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27 Aug, 2018 Jean-René Fontaine wins EPT National; 3 Indians Cash

The European Poker Tour (EPT) has a current stop in the beautiful city of Barcelona, with quite a few big tournaments lined up between 21 August and 2 September. One tournament which came to an end over the weekend was the famous EPT National, which saw an overwhelming field of 4,348 en...

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27 Aug, 2018 Play the new daily tourney ‘Fishpool’ at Uma Poker

There’s nothing better than daily poker action especially if one is a tournament poker lover. Keeping this in mind, one of the upcoming sites on the Indian poker scene, Uma Poker has launched its new daily tournament called ‘Fishpool’. UmaPoker is hosting an exciting s...

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27 Aug, 2018 Matthias Eibinger leads final 9 in EPT €100k High Roller

Recently, Frenchman Jean-René Fontaine created headlines by taking home a career-best live cash for winning the EPT National tournament as part of the European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona tournament series. Then, the festivities continued as the €100k High Roller kicked off over the week...

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27 Aug, 2018 Sumit Silwal ships Big Daddy on Spartan

Many high-guarantee tournaments make up the Sunday grind on The Spartan Poker each weekend. One of them is the Sunday SuperStack, which was won by Pulkit Goyal last night. Another one of them is the popular Big Daddy tournament, where the winner takes away not just his/her tournament wi...

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26 Aug, 2018 Ukraine classifies poker as a sport

Poker in the Ukraine may be able to flourish once again following the government’s decision to classify the game as a sport. Earlier this month, the Ministry of Youth and Sport published ‘Document 3780’. Although written in Ukrainian, translations show that “II.119 sport pok...

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26 Aug, 2018 ‘Tonny369’ ships Warm Up at Little Big Series

It’s been a week packed with tournaments up and down the board and this ongoing Little Big Series (LBS) is drawing in plenty of players for the value being provided for buy-ins that are at a smaller level. Another four events took place yesterday at LBS’s Day 3 at The Sparta...

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26 Aug, 2018 ‘Ganesh Gaitonde’ wins this week’s Spartan DareDevil

One of the most popular weekend tournaments at The Spartan Poker is the DareDevil. An interesting concept has been incorporated into this featured tournament of Saturday evening where players who get knocked, before the end of late registration, will be able to buy-in for 50% of the ori...

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26 Aug, 2018 Poker player launches blockchain social network

Xu Ke is could probably be defined as a prodigy. She is a native of Beijing, and the founder of China’s first blockchain-based social media site, called “Ono”. At 24 years old, that is likely enough to fit into the “prodigy” category. Xu Ke has a lot more to offer, and her Beijing-based...

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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.