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27 Sep, 2018 Short Deck Poker to be introduced at APT Vietnam

Short Deck Poker is slowly taking over as an extremely popular format of the game we all love so much. High-stakes pros from all over the world are preferring to play the Short Deck format over traditional hold’em these days, and a lot of professional leagues are adopting this for...

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26 Sep, 2018 Kui Song Wu wins PKC Super High Roller

The Poker King Cup (PKC) Macau has been one of the biggest poker attractions in Asia over the last week or so. What began on 20 September concluded yesterday with the two biggest tournaments of the live series still to decide their respective winners. Wrapping up the series at the Venet...

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26 Sep, 2018 PokerDangal acquires PokerMet on first birthday

PokerDangal is a unit of Xeta Networks Pvt Ltd and they are a quickly growing online poker website. They have been making big strides in the Indian poker industry, recently also adding the likes of poker pros Abhineet Jain and Tanay Hargunaney as Dangal Team Pros. Just yesterday, they a...

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26 Sep, 2018 China’s Wei Ran Pu wins PKC Macau Main Event

It was the final day of the 2018 Poker King Cup that was scheduled between 20-25 September 2018 at the Venetian Macau. Scheduled to end on the final day was the HKD 16,500 Main Event and the HKD 200k Super High Roller, with the latter being shipped by Kui Song Wu for a career-best live ...

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26 Sep, 2018 Deepak Singh ships Judwaa on Adda52

The word ‘Judwaa’ means twins so it only makes sense that this poker tournament is played not once, but twice every week. Adda52 is one of India’s top poker companies and they host the Judwaa tournament every Tuesday and Wednesday night, with the same time, the same bu...

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26 Sep, 2018 Ashish Ahuja wins Mega Stack after Final Table Deal

Here’s a player who has regular victories on various online poker platforms in India, especially on The Spartan Poker. Ashish Ahuja is a poker player who has several achievements in live as well as online poker, and he decided to add another title to his list last night. Ahuja pla...

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26 Sep, 2018 Lim Yohwan ships APT Philippines Championships Event

We have reached the end of the 2018 APT Philippines Championships II, which was the Asian Poker Tour’s second stop of the year at Manila. Across the last couple of weeks, we saw a number of side events taking place, along with the Main Event and the Championships Event. Yesterday,...

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26 Sep, 2018 Tony Ruberto wins 2nd WPT title; Shankar Pillai runner-up

USA poker player Anthony Ruberto, popularly known as just Tony Ruberto, has joined the ranks of just a few players who have won two World Poker Tour (WPT) Main Event titles. The player was recently crowned champion in the WPT Maryland Main Event at Maryland Live! Casino. He bested a mas...

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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.