Closed for months, land casinos were put to the test from March 2020 to May 2021. Likewise, the Parisian poker clubs had to deal with the situation when they did not just put the key under the door, like the Joa Royale Paris club. The main reason for this massacre is the drastic decline in attendance, the game tables that cannot accommodate more than 8 players and the Texas Hold’em tournaments being put in stand by. But health measures have also weighed in the balance for establishments that favor between game opponents.
Even if a good standing and location in Paris kept it afloat, the Pierre Charron club worked until January 18 with a reduction staff, which resulted in a good 15 -day strike in a row, as we can Know often in USA.
A love story between games and Paris?
However, the story had started well: entirely dedicated to the passion of poker, the Pierre Charron club opened its doors in 2020, under the aegis of the president of the Marval group, Grégory Benac. Accustomed to poker rooms but also winner at the well -known American Aviation Club of theAdict Bruno Solo, the manager said in an interview on RMC Poker Show: "Club Pierre Charron, it was my dream"! To an inpacle of the Champs-Elysées, this club “Created by a player, for players”Welcomes confirmed or neophyte players in a highly prestigious setting. If the card players were princes, this club would be their kingdom, as the founder bet on luxury and comfort for a chic atmosphere worthy of a VIP: cigars, soft sofas, or a driver, nothing n 'is left to chance, apart from the games!
In a context already undermined by government laws in matters of JHA (games of chance and money), this casino From a new era has still been created thanks to the law of January 1, 2018 authorizing the creation of game clubs. This is how we can find it with pleasure poker but also 9 table games like the Punto Banco which is a variant of the baccara, but on the other hand and of course, no slot machine!
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On the model of WPTDeepStacks Paris 2020 at the Palais des Congrès, the club's objective is to be able to offer 3 editions of this World Poker Tour for which he signed a partnership. It is still necessary to be able to receive in all peace of the public, between the requirements of the health pass, and the concern for detail, in normal times! We do not play blackjack Parisian Style (Poker 21) as in Cash Games, and the more the rules of poker are refined, the more the staff must be diversified.
In front of the facade of the Pierre Charron club bearing the name of a 16th century theologian, the employees were massaged in late January 2024 to claim more human and financial resources. After reopening time, customers were certainly returned in the 8th arrondissement and its "golden triangle", 
But with them, their eagerness to get back in the saddle at the traditional play tables, and sometimes their aggressiveness! And the deales although trained in critical situations could not always contain the overflows ...
There followed a standoff between the managers and the employees of the club who noted a lack of exchanges with the management. It must be said that little by little, the working conditions had deteriorated because of the world pandemic and its harmful consequences on the budgetary calendar. Nevertheless, it is the whole world of poker, including the Poker Live, which was affected by the cancellations of major tournaments, such as the WPT Deauville or the EPT Barcelona or Monaco.
The poker in Paris, part of a hand?
At first, at the Pierre Charron club, the time slot 13h-6h had been modified to go to an opening of the place between 4 p.m. and 5 a.m. But since then, on February 2, the normal course of events has resumed, and we can walk again the thousand square meters and play on the 25 game tables of this club apart!
Far from being the only one, the Circus club and the Barrière club which constitutes, for example, a new bet for the leading group in USA also make bad fortune good heart and try to keep their heads out of the water, in innovative or by renovating mythical places.
The pandemic is not the only obstacle to the development of these rooms, because poker radiates a lot online with young generations of players.
Thus, the survival of terrestrial casinos but also poker clubs like the Club Charron involves playing on several tables whether face -to -face or virtual, and not only on the one that the dealer spreads on the table, revealing The flop!
