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13 Jan, 2018 Kunal Patni Chiplead on WPT Euro Main Event Day 3

Just a few days back, Indian poker player and Adda52 Pro Kunal Patni was in the news with a second place finish at the WPTDS Berlin Main Event and a career best live cash of $115,368 (~INR 73 lakhs). Kunal wasn’t keen on leaving Berlin anytime soon as he then moved on to the WPT E...

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Gambling

12 Jan, 2018 Aussie Millions 2018 Kicks Off Next Week

The Aussie Millions is the biggest poker tournament series in Australia, which was earlier known as the Australian Poker Championship and then also the Crown Australian Poker Championship. The tournament series is being held since 1998 and the 2018 Aussie Millions is now almost upon us....

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Poker

12 Jan, 2018 Top 5 Crazy Poker Get-Ups

One aspect of Poker is not giving away any obvious information while playing. Any tendency or pattern noticed by your fellow gamers can leave you vulnerable. These can range from anything from facial expressions to physical postures. This is why more and more poker players are opting to...

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Poker

12 Jan, 2018 PokerStars’ TCOOP is now Turbo Series

The Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) has been a very important tournament series on the online poker calendar since 2012. For the past six years, poker players who play on PokerStars have had the chance to kick off their year by playing in multiple high guarantee tournaments i...

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Poker

12 Jan, 2018 American Poker Awards to Return on February 22nd

2017 was a great year for poker players from around the world, with many big wins and huge guarantee-smashing tournaments taking place. Who can forget India getting their first WSOP bracelets and Scott Blumstein winning $8+ million at the WSOP Main Event? Like these, there were quite a ...

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Poker

12 Jan, 2018 Check Out What’s in ‘Store’ at Khelo365.com

It’s a New Year finally; we keep hearing many talks about fresh starts and revamps but not many walk the talk. Only a handful of them do what they promised. Khelo365.com, the go-to site for Poker enthusiasts in India had been teasing us about introducing a new feature for some tim...

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Poker

11 Jan, 2018 Kevin Hart’s Comedy of Errors

We’re bringing to you one of the craziest and weirdest poker hands you would’ve witnessed of late. Kevin Hart, American actor/comedian has recently been around the poker circuit a lot recently since he was signed by PokerStars as an ambassador, with the intention of ‘b...

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11 Jan, 2018 ‘mrgr33n’ is first Destiny 4.0 winner on Spartan

Destiny’s third edition concluded last week with ‘shark attack’ claiming the Destiny finale on 7 January 2018 at TheSpartanPoker.com. The winner of the finale takes a package worth INR 10 Lakhs which also includes $10,000 in tournament buy-in, return flight tickets to Las Vegas and of 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.

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.