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21 Dec, 2017 Wilson Yomso is 8th Destiny winner on Spartan

The Destiny 3.0 Finale SnG is just two weeks away and here we bring you with the eighth Destiny winner in Wilson Yomso who plays under the moniker ‘Bikinse’. The winner takes all in this Finale which includes return flight tickets to Las Vegas, hotel stay and the buy-in to play the bigg...

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20 Dec, 2017 Importance of Knowing When to Fold While Playing Poker

In this article we will talk about one of the hardest but most important poker skills, ‘folding’. Granted, folding in Poker may not be the most impressive play in a poker player’s toolbox, but it sure is a very important aspect of poker. If you identify the situations in which folding w...

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20 Dec, 2017 Sushil Kumar Gupta – Champion of KPC 4

The fourth edition of the Kolkata Poker Championship recently concluded at the ‘Turn N Riva’ Poker Club in Kolkata, played between 8-15 December 2017. The Main Event of the championship began on 10th December. The Championship kicked off with 24 unique players participating ...

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20 Dec, 2017 Kalidou Sow Wins PSC Prague Main Event for €675,000

Frenchman Kalidou Sow nearly tripled his career live tourney winnings on Monday night when he walked away with the PokerStars Championship (PSC) Prague Main Event title and a whopping payday of €675,000 (~INR 5.1 crore). The event had a €5,300 buy-in and took place at the Casino Atrium ...

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19 Dec, 2017 PokerStars Receives First Shared EU Liquidity License

A few years back, France, Portugal, Italy and Spain closed their borders and separate licenses were required for poker operators in these four countries. However, in July this year, an agreement was made between the countries for a shared liquidity scheme. What this scheme does is prese...

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19 Dec, 2017 Important Poker Apps Every Player Must Have

Since its inception in the early 2000s, online poker has come a long way. We have multiple platforms with different buy-ins and variants of the game available at our mercy at any given point in time. Smartphones have become the most ubiquitous piece of technology. For professional poker...

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19 Dec, 2017 Mediarex, Kwan Partner to Bring GPL to India

GPL – Until today, you would’ve known it as the Global Poker League. When it comes to India, you will call it the Global Player League! A press release yesterday announced the bringing of the Global Player League to India, to be facilitated by a multi-year agreement between ...

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19 Dec, 2017 APT Announces Revamped Schedule for 2018

The Asian Poker Tour (APT) has announced a preliminary schedule for its 2018 season, including a total of 7 stops in the Asian region, and a few more stops to be added soon. The tour will kick off in Vietnam, with the event there being hosted for 10 days between 19th and 28th January 20...

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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.