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Clean Casino
Introduction package contains:
Welcome champagne
Game explanation of slot machines or Classic Games
Free entry
for only 12,- € per person
Casino Classic
A nice casino evening as a night long event for groups.
Enjoy it with your family, friends or colleagues
a fascinated world of Classic games:
Welcome cocktail
Game explanation for classic games
free entry
7 x 2,- € lucky chips
for only 24,- € per person
Casino Friends
With this group arrangement you can have:
4 Drinks, 1 Snack
Game explanation of classic games
free entry
3 x 2,- € in lucky chips
for only 28,- € per person
Casino Callenge
An intensive classic package with:
a welcome champagne and a soft drink
Fingerfood or Menu
game explanation for classic games
Free enrty
2-hours table tournaments (with tournament chips)
for only 50,- € per person
In Germany, only state casinos are allowed to host poker cash games or tournaments. All sorts of real-money gambling poker outside of casinos (like home games, card clubs, etc.) is forbidden,. Looking for hobbies classes events in Dusseldorf? Whether you're a local, new in town, or just passing through, you'll be sure to find something on Eventbrite that piques your interest.
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Westspiel Casino Aachen52062 AachenList of table games:
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Super Saturday
Texas Hold'em, No Limit, Freeze Out
•Buy-In: 300,- € + 10,- € gastronomic contribution
•Tournament chips: 10.000
•Max. Players: 77 persons
•Start: 7pm
From 5.30pm to 6pm
One Table 'Sit and Go'
Buy-In: 50,- €, 6-10 players
Satellite Tournament for the 'Super Saturday' Tournament
Texas Hold'em, Freeze Out tournament, 'Bounty'
Start: at 8pm
Buy-In: 50,- € + 25,- € Bounty + 10,- € gastronomic contribution
Tournament chips: 5.000
Max. players: 55
Satellite Tournament for the 'Super Saturday' Tournament
Texas Hold'em, Freeze Out tournament, 'Rebuy'
Start: at 7pm
Buy-In: 20,- € + 10,- € gastronomic contribution
Rebuy: 20,- € limitless in the first 4 levels
1 Addon: 20,- €
Tournament chips: 1.000
Max. players: 55
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Hotel Pullman Aachen Quellenhof www.accorhotels.com - Monheimsallee 52, Aachen - +49 241 9132-0 Best Western Hotel Regence Aachen www.regence.bestwestern.de - Peterstraße 71, Aachen - +49 241 47870
Concorde Hotel Lousberg Aachen www.hotel-lousberg.de - Saarstraße 108, Aachen - +49 241 20331
Hotel Novotel Aachen City www.accorhotels.com - Peterstraße 66, Aachen - +49 241 5159-0 Best Western Royal Hotel Aachen www.royal.bestwestern.de - Jülicher Straße 1, Aachen - +49 241 182280
Hotel Granus www.hotel-granus.de - Paßstraße 2, Aachen - +49 241 152071
Hotel Reichshof www.reichshof-ac.de - Seilgraben 2, Aachen - 0241 23868
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Aachen is situated between the borders of three countries: Germany, Holland and Belgium. The Aachen motorway junction links together the A4 Aachen-Köln-Olpe and the A44 Belgium-Aachen-Dusseldorf motorways.
From motorways
- E 314 Antwerpen-Hasselt-Heerlen-Aachen
- E 40 (London) Brussels-Luttich-Aachen
- A 4 Olpe-Dusseldorf-Aachen
- A 44/46 Dusseldorf-Neuss-Aachen
drive through the Aachen motorway junction on the A544 towards Europa-Platz. The road to Casino Aachen is displayed from the Europa-Platz from the town centre.
From the Dusseldorf and Koln-Bonn airports
take the Airport-Express bus to Aachen that is running several times a day.
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arriving to Aachen is best with the high speed train that is running between Paris, Aachen and Koln every two hours.
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Classic Games
Daily from 3pm to 3am
Saturday from 3pm to 4am
Slot Machines
Daily from 11am to 2am
Closed: Good Friday, All Saints Day, Bereivement Day, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
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If you're in Germany, you're probably left wondering what kind of poker games you're actually allowed to play. Currently, the confusing legal situation in the country is not helping anyone answer that question.
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With norms to regulate online poker left in the hands of 16 different Länder (German Federal States) and home games partially allowed after a recent ruling from the German Federal Administrative Court, playing poker in the country that produced champions like Marvin Rettenmaier and 2013 GPI Player of the Year Ole Schemion is far more difficult than one would guess.
So, while German players keep crushing one international event after another, let's have a quick look at how things work in Europe's largest national economy.
Live poker in Germany: What is allowed, and what isn't?
In Germany, only state casinos are allowed to host poker cash games or tournaments. All sorts of real-money gambling poker outside of casinos (like home games, card clubs, etc.) is forbidden, and police raids of underground games are not unheard of.
There are however a few exceptions: playing for very small stakes in home games is not prosecuted, and sometimes it is also possible to find particular tournaments allowed to be organized by non-state casino hosts.
On Jan. 27, 2014, the German Federal Administrative Court ruled that tournaments with very low buy ins (around €15) do not constitute illegal gambling. This law applies so long as the buy-ins are mainly used to cover the costs of the event and are not redistributed among the players.
Despite the fact it does not refer to events with significant figures, the ruling was widely welcome by Germany’s poker community as the country has a rather vivid scene of those very low buy-in tournaments.
The most prominent host for that kind of events is the PokerBundesliga, a circuit which offers €15 tournaments where the participants can win entries to other tournaments. Their yearly final in Leipzig regularly attracts over 1,000 players.
In Short: Poker in casinos is allowed, low-stakes home games are OK, and low-stakes tournaments are also OK.
Online Poker in Germany: Where things get confusing
It is difficult to have a complete understanding of Germany’s online poker regulation. Part of the confusion stems from the fact that each one of the 16 German Federal States has its own laws regarding online gambling and does not request to work together with the others to build a homogeneous, national system.
What we do know is that 15 of the 16 German states do not allow to for the providing of online poker services, even though none of those 15 different pieces of legislation mention whether it is allowed to play online poker or not.
Up until now no player has ever been prosecuted in Germany for playing online poker, but legal certainty regarding online poker is not provided by the legislation in those 15 states.
Currently, all German states are working on an amendment to the current gambling law, which in its current revision reinforces the strict prohibition of all forms of online gambling with the exception of the federal lottery.
But as the European Court of Justice has already decreed in 2010, that such a broad prohibition is against EU law, it seems likely that this new revision will be overruled once again.
One German Federal State, Schleswig-Holstein, is the only one that tried to differentiate from others and decided to allow both online gambling and sports betting in mid-2011.
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Schleswig-Holstein started issuing licenses in early 2012 for some companies to offer online gambling to Schleswig-Holstein residents. Among the first rooms to secure a license from the state are industry leaders PokerStars, 888 and Ladbrokes.
Unfortunately for poker players, right after Schleswig-Holstein passed this online regulation, the state government was voted out of office, and the newly elected governor of Schleswig-Holstein announced his intention to revoke the whole piece of regulation.
All this said, up until now the new state government did not follow through on that announcement, even if the current situation in Schleswig-Holstein is a stalemate since neither players nor providers have any legal certainty that online poker stays legal and regulated in the state.
In short: Providing online gambling is not allowed (with the current exception of Schleswig-Holstein), and playing online is not prosecuted.
Poker’s tax heaven … until you win
In general, poker players do not have to pay taxes in Germany as gambling winnings are non-assessable. Up until 2010 poker was considered a game of chance by the German jurisdiction.
Broadly this still holds true to date, even if Cologne's Financial Court ruled in October 2012 that under certain circumstances revenues generated via poker tournaments are taxable.
In the now famous Eddy-Scharf-Ruling, which forced the two-time WSOP bracelet holder to pay taxes on his winnings as 'they counted as commercial income as they were linked to his personal skills,' the Cologne court decreed that a person who regularly generates income via poker games has to pay regular income taxes on those revenues.
Thus, now many professional poker players reside in Austria or England to avoid having to pay income taxes. For the average casino player the Cologne verdict has no consequences, though, as long as poker is not his main source of income.
In short: As long as poker is not your main source of income, your winnings are not taxable. If you win big, you better live elsewhere.
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