According to the news site CBS

The 4th season of France Poker Tour, national championship, stopped in Reims. The opportunity to expose the underside of a game revolutionized by the Internet and discuss the emergence of a new generation of players.

The convention center of Reims took style casino. The fourth edition of France Poker Tour has raised its bags with 300 players met up since yesterday and tonight. Reims is the fourteenth of fifteen stages qualifying for the final 13 and Dec. 14 in San Remo (Italy). The winner will receive € 25,000 and a place in Monaco in the final of the European Poker Tour with a value of € 13,000. We received 40,000 entries. More than 7,000 players will compete amateursau total this year, compared with less than 2,000 two years ago, said Pierrick Limeul, communication of the French Federation of poker.

The enthusiasm for this event reflects the madness that took hold of a deck of cards once sulfur and now completely disinhibited. Students, housewives, executives and workers or sup Patrick Bruel, world champion 98 and unifying ambassador ... there are thousands to be seduced by the parties of poker in its HoldHem Texas. A phenomenon born in the United States who used the web to surge on the world since 2005. A tournament online can now up to 150,000 players! Ironically: while gambling on the internet are banned in France, Winamax, an English betting online, which sponsors the championship of France where, it is true, the money is prohibited except in final .. In Toulouse, police games has made the zeal and seized all the cards

and tokens with the logo of the sponsor. Suddenly, the organizers also come with virgin material, if ... , said a connoisseur of the mid-bluff.

A Reims, the raid is unlikely. On the pressure from Europe, France will open its sector of sports betting and gambling online competition during 2009.

The Internet has made many players, Gerard Gravet be confirmed, the patron of Multicolor, the only games circle of Champagne-Ardenne.

On the walls of his office, a fresco of Las Vegas, truer than life, flashing constantly. On his computer displayed Dealerbet a poker site that develops online for four years. Gérard Gravet, fashion poker is expected to last: Its a global phenomenon. One of the few sports where a stock can beat the best in the world. In tennis, an amateur player has not even allowed to collect balls Federer.

Eight TV channels offer poker emissions. The emergence of champions under 30 multimillionaires settlement contributes to the success of a strategy game now, for certain professionals as Ardennais Paul Testud, the 14th French player, a sport