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29 Jan, 2018 Twitter War After 40L Dispute Between Raj Kundra and Sachin Joshi

The Match Indian Poker League was one of the first major poker sports league in the country and was promoted by businessman Raj Kundra and his wife Shilpa Shetty’s Viaan Industries. However, the league has had its fair share of controversies in its fledgling existence so far. Kund...

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29 Jan, 2018 Darryll Fish Wins First WPT Title at Lucky Hearts Poker Open

The World Poker Tour had its Main Tour Season XVI stop at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Hollywood, from 19th January onwards. Known as the WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open, the Main Event at this stop was a $3,500 buy-in one which saw a total of 911 entries. After a lot of grindin...

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29 Jan, 2018 Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier Parts Ways With PokerStars

What is happening? Why is everyone slowly leaving PokerStars? In case you haven’t heard of these stories already, let us tell you about poker celebrities leaving PokerStars since December 2017. Brazilian pro Felipe Ramos followed Vanessa Selbst andJason Mercier in leaving PokerSta...

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29 Jan, 2018 Ben Lamb Wins Aussie Millions 2018’s $25,000 Challenge

The 2018 Aussie Millions began on 17th January and will go on till 5th February 2018. The popular tournament series saw yet another big winner a couple of days back, with Ben Lamb winning Event #9 – the $25,000 Challenge and taking away the top prize of AUD 647,114 (~INR 3.3 crore...

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Gambling

29 Jan, 2018 Steve Wynn Ouster on The Cards

Wynn Resorts is a casino-hotel company that runs some of the most popular hotels and casinos around the world. Wynn Resorts was founded in 2002 by Steve Wynn, who has also been serving as CEO of the company since 2002. However, his future at the company is now at risk. Accused of sexual...

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28 Jan, 2018 Adtiya Chaudhary beats Kartik Ved to win Sunday SuperStack

The Destiny 7.0 Finale SnG happened yesterday and the winner turned out to be Sriharsha Doddapaneni playing under ‘GTOsucks’ all this while, there was another big tournament taking place side-by-side on The Spartan Poker – the highly popular Sunday SuperStack INR 25 Lakhs GTD. The...

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27 Jan, 2018 Arsenal FC Completes Crypto Tie-up With CashBet Coin

Arsenal Football Club is now officially in the crypto-casino business! In a first-of-its-kind deal, Arsenal FC have signed a partnership deal with CashBet, ahead of the latter’s ICO (Initial Coin Offering) of its cryptocurrency called CashBet Coin, designed particularly for iGamin...

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25 Jan, 2018 ‘Molly’s Game’ Gets Oscar Nomination

There was a lot of hype created around this controversial poker movie that released on Christmas Day 2017 – Molly’s Game. The poker tell-all received a lot of positive reviews, especially for the performance of the lead character Molly Bloom, played by the stunning Jessica C...

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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.