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27 Jun, 2018 Maria Konnikova – From Author to PokerStars Ambassador

It has only been a year since she cashed out in her first live poker tournament but since then, she has winnings of over $200k in live poker, including cashes in more than 5 different countries in the world and a best live cash of $84,600 for shipping the PCA National tournament earlier...

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27 Jun, 2018 Arjanveer Chadha wins Mega Stack on The Spartan Poker

The Spartan Poker is a poker company hosts online featured tournaments every day of the week, with varying buy-ins and guaranteed prize pools. Yesterday, the weekly tournament called Mega Stack was held, which had a buy-in of INR 3,300 and a prize pool of INR 12 lakh. Monday’s fea...

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27 Jun, 2018 Vanessa Selbst takes back retirement for charitable cause

Former PokerStars Team Pro Vanessa Selbst is widely regarded as one of the best female poker pros ever, with nearly $12 million in live tournament cashes, including a career best cash of $1,823,430 for shipping the Partouche Poker Tour Main Event in Cannes, back in 2010. She announced h...

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26 Jun, 2018 Vivek Rughani, Apoorva Goel cash out in WSOP Monster Stack

We’ve been used to the regular Indian pros like Aditya Agarwal, Paawan Bansal and Raghav Bansal that have been doing well so far in the 2018 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. However, Event #48: $1,500 NLHE Monster Stack saw participation from quite a few Indian players. Over tw...

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26 Jun, 2018 David Brookshire wins maiden WSOP gold bracelet

Here’s a player who has won several live poker titles in his career as a poker player thus far. Baltimore’s David Brookshire has been a low-stakes player over the years, with many tournament wins, including a WPT title and a WSOP Circuit ring. His latest achievement, however...

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26 Jun, 2018 Aditya Agarwal headlines WSOP Monster Stack Event

The entire Indian poker industry will be backing Aditya Agarwal when he heads out tomorrow to play Day 3 of Event #48: $1,500 NLHE Monster Stack. Of the original 6,260 entries, several Indians made it to Day 2 and PokerStars Team Pro, Agarwal, was one of them. While a couple of Indian p...

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26 Jun, 2018 Paawan Bansal Headlines Bounty Event Day 1

It has been a fantastic 2018 World Series of Poker so far for budding Indian poker pro, Paawan Bansal. He’s had three major cashes in the WSOP 2018 series so far, including finishing 13th in the WSOP Colossus Event for $35,087, 74th in the Double Stack Event for $6,803 and 30th in...

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26 Jun, 2018 Nitin Arora wins Mega Freeze on The Spartan Poker

Every day is a good day for poker players on The Spartan Poker, as featured tournaments take place on each day of the week. Yesterday was a Monday and like every Monday, the INR 5 lakh GTD Mega Freeze tournament takes place on Spartan, with a buy-in of INR 5,500. The tournament began at...

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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.