According to reports, the legislation will allow the country’s poker players to compete against players in other European nations . . . According to research from the French Authority for the Regulation of Online Gaming, the French online poker market was worth $350 million in 2011, but it has been on the decline thanks to being ring-fenced. Current estimates peg industrywide online poker revenue at $280 million a year. Thanks to a lack of liquidity and US players being mostly unable to play online poker, the global online poker market has shrunk more than 20 percent since 2012, according to some estimates.