The biggest surprise at PGT July edition has been a young and dynamic player from Bangalore - Vinod KK whose soft demeanor is in complete contrast to his aggression on the felt. Vinod KK dominated the PGT main event from the start and collected a massive chip lead entering the final table. As predicted, he finished the job in style the following day, taking home INR 6 Lacs in prize-money and adding a valuable 428 points to his name on the INR .......... [Read More]

PGT July edition is now in the books and the final event of the series i.e. 50K High Roller`s event had 36 entrants ponying up the INR 50,000 buy-in making for a total prizepool of INR 1.8 Million. Mumbai`s Sumit Sapra was the last player standing after he beat Lawrence Sanjay heads-up and took home the top prize of INR 7.5 Lacs and the special F1 Tag Heuer watch.     Final Table After PokerGuru Team Mentor Rohit Bhal.......... [Read More]

Bangalore based Vinod KK continued his strong performance from Day 1 of the PGT main event to win the title after beating Vipun Sharma heads-up. He collected INR 6 Lacs beating a field of 63 runners to claim the top prize . The deep-stacked tournament had a 2-day format, which saw the final nine players returning on day 2 to resume play till we had a new PGT champion!     Final Table After seven hours of play on D.......... [Read More]

The second event of the PokerGuru Tour July edition saw 64 entrants putting up INR 12,000, of which 10,000 went into the prize pool and 2k was reserved as the bounty per player elimination. The featured prizepool guarantee of INR 3 Lacs was crushed once again and as event 1, saw the entire final table getting paid. The tournament started with each player having 7,500 chips and the blind levels were going up every 30 minutes. After 8 hours .......... [Read More]

PGT July edition made a successful return to Casino Royale (Goa) with 87 runners climbing onboard the floating casino in Panjim to join the poker extravaganza. The tournament saw the biggest turnouts in months at the Royale card room with the entire final table getting paid. After more than nine hours of high-octane Texas Holdem action, it was Kavish Kukreja who won the tournament, cashing in INR 150,000.   PGT 5K Freeze-out F.......... [Read More]

After the chief minister of Goa Manohar Parrikar communicated in May this year that he was planning measures to discourage the casino industry in the state, Parrikar has made another move towards this goal today by announcing a proposed bill that seeks to impose a complete ban on the entry of locals into casinos, with only tourist checking into hotel being allowed the play in Goa's casino's. “The casino passed will be made av.......... [Read More]

Chennai-based Aditya Sushant's numerous attempts to give up poker after he stumbled upon it in 2008 were fruitless. It all changed for Sushant when he took a bus to play live tournaments in Goa. On that epic trip to Goa in 2010, Sushant met PokerGuru mentor Aditya Agarwal, and there has been no looking back for him since then. In the 25k IPC tournament the next day, Sushant bagged at that time the largest cash prize of Rs 6.26 lakh beating.......... [Read More]