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11 Oct, 2018 Aniket Waghmare ships SSS Destiny tournament on Spartan

As kids, at some point of time, we all wanted to be a superhero and believe that we had super-natural powers. Some of us would’ve wanted to be Batman, some Superman, some Spiderman, while the rest others. Aniket Waghmare on the other hand, grew up and decided that maybe he can rea...

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11 Oct, 2018 Rishab Jain back at it again; ships SSS PLO Highroller

For all those who follow updates from The Spartan Poker or from GutshotMagazine.com, you would know about Rishab Jain who plays under the name ‘Titumama’ on Spartan. The player created headlines for recently winning a Mercedes Benz in Spartan’s BigWin promotion for the...

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11 Oct, 2018 Akshay Kapoor takes down SSS Electra on Spartan

Yesterday was the third day of play at the Spartan Super Series (SSS) on The Spartan Poker. A total of five events were scheduled for the day and the first was none other than the Electra tournament, one with a buy-in of INR 800 and a guaranteed prize pool of INR 2.5 lakh. SSS Event #11...

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11 Oct, 2018 US Poker Open Returns with $100K Championship Bonus

The second annual US Poker Open will return to the PokerGO studio at the ARIA Resort and Casino in Las Vegas from 13-23 Feb 2019. Along with the other Aria high roller series, the Super High Roller Bowl and the Poker Masters, the US Poker Open marks the second leg of the ‘High Roller Tr...

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11 Oct, 2018 ‘ultimate’ wins SSS Event #12; ‘degen123’ tops Leaderboard

Another day and another long grind for those players vying to be among the top winners of the current edition of the Spartan Super Series (SSS). Scheduled on The Spartan Poker between 8-14 October, we saw another five tournaments being played out yesterday on SSS Day 3. SSS Event #12 IN...

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11 Oct, 2018 Srijan Batra wins SSS Event #13 on Spartan

Everyone loves Freezeout tournaments, where players are more careful of their stacks and the unnecessary all-in situations are avoided, bringing in more skill in these tournaments. Yesterday’s third tournament of the Spartan Super Series (SSS) was a freezeout tournament and it was...

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11 Oct, 2018 Sumit Sapra wins his first Vegas title on PokerBaazi

Here’s someone Gutshot Magazine has got used to writing about every once in a while. Whether it’s live or online poker, we’re sure this guy’s name will pop up sooner rather than later. We’re talking about none other than Sumit Sapra, who despite being busy ...

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11 Oct, 2018 Kamal Naruka wins Adda52’s Judwaa tournament

Adda52 hosts a lot of high-value tournaments on most days of the week, but Tuesdays and Wednesdays in particular are known for the Judwaa INR 5 lakh GTD tournament. This tournament is played on both nights at the same time, with the same buy-in and with the same guaranteed prize pool. W...

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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.