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01 Jul, 2018 Federer, Williams to open Wimbledon action tomorrow

Roger Federer begins his quest for a record-extending ninth Wimbledon men’s singles title when the 2018 tournament begins on Monday.  The Swiss great, 36, opens against Serbia’s Dusan Lajovic on Centre Court from 17:30 IST. Seven-time champion Serena Williams, back at SW19 f...

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01 Jul, 2018 Ryan Tosoc, Chance Kornuth win final two WSOP online bracelets

Ryan Tosoc won his first World Series of Poker bracelet on Saturday. The poker pro from Chicago bounced back from a sixth-place finish in the $25,000 pot-limit Omaha high roller 10 days ago to win the $1,000 no-limit hold’em online championship. He defeated a field of 1,180 players with...

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01 Jul, 2018 Neeraj Kumar wins DareDevil at Spartan

Saturday action at The Spartan Poker has the DareDevil as one of the daily featured tournaments of the evening. Last night’s DareDevil was claimed by Neeraj Kumar a.k.a ‘slowplayaces’ outlasting a field of 82 entries. This tournament allows busted players to re-enter f...

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30 Jun, 2018 Portugal’s Diogo Veiga Wins $3k NLHE Event

Yesterday, we spoke about Event #54: Big Blind Antes $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em at the 2018 World Series of Poker, as our very own Indian female poker player and Adda52 Pro Nikita Luther made a deep run in that tournament, ultimately finishing in 17th place and taking home around $18k in p...

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30 Jun, 2018 Vaibhav Sharma wins The Elite on Spartan

We’re reaching the weekend and the guaranteed prize pools are as high as ever on The Spartan Poker. This leading poker company hosts featured online tournaments every day and yesterday, The Elite was the tournament everyone was watching out for, with a buy-in of INR 11,000 and a p...

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30 Jun, 2018 Nikita Luther wins India’s second WSOP gold bracelet

What a fantastic time Nikita Luther is having at the 2018 World Series of Poker. After India won their first ever piece of gold at the last year (Aditya Sushant and Nipun Java in the Tag Team Event), Luther has brought home India’s second WSOP bracelet, by winning the same Tag tea...

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30 Jun, 2018 Why Faf, Ottis are worthy of a page in history

Throwback! Cape Town – So that is it … that extraordinary unticked box, now properly, radiantly ticked. Try not to think little of for one moment the hugeness of South Africa’s eventually pounding, 3-1 Test series triumph over Australia – fixed in an insane obscure of shoddy...

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30 Jun, 2018 Mike Takayama wins $1,000 Super Turbo Bounty

History was made once again at the 2018 World Series of Poker, with Mike Takayama becoming the first Filipino to win a WSOP gold bracelet. He beat a massive field of 2,065 entries and took home $198,568 for first place, shipping Event #59: $1,000 NLHE Super Turbo Bounty. The pro has bee...

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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.