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24 Aug, 2019 Ashish Munot Thanks God for Friday!

Spartan Poker always hosts an array of online poker tournaments for players of all pockets. On Fridays, they host Elite, which has a steep buy-in of INR 11,000. Alongside this, they also host Thank God Its Friday (TGIF) INR 10 Lakh GTD, which has a much lower buy-in of just INR 1,650. W...

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24 Aug, 2019 Aditya Sushant on being the first ever IPC Champion…

Aditya Sushant. Take a look at his Hendon Mob profile. It lists down as many as 21 live tournament cashes since his last cash in India. These include cashes at the 2019 Aussie Millions, EPT Sochi, APT Manila, PPPoker World Championship, APPT Manila and of course, 7 cashes at the 2019 Wo...

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23 Aug, 2019 Sumit Asrani, Muskan Sethi progress to EPT National Day 2

Just a few days and plenty of high-value tournaments to be played, so the organizers decided to host multiple starting flights at once at the latest European Poker Tour (EPT) stop at Casino Barcelona. The biggest tournament running currently is the €1,100 EPT National and we are now don...

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23 Aug, 2019 Mehta, Kumar, Sreedhar among winners on SVS Day 5

Yesterday was the fifth day of the ongoing Spartan Value Series (SVS) where players can buy-in for little or nothing and work their way up to the big prizes. Once again, five tournaments were hosted during the day and five different winners also emerged, each making considerable bankrol...

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23 Aug, 2019 Nishant Sharma beats FT full of pros to win Head-Hunter

Every Thursday night, Spartan Poker hosts a unique bounty tournament called Head-Hunter INR 10 Lakh GTD which seems to be growing in popularity in recent times. Last week, Jayjit Ray completed two consecutive Head-Hunter victories, but he sadly couldn’t complete the hat-trick when...

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23 Aug, 2019 GameChanger 2.0: Prakash Gupta leads after Day 1B

The biggest online poker tournament in India returned a couple of days back with GameChanger 2.0 scheduled between 21-25 August 2019. This time, the buy-in was halved by PokerBaazi to INR 5,500 and we’re expected a bigger field than the 3,700+ entries that took place in the inaugu...

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22 Aug, 2019 EPT National Day 1B: Raman Gujral progresses in Barcelona

European Poker Tour (EPT) is among the most loved poker tours across the world and their most recent stop in Casino Barcelona kicked off a couple of days back. Yesterday was the start of the extremely popular €1,100 EPT National, a tournament which has been a fixed part of their schedul...

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22 Aug, 2019 Smashing 1,143 entries register to GameChanger 2.0 Day 1A

In February this year, India got to witness its first ever INR 2 Crore GTD online poker tournament thanks to PokerBaazi, which was eventually won by Prashanth Sekar after a 4-way deal. The massive success of the tournament led to GameChanger 2.0 being announced with 4 starting flights a...

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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.