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16 Feb, 2018 ‘guru01’ wins the Quickie The Elite for INR 581,250

  The third day of the ‘Anniversary Quickie Series’ was a roller coaster ride for the poker players with two high value tournaments on the same day, 15L GTD The Flash and 25L GTD HighRoller. Today is the last day to collect points for towards that fantastic Suzuki Intruder and INR 40k c...

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15 Feb, 2018 State of Mind You Should be in Before Playing Poker

Poker is 60% skill, 20% mental, and 35% math skills…wait…Good thing this article is about the mental aspect of poker and not the math side. When preparing for poker tournaments or poker sessions, most serious players do at least a decent job at honing their skills and learning the math ...

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15 Feb, 2018 Rubin Labroo wins Quickie Elite PLO for ?3,47,208

The ongoing super entertaining Quickie Series on TheSpartanPoker has concluded its Day 2 with two big tournaments i.e. Destiny and Elite PLO Highroller. Two days into the series, ‘Drunkenf1st’ is maintaining the lead on the Quickie leaderboard with 4,400 points. There are some sweet pri...

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14 Feb, 2018 Chi Zhang Wins partypoker MILLIONS Germany €50K SHR

The inaugural partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Germany is currently underway at the Kings Casino, Rozvadov. In the last couple of days, we reported stories of the two completed €25k Super High Roller events, one won by Patrik Antonius of Finland, and the other won by Germany’s Johannes Be...

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14 Feb, 2018 partypoker Releases MILLIONS Grand Final Schedule

Online poker giant PokerStars has been continuously fiddling with their tournament formats, having re-branded its TCOOP series to Turbo Series, followed by cancelling its Chile stop of the Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT). On the other hand, partypoker has been releasing new tournaments...

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14 Feb, 2018 US Pro Caught With 163 Kgs of Marijuana

Just a couple of weeks back, US poker pro Micah Raskin cashed out a prize of $6,399 at the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open, Atlantic City. Now, the poker player finds himself in legal trouble with New York police authorities, for the possession of over 350 pounds (163 kgs) of marijuana. R...

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14 Feb, 2018 5 Celebrities We’d Like to See in Poker

  Poker, these days, has garnered a lot of media coverage and celebrity endorsements. With more and more celebrity involvement in the world of Poker, there are some celebrities that, despite being world famous entertainers, have chosen to stay out of the “Poker Lime Light”. We present t...

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14 Feb, 2018 ‘Button_Hai_Bhai’ is Quickie Mega Stack winner

The celebration of one of the earliest turbo tournaments at The Spartan Poker is underway this week. Aptly called the ‘Quickie Anniversary Series’, yesterday saw the Day 1 action come to a close across the first nine tournaments on schedule. Taking place from 13-16 February with 36 tour...

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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.