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03 Feb, 2018 The Spartan Poker Launches ‘Quickie Anniversary Series’

To celebrate the anniversary of their popular tournaments called the ‘Quickies’, The Spartan Poker has launched a tournament series called the ‘Quickie Anniversary Series’. As the name suggests, these are quick tournaments (i.e. Turbo events) and the series will take place between 13-16...

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03 Feb, 2018 MPC28: 7 Indians in Baby Dragon Day 2, hits 818 entries

The HK$8,000 Baby Dragon is the first of four Macau Poker Cup 28 events offering players a chance to win a prestigious PokerStars Players NL Hold’em Championship (PSPC) Platinum Pass worth US$30,000 and attracted a record-breaking field. The second of the Baby Dragon’s two starting flig...

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India

02 Feb, 2018 Highlights of the 2018 Union Budget

It was a big day for India as the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley set out to announce the 2018 Union Budget – the first budget since the introduction of the ‘GST’, which came out last year in July. The biggest announcement that was expected to be made was the re-introduc...

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02 Feb, 2018 5 Things You Should Never Say at a Poker Table

The love that all of us have for poker does not only stem from the fact that there is money to be gained out of victories. A poker table is also a very intellectually and socially stimulating place. You meet people from different walks of life, learn their perspective on things, come to...

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02 Feb, 2018 Adinho888 wins APT Kickoff Vietnam Main Event

Adinho888 emerged victorious in the Main Event of Asian Poker Tour Kickoff Vietnam 2018 for VND 1,313,920,000 (~INR 37 lakhs). As his friends chanted on “winning pots, taking chips, getting rich, make the money!”, he entered the final day as the chip leader and powered through what turn...

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02 Feb, 2018 PokerHigh organizes ‘Brain Duel’ in Delhi

In recent times, we have seen many poker tournaments across the country but this time it was poker and other skill games which were on display in the nation’s capital. The other competitions revolved around chess and quiz. There were many known poker players at the tournament like...

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01 Feb, 2018 Priyadarshi Rajnish Wins MoneyMaker 3.0 for INR 30 Lakh

The game of poker is certainly on the rise in India and the fact that online poker websites are offering tournaments with such huge guarantees is evidence to that. One such tournament is PokerBaazi‘s MoneyMaker, which provides an INR 1 crore guarantee, including an INR 30 lakh GTD...

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01 Feb, 2018 Poker Brains vs Poker Balls. What Helps You Win?

And you thought only brains can make you win… First of all, let us make ourselves very clear – We are using the term ‘balls’ figuratively. We mean no disrespect to any female poker players when we use the term. They are an essential part of the Poker community and are as skilled as thei...

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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.