Created already a year ago, the Jansen Commission issued its public report on Monday, August 23 and advises the legislator to open the market of online poker to a few operators licensed. In other words, the Commission advises block 'illegal' sites at the level of internet access providers as is already the case in France and in figures Commission was created to give its opinion on a hypothetical regulation of gambling on the web.
For now, when it comes to online betting, it is Holland Casino that a monopoly even if Betfait and Ladbrokes was already opposed. But the Court decided that the monopoly could not be the same in respect of the poker. Several reasons explain this judgment, which the growing interest in the Netherlands for the texan card game! A monopoly would come to grips with the growing market.
In addition, in the Netherlands, poker is not seen like any other game of chance. It is already a first step. Several reasons explain this fact, but in particular the judgment in July last by a Hague Court, who felt that poker is not a game of chance only, but that it had a large part of strategy. The person wishing to organize a poker tournament could not be prosecuted for violating the current laws of the Netherlands on gambling.
Apart from the Netherlands, several European countries have still not decided to regulate their online betting market. This is particularly the case of the Greece, the Finland, the Portugal, the Slovenia, the Hungary and the Germany.
The authority of Regulation of online games has developed between June 8 and July 26 last a list of eighteen rooms of poker on the Internet with an approval in France. The french, therefore, have only access only for bathrooms under licenses (these rooms are accessible to the french). The global trend tends slowly towards the regulation of online poker, with the Italy and France in mind. On the Quebec side the poker online of Loto-Québec room should emerge in autumn 2010, without however limiting games of competitors offer.
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