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03 Dec, 2018 Spartan Ace Abhishek Jalan ships Sunday SuperStack

It’s always a great feeling for any company when their ambassadors are doing well and the same applies for The Spartan Poker and poker pro Abhishek Jalan at the moment, with the latter on a very good run, both in online as well as live poker. Jalan was victorious in Goa last month...

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03 Dec, 2018 Romain Arnaud wins Super High Roller at Jeju

PokerStars LIVE is hosting the PokerStars Jeju Red Dragon 2018 festival at the Jeju Shinhwa World in the Landing Casino, Jeju, South Korea. The series began on Nov 30 and will go on till Dec 9, a 10-day period, and has a lot of high-stakes events lined up with big guarantees. Yesterday ...

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03 Dec, 2018 Prem Bhee ships Spartan’s Big Daddy 5L GTD

Big Daddy is one of the high-stakes feature tournaments hosted every Sunday on The Spartan Poker. The event takes place every Sunday and has INR 5 Lakhs in guaranteed prize money, which is almost always crushed due to the popularity of the event. Along with the 1st place cash prize, the...

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03 Dec, 2018 Spartan felicitates top poker players at 2018 IPC Awards

Just a few days back, we reported news of The Spartan Poker announcing the second edition of the India Poker Championship (IPC) Awards. The initiative began last year in Bengaluru where the top players throughout the year were felicitated with trophies in front of a large audience. Taki...

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02 Dec, 2018 PPPoker World Championship 2019 at Manila

PPPoker is a brand that has a strong presence in the Asian online poker industry in recent years. PPPoker was introduced in Asia first, and has since become one of the big poker mobile platforms with thousands and lakhs of users. Their platform conducts many daily tournaments, and its G...

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02 Dec, 2018 Siddarth Singhvi to play with Patrik Antonius in Goa

Earlier in November, Finnish high-stakes pro Patrik Antonius posted a video to social media about coming to India, sharing his excitement regarding his first ever trip to the country. The trip was planned to celebrate the 10th year anniversary of the Deltin Group and as part of the cele...

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Gambling

02 Dec, 2018 Vietnam to allow citizens to gamble in casinos

Vietnam is a country that’s witnessing sharp growth as a top poker and gambling destination in the Asia-Pacific region. In recent years, a lot of tournaments are also being hosted in the country, the most recent one being the APL Vietnam Road Series Vol. 3 hosted in Ho Chi Minh City. Vi...

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02 Dec, 2018 A prop bet never heard of before

How far you’re willing to go for $100,000? Would you lock yourself in a pitch dark bathroom for 30 days straight? Apparently, the American poker player Rich Alati will. The prop bet is not someone’s imagination but a real wager being played out between two poker pros, Alati and Australi...

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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.