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13 Sep, 2017 Grand Success For Inaugural IPC Awards

First edition of India Poker Championship Awards hosted by India’s leading poker gaming portal, The Spartan Poker, witnessed a grand success in Bangalore today. The first of its kind poker award ceremony was held at Sheraton Grand in the Garden City on Saturday, 9th September 2017. Reco...

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07 Sep, 2017 Akshay Nasa is Third Destiny 2.0 Winner

The third week of second edition of Destiny series saw Akshay Nasa who plays under the moniker of ‘sherlock52’ on TheSpartanPoker shipped the tournament. Nasa received INR 4,00,000 hard cash and also INR 1,00,000 worth ticket to the Destiny SnG Finale which is scheduled on 29 October at...

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04 Sep, 2017 Grand IPC Awards Set For 9th Sep

When it comes to rewarding poker players TheSpartanPoker has always taken a step forward in the industry to give away token of felicitation. TheSpartanPoker is celebrating the winners of the India Online Poker Championship, Spartan Super Series, The Millionaires till date along with win...

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04 Sep, 2017 Sandeep Narayanan, Kunal Bhatia win September’s 2.o.K

TheSpartanPoker.com makes a minimum of four players an instant millionaire every month and September too got off to a flying start with the 2.o.K (Two of a Kind) tournament taking place on the first Sunday of the month. The top 2 finishers got INR 10 Lakhs each for outlasting a huge tur...

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02 Sep, 2017 WPT Brasil: Raphael Francisquetti Wins Main Event

The first-ever World Poker Tour Brasil was completed last night at Infinity Blue Resort & Spa in Balneário Camboriú, Brazil, where the event was hosted. Local player Raphael Francisquetti took down the R$1,500 Main Event to collect a first-place prize of R$781,546 and the tournament...

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01 Sep, 2017 Art Papazyan wins WPT Legends of Poker

Art Papazyan, a local high-stakes pro who specializes in cash games, defeated WPT Raw Deal analyst and poker icon Phil Hellmuth to win the Season XVI WPT Legends of Poker Main Event title. Papazyan denied Hellmuth his first-ever World Poker Tour title to claim the first of his own and e...

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31 Aug, 2017 ‘Ballaladeva’ wins 2nd Destiny on Spartan

Midweek excitement continues as Wednesday night saw another Destiny tournament winner at TheSpartanPoker.com. Many regs, pros and past Destiny winners participated and many of them made good scores in the tournament as well. The tournament which began at 8:30 pm ran for 10 hours straigh...

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30 Aug, 2017 Global Poker League to debut in India

With poker emerging as a mind sport in India and making its mark in this market Global Poker League, a team-based poker competition is set to enter the Indian market with the launch of GPL India. The regional league will include six teams covering India’s “largest and most poker-friendl...

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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.