For the first time ever, the Indian Poker Championship (IPC) is ready to host an event in the island country of Sri Lanka. The event will take place at Ballys Casino, Colombo between 17th-21st July. This will be the first time that IPC will be organizing an event outside India and with the recent tax implications on payouts for poker events in Goa, this may be the first of many such events in the island country in the future. "We are .......... [Read More]

The Golden Aces Poker League (GAPL) Season Finale concluded last night with the much-awaited WSOP sit-'n'-Go. With an all expenses paid trip to the 2013 WSOP main event at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas at stake, the WSOP sit-n-go was by far the biggest draw of the series. A total of 18 players were given a shot at the WSOP package with three among them making wild card entries earned by winning s.......... [Read More]

While the final edition of this season of Golden Aces Poker League is still in its last leg with the WSOP ‘Sit and Go’ scheduled to be held today i.e. May 13, the Season Finale champion of the 25K Super Deep Stack Main Event has been crowned. The player to claim this title along with the top prize is Madan Kumar. Kumar is no stranger to tournament success and has a formidable record having bagged 4th position in the GAPL Octobe.......... [Read More]

Bangalore based card room operator Golden Aces has recently announced the schedule for its Poker League season finale. The final edition of the four part series will take place from 9-13th May onboard Casino Pride, Goa. The biggest draw of the series will be the crowning of the ‘Player of the Year’ who will win a World Series of Poker main event package including buy-ins for the event (USD $10,000) along with return airfare and hot.......... [Read More]

25 years old Sahil Agarwal is an IT engineer from Bhubaneswar currently working as a system engineer with Infosys. He describes himself as a ‘kid with a dream’ who began his poker career 4 years back and has ever since dreamt of playing the game professionally. The turning point for his poker career came with his selection in the PokerGuru mentorship program (PGMP 2) and being coached by PokerGuru mentor Aditya Agarwal. Here is Sah.......... [Read More]

In his latest blog, Prabhat Mukherjea shares his experiences and discusses some key hands from the INR 12 lakhs PGT Season 2 ‘Player of the Year’ freeroll. "This year I was fortunate enough to get on to the final table for PGT’s POY freeroll. The structure and execution of this event was excellent since everyone started with a very playable stack and with 1 hour blind levels there was a lot of time for play. I entere.......... [Read More]

PGT Season 3 got off to a flying start this April. The 5 event series attracted some of the best tournament players of the country and with the POY freeroll to launch the series there could be no better start to the season. At the end it was Kolkata boy Prabhat Mukherjea who sealed his name on the title of the PGT Season 2 champion! The biggest find of the series was Kanishak Kapoor who made an impression with back-to-back wins in the 5K f.......... [Read More]