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31 Oct, 2024 Nawazuddin Siddiqui x Big Cash Poker Ad Courts Trouble

In the past few years, several Bollywood celebrities have jumped on the poker and online real-money gaming bandwagon and have promoted them via ads. Nawazuddin Siddiqui is one of those elite few, but his ad for Big Cash Poker has drawn the ire of a Hindu Organization, the Hindu Janjagri...

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31 Oct, 2024 DPT Grand ME Winner Ashwin Vijay Vergiya Talks Poker & Future Plans

Ashwin Vijay Vergiya, the ME winner at DPT Grand 2024, which was powered by Adda52, is not resting on his laurels. He has already made plans for his next outing and sees the Indian poker community growing day by day. We had a quick chat with him on his return to his hometown, Udaipur, i...

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30 Oct, 2024 Nazara Technologies Subsidiary Datawrkz Acquires Space & Time

Datawrkz, a subsidiary of Nazara Technologies Limited, has acquired a 100% stake in Space & Time, an independent growth marketing agency with offices across the UK, for approximately GBP 4.8 million (~₹52.3 Crore) in cash and stock. This acquisition is a key move in advancing Datawr...

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30 Oct, 2024 DPT Grand 2024 Wraps Up with Stunning Success!

Adda52, India’s premier online poker platform, proudly announced the successful wrap-up of the 17th Deltin Poker Tournament (DPT)—the DPT Grand 2024. The first ever ‘Grand’ edition of DPT was hosted at Deltin Royale in Goa between 22nd to 28th October 2024, with a total of 1...

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30 Oct, 2024 GGPoker Acquisition of WSOP Finalised For A Staggering Amount

More details about the deal in which GGPoker acquired the World Series of Poker brand are now online. GGPoker will own the World Series of Poker brand and the financial components have been revealed. While the actual deal announcement will be sometime in August, Caesars Entertainment, t...

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30 Oct, 2024 Double The Excitement, Triple The Action: Spartan Poker’s Bomb Pot

Spartan Poker, India’s leading online poker platform, is set to revolutionize the online poker scene with its latest innovation, the Bomb Pot feature – ‘Iss Diwali, Bomb Fatega, Pot Badhega!’ This thrilling addition is currently making waves at the ongoing Great Indian Poker Festi...

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29 Oct, 2024 Ashwin Vijay Vergiya Ships Grand Championship at DPT 2024

DPT Grand 2024 ended with a bang, and the winner of the Grand Championship has now been crowned—and that’s Ashwin Vijay Vergiya. Vergiya had a lot of competition and stood tall among a whopping 421 entries. With this, Vergiya carved his name in history by taking the Grand Champion...

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29 Oct, 2024 Jaydeep Dawer Ships DPT 40K NLH Re-Entry at DPT Grand 2024

As DPT Grand is now done, it has brought up some new champions. Jaydeep Dawer has shipped the DPT 40K NLH Re-Entry. This is his maiden DPT championship. He took home ₹4,43,310, while runner-up Anand Babu wrote  ₹3,23,676 to his assets. On the other hand, the two were locked in a heads-u...

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There are many tournaments that are taking place across various poker platforms. Both Indian and international poker platforms are offering some high value tournaments for poker players, both for pros and newbies. Tournaments series like India Online Poker Championship (IOPC) and Final Table Series are very well-known in the Indian poker circuit. Poker players always look forward to participating in these tournament series as they offer massive guarantees. The poker game as we all know is a very thrilling one.

Aspiring poker players look for poker games through which they can get some great learnings. Online poker took prominence after live tournaments came to a halt due to the COVID-19 lockdown. Online poker news generated had players winning big in these online poker tournaments. All the poker platforms across the globe had to adapt to the new online poker system, owing to the pandemic. Now, everyone who is enthusiastic about poker will play poker online, and will wait till live tournaments are held more frequently.

Good news is that some international poker brands have slowly steadily kick-started getting the live poker tournaments rolling. Many poker players are eagerly looking forward to seeing what the live tournaments feel like in a post lockdown era. The poker news fraternity is also looking forward to covering some action packed poker tournaments.

Poker news is also covered with respect to some major business happenings across the globe. Be it mergers or acquisitions, these business deals include massive money. Readers are intrigued to know how the global poker scene is shaping up with these business deals. The poker platforms are expanding their bases, and gradually adding more value for the players as well.

Poker news is read widely, and makes for some interesting read as well. Poker new sites also cover in-depth analysis of some high value tournaments that are hosted globally. Many poker players take these poker news stories as their study material on a regular basis. Poker news is all the more important as it tells you, which poker platform or poker player is making headlines. The growth of the poker scene, both national and international becomes very crucial to track. 

In India there are some poker platforms that always make headlines. Poker rooms like Spartan Poker, PokerBaazi, Adda52, Natural8, Calling Station, PokerStars India, 9stacks among others always get covered due to the popularity aspect and how poker players flock their sites to play poker.

Poker news also comes from players venturing into different arenas like poker commentary, live-streaming and poker coaching. Many veteran poker players in India have taken to poker coaching as it gives them immense joy to coach budding poker players. Poker news comes from poker tournaments which have an underdog winning poker tournaments that nobody expected. The poker news is always thrilling to read as it covers the complete low down of what went down on various poker felts.

Online poker is also expanding its wings. Earlier poker players preferred the live poker set-up. But, due to the pandemic lockdown, players had to adapt to the regular online poker tournaments. There are many poker sites in India and abroad who are competing daily with each other to make sure that poker news is disseminated quickly and regularly to millions of readers out there.

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Talking about poker news and its importance it is crucial to also look at the legality of the poker game. States like Goa and Sikkim are allowed to have casinos and the union territory of Daman. While other states like Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Odisha, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu, Arunachal Pradesh, Kerala and Telangana do not allow online poker. State governments have the right to construct the legislations for their respective states. The legislations are different in various states.

Even after the Supreme Court defining clearly what is a game of chance and what is a game of skill, the state governments have gone ahead to put in place the legislation as per their will. The final ruling to allow or disallow online gaming stays with the head of state. There has been a lot of furore about the state governments making different rulings. The operators in the online gaming industry have specifically voiced their displeasure. In states where online poker is allowed, the online poker platforms have witnessed growth in terms of user base and revenue state the news reports.

Many poker platforms in the country have been steadily witnessing growth as more and more people come on board. The poker tournaments have seen their advertised prize pools getting crushed. The poker fanatics across the country are heavily participating in online poker tournaments. The poker community in India is growing and the number of professional poker players is also seeing a sharp rise. The Indian poker community is making headlines with their winnings and achievements and poker platforms too are making sure that players get a best-in-class experience while playing the poker game.