Poker Update – The French government has rejected a call by the country’s leading gaming regulator to allow French online poker player pools to join forces with gaming pools of fellow European countries in order to increase liquidity. ARJEL, the gaming regulator of France, put forward the idea after constant decreases in player numbers and overall gross revenues for French-based online poker and gaming operators. However, that idea was rejected outright by the country’s government, which contains a number of figures who are against online gambling. One of those figures is young rising star Razzy Hammadi, who holds an influential…