Full Tilt Bans French Players

Got a friend who lived in France and he got email saying French Players can no longer play. Funny thing is he just moved back to USA and he has to send paperwork to FT to allow him to play.

Is this for real?
What's wrong with full tilt and french players?

France passed a law that a poker site must be licenced in France in order for their citizens to play there. I guess Full Tilt doesn't want to pay for a French licence.

It's not just about a license. A licensed site in France also has to collect an additional rake off each pot, even if the site has a 'no flop, no drop' policy, the new French law will require a small % of blinds for their rake.

Pokerstars is solving the issue by opening (iirc) pokerstars.fr ... but they will also be licensed. Will be interesting to see how many French players will log-in to an exclusively French player site.

no offence but im so glad im not french, no fulltilt would be unamaginable

I'd ban the French, too! Darn French!

Nooooooooo ! The French are the worst, next to maybe only the Germans, this is horrible

Sucks for the French. Thank God I'm not French!

Thank god too lol and sorry to the french players it must suck tho...

That fvcken sucks for the French & the host site. Think about it, Full Tilt is already behind Poker Stars as it is. Now they lose a buncha players and furthermore, reduce their rake percentage. This will definitely burn a hole in the quarterly revenue.

Really awful and dreadful.

Sucks to be french right now. They'll probs change their law one day.

I'm french and I must admit it really really sucks...

The point is that we pay for the room rake, and now we'll have to pay for the government rake...

Regarding FTP, they're waiting for their french licence, so it's clear that FTP will soon be available in France.

But the big problem is that if this is like PokerStars, now on the french release of PS, you can't play anymore with the rest of the world (ex: you can't play anymore the "Hubble's freerolls" and all other tournaments)

You can only play with french players on french tournaments, and in my point of view, this is a terrible news, as terrible as the new tax imposed by France.

It's clear that it sucks, and if anyone have some work around to avoid these problems, please let me know!!!

I still have hope we can make things change in France in order to be connected again with the rest of the world!!!
I have the feeling to be in Soviet Union, with poor choices and goods available, with all good stuff in occidental countries.

But maybe if we talk about other topics, like what kind of food do you eat, France will be a little more popular than a lot of other countries

I was watching the Durrrr Challenge not too long ago & heard Marcello mention Italy has a Ban similar to the French. Is it true?

How awful for the French players.

And it makes me wonder what would happen if the US ever decides to license/regulate/tax online poker. I'm thinking it's be careful what you wish for time.

I agree being a french full tilt player sucks right now but, they SAY they will soon have a dedicated FTP french site just like Poker pokerstars does, however i am sure they will take a lot more rake. Good luck solving the problem, as soon as one poker site jumps ship, every other one bails behind them.

Go figure

I was thinking the same thing...we'll be raked over the coals if we play!

The Italians where annexed a year or two ago I believe.

Well another kick in the balls for poker players I have heard that the rake from Stars France is pretty horrid which doesnt give the French alot of prospects right now. Now I dont think this will happen in England but you never know do you? Isnt their talk of other countries already doing the same? If this keeps happening GG poker.

Man. If that happened in the U.S. (and I had a bankroll...lol) I think I would have to seriously consider playing live only...

I would think countries could treat poker sites the same way they treat a casino? Just tax them directly or would it be too big a hassle to try and figure out how much money is actually coming out of each country?

Also, does the Bill in France demand a rake or is Fulltilt applying a rake to compensate for tax imposed by France?

I have to admit that I was happy to see a french at my table - seemed as if they always had enough money to throw at me.

Seriously - it sucks big time.

I don't know whether the french players are getting taxed on their winnings aswell - I believe they are ....

Just kidding! This is just a joke, no nationality should have to do without online poker

Which poker site are you suggesting has "jumped ship"?

That sucks for the French. Glad I'm not one of them.

Do you play on FT McC? There are lots of players from Italy in every tourney I play in.

Are you kidding? It sucks for the rest of the world.... the French are notorious for bein HUGE Donks (in MTT play anways).

I heard that this has since been rectified?

please don't let fulltilt take the fish away. this is about the worst news ever. i thought for sure it would only be pokerstars that was banned but guess im wrong.

I think that there is an update to the temporary ban of french players imposed by Full Tilt Poker.
I am assuming that because I checked the daily country specific freeroll restricted to french players and I noticed that there is a large number of players already registered.
So in some way Full Tilt has reopened to the french for sure, but I don't know if they are free to access any game that the pokerroom offers or maybe are facing specific restrictions.
If any french or authoritative one can explain it would be very helpful.

Might be that there is no rake in a Freeroll

Are there any other countries banned by Full Tilt...this is news to me. howd you find out about all of this?

Full Tilt take the french license and reopen but they can only play between the french players .