Euro-Poker:
Poker in Europe is significantly increasing during the last decade and this progress does not seem to stop. In the beginning of the 90s there were very few poker venues in Europe, including the Vic in London, the Jackpot in Dublin, the Rainbow in Birmingham and maybe two or three more. Nowadays 150 European casinos include poker rooms and numerous poker clubs exist all over the continent. The style, the offered games, the stakes and the clients of these venues vary from country to country and reflect the culture and economical state of the country they belong to.
Poker In France:
For example, France, a country known by its cuisine and where the whole country stops at the dinner time, has many card rooms.
Aviation Club de France:
Situated in Paris, every day at 10.30pm this poker room is converted to a restaurant with serious four-course suppers accompanied by a bottle or two of excellent wine. It does not mean that the clients of Aviation Club the France do not take the game seriously. It is just about the culture, and when it comes to food, nothing else is important.
Avenue des Champs Elysees
Another French poker room called Avenue des Champs Elysees is a pure magnet for high rollers. During the Euro Finals of Poker series, this card room registered an average sit-down of 5,000 francs (800 dollars) and wins and losses of 5 digits numbers.
Poker in Austria:
In Vienna poker is an integral part of everyday life. There two major around-the-clock card rooms, the Poker World and the Concord Card Casino, that probably are the largest in Europe.
Casino Austria
The city central casino called Casino Austria also has a large and stylish poker room. Numerous small and medium poker clubs open and close continuously. The most popular games there are Holdem and Stud with limits varying from 2-4 to 30-60 dollars.
The Concord
The Concord is very similar to American poker venues. It was built after Californian poker rooms and although it is a bit smaller than the largest of them, it has 30 tables in the main room, and a special tournament room for special events.
Poker in England:
The largest poker tournaments in Europe are run in the UK. Gaming laws of this country have not not changed since 1968, and according to these laws, casinos can not charge players for participation. All buy-in money for the tournaments is returned to the players in the form of money prizes. This and the wide publicity of the game, mainly based on Holdem tournaments specially played to broadcasted on Late Night Poker TV series, has attracted a lot of new players. Actually too much, because most poker rooms in the country are extremely overcrowded, and some games even run in Deal-It-Yourself mode.