French online poker cash game traffic has dropped 33%, over the past three years, according to a fresh report from the French independent online gaming regulator ARJEL.

If you want to see a lot of art, queue for a exceedingly long time to climb to the top of a very large tower, or visit a cathedral that was once the home to a geezer with a colander tucked under the back of his shirt then go to France.

If you want to play poker, then don’t.

That’s not the view of a xenophobic Englishman chucking stones from across the channel. That’s the view of over a hundred French poker players who now earn their trade playing out of a different country.

And how does that effect the French online poker economy? It affects it quite a lot, actually.

On January 30th 2015, the independent French online gaming regulator Autorité de régulation des jeux en ligne (ARJEL) released the quarterly analysis of the market for online games in France (Q4: 2014).

It was painful reading.