welcome to the future of online poker

This may be a dumb question, but if they want to tax online poker, why do they have to block the .com sites? can't they just tax a percentage of the French players' rake, rather than make stars etc open new sites just for France?

cash games are currently halted, unfortunately for poker players travelling thru the country the only way to deposit is via a french bank (lol) so f that. someone please correct me if im wrong

it appears that all over the world people arent allowed to do what they want with their own money

FYP

7% rake wow

F*ck french government
BUT also f*ck PokerStars

WHat does the 10k cap exactly mean? Losses, or total buyins?

Winner

I am just basing my opinions off of what bills have been proposed. The bills proposed are calling for deposit tax's which would more than likely be covered by PokerStars. Thats not to say that when/if the bills are marked-up that they won't include other language making the tax more significant. But as it stands right now if regulation happened in the US it wouldn't put us in the same predicament France players are finding themselves in. This is simply due to market size.

To answer your last question, if the company is licensed and especially publicly traded then yes I do believe they will allow them to keep 80%, as stated in bills proposed unlicensed offshore operators would have to pay 50% deposit tax.

Total BI. (example : I'm only allowed to play 100 €100 SNGs a month)

I am ashamed to be on the planet with the people who make these rules and laws.

I honestly hope they all die of cancer. I'm not joking and I am a pretty nice person.

play at tilt and you won't have this problem

wow

downside - more rake
upside - every other player is french donk

easy money for the 1% of french who can actualy play well.