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13 Dec, 2018 Ram Kakkar bags Adda52 Maverick title

Adda52 is among the upper echelons of Indian online poker scenario. The platform hosts tournaments with massive prize pools all around the year. They also host a feature tournament every day of the week. Their Wednesday’s feature tournament, the Maverick has a new winner! Last night’s M...

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Poker

12 Dec, 2018 Rajat Sharma takes down Spartan’s Mega Stack

Yesterday saw yet another high-stakes tournament on The Spartan Poker. The Mega Stack tournament, which happens every Tuesday, has a prize pool of INR 12 Lakhs for a buy-in of INR 3,300. The event began at 7:30 pm on Spartan yesterday and attracted a total of 371 entries (249 players). ...

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Poker

12 Dec, 2018 Akash Gupta, Shubham Singla among title winners on PPL Day 2

The much-awaited PokerBaazi Premier League (PPL) Winter Edition began a couple of days back, with INR 5+ crore promised in prize money between 10-16 December 2018. This biggest PPL series yet crushed all the guarantees on Day 1, where the likes of Aditya Kulkarni and Shardul Parthasarat...

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Poker

12 Dec, 2018 Matthias Eibinger leads 4 in EPT Prague Super High Roller

PokerStars LIVE is hosting the prestigious 2018 European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague festival at the Casino Atrium in Prague, Czech Republic. The series began on 7th December and will conclude on 18th. The 12-day affair has seen a lot of action, including the €10,300 NLHE which was won by A...

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Poker

12 Dec, 2018 Danilo Velasevic leads final 6 in EPT Prague National

2018 European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague started on 7th December at the Casino Atrium in Hilton Prague. The series features tournaments to suit each and every player’s pockets. PokerStars LIVE is hosting the 12-day affair, with the inaugural event already declaring its champion. The ...

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Gaming

12 Dec, 2018 Stars Group granted Swedish Gaming License

In recent times, Swedish gambling authority Lotteriinspektionen had updated the regulations in the online gambling market in Sweden. They had also released a statement saying that it had received 95 applications for gambling licenses from various companies around the world. As reported ...

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12 Dec, 2018 1-on-1 with Japanese Pro and APT Finale POS, Kosei Ichinose

Very recently, the Asian Poker Tour (APT) wrapped up the final tournament series of their current season, hosting APT Finale Manila 2018 between 27 November and 6 December at Resorts World Manila. Now APT is one of Asia’s biggest poker brands which has been growing by the year, se...

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Poker

12 Dec, 2018 Thomas T ships Tuesday Stacks on 9Stacks

9Stacks is a well-established online poker platform in India, offering many feature tournaments around the year. Just recently, they launched a new line up of high-stakes daily tournaments on their platform. There will be INR 5 Lakhs GTD feature tournament every day of the week, called ...

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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.