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15 Jan, 2018 APT Kickoff Vietnam 2018 Starts This Week

The Asian Poker Tour (APT) is a major poker tour that attracts players from the Asia-Pacific region and this season’s first stop is almost upon us. Just last month, APT announced a revamped schedule for their 2018 season; you can read about all the changes made and get the full sc...

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15 Jan, 2018 IOPC Day 3: ‘GoMuckYourself’ and Vinod ‘TheMuffinMan’ Megalmani win 2.o.K on Spartan

After a terrific start to the series on Friday, there was plenty more action at the India Online Poker Championship (IOPC) at yesterday’s Day 3. Another 6 events were in the bag at The Spartan Poker where it all went down. The big tournaments of the day were Spartan’s Two of a Kind (2.o...

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15 Jan, 2018 Sahil Agarwal Wins Adda52’s Mega Suits For INR 10 Lakhs

Indian online poker website Adda52 launched their Mega Suits monthly tournament in October 2017 with an INR 30 lakh guarantee and a 10 lakh guarantee to the first place finisher. The success of the tournament led to Adda52 increasing the overall prizepool and January’s Mega Suits ...

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14 Jan, 2018 The Birth of Online Poker

While most of us were busy ushering in the New Year with various kinds of celebrations all around the world, we forgot that the 1st of January is an important date for the game of poker as well. 1st January 2018 marked the 20th anniversary of the birth of online poker, from where quite ...

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14 Jan, 2018 Khelo365’s ‘Your Chance at Fortune’ Bonus Money Freeroll

New Year has just passed and the Indian poker community is still buzzing with lots of offers and promotions. It’s easy to get lost when there are hundreds of tournaments available from different sites. It becomes a really arduous task to identify the one best suited to you at these time...

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14 Jan, 2018 IOPC Day 2: Rohit Mishra is the ‘DareDevil’ winner

Day 2 of the ongoing India Online Poker Championship (IOPC) at The Spartan Poker was done and dusted in the early hours of this morning and we have another five winners who walked with the big prizes outlasting massive fields in their respective tournaments. The big winner was Rohit ...

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13 Jan, 2018 Reasons Why Indian Poker Is Evolving

The Poker industry in India has been growing exponentially in the past decade. A game that was considered to be the game of luck is now being seen for what it actually is – a skill based game. The process has been gradual and slow but people have started playing the game seriously...

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13 Jan, 2018 IOPC Day 1: Danish Shaikh wins The Elite for INR 8,00,300

The biggest online poker series of the country India Online Poker Championship began yesterday and saw its Day 1 on TheSpartanPoker.com on 12 Jan. The 10-day series has already kicked off and saw a huge turnout crushing the guaranteed prize pools with massive entries. Don’t forget...

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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.

Gutshot Magazine offers the latest and up-to-date poker news. Readers can find information about poker tournaments, online poker sites, and exclusive stories and a lot more. Readers can also sign-up via Gutshot Magazine to various affiliate brands listed in the website’s poker rooms tab.

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.