Groupe Partouche has opened its new Partouche Casino Club in Paris, marking one of the most significant gaming venue investments in the French capital since gaming clubs were given permanent legal status.
The €100m venue is located on Avenue de la Grande Armée, close to the Arc de Triomphe, and covers around 8,500sqm across seven floors. Around 5,000sqm is dedicated to gaming, with the first three floors focused on poker and table games.
The club includes 80 gaming tables, including Poker, Blackjack, Ultimate Poker, Punto Banco, Stud Poker, Three Card Poker and Craps. It also features a central atrium with LED screens, restaurants and bars across the building, while upper floors will include VIP areas and Groupe Partouche’s new headquarters.
The venue employs around 250 people and has been developed as a premium gaming and hospitality destination, with a focus on live poker. Partouche is working with Texapoker Events on its tournament offer, with the Unibet Open scheduled for May and a WSOP Circuit event planned for September.
Maurice Schulmann, Chief Officer of Transformation, Technology, Data & AI at Partouche, says that the venue had been transformed from “raw concrete into a place like no other in Europe”, adding that the opening delivers a poker offer “like Paris has never known before”.
The opening is commercially significant because Paris remains a restricted casino market. Casinos have been prohibited within a 100km radius of the French capital since 1919, with limited exceptions, including Enghien-les-Bains. Parisian gaming clubs were introduced under an experimental regime in 2018 as a regulated alternative to older gaming circles and illegal venues.
The clubs were granted permanent legal status under France’s 2026 budget, giving operators greater certainty to invest in the market. The timing has allowed Partouche to move forward with its larger Paris venue after previously operating from a smaller club on Rue de Berri.
Despite the name, the Partouche Casino Club is not a traditional casino. Parisian clubs are not permitted to offer slot machines or Roulette, although discussions have taken place around whether English Roulette could be introduced in future.
For Partouche, the opening strengthens its position in France’s capital while placing poker, table games, hospitality and live events at the centre of its Paris strategy. For the wider French market, it underlines how gaming clubs have become the regulated compromise between Paris’s long-standing casino ban and continued demand for live gaming in one of Europe’s largest tourist destinations.
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