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11 Feb, 2019 PSPC winner Ramon Colillas now a PokerStars Team Pro

Poker community’s biggest hero of 2019 is undoubtedly Ramon Colillas. The Spanish pro won the much hyped PokerStars Players Championship (PSPC) for a whopping $5.1 million. What’s more impressive is that he had won a Platinum Pass for the event and had a free entry into the tournament. ...

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Gambling

11 Feb, 2019 Iconic Vegas casino Stratosphere becomes ‘The STRAT’

The very well-known 23-year old property in Las Vegas called Stratosphere Casino will now be called as ‘The STRAT’ after a re-branding that happened last week. Golden Entertainment, the parent company which operates the casino has decided to make the transition, announcing ‘Strat Rising...

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Poker

11 Feb, 2019 Ankit Kapoor crowned Feb 2019 DPT Main Event winner!

For those who were following the live stream or Gutshot’s live updates on the Feb 2019 Deltin Poker Tournament (DPT) Main Event, you would know that a player called Ankit Kapoor held the chip lead right through the day. He began the FT today as the chip leader and never gave up th...

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Poker

10 Feb, 2019 Abhishek Goindi takes down DPT 65k High Roller

Another tournament has come to an end at the ongoing Deltin Poker Tournament (DPT) in Goa. After Nikita Luther took down the INR 15k Deep Dive tournament, the next tournament to come to an end was the INR 65k Adda52 High Roller, where Abhishek Goindi emerged victorious. After Day 1 of t...

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Poker

10 Feb, 2019 108 players progress to DPT Main Event Day 2

Three starting flights were scheduled for the prestigious Deltin Poker Tournament (DPT) Main Event. Earlier, we reported 31 players progressing from Day 1A of the tournament, with M Khan ending as the chip leader. Yesterday, Day 1B kicked off at 2pm, while Day 1C Turbo began at 9pm. Som...

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Poker

10 Feb, 2019 Spartan’s ‘The Millionaire’ – An Unmatched Success Story

If we held a survey among the top poker players in the community and asked them what the biggest tournament hosted online is, “The Millionaire” would be the chorused answer. At a time when high-value tournaments were unheard of, The Spartan Poker had the audacity to host the first ever ...

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Poker

10 Feb, 2019 Stylish vehicles to be won in PokerSaint’s ‘AUTOBAN’ series!

PokerSaint is among one of the leading poker websites in India and they always believe in giving back to their loyal players. They often come up with amazing promotions, offers, tournaments and much more, giving every poker player in India the chance to win big. The latest of their onli...

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Poker

09 Feb, 2019 Feb DPT crowns first winner – Nikita Luther

It had to be her. Adda52 Pro Nikita Luther, one of India’s leading female poker professionals and also the country’s first female to win a WSOP bracelet in Las Vegas, has gone on to ship her maiden DPT title as well. After a brilliant 2018, Luther begins 2019 by shipping the...

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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.

Gutshot Magazine offers the latest and up-to-date poker news. Readers can find information about poker tournaments, online poker sites, and exclusive stories and a lot more. Readers can also sign-up via Gutshot Magazine to various affiliate brands listed in the website’s poker rooms tab.

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.