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24 Aug, 2017 Devang Yadav is first Destiny 2.0 winner on Spartan

Destiny’s first edition concluded last week with Sriharsha ‘Indiandurrr’ Doddapaneni claiming the first Destiny finale on 20 August at TheSpartanPoker.com. As mentioned by Spartan reps during their live coverage of the finale, the site will continue Destiny series going into 2018. 24-ye...

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22 Aug, 2017 PSC Barcelona Igor Kurganov wins €50,000 Super HighRoller

Igor Kurganov has won the 2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona €50,000 super high roller, defeating a field of 86 total entries to win his tenth career live tournament title for €1,084,100 (INR 8.17 crores). This was the fourth seven-figure tournament score of his career. “It’s incred...

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21 Aug, 2017 APT Korea: Albert Paik wins Main Event for KRW 44,860,000

The first-ever Asian Poker Tour Main Event champion of the inaugural APT Korea Incheon 2017 was crowned at Paradise City casino with USA’s Albert Paik eliminating five players of the Final 8 to seize the championship title. Paik shipped in the grand prize KRW 44,860,000 (INR 25.21 Lakhs...

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21 Aug, 2017 Sriharsha D wins 10 lakh Destiny Finale package

Over the course of the past 10 weeks, the Destiny series at The Spartan Poker has made a mark in the poker industry offering players a chance to compete on the world’s biggest stage and fulfill his or her Destiny. Yesterday night it was the Destiny Finale SnG where all 10 previous Desti...

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21 Aug, 2017 PokerStars announces WCOOP schedule

WCOOPPokerStars releases its full schedule for this year’s World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP).  The world’s most popular online poker site will run 162 events from 3-25 September. The events will divided equally between 81 “Low” buy-in events (ranging from $11 to $1050) and 81 “...

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18 Aug, 2017 APT Korea: Main Event Down to Final 8

It is going to be another exciting day at the Asian Poker Tour Korea Incheon 2017 with the Main Event back on the tournament floor of Paradise City. With everyone now guaranteed some dough, it is full speed ahead. The goal for today’s Day 3 heat is to pile up those stacks and secure a [...

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18 Aug, 2017 Phil Hellmuth joins WPT as analyst

World Poker Tour announced the addition of Phil Hellmuth to the WPT Talent team. Hellmuth, a 14-time world champion and one of the world’s most recognizable and respected poker players, has joined the WPT to become the new WPT Raw Deal analyst. Hellmuth fills the opening that became ava...

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16 Aug, 2017 Spartan DeepStack: ‘bluffmenot’ wins the Main Event

DS copyThe recent conclusion of DeepStack Series saw huge guarantee crushes and many players walking with many titles. There were many high value tournament winners including HighRoller champion ‘Ballaladeva’ took home INR 8,33,625, ‘bluffmenot’ took down the Main Event title for INR 7....

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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.