May 5, 2015
Online poker once again failed to impress during the first quarter of 2015, the French regulatory authority ARJEL revealed in its first quarterly report of 2015. The French regulated market yielded a total gross gaming revenue of Euro 190 million, largely attributed to a rise in sports betting as horse race betting remained flat and […]
July 24, 2014
French online poker continues to struggle, according to the Q2-2014 and half-year numbers from regulator ARJEL showing a continued 17 percent quarterly decline in cash games, and an 18 percent drop in cash game revenues over the first six months of 2014 when compared with last year. Over the second quarter, revenues totalled Euro 1,048 […]
February 15, 2014
The latest study of the French online poker market shows that despite strenuous enforcement efforts up to 47 percent of French players have accounts at operators who are not licensed in the French market. The survey found that 23.5 percent of French players give their business exclusively to non-licensed sites, whilst a further 23.5 percent […]
December 20, 2013
Regulators from France, Spain and Italy have been discussing the practical need to increase player liquidity in their ring-fenced regulatory regimes by pooling their poker players for months, but on Wednesday the concept – recommended to France’s lawmakers by regulator ARJEL – was shot down…and without much debate. The politicians chose isolation rather than permitting […]
November 1, 2013
Third quarter numbers from the French regulator ARJEL show a worrying further plunge in online poker revenues, which dropped 21 percent year-on-year after a 16 percent decline in the preceding quarter. That translates to a loss quantum of over a billion Euros compared with 2011 FY stats. ARJEL president Jean-François Vilotte has acknowledged that high […]