French Poker Strike
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We all know that the French love a strike so it does not come as a surprise when French poker players decided to strike over being charged extra because of the 2% tax by the French goverment on all rakes. I may sound like I am stereotyping but strike is what the french have done and seems to have done well.
They did this by occupying all the tables and not playing basically shutting down Pokerstars in France. Fair play to the French poker players and good luck on them. Direct action can be a pain to ordinary folks, but, in the end if a powerful organisation wants to impose more cost onto their customers then the customers do have a right to say no.
In a form of ‘cyber squatting’ the French consumers have demanded change of company policy and although noble does leave a question, ‘why don’t these French poker players just go and form an online poker commune’?
The French and communes go together like Pernod and water! The players could charge a much lower rake and all profits would belong to the members. This is the most sensible idea I have had in ages – I wonder if it will catch on?
In the meantime here is Brigitte Bardot in her sex kitten days when she was the fantasy of most French men and would have made a great Poker Totty.










