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22 Jul, 2018 Anant Purohit wins his first IOPC title

It was an event-packed Friday at the India Online Poker Championship (IOPC) which is currently taking place at The Spartan Poker. The 10 day long series which culminates this Sunday features over 50 events and guaranteed prizepools of over INR 7 Crores for its participants. What’s...

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22 Jul, 2018 Pankaj Sharma ships another title at IOPC

Friday was a good start to the weekend grind for Pankaj Sharma as he won his first title at the India Online Poker Championship’s ongoing edition at The Spartan Poker. That win seemed to jumpstart the momentum for Sharma who plays as ‘chalhatbe’ at Spartan. It was two-...

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22 Jul, 2018 Downsides of an Expert Poker Lif

Change: Change is without a doubt the single greatest downside to playing poker professionally. It’s what stops any individual who’s beating a game from beating it full-time.   It’s challenging in two different ways:   The first, and most evident way, is monetarily   Y...

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22 Jul, 2018 Triton Festival Jeju will see Ivey, Holz, Dwan participate

In late May, we’d brought you news about the Triton Super Highroller Series heading to exotic holiday destination of Jeju island in South Korea. Now there is more news coming through about confirmations received from some of the top names in poker taking part in this series includ...

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22 Jul, 2018 Five Qualities of a Good Poker Tutor

We have had a few poker mentors over our vocation and we’ve as of late begun working with another one. We were inquired as to why we settled on the choice to look for assistance from this player and that inquiry enlivened us to compose this article. Throughout the years, we have a...

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22 Jul, 2018 IOPC: ‘RippingAA’ wins DareDevil tourney at Spartan

Saturday evening’s featured tournament at The Spartan Poker is the DareDevil and it is quite the player favourite given the value it provides to its participants. That value was significantly bumped up for the IOPC series with the guaranteed prizepool taken up to 15 Lakhs. The pla...

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22 Jul, 2018 First IOPC title for Abhishek Kumar in PLO Highroller

It’s been a series filled with firsts for a lot of players here at the India Online Poker Championship (IOPC) taking place at The Spartan Poker. Event #47 of the IOPC was the penultimate tournament of the penultimate day of this series and a well known reg in the form of Abhishek ...

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22 Jul, 2018 ‘m elele’ wins final IOPC tourney of Day 9

Saturday night’s final tournament was another value proposition for players in the ongoing India Online Poker Championship (IOPC) taking place at The Spartan Poker. With just one more day of action left in the 10 day series, players were scrambling to get into the action in these ...

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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.