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29 Apr, 2019 Raman Gujral bags PPL ME; Ankit Jajodia tops Leaderboard

It’s all over. Eight exciting days of online poker action on PokerBaazi and the fun all came to an end last night. Five tournaments were scheduled yesterday on Day 8 of the latest PokerBaazi Premier League (PPL) and this special edition saw a total of 38 tournaments being conteste...

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28 Apr, 2019 Gaurav Sood knows no limits; ships Saturday Social now

Ever heard people saying everything you touch turns to gold? Well, that 100% applies to Gurgaon’s Gaurav Sood at the moment, who isn’t literally turning things to gold. However, he’s playing poker and he’s playing it well. He’s turning every buy-in into a v...

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28 Apr, 2019 Ram Kakkar wins LBS ME; Vinay Choudhry wins 3rd title

We have come to the end of yet another edition of Little Big Series (LBS) on Spartan Poker, where a total of 24 tournaments were hosted across 6 days. The whole idea of this series is to allow smaller or lower-stakes players to build a bankroll, buying in small and winning big. Quite a ...

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28 Apr, 2019 PPL SE Day 7: Yadav, Sharma, Jain, Kumar win titles

The PokerBaazi Premier League (PPL) recently launched a special edition series and it’s set to run a total of 8 days, of which seven have already wrapped up. Last night was PPL Day 7 and a total of 4 tournaments were hosted on this Saturday night, with plenty of winners emerging i...

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India

27 Apr, 2019 GATO 2.0 conference and award show wraps up in Gurugram

IAMAI, or the Internet and Mobile Association of India recently hosted the ‘GATO 2.0 – Gaming for Tomorrow’ at The Leela Ambience, Gurugram. The conference went underway on 24th April and saw a host of significant entities of the industry giving their two cents on multiple issues concer...

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27 Apr, 2019 PPL SE Day 6: Reddy wins Value Town; Purohit wins PLO

The third last day, Day 6 of the PokerBaazi Premier League Special Edition (PPL SE) was conducted yesterday with a total of 4 events, among which the biggest was Value Town INR 15 Lakhs GTD. There was also the PLO DST which saw community regular Anant Purohit ship the title. Here’s a ro...

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Gambling

27 Apr, 2019 Vietnam authorities bust $1B online gambling ring

Vietnamese police cracked down on an illegal online gambling ring that operated in the country till now with more than $1 billion in bets. The crackdown amounted to the arrests of 22 persons, as per local reports. Though Vietnam has banned most forms of gambling for locals in the countr...

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27 Apr, 2019 Yasheel Doddanavar progresses from APT Philippines ME Day 1A

One of the leading poker tour operators of the eastern hemisphere, Asian Poker Tour (APT), opened its shop in the bustling south east Asian country of Philippines recently. The tour is currently busy hosting the 2019 APT Philippines I, and the highlight PHP 10 Million GTD Main Event saw...

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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.