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21 Aug, 2018 Tanveer Kohli and Kanishk Upreti chop TIPS High Roller

The Indian Poker Series (TIPS) made its debut at the Kings Casino in Rozvadov, Czech Republic, scheduled between 15-20 August and concluding yesterday. While several Indians bagged cashes in various tournaments during the series, we had to wait long for a title to come home. The wait fi...

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21 Aug, 2018 Simona wins TIPS Main Event; 7 Indians cash out

The Indian Poker Series (TIPS) made its debut in Europe, with a 6-day series being held at the Kings Casino in Rozvadov, Czech Republic. It was a thrilling series that began on 15th August, our country’s 72nd Independence Day, and concluded yesterday, with a couple of side events ...

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21 Aug, 2018 Help Kerala flood victims this Sunday at Spartan

This is monsoon season has seen one of the worst natural disasters the country has ever seen and the biggest brunt of it is being faced by the southern state of Kerala. The state started seeing unusually heavy rainfall in late July and it has only gotten worse in subsequent weeks. More ...

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21 Aug, 2018 Former Australian poker player jailed for $58m fraud

William Jordanou, a former poker player and one of Australia’s most notorious swindler, will spend at least nine years in a Victorian jail after scamming the Commonwealth Bank of nearly $58 million in a fraud of “breathtaking proportions”. Jordanou had been involved in a scheme wi...

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20 Aug, 2018 Dhawal Lachhwani ships prestigious SSS Main Event

After seven days of thrilling poker action at the virtual felts of The Spartan Poker, the cash-rich Spartan Super Series (SSS) has finally come to an end. The advertised series guarantee was a whopping INR 3.7+ crore, but with several events crushing the guarantees, the amount given awa...

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20 Aug, 2018 ‘Mishtabond’ wins SSS Sunday SuperStack title

As poker players in India, everyone looks forward to the Sunday grind, where all the major poker companies host major tournaments with big guarantees, as most players have free time on Sundays. The Spartan Poker, in particular, had several big tournaments yesterday, marking the end of t...

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20 Aug, 2018 Anirban Das tops SSS Leaderboard

The last week has been an action-packed one on The Spartan Poker, with 37 tournaments being played over the course of 7 days as part of the cash-rich Spartan Super Series (SSS), which had an advertised series guarantee of INR 3.7 crore. Yesterday was the final day of the series and some...

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20 Aug, 2018 Sahil Agarwal wins SSS Big Daddy on Spartan

Sundays are great for online poker players in India, and yesterday was even better, as it was the final day of the Spartan Super Series (SSS), one of the biggest poker tournament series in the country. As part of the festivities on the final day, the Main Event was shipped by Dhawal Lac...

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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 India 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 news 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 on pokernews India 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.

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