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07 May, 2018 Larry Greenberg Wins WPT Bellagio For $378,879

Larry Greenberg topped a field of 126 entries in the first-ever World Poker Tour Bellagio Elite Poker Championship to capture his first WPT title and $378,879 (INR 2.54 crores) in prize money. Included in Greenberg’s prize was a $15,000 seat to the season-ending WPT Tournament of Champi...

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07 May, 2018 Arsh Grover leads Hot Leaderboard Challenge after Week 1

We’re just about a week into the hottest month of the year and the temperature keeps rising both on and off the felt. We brought you news about The Spartan Poker’s latest tournament-centric promotion called the Hot Leaderboard Challenge and we are now a week into it. It̵...

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07 May, 2018 Sebastian Wahl wins the inaugural Coolbet Open

Finland’s poker player Sebastian Wahl emerged victorious in the first ever Coolbet €550 Main Event at Olympic Park Casino and the Hilton Tallinn Park for €50,100. Wahl claimed the title. A Coolbet Open package valued at €1,200 for the next festival in Tallinn later this year was a...

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07 May, 2018 RoronoA wins DareDevil; Joka240 claims SuperStack at Spartan

The featured tournaments at The Spartan Poker are gathering some serious momentum in the month of May with the Hot Leaderboard Challenge underway. A huge 15 Lakhs is on the line for the top 10 finishers on this leaderboard with the winner assured a sum of INR 5 Lakhs which is over and a...

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05 May, 2018 Non-Poker Books for Poker Players

Reading is very helpful not only in gaining knowledge but also to teach you and increase your practical knowledge. In this article we would like to suggest few non-Poker books that Poker players should add to their own library. 1) “The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules O...

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05 May, 2018 Myths and Realities of Poker Tournament Life

Unless we’re set up to experience some emotional 21st century surgery, the majority of us won’t ever be uncovered given executing machines, we essentially don’t have the highlights: no venomous teeth, claws, electric limbs, horns, extremely sharp teeth or any of variou...

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05 May, 2018 Bryn Kenney wins EPT Monte Carlo €10K High Roller

For most people, beating many other players and winning a poker title is quite a big deal, but for poker players like Bryn Kenney, it’s just another day at the office. Hendon Mob’s 2017 Player of the Year Bryn Kenney has over $23 million in live poker earnings and he just ad...

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05 May, 2018 Nicolas Dumont Wins EPT Monte Carlo Main Event

Frenchman Nicolas Dumont first cashed out in a live poker tournament way back in April 2012, when he finished 81st in a Winamax Poker Tour event and took home €1,200. Six years passed since then and the poker player had never won a live title, or even finished on the final table of any ...

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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.