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12 Apr, 2019 Laksh Pal Singh wins SSS Day 2 Head Hunter; 3 others win

This month’s Spartan Super Series (SSS) began on 10th April and will end on 14th. The 5-day festival is studded with marquee events like The Elite INR 50 Lakhs GTD and the Main Event INR 75 Lakhs GTD. Yesterday, Day 2 of the series was hosted and saw ‘illegal9’ winning two tournaments w...

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12 Apr, 2019 Randy Lew quits PokerStars Team Online

The worldwide poker giant PokerStars saw another well-known pro Randy Lew quit the brand’s Team Online yesterday. Lew was already a gaming aficionado before focussing on online poker full time. He is best known for putting in crazy amounts of volume on the client, sometimes even p...

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12 Apr, 2019 Phil Hellmuth will host Tiger Woods’ 8th annual poker night

Tiger Woods, the ace golfer, has decided to host an exclusive poker night for charity. The event is called Tiger’s Poker Night and will be presented by World Poker Tour (WPT). The event will see the light of the day on Friday, 24th May 2019.  And the recent development is that poker leg...

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12 Apr, 2019 Shimizu and Soyza lead APPT Main Event Day 1A

PokerStars LIVE hosted 2019 Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Korea began in Incheon on 5th April 2019. The series is studded with plenty of exciting events out of which a Short Deck event was also included. India’s Yasheel Doddanavar made an impressive finish there at 3rd place. Yesterday...

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11 Apr, 2019 Baazi Games infuses $1 million in BalleBaazi

A lot of companies, big and small alike, have ventured into the fantasy sports space in recent months. The reason for this focus on this industry is clear. Cricket is taking the country, and the world by a storm this year. IPL 2019 began last month and that has all the fanatics glued to...

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11 Apr, 2019 Nishant Sharma wins SSS Day 1 PLO High Roller

Day 1 of April’s Spartan Super Series (SSS) was running yesterday on Spartan Poker. The platform held a total of 6 events for the first day, the biggest being the feature Wednesday event, Destiny which is in its 9th edition as we speak. The second biggest tournament for the day was the ...

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11 Apr, 2019 Shravan Chhabria wins PokerStars India Wednesday Stars

PokerStars India started its operations in April of last year and has gone on to make a name for itself in the country. They also started off this year on a good note by singing Bollywood sensation Nawazuddin Siddiqui as their brand ambassador. They even set a precedent for mainstream p...

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11 Apr, 2019 Michael Soyza triumphant in 2019 APPT Korea SHR

The 2019 APPT Korea, which began at the Paradise City Casino in Incheon, started on 5th April 2019 and will be hosted till 14th April. The Main Event of the series will begin today, and apart from that another marquee event, KRW 10 million APPT Super High Roller saw Day 1 being hosted y...

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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.