Tag Archives: Groupe Partouche

French authorities still searching for masked gunmen who robbed casino
February 17, 2016
French authorities are still trying to track down the armed men who staged a daring robbery on a casino near Marseilles on the weekend. Early Saturday morning, four masked men armed with Kalashnikov automatic rifles entered the Pasino venue in Aix-en-Provence, a small city a few miles north of Marseille...
Groupe Partouche, Winamax, Toto-Lotto ink football sponsorships
July 24, 2015
French online poker operator Winamax has inked a new football sponsorship deal with French Ligue 1 football team OGC Nice. The one-year deal will see Winamax’s logo adorn the front of the Nice players’ shorts beginning with the team’s friendly match against Napoli on August 2. Terms of the deal...
France Pari’s B2B bonanza; Groupe Partouche granted creditor protection
October 6, 2013
French horseracing and sports betting operator France Pari reported a 24% rise in revenue to €3.25m for the three months ending Sept. 30. Much of the credit goes to France Pari’s B2B division SportnCo, which reported double the revenue from the same quarter a year earlier and recently struck a...
Groupe Partouche catches up in UK; Income Access team up with Admiral; Racing Riches launches
February 11, 2013
French multi-channel gambling company Groupe Partouche has launched a new UK-facing in-play sports betting website. The site, which is built and powered by France Pari’s B2B Sportnco subsidiary, will use a partnership with TVCatchup to allow live betting during the online TV-streaming service’s live sport coverage. Partouche’s website is licensed...
Spain taxman targets poker stars; PokerStars inks Barausova; Duhamel’s ex guilty
December 20, 2012
Tax authorities in Spain are using tournament data gleaned from The Hendon Mob website to assess the tax liabilities of top Spanish players. On Tuesday, Poker-Red.com reported that the live tournament earnings of least three of the nation’s top players were being compared with their recent tax returns to determine...
Partouche Poker Tour to fold after failure to honor guaranteed prize pool
September 6, 2012
Recalling the 1962 “you won’t have [Richard] Nixon to kick around anymore” speech, Partouche Poker Tour (PPT) CEO Patrick Partouche has declared that the PPT season five finale currently winding down in Cannes, France would be the PPT’s swan song. The announcement, delivered in defiant terms to a hastily assembled...