Poker players may want to that poker is never recognized officially as a strategy game because, as the example of France (where one wishes to impose poker winnings in the near future), it is possible that is being imposed their earnings. Other hand, the fact that poker is perceived as being a game based solely on luck a bad sides. Which? Its ban in some countries. Hoping one day that, if the Canada decide to regulate online poker, he decides to copy our French rather than poles or Americans cousins.
Newly is the case in Poland where online poker comes to be banned. President Bronislaw Komorowski has just signed the Bill that will make online poker banned the poles at the end of the summer. Strangely, online sports betting are not affected because their side, unlike poker "they are not only based on random". Strange quote from a Finance Minister, who probably has no idea of the mechanisms of the poker. During a game of poker, a player must take so many decisions that it is impossible to assert seriously that poker is just a simple game based on chance like Bingo, game in which the player takes no decision that could influence its outcome (except to purchase 1 or more Bingo cards).
You you well douterez that this new deal and she did several malcontents. This ban goes against the principles of the European Union and we can imagine that Brussels will consider the case of the Poland in the coming months.
However, the online games market was going well in Poland. Rather than implement a control system such as Italy, Spain and France (with the ARJEL), they decide to take the drastic means of banning the game.
It is estimated that the Poles spent more than 4 billion zlotys (1 zlotys is worth around 35 under Canadian) in 2010 in games of chance on the Internet, and particularly on poker sites, some evidence of the game put is existing at the poles.
This prohibition will be the conclusion of talks that took place in the fall of 2009 while it intended to prohibit outright the online game.
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