One of the most reputable poker site PokerStars, has earned the privilege of operating in France. The French Organization named ARJEL, a highly responsible group of the country’s online gaming operations, honored the owners of PokerStars with a unique License Number 0006-PO-2010-06-25. This has been a great step for French residents to bring them poker from the world’s most popular poker tournament site, PokerStars.fr!
After careful monitoring of the procedures required for earning the license, PokerStars took a step forward in submitting its request on May 19, after deciding that it meets all the strict ARJEL license requirements. Though PokerStars is available for all French customers, there are certain constraints on the online poker in France.
In spite of these restrictions, PokerStares.fr will offer French Players opportunities to play tournaments as well as sit and gos at zero cost. Once the bylaws of the French regime for online poker site have been published, PokerStars.fr will start running cash games. This event is expected to take place at anytime.
PokerStars has a great list of French players like Arnaud Mattern, Thomas Bichon under its belt. Gaels Monfils and Sebastian Chabal are also key names associated with the poker site. Not only does the French players get many opportunities to play online, they also get a chance of winning hot seats to enter into international poker events such as PokerStars.com European Poker Tour. A mix of skill, attentiveness and training is essential for any player to win the tournament. After detailed decision making for over 3 years, France finally got the approval for running online gaming, thereby creating an enthusiasm among French customers looking forward passionately for action online.
ARJEL released quite a lot of licenses before the start of 2010 World Cup. However, among other leading companies, PokerStars is the first company ever to receive the license with the current release. Apart from PokerStars, Gaming Iliad SAS (Chilipoker.fr), Electraworks SAS (PartyPoker.fr) as well as Partouche.fr are few lucky license holders. Sportingbet, William Hill as well as Betfair have restricted entr?e to French customers, as they have not applied for new license.
