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07 Feb, 2018 North Filipino Province Plans Casino Resort

In the past 2-3 years, the Philippines has become a much sought after destination for many poker players from India. Manila generally draws most players with events like the Asian Poker Tour and the soon-to-be-resurrected Asia Pacific Poker Tour and is player favourite because its a mel...

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07 Feb, 2018 APT Championships Philippines 2018 Schedule Out

The Asian Poker Tour (APT) had announced a preliminary schedule for its 2018 season in December 2017, with a total of 7 stops in the Asian region, and a few more stops to be added later. They began the season with the APT Kickoff Vietnam and that Main Event was won by Adinho888. Just a ...

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07 Feb, 2018 Stephen Chidwick Registers Consecutive Wins at 2018 USPO

It wasn’t too long ago that we reported the news of Stephen Chidwick coming from behind to win Event #3 of the 2018 US Poker Open, even though he started the final table with the third lowest chip stack. He faced off against famous poker pros like Keith Tilston and Daniel Negreanu...

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06 Feb, 2018 Michael Lim Wins 2018 Aussie Millions $100k Challenge

The Aussie Millions Main Event concluded yesterday with Toby Lewis securing the title and a handsome seven figure prize amount. Today, we bring to you a story from the final day of the 2018 Aussie Millions and it is one of the $100,000 Challenge, won by Malaysia’s Michael Lim. Thi...

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06 Feb, 2018 MPC28: Vinay BK Finishes 4th in Baby Dragon Event

The 28th edition of the Macau Poker Cup has been running in full swing, being contested between 26th January and 11th February 2018. Recently, we reported about the MPC 28 Baby Dragon Event which saw a total of 818 entries and 7 Indians making it to Day 2 of the event, including Aditya ...

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Gambling

06 Feb, 2018 Hard Rock to Launch Online Casino

The iGaming division of Hard Rock International, one of the world’s most globally recognized brands, has signed a strategic partnership with Gaming Innovation Group (GiG) to build a new online casino. Hard Rock is into the hospitality business and is also a casino operator based i...

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06 Feb, 2018 PokerStars: $1.2 Mil Overlay in Anniversary Special Tourney

UPDATE (7th Feb): Brazil’s ‘Hulk9950’ has won the PokerStars 12th Anniversary Special Sunday Million, for $960,000, followed by ‘kapchin’ from Bulgaria for $707,574 and ‘Sasuke234’ for $640,000. The three got into a 3-way deal, leaving $200,000 ...

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06 Feb, 2018 Stephen Chidwick Wins Event #3 of The US Poker Open

The inaugural US Poker Open is currently taking place, with the intention of finding the best all-round high-stakes poker player. Recently, we reported the news of Justin Bonomo and MIke Gorodinsky winning the first two events of the USPO. Today, England’s Stephen Chidwick became ...

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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.