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Groupe Partouche has officially launched its new gaming venue in Paris following a €100 million investment, bringing one of the capital’s largest poker and table gaming clubs to Avenue de la Grande-Armée near the Arc de Triomphe.
The new Partouche Casino Club opened its doors on May 12, 2026, replacing the operator’s former location on Rue de Berri. Spread across 8,500 square meters and seven floors, the venue combines gaming areas, restaurants, bars, tournament facilities and future VIP spaces in a property designed to attract both local and international visitors.
Around 5,000 square meters of the building are dedicated entirely to gaming activities. The first three floors focus exclusively on table games and poker, while upper levels include lounge areas and the company’s future Paris headquarters.
Poker and Table Games Drive the New Venue
The gaming club features roughly 100 tables overall, including 80 poker tables and a wide range of live table games. Visitors can access eight Blackjack tables, six Ultimate Poker tables, four Punto Banco tables, two Stud Poker tables, two Three Card Poker tables, and one Craps table.
According to the operator, the venue is currently the only gaming club in Paris offering Craps. Poker operations occupy a major part of the property, with 53 nine-player tournament tables alongside dedicated cash game areas for Texas Hold’em and Omaha.
The club can host more than 1,000 guests at a time, making it the largest gaming establishment currently operating in Paris under the city’s gaming club framework.
Movement throughout the venue centers around a large atrium fitted with LED displays. The property also includes automated identity verification systems and tables equipped with RFID technology used for chip management.
The operator hired around 250 staff members for the venue, with croupiers accounting for roughly 60% of new hires. The club operates seven days a week from noon until 6 a.m., with entry limited to adults presenting identification documents.
Tournament Calendar Already Taking Shape
Texapoker Events partnered with Groupe Partouche to develop the club’s poker tournament schedule. Opening week began with a Grand Opening event carrying a €250 buy-in alongside an evening tournament priced at €200.
Starting May 13, the venue introduced three daily poker tournaments, including an afternoon event, a late-day session and a final evening tournament.
The club will also host the Unibet Open Paris from May 16 to 25, featuring an international poker festival and a Main Event with a €1,100 buy-in. A WSOP Circuit stop is already scheduled for September.
According to G3 Newswire, Maurice Schulmann, Chief Officer of Transformation, Technology, Data & AI at Groupe Partouche, reflected on the development process behind the new venue, “Eighteen months ago, this was 8,000 m² of raw concrete, not a table, not a chair, not a light. Today, it is a place like no other in Europe. The launch party was exceptional. Seeing the first cards dealt, the first chips placed on the table, the first players settling in as if they had always been there. After two years of work, it’s a difficult moment to describe.
A huge congratulations to all the employees who contributed to making this opening a success. It offers poker offer like Paris has never known before, a quality Italian restaurant with snacks on all floors and spaces designed so that each floor has its own identity. This is a real Casino Club, at the heart of the world’s leading tourist destination.”
Dining, VIP Areas and Paris Restrictions
Beyond gaming, the club includes an Italian-inspired restaurant connected to the founder’s heritage. The menu features dishes such as carpaccio, Caesar salad, octopus, homemade pasta, steak tartare, pizza and Milanese-style veal cutlet. Snack areas and bars are available throughout the property on every floor.
VIP lounges and dedicated private areas are expected to open later this year on the fourth floor. The fifth floor will become Groupe Partouche’s new headquarters in Paris.
French law continues to prohibit traditional casinos within a 100-kilometer radius of Paris, a restriction dating back to 1919. Authorities granted a single exemption in 1931 for Enghien-les-Bains. In 2017, legislation introduced a pilot framework allowing Paris gaming clubs to operate without slot machines.
Partouche Casino Club enters the market under those regulations, focusing entirely on poker and live table gaming instead of slot-based casino operations.