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28 May, 2018 Ivan Leow leads final 8 in OPC Macau Main Event

Just a couple of weeks back, the Poker King Club announced the launch of the inaugural Oriental Poker Championship (OPC) which was to be played between 23-28 May 2018, at the Venetian Macau Resort and Hotel in Macau. 10 side events and the mega HKD 16,500 Main Event were scheduled to be...

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28 May, 2018 Poker Central partners with Twitch.tv for 2018 WSOP

Just around a week back, poker entertainment and media company ‘Poker Central‘ made the announcement that its dedicated streaming platform ‘PokerGO‘ will live stream certain events from the 2018 World Series of Poker (WSOP). PokerGO will be streaming live events ...

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28 May, 2018 ‘Reckless’ win LBS Main Event at Spartan Poker

The action at The Spartan Poker this weekend was all about the conclusion of the Little Big Series (LBS) May edition. The featured tournament to close the series was of course the LBS Main Event which guaranteed INR 10 Lakhs in prizepools for a buy-in of just INR 880. The tournament saw...

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28 May, 2018 Arsh Grover tops Week 4 of Spartan’s Hot Tournament Leaderboard

The month of May has maintained the heat of summer season and while the rest of us are looking forward to the cooling showers of the long awaited monsoon, poker players at The Spartan Poker have other thoughts occupying their mind. Earlier this month, TheSpartanPoker.com introduced a to...

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28 May, 2018 Kanishka Samant wins Sun SuperStack at Spartan Poker

Kanishka Samant emerged victorious last night at The Spartan Poker in their Sunday SuperStack tournament winning INR 5,71,075 for his efforts. Samant outlasted 431 entries who made a prizepool of INR 21,55,000 which originally guaranteed INR 20 Lakhs. The prizepool was distributed to to...

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28 May, 2018 ‘Tippingdwarf’ wins Big Daddy at Spartan Poker

‘Tippingdwarf’emerged victorious in the Big Daddy tournament at The Spartan Poker last night. A super value offering to players, this tournament has an INR 550 buy-in with an INR 5 Lakhs guaranteed prizepool. What makes this a true value proposition is that the winner will additionally ...

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27 May, 2018 WSOP changes its POY Formula… Again

The only thing constant in life is change. And it seems like the World Series of Poker (WSOP) has taken this saying to heart having recently announced yet another change to its Player of the Year ranking formula. This will make it the fourth time the formula has changed in the last 8 ye...

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27 May, 2018 ‘anilsharma’ wins Mini Biggie on Day 2 of Spartan Little Big Series

Friday action at the ongoing Little Big Series at The Spartan Poker started the day with Pot Limit Omaha and ended with its edition of the highroller tournament called the Mini Biggie which was won by ‘anilsharma’ for INR 1,49,760. A total of four tournaments took place over...

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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.