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31 Aug, 2018 Caroline Wozniacki ousted from 2018 US Open

It’s becoming a trend now that the women’s competition in any major Grand Slam cracks wide open early on, giving the chance to see new champions. In the US Open Round 1 itself, we saw the top seeded Simona Halep crashing out, while Round 2 saw the women’s #2 seed Carol...

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31 Aug, 2018 Alexander Petersen Wins EPT Barcelona €10K PLO Event

The festivities continue at Casino Barcelona, with the European Poker Tour’s (EPT) latest stop in Barcelona currently taking place. We’re down to the last few days of play and quite a few winners are being crowned as the days go by. The most recent tournament to come to an e...

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31 Aug, 2018 Andras Nemeth wins EPT Barcelona €25k Single-Day HR

It has been a busy past few days at the Casino Barcelona, with the 2018 European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona stop being played out between 21 August and 2 September. Recently, we reported the news of Denmark’s Alexander Petersen winning the €10k PLO High Roller, while other events ...

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31 Aug, 2018 Aditya Sushant wins first Godfather title on Adda52

Yeah, the title may say that this is Aditya Sushant’s first Godfather win on Adda52, but he’s a player who has accomplished almost everything else in poker, both in live as well as online tournaments. Shipping poker tournaments is nothing new to him, with titles on most of t...

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30 Aug, 2018 Wilinofsky leads after EPT Barcelona Main Event Day 2

The European Poker Tour (EPT) currently has a stop in the city of Barcelona and after a few side events, most of the focus has shifted to the €5,300 buy-in Main Event at Casino Barcelona, where an EPT record of 1,931 entries was recorded to create a massive prize pool of €9,365,350. Aft...

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30 Aug, 2018 Chris Dowling leads final 17 in EPT Barcelona PLO

The festivities at Casino Barcelona are on in full swing at the month, with the European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona series currently taking place. The highlight at the moment is the EPT Main Event, where Ben Wilinofsky is leading the final 259 survivors, while other tournaments are also...

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30 Aug, 2018 Michael Copeland Wins WPT500 Los Angeles

You may be surprised to hear this, but the recent WPT500 Legends of Poker stop in Los Angeles had 16 – yes 16 – starting flights. The event had a total field of 2,509 entries during these starting flights, plus a couple of other official days before a winner was declared. Th...

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30 Aug, 2018 Meherzad Munsaf ships Destiny tournament on Spartan

Regular Indian poker players may all be aware of The Spartan Poker’s tournament series called Destiny, where one winner is crowned each week and after 10 weeks, 10 players sit down in a Destiny SnG Finale, to battle it out for the mega INR 10 lakh package trip to play poker in Eur...

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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.