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13 May, 2019 Casinos integral to Goa tourism: Sanjay Dutt

Over the weekend, there was the spectacular launch event of the new Big Daddy Casino in Goa’s River Mandovi, where Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt and other celebrities were present. Touted as Asia’s largest offshore casino vessel, Big Daddy is a renovated version of another cas...

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13 May, 2019 Siddharth Karia wins 2.92L for shipping Sunday Stacks

Every Sunday, 9stacks (sign-up with code “GUTSHOT”) hosts something called Sunday Stacks which also happens to be their highest value weekly tournament. Every Sunday, some of India’s most talented players pay the INR 5,500 buy-in amount each to participate in this tournament and y...

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13 May, 2019 Utsav Taneja takes down PS Sunday Special; she said yes!

MAGIC Sunday Special PKO – INR 20 Lakh GTD. If you are an active player in the online poker circuit, you will know that this is PokerStars India’s biggest weekly tournament offering, where the best talent in India comes together to battle it out in this bounty tournament eac...

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13 May, 2019 Jimmy George wins prestigious SSS Gold Edition Main Event

It was the first time Spartan Poker combined small and big buy-ins to create a unique series called Spartan Super Series (SSS) Gold Edition. Here, 5 days of online poker action took place between 8-12 May 2019 and by the end of the series, we had numerous winners and players walking awa...

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13 May, 2019 Shravan Chhabria wins Adda52 Mega Suits, Nasa wins Millions

Shravan Chhabria has a habit of winning big online poker titles every once in a while, regardless of which platform he plays on. Yesterday however, he outdid himself, making deep runs in two of the highest value tournaments on Adda52, shipping one and narrowly missing the title in the o...

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13 May, 2019 SSS Day 5: Gupta, Mudgil, Kalwani, Reddy win side events

Yesterday was the final day of the recent Spartan Super Series (SSS) Gold Edition hosted on Spartan Poker between 8-12 May 2019. With several winners already crowned throughout the series, Day 5 saw some more big winners in Sumit Sapra (Sunday SuperStack) and Jimmy George (Main Event). ...

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13 May, 2019 Rui Cao bags Triton Short Deck ME, largest career live cash

Over ten years since his first cash in a professional live poker tournament but until yesterday, Frenchman Rui Cao had never earned any major title till date. In fact, 90% of his career live cashes have come in the last one year and all of it comes from 5 cashes in different Triton Poke...

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12 May, 2019 9stacks launches Pokerface with Gopal Datt Episode 1

Pokerface is a fun poker interview series hosted by Gopal Datt and powered by 9stacks (sign-up with code “GUTSHOT”) and the series kicked off recently with Episode 01. It included a hilariously candid interview with poker pro Nishant Sharma, who was part of last year’s 9stacks team to W...

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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.