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13 Feb, 2018 3 Bad Poker Habits that Result in Long-Term Losses

There’s an upside and a downside to almost everything. The key is to find the right balance in between. People achieve greatness by finding the perfect match. Ever wondered how they do that? Consistency! Winners win by staying consistent to the habits they develop over a long period of ...

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13 Feb, 2018 Kalyan Chakravarthy 2nd in Doupai Cup for HK$ 790,000

The last few months have been pretty good for the poker industry in India and even for our Indian poker players taking part in various tournaments across the globe. Kunal Patni started the year well, making a few deep finishes in Berlin, while Vinay BK recently finished 4th in the Baby ...

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13 Feb, 2018 Sumit ‘Hammer_Head’ Sapra Wins Feb’s Mega Suits

Holidays and Sundays are ideal for poker websites to host their biggest tournaments as most players are home and ready to grind for hours and hours. Similarly, this Sunday saw Adda52 hosting their popular tournament called Mega Suits, where an INR 30 lakh GTD was up for grabs, including...

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13 Feb, 2018 One-on-One with Spartan Millionaire Guneet Kwatra

The biggest online tournament of the country i.e. The Millionaire took place this past Sunday at The Spartan Poker and saw Guneet ‘guntz’ Kwatra taking down the title for a colossal payday of INR 24,50,000 outlasting 1821 entries including Anurag ‘AbbDangalHoga’ Srivastava in heads-up b...

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13 Feb, 2018 Mercury Poker Acquired By Essel Group’s Poker Nation

Indian online poker company Mercury Poker has been acquired by Poker Nation, an Essel Group company, as per a message put out on the Mercury Poker website. The message was sent out by Pranav Bathija, CEO of Mercury Poker, and he mentioned that players will not be able to log in to the w...

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13 Feb, 2018 Johannes Becker Wins 2nd MILLIONS Germany €25k SHR

Germany’s Johannes Becker is now just short of the $2 million mark when it comes to total live poker earnings in his career. A big jump in these earnings came yesterday, when he shipped the €25,000 Super High Roller event at the partypoker MILLIONS Germany; this was the second €25...

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13 Feb, 2018 Criminal Charges Filed Against Thrill Poker Promoter

A Noida based poker player, Yash Dugar, has filed a criminal complaint against Thrill Poker’s operating company and its promoter. Thrill Poker, an online poker website that was launched in 2013, was the first Indian website to go live on Microgaming’s new MPN India network in 2015...

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12 Feb, 2018 Tilston Wins USPO Main Event; Chidwick Wins Championship

Let’s start off with news that came out first – Stephen Chidwick Wins the US Poker Open Championship. How, you wonder? The main and final event of the USPO began and after registrations closed on Day 1, a total of 33 entries were recorded. With the buy-in being $50,000, the ...

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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.