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25 Apr, 2019 Gaurav Sood beats Gokul Raj to win PokerStars Wednesday Stars

PokerStars, with their launch of their Indian presence back in April last year, has surged to laudable feats since then. They signed on Nawazuddin Siddiqui as their brand ambassador this year and had even entered mainstream advertising. Their regular feature tournaments, which are ever ...

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Poker

25 Apr, 2019 PPL Special Edition Day 4: ‘Kingsingh69’ wins The Vegas

PokerBaazi is currently hosting PokerBaazi Premier League Special Edition (PPL SE) which began on 21st April 2019. The proceeds from the series will be donated to VIDYA, a non-governmental organization which is involved in education of underprivileged children. After 3 days of the PPL, ...

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India

25 Apr, 2019 Madras Court lifts ban on TikTok after implementing it

The overly popular video creator and sharing app TikTok was recently banned by the Madras High Court, due to its so-called negative effects on society, especially the youth. Following this, Google and Apple removed the app from its respective stores too. In the latest development, the b...

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Poker

25 Apr, 2019 PokerStars announces INSCOOP with 1CR GTD Main Event

PokerStars India had started the year with a bang, by announcing its partnership with Nawazuddin Siddiqui. They also created an ad campaign with Siddiqui starring in it and broadcasted on mainstream TV channels like Colors. PokerStars has yet again grabbing the spotlight in the communit...

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Poker

24 Apr, 2019 Kartik Ved ships PokerStars India Super Tuesday

PokerStars India began its operations in April of last year and deepened its roots firmly in the market since then. The platform has hosted some marquee events in the past which have attracted a great number of top talents from around the country. Given its popularity around the world, ...

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Poker

24 Apr, 2019 LBS Day 2: Vinay Choudhry among winners on Spartan

Spartan Poker, this month, is busy hosting the Little Big Series (LBS), a popular series especially for small-stakes grinders looking to improve their bankroll and gradually go up the MTT scale. This month’s LBS began on 22nd April and will be in the books on 26th. We recently profiled ...

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Gaming

24 Apr, 2019 China bans Mahjong; no blood, dead bodies in video games

A 9-month freeze on introduction of new video games was implemented in China on Monday this week. Recently, the company began accepting new apps and games from publishers again, but with a few caveats. China has considerably stepped up its regulation of the gaming industry. It has intro...

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24 Apr, 2019 Mobile Premier League raises $35.5M from Sequoia India

One of the recent entrants in the esports segment, Mobile Premier League (MPL) recently raised $5 million in Series A funding from Sequoia Capital India, who led the round.  Sequoia was joined by some angel investors too, in the seed round. MPL again has raised a good investment of $35....

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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 India 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 news 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 on pokernews India 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.

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