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One issue that will be interesting to watch is how the casinos deal with the issue of French/English cards and language use at the table.

At present, the court cards that are used in Quebec casinos for pit games use the first letter of the French word for each figure. So ... squeezers will reveal not K/Q/J in the corner, but R (roi) / D (dame) and V (valet). Upon request, the casinos will furnish unilingual English-speaking players with a little cheat sheet (about the size of a blackjack basic strategy card) that has a "R = K ..." legend.

Unilingual anglophones will, at first, be at a distinct disadvantage vis-a-vis their Francophone counterparts ... in the early going, it would be easy to tell if an Anglo were holding one or more court cards by the way they needed to squint extra carefully to confirm their holding.

Also, given Quebec's strong promotion and defence of the French language, I cannot see that they would try to enforce a standard North American "English-only" policy at the table during hands (and nor should they, IMHO).

(Fellow Canadian 2+2ers will be aware that this policy is common in western Canada).

If the Quebec casinos have a French-only policy during hands, the tables will be awfully quiet, given the relatively large numbers of Anglohones from Ontario who play in the casinos (especially Gatineau), not to mention U.S. tourists. Matusow, Tony G, Hellmuth, et. al. might not be well-suited to such an environment, unless they are unheralded polyglots who can taunt in more than one tongue.

Alternatively, I suppose that the poker rooms could have some tables designated "English-only"; some "French-only" and some "English and French welcome."

Better start watching WPT re-runs of the Paris Aviation Club tourneys to review the terms for raise, all-in, etc.