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07 Jul, 2018 Cash Game Festival from 27-29 July at Big Daddy Casino

It’s been pouring buckets across the country during this monsoon season and in Goa it might just rain big money for poker players this July! We mentioned last month about the inaugural cash game festival which took place onboard the Big Daddy casino ship in Goa. This time they hav...

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Gambling

07 Jul, 2018 Law Panel Does U-Turn; Recommends Total Gambling Ban

It was only yesterday when we brought you some heartening news of the Law Commission of India saying that gambling should be legalised. However on Friday, the Law Commission while speaking to the media clarified its stance on legalising betting and gambling and said that the panel’...

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Poker

07 Jul, 2018 Daniels, Sanchez end Day 2 chipleaders

Thursday’s Day 2AB in the 2018 World Series of Poker’s No-Limit Hold’em Main Event – World Championship has completed play for the day, with California’s Shawn Daniels bagging 533,500 in chips to lead the day’s 1,131 surviving players. That total was ...

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Poker

07 Jul, 2018 APT Vietnam kicks off next week

Coming up next for the Asian Poker Tour is the APT Vietnam Ho Chi Minh Championships 2018. This exciting twelve-day festival takes place from 11-22 July at partner and host venue Pro Poker Club in Ho Chi Minh City. The event will feature a VND 6 Billion (~INR 1.8 Crores) Guaranteed Main...

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Gambling

07 Jul, 2018 Alex Hales takes England past India in second T20

Alex Hales’ unbeaten 58 took England to a dramatic final-over win in the second Twenty20 international against India. Chasing 149, England slipped to 44-3, but Hales led a recovery that left them needing 12 from the final over. He hit Bhuvneshwar Kumar for six, then four, with Dav...

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Poker

07 Jul, 2018 5 Breathing Exercises when Playing Online Poker

Consistently working on breathing exercises can tranquil and empower your mind and body. It additionally inspires you to deal with distressing circumstances. Furthermore, a poker player knows, there is no unpleasant circumstance to deal with. When you are going to call a monster pot on ...

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International

07 Jul, 2018 How to Spot Bluffs in Poker

Level of Reading: Beginner Player You probably heard the name of the Bollywood motion picture of the 60s era Bluff Master’ featuring Shammi Kapoor and with a similar title in the year 2005 featuring Abhishek Bachchan. If you have watched any of these two motion pictures then you p...

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Poker

06 Jul, 2018 Several Indians progress from Day 1C of WSOP Main Event

The festivities continue at the 2018 World Series of Poker. The starting flights for the Main Event have ended and a record field has been recorded as well. A huge field was expected on Day 1C and that’s exactly what happened, with 4,571 entries registering to the tournament in th...

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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.

Gutshot Magazine offers the latest and up-to-date poker news. Readers can find information about poker tournaments, online poker sites, and exclusive stories and a lot more. Readers can also sign-up via Gutshot Magazine to various affiliate brands listed in the website’s poker rooms tab.

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.