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23 May, 2018 Darren Elias Leads Day 3 of WPT Bobby Baldwin Classic

The WPT Bobby Baldwin Classic was the penultimate tournament on this season’s World Poker Tour calendar. It kicked off on 20th May and a total of 162 entries registered to the tournament which is being played at the ARIA in Las Vegas. Kevin Eyster led the chip counts after Day 1, ...

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23 May, 2018 IPL 2018: CSK marches straight into final

Chennai Super Kings were favourites coming into last night’s IPL 2018 Qualifier 1. They were up against Sunrisers Hyderabad, the table toppers who Chennai already defeated twice in the round robin stage. The match was being played at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai and Chennai opte...

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Gambling

23 May, 2018 Bet365 to expand operations to Malta

Founded in the United Kingdom back in 2000, Bet365 is one of the world’s largest online gambling companies, with the most comprehensive ‘in-play’ betting service and a database of over 23 million users worldwide. On Monday, the sports betting giant confirmed its plans ...

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23 May, 2018 Gambling racket busted at Mumbai’s Opera House

Last week, a raid was conducted by the Mumbai crime branch, at the Opera House headquarters of gaming company, Game King India Pvt. Ltd. A couple of months back, it was reported that the company was running illegal gaming and gambling centers throughout the country and abroad as well. I...

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23 May, 2018 Alireza P wins MOP Hysteria Live event for INR 1,22,500

Alireza P (Left) emerged victorious in the Hysteria Live event organized by Mad Over Poker (MOP) at Tilt Room, Bangalore this week. The tournament drew 148 entries which made a prizepool of INR 5.92 Lakhs on a buy-in of INR 4,400. Top 18 places got a share of the prizepool with a min-ca...

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23 May, 2018 ‘kamakazie’ wins Mega Stack at Spartan Poker

The Tuesday Mega Stack event guaranteeing INR 12 Lakhs saw ‘kamakazie’ emerging victorious in the tournament for INR 2,35,293. The tournament drew 486 entries to make a massive prizepool of INR 14,58,000. The prizepool was distributed to the top 47 places with a min-cash of INR 8,311. ‘...

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22 May, 2018 Max bets on UK betting machines slashed to £2 from £100

The birth of FOBTs in Britain was way back in 1999, and they have caused controversial debates ever since. For those who don’t know what we’re talking about, FOBTs are Fixed Odds Betting Terminals where people can walk up and place real money bets of up to £100 every 20 seco...

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22 May, 2018 Shawn Sparks wins RunGood Series Global Championship

Shawn Sparks emerged victorious in the RunGood Poker Series Global Championship after a three-way chop with John Heckenkamp and Tim Krisher. Sparks collected $21,417 for his win in the $675 buy-in Main Event during the 7-night Western Caribbean Cruise aboard the Royal Caribbean Liberty ...

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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.