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03 Jul, 2019 Top 6 best WSOP Main Event finishes by Indians!

We’re a few hours away from the start of what is undoubtedly the most prestigious poker tournament across the world, one that has been growing year over year, decade over decade. We’re talking about the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event which began way back in 1970 wit...

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Poker

02 Jul, 2019 Jonas Lauck wins Event #56, Team Geiger wins Tag Team Event

Event #56: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Super Turbo Bounty When you manage to execute 7 of the 8 eliminations on the Final Table of a poker tournament, there are high chances that you emerge winner of the tournament. If you do the same at the World Series of Poker (WSOP), you will be w...

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Gaming

02 Jul, 2019 Hitting the jackpot with Sunny Leone at JeetWin

The humble beginnings of Sunny Leone Sunny Leone is among the most sought-after celebrities in India. She is a Canadian-born Indian American actress and model who made her name famous in the Bollywood films. Before she collaborated with JeetWin, Sunny Leone had previously worked in a ba...

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India

02 Jul, 2019 WSOP 2019: 15 Indians cash in Crazy Eights Event

We’re a day away from the start of the prestigious World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event and it has probably never been a bigger stage, this being the 50th anniversary of the poker festival too. Currently, Event #64: $888 Crazy Eights No-Limit Hold’em is underway with Day ...

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Poker

02 Jul, 2019 Asian Poker Tour ready for second 2019 stop at Vietnam

The Asian Poker Tour (APT) is one of the biggest names in live poker in Asia and they host a handful of series each year across different venues in the continent. This year too, they’ve had a few series in Japan, Taiwan, and also one in Vietnam, which kicked started the calendar f...

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Poker

01 Jul, 2019 Goyal, Byrraju lead 8 Indians on Crazy Eights Day 1D

Event #64: $888 Crazy Eights No-Limit Hold’em is done with its four starting flights and by the end of it, we had an accumulated field of 10,188 entries. With that, Crazy Eights became one of many WSOP 2019 tournaments which shattered participation records, passing last year’...

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Poker

01 Jul, 2019 Gaurav Sood fires 8 bullets and wins BSS SuperStack

Sometimes, you’re happy with a good day, good week or even good month in business. As for Gurgaon’s Gaurav Sood, the good times just seem to keep rolling, winning major titles every month (sometimes multiple) since March this year. Regardless of which online poker platform h...

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01 Jul, 2019 Sahil Chutani finishes 5th in APPT Jeju High Roller

All eyes are firmly fixed on the 2019 World Series of Poker (WSOP) and now even more so as we approach the start of the WSOP 2019 Main Event, which will see thousands of players participating from across the globe. However, Las Vegas isn’t the only location where live poker has be...

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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.