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19 May, 2018 IPL 2018: Delhi salvage pride with win against Chennai

Most would’ve called yesterday’s match a dead rubber as Chennai Super Kings had already qualified while Delhi Daredevils were eliminated from the tournament last week itself. However, Delhi had pride to play for and Chennai needed a win that would guarantee them that crucial...

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19 May, 2018 Portugal online poker revenue drops 33%

According to numbers revealed by the Portuguese gaming regulator, Serviço de Regulação e Inspeção de Jogos (SRIJ), revenue earned from online poker in Portugal during the first quarter of 2018 has taken a massive hit of 33%. 2018 Q1 was the first full quarter that YoY (year-over-year) r...

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19 May, 2018 ‘pokerbill’ wins The Elite at Spartan for INR 3,25,600

‘pokerbill’ emerged victorious in The Elite tournament last night for INR 3,25,600 at TheSpatanPoker.com. This INR 15 Lakhs GTD weekly event saw a participation of 189 entries which crushed the original guarantee making it INR 18,90,000 by the end of late registrations. This mammoth pri...

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19 May, 2018 Inaugural Oriental Poker Championship heads to Macau

The Poker King Club has announced the inaugural Oriental Poker Championship (OPC) which will take place at The Venetian Macau Resort & Hotel for 11 action-packed tournaments from May 23-28, 2018.  The showstopper of the poker festival is the HKD 16,500 OPC Main Event featuring an HK...

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19 May, 2018 Bhola Sharma wins Judwaa and Godfather at Adda52.com

Bhola Sharma a.k.a. ‘bhola’ emerged victorious in two of the events back-to-back at adda52.com. The online grinder from Gangtok in Sikkim shipped Adda52’s Judwaa tournament on 16 May where he won INR 1,46,063. Just one day after this victory, Sharma then claimed in Godfather 3.0 on 17 M...

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18 May, 2018 Arjun Singh Kochhar Wins The Flash at Spartan Poker

Thursday‘s featured tournament at The Spartan Poker was the 10L GTD Flash which saw Arjun Singh Kochhar who plays under the moniker ‘avengers906’ take down the title for INR 2,56,054. Kochhar outlasted 289 participants in the tournament where he defeated ‘pokerbill’ in heads-up ba...

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18 May, 2018 Mikita Badziakouski wins Triton Montenegro Main Event

The 2018 Triton Super High Roller Series was scheduled to take place between 12-18 May 2018, at the Maestral Resort & Casino in Montenegro, wherein a total of 4 tournaments would be played. Yesterday, Mikita Badziakouski was crowned champion of Event 3#: HKD 1 million buy-in NLHE Ev...

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18 May, 2018 Is it a Good Idea to Play Different Poker Variations?

Are there any points of interest to playing diverse poker varieties? Thinking about the session of poker in various situations could enhance your basics. To play or not to play? This is simply the inquiry numerous players ask and there’s not a single simple response to be found. B...

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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.