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24 Jun, 2018 Jason Somerville’s Run it Up and PokerStars partner for Twitch content

One of the most well known pros in the business and a prolific online content creator, Jason Somerville who owns the Run It Up Studios, announced earlier this week that Run It Up will be in charge of various broadcast-related services to the site’s sponsored live streamers. Somerville i...

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24 Jun, 2018 Shaun Deeb wins 3rd bracelet in 25k PLO Highroller

One of the greatest online pros in the history of the internet gambling won his third bracelet, Shaun Deeb binked his third WSOP event since 2015 and he added $1.4 million to his bankroll in the process. Deeb has now picked up at least one bracelet every summer in three out of the last ...

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Gambling

24 Jun, 2018 Robert Nehorayan Wins Gold In Limit Hold’em Event

Robert Nehorayan is, by his own admission, a recreational player. At a table full of pros, the Los Angeles real estate consultant came out on top in the $1,500 limit hold’em event. By the end of it, Nehorayan bested a field of 596 entries and taking home $173,568 along with his first Wo...

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24 Jun, 2018 Scott Bohlman wins Mixed Big Bet event

Scott Bohlman, from Illinois in the United States, has taken down the win in Event #40 of the 2018 World Series of Poker, $2,500 Mixed Big Bet. The 41 year old who is an investor when not playing poker, arrived at Thursday’s final table with a commanding lead and closed out his fi...

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Gambling

23 Jun, 2018 Foxwoods CEO passes away unexpectedly

Felix Rappaport, president and CEO of Foxwoods Resort Casino, died unexpectedly earlier this week. He was 65 years old and died in a suite at Foxwoods, according to the network. His cause of death has not been released. Over the past four years, Rappaport had expanded the Foxwoods enter...

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23 Jun, 2018 MadOverPoker’s Hysteria Live 2.0 next week

It was in the latter half of May that online poker site MadOverPoker.com launched their first ever live series called Hysteria Live at Bengaluru’s Tilt Poker room. The series went well for the organisers and that has led them to announce the second edition of this tournament serie...

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Poker

23 Jun, 2018 Paul Hong leads APT Korea Main Event Final Table

The ongoing Asian Poker Tour’s (APT) latest stop is taking place in the Korean capital city of Seoul at Paradise Casino in the Grand Walkerhill. The featured APT Main Event which has a buy-in of KRW 1.1 million (~INR 67,000) ended Day 3 action yesterday and it’s New Zealand&...

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23 Jun, 2018 Preston Lee wins Shootout Event for first bracelet

Preston Lee, a 32-year-old poker pro from Millbrae, California, has emerged as the winner of Event #39 of the 2018 World Series of Poker, $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout. Lee triumphed in three successive rounds of play in this event featuring the distinctive shootout format, wit...

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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.