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22 Feb, 2019 Manipur Deputy CM says lotteries will be reintroduced

The North-eastern state of Manipur, one of India’s seven sisters, has planned to re-introduce lotteries in its region soon. The state’s deputy Chief Minister Yumnam Joykumar Singh stated yesterday that the they are working on a plan to create a lottery scheme and have done this to gener...

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Gambling

22 Feb, 2019 AIGF schools Goa Cong Prez for misinterpreting Law Commission

The All India Gaming Federation (AIGF), a casino advocacy group, has come out on Wednesday and accused Goa’s Congress President Girish Chodankar for selectively quoting from the Law Commission of India’s report on off-shore casinos. Last Thursday, Chodankar presided over a press confere...

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Poker

22 Feb, 2019 PokerHigh launches third ‘Poker Concierge’ in Colombo

PokerHigh is one of the relatively established companies in the Indian online poker scene, having after hosting many successful events online and live like ‘Brain Duel’. Now, they have gone on to announce a cash game poker festival called ‘Poker Concierge’  or ‘PartyHigh‘, w...

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Poker

22 Feb, 2019 Zarvan Tumboli overcomes tough FT in Spartan Flash

Yesterday, the feature tournament of Thursday on Spartan Poker, The Flash INR 12 Lakhs GTD was hosted. The tournament, like any other feature tournament, brings out the best poker players from across the country and yesterday was no different. The tournament started on the platform at 7...

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Poker

21 Feb, 2019 Puneet Karajagi wins KTM Duke in latest PokerSaint promo

PokerSaint is one of India’s online poker websites that’s doing well in the past couple of years. The company is owned by Pacific Gaming, a global gaming and entertainment provider, and they have hundreds of loyal users playing on the platform. They have hosted numerous cash game promos...

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Poker

21 Feb, 2019 Sushant wins Spartan Destiny after HU deal with Mahboobani

Yesterday saw yet another one of Destiny tournaments being hosted, currently in its 8th edition on Spartan Poker. The tournament, being a feature one, always attracts a lot of top talents from across the country, but yesterday’s Destiny was special, since two of the giants of the commun...

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Gaming

21 Feb, 2019 8-member panel favours uniform GST structure on lottery

In January this year, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council of India, the government body concerning the newly formed GST, had decided to consider tweaking the current tax on Lotteries in the 10th January meeting. However, the meeting didn’t result in any firm decision on the issue a...

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Poker

21 Feb, 2019 ‘Vshetty1’ leads PokerBaazi Game Changer Day 1A

The much-awaited PokerBaazi tournament, Game Changer INR 2 Crore GTD has finally begun. The tournament scheduled between 20-24 February saw its first starting flight, Day 1A end yesterday. Given the hype surrounding the biggest single online tournament ever hosted in the country, it saw...

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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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