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12 Feb, 2019 Hernan Villa wins Okada Millions Main Event

The capital city of Philippines, Manila, is host to some of the most luxurious resorts and casinos. Among those is the Okada, which just hosted the Manila Millions between 5-10 February. The series was a great success. The series was conducted by world’s leading poker brand PokerStars L...

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11 Feb, 2019 Ashish Ahuja ships Big Ten on Spartan

A typical Sunday on The Spartan Poker is a high-stakes affair with plenty of pros and big talents from the community in contention. Since Sunday is a day-off for most of the players, they get time to indulge in their favourite game and hopefully win something big too. Yesterday, Spartan...

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11 Feb, 2019 Sahil Mahboobani, Danish Shaikh score big on Adda52 Sunday

Sunday is usually a big deal in a typical week of a poker player’s life since every platform hosts big tournaments with huge guarantees on the day, taking advantage of the universal holiday. One of India’s leading platforms, Adda52, also hosted two big tournaments yesterday, Millions 6-...

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11 Feb, 2019 Vinay B bags PokerBaazi BSS SuperStack title

As is always the case on a Sunday, all platforms host their biggest signature tournaments on the day, given that it’s a holiday for everyone. Something like that happened on one of the biggest Indian platforms, PokerBaazi, when it hosted the BSS SuperStack INR 25 Lakhs GTD yesterday. Th...

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11 Feb, 2019 Sajjan Barnwal takes down DPT 15K Bounty Event

The Deltin Poker Tournament (DPT) is what the Indian poker community is currently talking about, scheduled between 7-11 February. A total of five tournaments have been scheduled and while Day 2 of the Main Event was the biggest attraction, the DPT INR 15k NLH Bounty Event was being play...

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11 Feb, 2019 Ankit Kapoor holds big lead on DPT Main Event FT

After a total of 108 players who progressed to Day 2 of the 2019 Deltin Poker Tournament (DPT) underway at Deltin Royale, Goa, it is now time for us to report the action-packed Day 2 witnessed at the venue yesterday. The Main Event in all attracted 286 entries (91 on Day 1A, 114 on Day ...

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11 Feb, 2019 WATCH: Live streaming of DPT Main Event Final Table

The entire poker community will tune in today to find out who will be crowned the champion of the Deltin Poker Tournament (DPT) INR 35k Main Event. We’ve had three starting flights where a total field of 286 entries registered, boiling down to 108 players by Day 2 and further narr...

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11 Feb, 2019 Gujarat HC adjourns 15-month long poker case again

In December 2017, the High Court of Gujarat had ruled that the game of poker is a form of gambling and cannot be allowed to run within the state. This ruling received plenty of backlash from the poker community of the country. Among the backlashes was an appeal against this ruling in th...

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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.