The sector of the play does not escape the crisis. If the number of customers decreased these last months little, the settings of the players on the other hand strongly decreased. The legalization of the online game could make up this deficit. But the owners of the casinos regret deeply that it is limited only to the poker. They call especially with tax measures which would enable them to save the benefit.

Developers developed a computer program baptized Polaris which succeeded in the small exploit to beat in against one in Texas hold' EM limit a team of professional players who had gained all a million dollars or more. The féveloppeurs plan from now on to make progress protected to them to allow him to gain tournaments in No limit.

PokerStars will organize in January 2009 its first tournament on the Russian ground, in Saint-Pétersbourg. Another Russian tournament will follow this first, this time in the Muscovite capital.

France being on the point of folded following the pressures of Bruxelle in connection with the legalization of the online game, the M6 television channel could launched its own casino on line thus soon.

Players were astonished to see an adversary gaining systematically in spite of a very low level of play. After investigation it proved that the accounts administrators of the sites Ultimate Poker and Absolute Poker had been pirated with the complicity of an employee. The “lucky” player could thus with leisure consult the set of his adversaries. An advantage determining which enabled him to almost always gain and to accumulate thus more than 20 million dollars, with the detriment of its adversaries.

Steve Beshear, the governor of Kentucky, required the setting under sequestration of 141 domain names of which Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars, Absolute Poker, Ultimate Study Bureau, Bodoglife, Cake Poker, Doyles Room or Microgaming. Chile Poker, Poker 770 just like Ongame were not affected, perhaps because these sites do not accept any more the American players. The request is justified by the will of protected the monopoly of the State concerning the money plays.

The conflict enlise between the company of the casinos of Quebec and the trade union of the employees. The security agents of the casino of Montreal refuse to modify their work hours. The employees strikers are currently replaced by executives of the company of State. But Rick Scopelletti, the president of the trade union, denounces the absence of expertise of their substitutes, to intervene as regards first aid, of evacuation in the event of fire, or identification of the prohibited people of casino.

The casino of Gujan-Mestras made of resistance vis-a-vis these main competitors. Her managing, Frederique Ruggieri indeed did not accept the refusal which was meant to him by the Higher Commission of Plays (CSJ) to exploit new machines with under. The CSJ depends on the ministry for the Interior for which the Minister for the time, Nicolas Sarkozy, had signed an agreement in 2003 to give to the casinotiers the possibilities of accommodating a minimum of gangsters penguins. The refusal is justified by an offer of play considered to be excessive on the sector, and is based in particular on a fall of the receipts of the casino of Arcachon, held by Enrico Matias, a close relation of the current President of the Republic. In same time, for a similar request, Dominique Desseigne, also near to NR. Sarkozy and president of the Barrier group, had obtained an agreement for the casino of Bordeaux. The administrative court of Bordeaux condemned the State considering a “decision taken in order to protect from the existing casinos against the competition” and bearing “reached with the equal treatment of the candidates to the exploitation of plays”. The Minister of Interior Department was thus searched on September 18th by the seized examining magistrate.

The federal Commission Suisse of the houses of play imposed a fine of 1,1 million Swiss francs to the Casino of Lugano. She shows the establishment to neglect the vidéosurveillance. The gaps were identified at the time of an investigation into swindles made in the casino of Lugano and Locarno and estimated at several hundreds of thousands of Swiss francs. Five employees of the casinos were stopped in this business. The instruction continues but the casino was appealed now.

The casino of Enghien-the-Baths organized its first tounoi of poker, the first in Parisian suburbs. Three satellite tournaments allowed, with the help of a starting setting of 100 € , with 50 players of poker, among more than 400, of qualifer for this tournament. A hundred of other players paid 1100 euros to take part. These rights of high engagements were justified by a kitty of 100.000 € minimum.

The president of the administration of the house of play “Casino Champion”, Mario Resca, revealed that it considers the establishment in Tunisia of a branch of the casino. This project enters within the framework of the international expansion of the activity of the house of plays.

Next PokerStars WCOOP (World Championship off Online Poker) will be of return for its 7th edition from September 5th to 22nd, with a guaranteed kitty of 30 million dollars, i.e. twice as much as in 2007. Thus, this competition becomes one of the event most important of the poker on line! 33 tournaments will cover all the alternatives of poker, and the main thing will only bring into play at him 10 million guaranteed dollars.

In order to reinforce its leadership on the market of the casinos on line, Casino Rewards will put on line a new mark in November 2008. This new casino on line will be added to CasinoClassic.com, BlackjackBallroom.com, CaptainCooksCasino.com and with the fifteen other casinos of the group, thus carrying its total with 19.

One plays again more and more in the casinos of Belgium (Ostend, Knokke, Middelkerke and Blankenberge in Flanders and Dining, Chaudfontaine, Spa and Namur in Wallonia). The Belgian casinos indeed saw their turnover progressing until approximately 115 million euros in 2007.

The RTL9 Poker Turn returns for a second season. This test brings into play a place to dispute the most prestigious tournament of poker in the world: the Hand Vent of Wolrd Series Off Poker! A final will be retransmise each week in the emission of Bruno Fitoussi on chain RTL9. The winner will see himself offered the voyage to Los Angeles, lodging and especially the import duties to the hand vent. To qualify itself it is enough to take part in the tournaments of qaulification organized free by Bwin Poker each evening at 9 p.m. Each tournament brings into play 30 places to take part in the weekly finale. A super final will make it possible to decide between gaining them of the 9 finales.

The acting general of the Casinos of France, J. - F. Cot, worries about the clear reduction in the frequentation of the casinos recorded since the beginning of the year. On a sales turnover of almost three billion euros, the fall would reach 14% since the beginning of 2008, when prohibition to smoke in the public places is coming into effect. It considers already the possibility that ten casinos are constrained to close their doors.

In its September/August issue of, PMU Mag, the magazine of the PMU, consultable on line on the Internet of the PMU pmu.fr, proposes with its readers a free drawing lot making it possible to gain a daily participation in the Fifth + during one year.

The Frenchwoman of the plays announced a third weekly day of pulling for the Lotto. These two new pullings will take place Monday, in complement of those of Wednesday and Saturday. This innovation will take effect with party of October 2008. This third day of pulling is one of the characteristics of what the chairman of the FDJ, Christophe Blanchard-Dignac, calls the “new Lotto”.