CIRCUS GROUP AND POKERSTARS AWARDED FIRST FULL A+ ONLINE POKER LICENSE IN BE

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CIRCUS
GROUPE AND POKERSTARS AWARDED FIRST
FULL A+ ONLINE POKER LICENSE IN BELGIUM

DOUGLAS,
ISLE OF MAN – February 8, 2012 – Circus Groupe and PokerStars, the world’s
largest online poker site, today announced that www.pokerstars.be has
become one of the first online poker sites in Belgium to be officially granted
a license under the Casino de Namur A+ license. The site was authorised in 2011
by the Belgian Gaming Commission in a test phase, but has now become officially
recognised with a full license.





Mr.
Etienne Marique, Chairman of the Belgian Gaming Commission, said: “This is an
important step forward for the regulation of online gambling. Not only is the
legal framework offering the possibility for operators to offer their online
games of chance, but from an economical point of view gambling operators are
given opportunities in Belgium. And all this in an environment that protects
players more than illegal websites do – for example, excluded players cannot
play at licensed websites and an average hourly loss is applicable to each
player.”





Jean Christophe Choffray, Head of Online Gaming
at Circus Groupe, said: “We are delighted that with the great efforts and co-operation
of the Gaming Board we have been able to become fully regulated in the Belgium
market.”





The
Belgian Gaming Commission has indicated that beginning this year only
fully-licensed operators will be permitted to offer online gaming services in
the country and the Commission will actively seek to prevent unlicensed
operators from accessing Belgian players.





PokerStars.be
is jointly operated with Casino de Namur and is the largest site to be
authorised and operational in Belgium. Belgian players are able to play in all
PokerStars international tournaments, including the Sunday Million, World
Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) and Spring Championship of Online Poker
(SCOOP), as well as cash games.





“PokerStars
is proud to be among the first fully-licensed operators in Belgium,” said Guy
Templer, PokerStars’ Head of Business Development. “We are delighted to be able
to offer a locally licensed product to Belgian players through our partnership
with Circus Groupe. This furthers our goal to obtain licences in all newly-regulated
markets and we look forward to working with the Circus Groupe and Gaming Board.”





PokerStars’
latest operational license in Belgium follows other successful approvals in
Italy, France, Estonia and Denmark. PokerStars.it launched in October 2008,
offering Italian citizens the chance to participate in games organised by the
world’s leading poker operator in compliance with Italian law. PokerStars.fr,
which was granted a license in June 2010, permits similar access for French
players. PokerStars.ee brought the same privileges to Estonian players in
October 2010, as did PokerStars.dk to Danish players in January 2012.





About PokerStars


PokerStars operates
PokerStars.com, the world’s most popular online poker site, which serves the
world’s largest poker community with more than 49 million registered members. It’s the first choice of the world’s
top players, with more daily tournaments than anywhere else and with the best
security online. More hands have been dealt on PokerStars.com than any other
site; that’s over 75 billion hands and more than 475 million
tournaments played.





PokerStars.com operates
worldwide under license from the Isle of Man government. Recent additions to
the PokerStars family include PokerStars.dk, PokerStars.fr, PokerStars.it,
PokerStars.be and PokerStars.ee, which operate in Denmark, France, Italy,
Belgium and Estonia respectively, under each country’s government licenses.

49 millions de joueurs!!

Tant que l'on ne fait pas "les belges" en ne laissant aucune concurrence et que d'autres suivent, c'est une bonne chose!

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Tant que l'on ne fait pas "les belges" en ne laissant aucune concurrence et que d'autres suivent, c'est une bonne chose!

judicieux ! +1