ARJEL Five Year Review Finds Online Poker in France Sinking Into Crisis ARJEL Five Year Review Finds Online Poker in France Sinking Into Crisis
Celso Flores, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License
Key Takeaways
  • Online poker is “sinking into a market crisis” according to the five year report produced by French regulator ARJEL.
  • The key elements behind the analysis are the shrinking revenues for cash games and the fact that only three operators in the market are making profits.
  • Across all regulated online gambling activities, the operators have paid €1.564 billion in gambling taxes since 2010.
  • The cumulative operating losses for poker operators who have ever had a French license is now €199 million.

Online poker is “sinking into a market crisis” according to the five year report produced by French regulator ARJEL.

The key elements behind the analysis are the shrinking revenues for cash games and the fact that only three operators in the market are making profits.