Leading Online Gambling Firms Granted French LicensesDate published: 30 June 2010
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For PartyGaming - which owns popular online poker room PartyPoker.com and online casino PartyCasino.com - this means it can launch up to five French-facing sites across its existing brands, as well as its LuckyJeux.fr site. The latter is a French-registered online poker room that PartyGaming is expected to operate in partnership with France's one-time gambling monopoly, Pari mutuel urbain (PMU), which for decades was its sole gambling source. PartyGaming, like most of its contemporaries, heralded the news that France had finally decided to follow EU free trade directives by restructuring its monopolistic gambling policies through the granting of licenses to offshore firms. It issued it first set of licenses earlier this month in time for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, and the second set on Friday last week. Like PartyGaming, PokerStars was also on the receiving end of a coveted license. As the world's most popular online poker room, it player base will undoubtedly grow even greater now that French poker fans can join up and choose from a multitude of poker variants, cash games and lucrative tournaments. Here is the complete list of French online gambling licenses issued last week: LIL Managers Ltd - FriendBet.fr Reel Malta Ltd - PokerStars.fr Electraworks SAS - PartyPoker.fr, PartyBets.fr, GameBookers.fr, ActPoker.fr and LuckyJeux.fr Gaming Iliad SAS - Chilipoker.fr Partouche Gaming France SAS - Partouche.fr |
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