This Friday January 21 during a lunch offered by the ARJEL, Jean-François Vilotte (president of the ARJEL) provided an overview of the 6 months of opening the french market.
According to the latest statistics, seven months after the opening of the market of games online (six months for poker), the regulatory authority of the games (ARJEL) presented its balance sheet. Alone, poker players have bet € 4.1 billion. It must be understood here that the way calculations are made, one dollar can have been played several times, which has what mystifier figures.
Note these numerals: players have bet total 4.1 billion euros as has been said, including $ 3.7 billion in "cash game", and 400 million in admission fees for tournaments. A figure "to relativize" said Jean-François Vilotte, the President of the Arjel: "in the case of ' cash game ', updates are"recycled"many times" as explained above.
48 approvals have been issued for 7 months by the Arjel 35 operators, 25 were for poker, against 15 for the paris sports and 8 for sports betting. According to unofficial figures, football (soccer) (62%) was the most popular at the level of updates, followed by tennis (23%) and basketball (6%).
In numbers:
December 31, 2010, there are:
-by 2.1 million active players accounts
-500 000 active players on average each week
-around 3 million players accounts were opened on the sites accredited .FR
At the level of sports betting:
-450 million € of bets
-the average bets per player and per week amount to €125
-the unit amount of the bets is € 4
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