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16 Nov, 2018 Alok Birewar takes down WPT India 25k Big Bounty Event

Just yesterday, we had Abhishek Jalan shipping the WPT India 35k Superstack Event at the Deltin Royale in Goa after finishing second in the chip lead the previous night. Similarly, we have another player in Alok Birewar who took advantage of a Day 1 chip lead to go on and win the 25k Bi...

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16 Nov, 2018 Goonjan Mall tops tough field to win The Flash on Spartan

The Spartan Poker is undoubtedly one of the best poker companies in India and since they offer the highest guarantees and most value in online poker tournaments, you generally see some of the toughest fields participating every night. Last night was yet another example of this fact. Fea...

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16 Nov, 2018 ‘Tarush123’ is big winner on LBS November Day 1

The Little Big Series (LBS) happens to be one of The Spartan Poker’s most popular online poker offerings, a series which is held every month on their platform. The main purpose of this series is to allow players to buy-in small and win big, especially those players who don’t...

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15 Nov, 2018 Vinayak Bajaj ships The Vegas on PokerBaazi

The Vegas is a popular featured online poker tournament on PokerBaazi, which recently had its guarantee bumped up to INR 10 lakh. It takes place on their platform every Wednesday night at 8pm, competing with top weekly tournaments that are hosted on other major Indian platforms. Last ni...

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15 Nov, 2018 Aditya Sushant wins maiden WPT title in Goa

The World Poker Tour (WPT) began their second series in India just a couple of days back and to commence proceedings, the WPT India INR 20k Kickoff Event started on 13th November. A massive participation of 201 entries registered to the tournament with a prize pool of over INR 38 lakh b...

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15 Nov, 2018 Akshay Nasa leads after Day 1 of the WPT 35k Superstack

Yesterday was just the second day of play at the ongoing 2018 World Poker Tour (WPT) India series, with players from across the country participating in large numbers on board the Deltin Royale. Early yesterday, we reached the end of the INR 20k Kickoff Event, with Aditya Sushant claimi...

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15 Nov, 2018 ‘FckGTO’ becomes third Destiny 7.0 finalist on Spartan

The Spartan Poker is one of India’s most popular online poker platforms and they have some of their own popular tournaments and series too. One of these tournament series is Destiny, which is currently in its seventh edition and the specialty of this series is the fact that one wi...

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15 Nov, 2018 Abhishek Jalan rides chip lead; wins WPT 35k Superstack

The World Poker Tour (WPT) is currently hosting the second edition of their WPT India stop, once again at the Deltin Royale in Goa. The second tournament to kick off here was the WPT India INR 35k Superstack Event and the 200+ entry field narrowed down to 27 players by the end of Day 1,...

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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.