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French Restrictions at Online Casinos

The new French regulations have quite a few foes right now, not the least of which are the French poker gamblers. Online casino gambling, betting, and poker groups have strongly protested the newly liberalized French regulations because they still do not adhere to the standards of the EU policies according to the European Commission. Despite the lack of approval on these regulations, however, the French government has proceeded ahead with licensing betting and poker sites for operation within France; the online casinos are a whole different story right now. French players though are not pleased that as a part of the French regulations they are limited to only playing with other French gamblers through these sites.

PokerStars has just announced that the online casino poker giant has completely blocked French IP addresses and accounts from the main PokerStars sites and will instead route interested French players to a PokerStars.fr gambling site as a way to better comply with the French licensing rules and requirements. This though means that poker players are only able to access, see, and interact with other French poker players on the site. Traditionally internet poker, like the online casino gambling industry on the whole, is a very social game that allows players to pit their skills against players from all over the world.

This is simply not the case with the way that the French regulations currently restrict and license the offshore online casinos. For that reason French players are facing smaller tournaments and poker games as well as limited access to many of the international promotions and features inherent to the PokerStars internet poker site. The decision shows that although PokerStars will rock the boat in the US market, the site is prepared to tow the line with France until possible new regulations are launched.