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20 Oct, 2023 Who Is Jared Bleznick? The First-Ever SHRB: PLO Champion

Jared Bleznick grabbed headlines as the poker player who  beat heavy weights like Isaac Haxton and Stephen Chidwick to take down the maiden Super High Roller Bowl: Pot-Limit Omaha (PLO) title. The American poker player took a pay cheque of $1,292,000 (his best live score). The three-han...

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20 Oct, 2023 World Poker Tour Reveals First Half Schedule For 2024 Season 

The World Poker Tour (WPT) has locked in the first half of the Season XXII schedule, offering an eclectic combination of seven WPT Prime and four WPT Main Tour festivals across the globe from late January to early June. WPT CEO Adam Pliska said, “As we approach the end of Season XXI and...

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19 Oct, 2023 EPT Cyprus 2023 ME: Apoorva Goel Eliminated On Day 3

Update The sole Indian player grinding in Day 3 of the EPT Cyprus 2023 Main Event, Apoorva Goel has exited the tournament in the 140th spot for a payday of $10,700 (₹8,88,850). The European Poker Tour (EPT) Cyprus 2023 is in full swing, with Day 2 of their highly anticipated Main Event ...

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19 Oct, 2023 Poker Master Series: Rubin Labroo Ships ME, Bhanu Prakash Is Runner-Up

The much-awaited tournament series on MPL Poker—Poker Master Series concluded on a high note on 15th October 2023. Well-known poker pro Rubin Labroo has shipped the coveted Main Event title like a boss. The 2020 India Poker Champion has pocketed a prize money worth ₹5 Lakh for this firs...

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19 Oct, 2023 Pocket52 Tournament Discounts: Your Winning Ticket to Savings!

Pocket52.com is one of the fast-growing online poker platforms in India. They are known to offer some of the best promotions and tournaments in the country. Recently, the Central government passed a new bill and saw 28% Goods and Service Tax (GST) being implemented on online gaming, cas...

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19 Oct, 2023 USOP Da Nang Nov 2023: All You Need To Know

The U Series of Poker (USOP) is back with a fantastic tournament series! After the highly successful USOP Hanoi 2023, the poker brand is back with USOP Da Nang. This highly awaited tournament series is all set to be played between 17th – 27th November 2023 at the Furama Resort Dan...

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18 Oct, 2023 Isaac Haxton Leads First-Ever Super High Roller Bowl PLO Final Table

The first-ever $100,000 buy-in Super High Roller Bowl PLO is down to the final table of seven from the field of 38 entries, and it’s Isaac Haxton in the lead. Much like he did coming into the final table of Super High Roller Bowl VIII last month, Haxton takes a commanding chip lea...

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17 Oct, 2023 Don’t Miss Deltin Royale’s FREE Entry Contest

Dreamt of getting a FREE entry at a luxurious casino? That dream will come true if you participate in Deltin Royale’s contest to get a FREE entry at the Goa casino. What is the contest and how can you participate? Hold your horses, we will tell you all about it.            […]

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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.