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16 Aug, 2018 Anurag Srivastava wins his first title of August SSS

The Spartan Super Series (SSS) has been a great success so far, and we’re still only through with the first 3 days of the series. The Spartan Poker hosted 5 more SSS tournaments yesterday, with varying buy-ins and varying prize pools on offer. SSS Day 3 began yesterday with the El...

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16 Aug, 2018 Abhineet Jain ships SSS Event #12

The Spartan Poker is currently hosting the August edition of the Spartan Super Series, which is awarding guaranteed prizes of over INR 3.7 crore during 13-19 August. Yesterday was the third day of the series and some of the most popular poker pros were among the action, adding to their ...

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16 Aug, 2018 Mayur Vengurlenkar claims SSS Event #13

The festivities continue at The Spartan Poker, where new winners are emerging every day, with the Spartan Super Series currently underway. Anurag Srivastava shipped the first tournament on SSS Day 3, while Abhineet Jain followed him by winning the second. The third tournament of the day...

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16 Aug, 2018 Anant Purohit ships SSS Destiny tournament on Spartan

Yesterday was the third day of the ongoing Spartan Super Series and this was the tournament that everyone had their eyes on. The INR 20 lakh GTD Destiny tournament was scheduled for 7:30pm IST and it was the final tournament of Destiny 5.0, where the ten winners will soon face off in th...

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16 Aug, 2018 omgrachelgreen ships SSS PLO HighRoller; heads Leaderboard

Get used to hearing the name ‘omgrachelgreen’ in the Indian poker circuit. While the player has preferred to stay anonymous after many big wins, it may not stay that way for too long. Yesterday, omgrachelgreen won yet another title, adding to the few that he/she has already ...

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16 Aug, 2018 Neel Joshi wins PokerBaazi Freedom Special Tournament

Many of the top online poker companies hosted big tournaments and promotions for 15th August, which is celebrated as Independence Day in the country. One such offering was the Freedom Series hosted by PokerBaazi, where INR 45 lakh was to be given away in guaranteed prizes. The series co...

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16 Aug, 2018 Brandon Eisen wins SHRPO Championship

The Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship is one of North America’s premier poker events, with some of the best poker pros from across the country as well as overseas being a part of it each year. This year, the Main Event had a buy-in of $5,250 and a massive field of 914 ent...

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16 Aug, 2018 Jake Schindler wins SHRPO High Roller title

The Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open concluded on Tuesday night with their famous ‘Big 4’, where four final tables of different tournaments are played out simultaneously. One of those events was the SHRPO Championship Event, shipped by Brandon Eisen, after having beaten Jeremy ...

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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.