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10 Sep, 2018 Brandon Adams wins Poker Masters Event #2

The prestigious 2018 Poker Masters kicked off a couple of days ago, an annual event that is currently being hosted for the second time, thanks to Poker Central and the Aria Resort and Casino, Las Vegas. Seven high-stakes events will be held in the series and yesterday, Event #2 conclude...

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10 Sep, 2018 Chandan Dilawar ships September’s Millionaire on Spartan Poker

When you talk about poker in India and the biggest tournaments hosted in the country, The Millionaire is what comes to mind. The tournament is one of The Spartan Poker’s signature tournaments, boasting of a massive INR 1 crore guaranteed prize pool and taking place on the second S...

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10 Sep, 2018 Abhinav Jain wins Big Daddy title on Spartan

Here’s one of the most popular poker tournaments going around in India at the moment – The Big Daddy. This tournament is popular for many reasons. Firstly, you get to be a part of an INR 5 lakh prize pool with a buy-in of just INR 880. Secondly, the winner not only takes awa...

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10 Sep, 2018 Grab Fame with Poker Game

Where in India are all the poker players? Apparently, busy preparing their strategies for poker live tournament game! Poker fans! Get ready with your poker skills, sharpen up your strategies and buy your make-up kit. Are you pondering what the link is between poker and make-up kit, if y...

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09 Sep, 2018 Ashish Ahuja is this week’s Spartan DareDevil winner

One of the popular weekend tournaments among Indian online poker sites is the DareDevil, which takes place every Saturday night at The Spartan Poker. Featuring an INR 6 Lakhs guaranteed prizepool, players need to pony up INR 4,400 in order to buy into this event. As with many tournament...

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09 Sep, 2018 Bombay HC questions GST on Casino License Fees

About six months ago, the indirect tax department issued notices to Goa based casinos about GST being charged on their license fee. Some casinos took the matter to court and the Goa bench of the Bombay High Court made the demand while hearing a writ petition filed by some Goan casinos c...

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09 Sep, 2018 David Peters wins Poker Masters Event 1

The 2018 Poker Masters kicked off the festivities at the Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas this Saturday with the opening $10,000 event crowning a winner in David Peters beat a competitive group of 69 entrants to win the $193,200 first-place prize. Brandon Adams opened the final table...

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09 Sep, 2018 Treasure Island shuts down poker room

Players in the gaming capital of Las Vegas have been devastated to hear of the closure of Treasure Island’s iconic poker room. The famous venue that so many card game fanatics have graced and grinded at over the years has now permanently closed its doors after being open for over 12 yea...

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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.