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05 Jul, 2019 Rubin Labroo finishes 3rd in APT Vietnam Monster Stack

Most of our Indian poker pros are in Las Vegas where the poker summer is nearly coming to an end, with just a handful of tournaments left to be played at the 2019 World Series of Poker (WSOP). However, some of our players also made the shorter journey to Vietnam, where the Asian Poker T...

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Poker

05 Jul, 2019 APT Vietnam: Friesinger leads ME Day 1A; Pentakota survives

The Asian Poker Tour (APT) began its latest stop at Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam a couple of days back. The series is scheduled between 3-14 July and the Main Event VND 8 Billion GTD kicked off yesterday with the first starting flight – Day 1A. The fields are softer since most of the top ...

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Poker

05 Jul, 2019 Arjanveer Chadha claims Head-Hunter title on Spartan

If you are an active member of the Indian poker community, you would know that Arjanveer Chadha is among the top names in the online circuit at the moment. For him, winning is regular and titles come as easy as counting sheep. Just recently too, he added another title to his trophy cabi...

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Poker

04 Jul, 2019 WSOP 2019: Phil Hui wins Event #58, Joe Foresman ships #59

Event #58: $50,000 Poker Players Championship What a story it is for USA’s Phil Hui so far, who was busy grinding in $150 tournaments in August last year. Less than 10 months later, he wins one of the biggest buy-in tournaments of the WSOP 2019 series along with the biggest live w...

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Gambling

04 Jul, 2019 B’Town Actress Bhagyashree’s Husband Arrested For Gambling

Bhagyashree is a Bollywood actress of the yesteryears who starred in the 1989 blockbuster ‘Maine Pyar Kiya’ which was also one of the first big hits of another Bollywood legend, Salman Khan. However, Bhagyashree retired from the profession in the next year itself and got mar...

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Poker

04 Jul, 2019 WSOP 2019: Abhinav Iyer leads 5 Indians after ME Day 1A

It’s that time of the year we have all been waiting for, for 11-12 months now. A few hours back, the biggest poker tournament of the world kicked off in Las Vegas. We’re talking about the WSOP Main Event and the festivities began at Rio All Suites earlier today with Day 1A –...

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International

04 Jul, 2019 Sejin Park wins first bracelet, Anthony Zinno wins second

Event #60: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better With $8.5+ million in live poker earnings, you may recognize the name Anthony Zinno, a US poker player who recently completed his 7th cash at the 2019 WSOP series in Las Vegas, which also gave him his second career gold bracelet. He be...

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Poker

04 Jul, 2019 Aditya Systla takes 14th place in Salute to Warriors Event

This is a new entrant into the World Series of Poker (WSOP) schedule, one which is dedicated to the US Army, both for veterans as well as current members. The tournament features a small buy-in of $500 from where $40 will go towards to the United Services Organization (USO) and other mi...

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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.