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24 Apr, 2019 PPL Day 3: Parwal, Arora, Marwaha, Azhar, Desai win titles

After partnering with an NGO named Vidya Integrated development for Youth and Adults (VIDYA), one of the top poker companies of the country PokerBaazi announced PokerBaazi Premier League (PPL) Special Edition. Part of the proceeds of this event will go to the foundation, which will be u...

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Poker

24 Apr, 2019 Weijie Zheng wins 2019 Irish Poker Open ME

The 2019 Irish Poker Open (IPO) €1,150 Main Event was the highlight of the IPO held at Citywest Hotel, Dublin a couple of days ago on Monday. The tournament attracted a total of 1,807 entries and generated a massive €1,805,970 prize pool. The prize pool is a 34% increase from last year’...

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Gambling

24 Apr, 2019 Japan to tackle problem gambling before opening casinos

A scheme was introduced in the Pacific country of Japan which details limiting access to casinos and other betting establishments. The scheme also mentions removing cash machines from these locations as part of a plan to root out problem gambling in the country. Japan is about to introd...

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23 Apr, 2019 Gaurav Sood, Vikram Kumar win titles on PPL Day 2

Another edition of the PokerBaazi Premier League (PPL) began a couple of nights back and once again, it has been a very successful two days on PokerBaazi so far. We’re getting very used to seeing guarantees being crushed in every tournament and new winners emerging daily. Yesterda...

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Poker

23 Apr, 2019 Ashutosh Balodhi stars in Spartan’s Monday Nitro

Monday Nitro is one of Spartan Poker’s newer offerings, recently introduced in place of Mega Freeze and hosted every Monday evening on the platform. Here too, the tournament began at 7:30pm last evening and came to an end a little over 6 hours later, at 1:43am this morning to be p...

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23 Apr, 2019 ‘Winter is Coming’ – Play now in PokerSaint’s GOT 3 promo

Technically speaking, we’re way past the winter season in India, but for those who know, we’re talking about a Game of Thrones reference. ‘Winter is Coming’. Most of you may know this anyway, as GoT happens to be the most watched series across the world, and ever...

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23 Apr, 2019 Vignesh Giridharan, Adithya Raj win titles on LBS Day 1

The Little Big Series (LBS) was an immensely popular series that ran on Spartan Poker every once in a while, but it was off on a brief hiatus for a while before returning to the platform recently. The latest edition began yesterday and will run between 22-27 April 2019 with a series gua...

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22 Apr, 2019 Rubin Labroo, Danish Shaikh win big on Adda52 Sunday

Adda52 is known for hosting some of the biggest online poker tournaments in India, and most of these tournaments are scheduled for Sunday, a day where maximum players have the time off to grind for long hours. Yesterday was another Sunday on the platform which saw two of their biggest t...

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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.