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05 Jul, 2018 Kalyan Chakravarthy wins 2018 DeepStack Championship

It has been a fantastic month for Indian poker players in Las Vegas, not just at the 2018 World Series of Poker, but at other tournaments on the strip as well. Just recently, we reported news of Harshil Dhingra and Kunal Patni cashing big at a WPT500 event in Las Vegas. Another famous s...

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04 Jul, 2018 Itsabbybaby wins Mega Stack on The Spartan Poker

Featured online poker tournaments take place every day on The Spartan Poker, which is one of India’s best poker companies since a few years now. These tournaments vary in buy-ins and prize pools and yesterday’s tournament was the Mega Stack which had a buy-in of INR 3,300 an...

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Gambling

04 Jul, 2018 Sweden Book Unlikely Spot In FIFA World Cup Quarters

Yesterday was the last day of the FIFA 2018 World Cup Round of 16 matches, with 6 of the 8 quarter finalists already decided. The final two were to be decided among Sweden and Switzerland, and England and Colombia. Sweden did well to get to this stage itself, considering they were playi...

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Gambling

04 Jul, 2018 Penalty shootout win gets England to quarters

This 2018 FIFA World Cup is being spoken about as the most exciting World Cup so far, and every day we see another thrilling game being played. It was the last game of the Round of 16 stage and England took on Colombia, with the three lions starting as clear favourites to go through. Ho...

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Gambling

04 Jul, 2018 Highest Run Chase By India In T20 International

It was 12th December 2009, India was playing the 2nd T20 against Sri Lanka in Mohali. It was a day-night fixture. No one was aware that we were about to witness world record run chase in a T20I.Both the captains came for the toss proceedings, Sri Lanka won the toss, and elected to bat f...

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04 Jul, 2018 Jamie Gold busts stack on Day 1B of WSOP Main Event

The 2018 World Series of Poker has just a couple of weeks of action left, with the prestigious Main Event beginning yesterday. The $10k buy-in tournament saw over 900 players bagging up on Day 1A and earlier today, a massive number of 2,378 entries registered to Day 1B. At the end of 5 ...

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Gambling

04 Jul, 2018 Sharapova and Thiem crash out of Wimbledon 2018

The third Grand Slam of the year has begun and there have already been quite a few early exits at Wimbledon 2018. On Day 1, an unseeded Stan Wawrinka sent #6 seed Grigor Dimitrov out of the tournament and then we moved to Day 2 for some more unexpected results. The first of these was #8...

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04 Jul, 2018 Tim Andrew wins PLO Giant; Balasubramaniam finishes 9th

Things didn’t go as expected earlier today for Indian origin poker player Srinivas Balasubramaniam. He ended Day 2 of Event #11: $365 PLO GIANT with a handsome chip lead over the final 9 survivors, but he had a horrendous start to Day 3. He started the day by losing a big pot to K...

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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.