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19 Feb, 2018 One-on-One with PokerDangal’s Karan Gandhi

India has taken on poker as its latest love affair in the last few years. A dozen or so sites have come in the past 18 months and there seems to be no stopping the momentum of these sites. One of the new entrants into the Indian poker scene is PokerDangal. The brand itself is quite [&he...

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19 Feb, 2018 Top Exotic Poker Destinations From Around the World

We have all been there (not physically, but virtually). All of us have dreamt of going to the exotic off shore place or a casino to play Poker around the world. Various Poker tournaments take place frequently from the islands of the Caribbean to the Neon Vegas strips. If you want to add...

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19 Feb, 2018 Dainik Mehta Wins DPT Main Event For INR 23 Lakhs

Earlier, we reported news of Vivek Singh winning the opening event of 2018’s first Deltin Poker Tournament, followed by another report of Alok Birewar winning the high roller event, with a buy-in of INR 65,000. While there were a few other events in between, all the attention shif...

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17 Feb, 2018 Dan Bilzerian: Poker’s Ultimate Bad Boy and ‘King of Instagram’

Who doesn’t know Dan Bilzerian? One of the most famous professional poker players living lavishly, Blitz is known for his extravagant lifestyle. His Instagram page boasts pictures of beautiful women and guns. With over 23.2 million followers, he is an instagram personality, budding acto...

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17 Feb, 2018 Vivek Singh Wins Feb DPT 15k Deep Dive

After 4 successful seasons of the Deltin Poker Tournament (DPT) in 2017, poker players from across India were all set to take part in the first DPT of 2018, which is taking place between 15th and 19th February 2018. Tournaments of various formats were scheduled for the Feb edition of th...

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17 Feb, 2018 Sahil Mahboobani wins Quickie FINALE, Chiraag Patel tops leaderboard

The Quickie Anniversary Series has come to an end and many players have ended up taking big prizes including a brand-new Suzuki Intruder motorcycle. The leaderboard winner Chiraag ‘Drunkenf1st’ Patel is not new to TheSpartanPoker having won a side event in the India Online P...

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16 Feb, 2018 ESPN to Air 170 Hours of WSOP Main Event and One Drop

48 successful seasons of the WSOP (World Series of Poker) have passed by and poker players from around the world have already begun their preparations for the 49th annual WSOP series, which takes place at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas. This year, the World Series will ta...

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16 Feb, 2018 Over 60 Lakhs to Play For in Fortune Glitz Tourneys

Hot on the heels of their massive Leaderboard contest and the launch of their exclusive poker store, Khelo365 has come up with an amazing series of tournaments to play in this Valentine month, which fittingly is called the Fortune Glitz. Cupids have gone crazy at Khelo365.com. One quick...

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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.