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17 Mar, 2018 The Best Time to Play Poker

This question arises in almost all poker players’ minds. In today’s article, we are going to talk about what is the best time to play poker. Poker is a game which is fun and intense but should be played with a calm and compose mind. Following are the best times to play poker: 1. P...

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17 Mar, 2018 Rajesh Kumar Cherukuri Wins SSS Elite HR for INR 6,87,500

The Spartan Poker is running their monthly series called Spartan Super Series and today is the fourth day of the series with the high featured tournament DareDevil scheduled at 7:30 pm with a buy-in of INR 4,400 and a starting stack 10,000. The tournament is a re-buy tournament where th...

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17 Mar, 2018 Ho Lun Pang Wins APPT Macau Kickoff For HKD 265,600

The Macau edition of the Asia-Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) has begun at the PokerStars Live poker room, Macau. The tournament is scheduled to take place between 14 and 25 March 2018, and a total of 26 tournaments will be played during this time. We are here to report the first event of the...

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16 Mar, 2018 Jonathan Cronin Wins Jacksonville WPTDeepStacks

World Poker Tour (WPT) is one of the premier brands when you think of poker and entertainment across the world. Currently, Season V of the WPTDeepstacks is underway and its latest stop was the WPTDS – Jacksonville series, which was scheduled between 2nd and 12th March 2018. The Ma...

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16 Mar, 2018 SSS Day 2: Manoj Pentakota Wins PLO HR; Sanket Deshmukh Wins The Flash

Day 2 of the Spartan Super Series on TheSpartanPoker saw two big winners with the first Millionaire of the site Manoj ‘MRBLUE’ Pentakota shipping the Pot-Limit Omaha HighRoller event and Sanket ‘pokerbazi’ Deshmukh winning The Flash. The series also has the leaderboard worth INR 10,00,0...

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15 Mar, 2018 PokerStars Partners with Sugal & Damani For India Launch

PokerStars: An online poker cardroom owned by the Canadian-based Stars Group. Founded in 2001, PokerStars is an industry leader and is currently the largest poker company across the world. It is accessible through downloadable clients for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS, and they also h...

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15 Mar, 2018 Matthew Shepsky Wins 2018 Chicago Poker Classic

The 2018 Chicago Poker Classic was underway since 1st March 2018 at the Horseshoe Hammond near Chicago. The Main Event was a $2,000 buy-in NLHE event which kick started on 9th March and it was an Illinois poker player, Matthew Shepsky, who shipped the event for the top prize of $195,367...

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15 Mar, 2018 David Pham Wins WSOP Circuit Los Angeles Main Event

It’s two in two for David ‘The Dragon’ Pham now! Around a week ago, US poker player David Pham was in the news for beating 984 runners and winning the 2018 Wynn Spring Classic Championship, for $240,254. Now, he’s raked up another 6-figure win, by shipping the WS...

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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.