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24 Nov, 2018 Minh Le continues lead at APL Vietnam Main Event

The Asia Poker League (APL) Vietnam Main Event, the main attraction of the APL Road Series Vol. 3, happening in Ho Chi Minh City, has settled down to last 8 players on the final table. The Main Event of VND 8 Billion GTD (~INR 2.42 Crores) saw four starting flights and gathered a total ...

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23 Nov, 2018 Kavish Kukreja is 4th entrant into Godfather 6.0 Finale

The Godfather tournament series on Adda52 is easily one of the most popular series in the Indian online poker space. However, it also witnesses some of the toughest fields in the country every Thursday night, making it extremely difficult to come out victorious in this tournament. Last ...

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23 Nov, 2018 2nd edition of Spartan’s IPC Awards to take place in Mumbai

The Spartan Poker is all about rewarding their users and making their users feel special, with several offerings and promotions running throughout the year, where users can win every day. However, what’s better than calling your biggest winners and felicitating them in front of a ...

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23 Nov, 2018 Abhishek Garg is latest to scale The Summit on PokerBaazi

The Summit MonsterStack Turbo INR 10 lakh GTD happens to be one of PokerBaazi’s most popular online featured tournament, which takes place on their platform every Thursday night at 8pm, in direct competition with other big Thursday night tournaments like The Flash on Spartan and Godfath...

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23 Nov, 2018 Minh Le leads final 29 in APL Vietnam ME

The Asia Poker League (APL) Road Series Vol.3 started its series at Ho Chi Minh City of Vietnam on Nov. 15. The main attraction of the festival is undoubtedly the VND 8 Billion GTD Main Event. The APL Vietnam festival will go on till Nov. 25 with the Main Event Final being on 24th. Yest...

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23 Nov, 2018 Rohit Mishra ships SSS Super High Roller on Spartan

The Spartan Super Series, hosted by The Spartan Poker, started two days ago, on the 21st, and has plenty of action-packed tournaments lined up every day till the final day on Nov 25th. There were six events hosted yesterday as part of this series, one of them being the biggest buy-in to...

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23 Nov, 2018 Abhinav Agarwal wins big on SSS Day 2

Yesterday was the second day of the ongoing Spartan Super Series (SSS) on The Spartan Poker, where a total of INR 2.6+ crore is being given away in guaranteed prizes. 26 tournaments are scheduled for the series and 6 of them were contested yesterday, including the major INR 40 lakh GTD ...

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22 Nov, 2018 Pranav Khandalkar wins Go Goa; tops Ace Race on Adda52

This has been a fantastic year in online poker for Pranav Khandalkar so far. In fact, he has stepped up his game particularly in the last few months. The rise to fame began in May this year, when he shipped the Millionaire on Spartan and since them, he has been winning across all major ...

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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.