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17 Mar, 2019 4 Indians progress from WPT Vietnam Kickoff Day 1C

The Asian poker circuit currently has its eyes on the World Poker Tour DeepStacks (WPTDS) current series in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. It has been three days since the action began and the most popular tournament at the moment is the VND 10 Million Kickoff Event, where quite a few Indian pla...

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17 Mar, 2019 Vinicius Lima wins Borgata Poker Open WPT Championship

The iconic Borgata Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey was host to the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open between 15th January and 1st February 2019. All the events in the series had concluded till 1st Feb except one, the WPT Championship event, which was the main event of the series. Play w...

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Gaming

17 Mar, 2019 Supreme Court lifts Sreesanth’s life ban in fixing case

The Supreme Court of India on Friday, 15th March, revoked the life ban on former Indian cricketer S. Sreesanth in a case of spot-fixing. The apex court asked the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to re-think the punishment it gave to the cricketer before. The bench who lifted...

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17 Mar, 2019 Top 5 tips when learning a new game

Poker has multiple variances and versions in itself. There is Texas Hold’em, 5 Stud Poker and  H.O.R.S.E formats among others. A player can expand his horizons by playing in various formats and styles of the game. Here are some tips to bear in mind when switching into a new format of Po...

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17 Mar, 2019 Facebook to add dedicated ‘Gaming’ icon on navigation bar

The lucrative worldwide gaming market is only seeing growth and Facebook, the tech giant based in US, has announced that it will introduce a dedicated ‘Gaming’ icon on its main navigation bar of its app, according to the tech news website TechCrunch. The icon looks like a piece of a jig...

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17 Mar, 2019 10 Students Arrested In Gujarat For Playing Pubg

Rajkot city police in Gujarat arrested a total of 10 college students after they were caught playing PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) on their mobiles. Gujarat banned the game last week over concerns that it’s too addicting and violent for children. According to a notification issue...

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17 Mar, 2019 Snapchat set to unveil mobile gaming platform

The social-media app Snapchat is all set to introduce a gaming platform for its app next month. Snapchat’s parent company Snap Inc will roll out this new platform for developers next month, according to an article by Cheddar.com. The mobile game platform is known to Snapchat employees a...

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17 Mar, 2019 Ankit Jajodia wins 2nd edition DPTXpress Main Event

The INR 15k Main Event Final Table of the 2nd edition of the Deltin Poker Tournament Xpress (DPTX) was underway yesterday at the Deltin Denzong in Gangtok, Sikkim. The field of 64 entries on the starting day of the event whittled down to Final 9 who fought tooth and nail for the prestig...

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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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