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20 Jun, 2018 Raghav Bansal makes Day 2 of $1,500 SHOOTOUT

The last couple of days have seemed to be good ones for Indian poker players at the 2018 World Series of Poker, an annual tournament series held in Las Vegas. Recently, Paawan Bansal cashed for 74th in a Double Stack event, followed by Aditya Agarwal finishing 45th in a $1,500 NLHE even...

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20 Jun, 2018 Explaining the Gap Concept in Poker

Professional writer David Sklansky was the first one to introduce the “Gap Concept” to the poker world. However, the year it was first used in is uncertain. Basically, it suggests that you need a much better hand to call a raise than to make the first one. The distance changes over the ...

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20 Jun, 2018 Michael Mizrachi wins 3rd WSOP Players Championship

He was chip leader through Day 2, Day 3 and Day 4 of this prestigious event and if there was anyone who truly deserved to go ahead and win the title, it was USA’s Michael Mizrachi aka ‘The Grinder’. The 37-year old pro went on to win his third WSOP Poker Players Champi...

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20 Jun, 2018 Yueqi Zhu wins first WSOP gold bracelet

Chinese poker player Yueqi Zhu has a long-spanning live poker career that began 20 years ago, in 1998. He first played in the World Series of Poker way back in 1999 and after multiple final tables and several finishes in the money, he finally has a WSOP gold bracelet to his name. He has...

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20 Jun, 2018 Calling on Drawing Hands

The lifelong answer to the question, “When is calling with a draw acceptable in poker?” That’s the brutal part of poker – calling down when you’re hitting with a flush or a straight. Some wish to hit, some call because it’s worth it. But when is calling with draws acceptable? First of a...

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20 Jun, 2018 Mithun Mahesh wins Mega Stack at Spartan

It started from winning the Little Big Series Main Event and then there were never ending wins for the Ratnagiri based poker player Mithun Mahesh who plays under the moniker ‘ThePokeRaja’ who came out as a champion in last night’s featured tournament – the 12L GTD Mega Stack at TheSpart...

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20 Jun, 2018 Can WSOP 2018 see its first female winner?

Over 30 events have crowned winners so far at the 2018 World Series of Poker, but they have all been male winners. Event #36: $1,000 Super Seniors NLHE kicked off three days back at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, and at the end of Day 3, just two players remain out of the origin...

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19 Jun, 2018 4 Indians through to Day 2 of Double Stack Event

Gutshot has been continuously following the progress of Indian players at the ongoing 2018 World Series of Poker, and after a couple of days of not much of Indian action, four Indians are back in the limelight, having made Day 2 of Event #34: $1,000 Double Stack NLHE. The event saw two ...

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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.