AGAINST ONLINE POKER
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Once again, the French appear to be following US
Poker enforcement example
French authorities appear to be following the lead of their American
counterparts with the announcement that a top
online poker room is facing a ban on advertising.
Media reports are that the French club, Le Salon des Ambassadeurs,
has banned all images from one of the Internets’ most well-known
poker rooms, Pokerstars
at a tournament scheduled for the venue.
It appears the French are also are stepping up the offensive on
online poker and
online gambling in general. In September 2006 executives of sports
betting site BWIN were arrested in the South of France under a
version of the American Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement
Act.
In another move that may be symptomatic of the ‘war’
on online gambling, the European Poker Tour (EPT) announced earlier
this month that the popular Deauville portion of the tour was
to be cancelled.
The tournament was scrapped at short notice, even though the EPT
events in Deauville in 2005 and 2006 were well received.
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