The featured event of the PokerGuru Tour May Edition saw 63 runners putting up the INR 25,000 buy-in making for a prize pool of INR 15,75,000 (100% payouts) with INR 6,25,000 going to the winner. The event was played out across 2 days: on May 12th the tournament played down the money i.e. from 63 players to the final six, who returned on May 13th to battle it out for the Main Event title. Goa based Tournament Regular – Husain Lakdawala w.......... [Read More]

The final event of the PokerGuru Tour May edition was the INR 50,000 High Roller 6-max event. 33 players showed up to take a shot at the title, culminating in a prize pool of 1,650,000 (100% payouts). This tournament saw most notables from the Indian poker scene, including Bobbe Suri, Abhishek Goindi, Phil Sanders, Prabhat Mukherjea, Amit Varma, Jasven Saigal, Dhaval Mudgal, Anil Gulati and the PokerGuru Team Mentors Aditya 'intervent.......... [Read More]

The second event of the PokerGuru Tour May edition saw 71 contestants putting up INR 12,000 for a shot at the PGT 12k Bounty title. INR 10,000 went directly to the prize pool and INR 2,000 was reserved as the bounty per player elimination. After 8.5 hours of Texas Hold'em tournament action it was Pradeep Singh who came out on top and took home INR 300,000 for his first place finish, besting Event 1 victor Ramandeep Gujral in the heads-up b.......... [Read More]

A busy series of live poker tournaments in Goa kicked off on Thursday with the PokerGuru Tour Season 2 – INR 5k freezeout event. The tournament saw the biggest turnout in months at the Casino Royale poker room with 76 players entering the fray. After more than seven hours of high-octane Texas Holdem, it was PokerGuru Team Mentor Ramandeep Singh Gujral who won the tournament cashing in INR 150,000. Gujral beat Prabhat Mukherjea when his &.......... [Read More]

India’s first 90-days mentorship program for poker drew an overwhelming response at PokerGuru with more than 60 applicants aspiring to join the program. “It was tough picking the final 21,” said Aditya ‘Intervention’ Agarwal, the lead mentor of the program, who personally selected the 21 chosen candidates. The members selected were Nitish Gupta, Rajnish Kumar, Simon Mint, Ashutosh Naik, Olli Virkkunen, Mukesh .......... [Read More]

An expert poker player who wanted to know about the legalities of the game introduced Prabhat Mukherjea to professional poker. The game interested the law student Prabhat, who immediately pecked through books written by poker stalwart Dan Harrington. Bad luck struck on the personal front when he lost both his parents before completing college. It was when he decided to quit his Rs 1 lakh/month job of a lawyer to turn into a full-time professio.......... [Read More]

The world`s largest Online Poker Room has launched a mobile app in India for iPad/iPhone and Android platforms. The PokerStars Mobile Poker App lets you play Texas Hold'em and Omaha on the go, with the same groundbreaking features and support that have already made PokerStars the choice of millions of players around the world. Players can find real money and play money ring games, Sit & Go's and tournaments that suit every ski.......... [Read More]