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03 May, 2018 Bonomo and O’Dwyer Win EPT Monte Carlo High Rollers

As some may already know, the European Poker Tour (EPT) has a current stop at Monte Carlo and this tournament series kicked off with the €1,100 buy-in EPT National Event, on 25th April 2018. The event was won by French poker player Guillaume Diaz and the next event to take place was the...

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03 May, 2018 Playing Poker Can Give Thoughtful Life Lessons

Playing poker game either online or live give real lessons forever. Figuring out how to play great poker gives you a genuine interactive media learning knowledge that can be connected to life too. Shockingly, in poker and throughout everyday life, we don’t get the choice to pick t...

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03 May, 2018 WSOP Champ Martin Jacobson Joins Poker Sports League

The PSL (Poker Sports League) is a sports league that was founded in 2016 with an intention to establish poker as a mainstream sport in India and allow poker players to prove themselves on a bigger stage. Season 1 was won by Delhi Panthers, grabbing the top prize of INR 1.5 crores and i...

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03 May, 2018 Vikram Jeet Singh: Quality vs Outcome

In this Gutshot guest blog, we have prolific online player Vikram Jeet Singh talking about the trials and tribulations of becoming a wiser player over his decade long journey in the world of poker: “A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.” – ...

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03 May, 2018 Asia Poker League This May in Vietnam

The inaugural edition of the Asia Poker League (APL) Road Series Vol.1 Philippines kicked off on 24th February and concluded on 1st March 2018. After the success of that first edition, it wasn’t long before they decided to launch Season 2, to be held in Vietnam this time around. T...

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03 May, 2018 Rajesh Kumar Shukla wins Spartan Electra

The featured tournament Electra which takes place on The Spartan Poker every week saw a big turnout last night which surpassed the guaranteed prizepool of this tournament. It was Rajesh Kumar Shukla who plays under the moniker ‘suckout_king’ who took down the title for INR 1,31,375. Shu...

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03 May, 2018 Fly to Goa With Spartan’s New Tourney ‘Big Daddy’

The heat is well and truly in this summer and we’re not just talking about the weather. Poker players from around the country have been having quite a ball with plenty of top action taking place across the big Indian sites. The excitement is in high gear on The Spartan Poker as we...

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03 May, 2018 Gujarat & Delhi High Courts Fix Dates For Poker Petitions

In December last year, the Delhi High Court agreed to hear a petition seeking recognition of poker as a game of skill and quashing of gambling charges for playing the game of poker. The quashing petition was filed by a New Delhi-based poker player named Karan Mutha, who was arrested in ...

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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.

Gutshot Magazine offers the latest and up-to-date poker news. Readers can find information about poker tournaments, online poker sites, and exclusive stories and a lot more. Readers can also sign-up via Gutshot Magazine to various affiliate brands listed in the website’s poker rooms tab.

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.