Poker News: India will experience the biggest poker tournament for the first time

India will experience the biggest poker tournament for the first time

 February 11, 2007, 10:37 am (4 years ago)

The largest poker tournament ever staged in India will be held in the coastal resort of Goa from March 1-5, 2007. Five top- notch poker stars in the world will also participate at this classic Asian Poker tournament that will be televised also. Their participation will surely add glamour to the tournament.

This poker tournament is considered to be one of the richest tournaments in the world having guaranteed jackpot of $1 million & minimum overlay of $250,000. Maharajah Club is the sponsor this tournament & line up of the tournament as follows:

Ram Vaswani - He is a member of Hendon Mob situated in London. Vaswani has won around $2.3 million in live tournaments so far. He is the only player to make cut in to three final tables on the European Poker Tour (EPT) so far. He is 36 years old.

Arshad Hussain - Hussain ended his 2006 session with splendid performance and was the top seed in the year 2006. The 33-year-old Lancashire fellow achieved second rank in the EPT Grand Final Event at Monte Carlo where he won $644,825 as winning amount.

Surinder Sunar - This poker star was the champion Paris Grand Prix on the World Poker Tour (WPT) in the year 2004. He earned $822,631 while winning the tournament. Sunar is famous for his quiet & calm attitude in the poker circuit, seldom shoes his emotion while playing at the table.

Lee Nelson - Nelson is based in New Zealander. He has been playing as top rated star in the poker circuit of Australia and New Zealand for last seven years. He eared more than$1 million while winning Aussie Millions champion, in 2006.

Mel Judah - He is based in UK, though originated from Australia. He has the reputation of wining WSOP in 1989 and 1997. He was also a winner of Legends of Poker winner in 2003. He earned $579,375 as prize money. He was one of the finalists at the main event of 1997 WSOP.

This tournament will feature around 150 poker players housing the tournament at the five-star Intercontinental hotel at Grand Resort Goa.

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1. IPC_Poker
May 20, 2010, 2:14 pm (1 year ago)

[list]IPC aka India Poker Championship[list=] is organizing their second Poker Tournament in the 1st of June at Casino Royale, Goa.

IPC's tournaments will Guarantee tournaments at the June edition of the India Poker Championship. Come June, each tournament will have a Minimum Guaranteed Prize-pool (MGP) which players will do battle for. One of the most common questions we are asked is what the player turnout and prizepool will be. This is relatively unclear till the day of the tourney but atleast now, a player will know the minimum he will definitely be playing for. For more details about the same please check: https://playleonbet.in
2. Ronnie
February 14, 2011, 4:52 pm (7 months ago)

Sol Poker brings in new ray of Sunshine to Goa!
Sol Poker just launched at Casino Pride, Goa. This marks an entry of a professionally managed poker room to our shores in India.
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February 1, 2011 Goa, India – Sol Poker (www.solpoker.in) is a fresh, professional poker room launched by young, energetic Professionals who have combined experience of 15 years in poker industry. Poker has been in Goa for 4 years and is pulling players from across India.

Having played at most poker rooms in Vegas, Macau, London and around the world, we thought of
bringing that experience to Goa; this is exactly what our poker room offers
Madhav Gupta (Maddy), COO.


The idea of Sol Poker was incepted a few years back, but its promoters waited till the time was right and they could leverage their experience of Poker of many years. Our Poker Room is named after “Sun”, or “Sol” in Latin-the star at the center of the Solar System. As Goa has positioned itself as a central Gaming and entertainment Destination, the Sol Poker room fulfils the gap in providing a world class poker facility in the heart of Goa, quoted Maddy.
Sol Poker is located in Casino Pride, one of the grandest and swankiest Casino in Goa.
Currently there are 2 poker rooms in Goa, and 100’s of players flock to them daily. Sol Poker plans to bring more poker players from all across India by launching various marketing policies, such as Rake free days and free tutorials on how to play Poker. “It’s not about just bringing players that are already in Goa to play poker -- the idea is to bring fresh new players who are very comfortable with there home games and there friends. Thus Sol poker will arrange a game at player requests with whatever blinds and format they feel comfortable says Maddy.
There are numerous poker tournament brands trying to make their mark in this industry such as IPS, IPC, Aces Unlimited and we are sure some of them will be as or more prestigious as a brand than WSOP, EPT, WPT in the years to come. “We have seen a 200 percent growth in players during our IPS tournaments in less than a year and massive following from them for our tourney calendar. We will do our best to maintain our motto of "We Have The Best Hand !!!". Bharat Agarwalla, Director IPS.
Poker has seen massive traction in the last few years, which has seen uprise of professional affiliates and bloogers such as POKERGURU and merchandizing companies such as The Shark and Poker Planet. India Inc. is realizing the importance of Poker (Which is No 2 most watched sports on TV in US) as many have tied up for media Content and exclusivity for India. Over last few Diwali home games, there are more and more Poker tables being set up," During last diwali all our 25 poker tables were on hire, sometimes twice a day" Pranav Bagai, CEO, The Shark. There are 2 sepcialized poker magzines, The Card Player and Bluff who have also made an entry into India during last 12 Months.
Looking at Poker as an industry in India, Sol Poker has set itself an objective “to become India’s top Poker destination!” Come on in’ We got a game for you.
About Sol Poker
Sol Poker is being promoted by Gurpreet Bakshi, Madhav Gupta, Pranav Bathija and Sachin Pawa. Gurpreet has been part of gaming industry (Online Gaming, lottery and Cash Card) for 4 years at a senior Position. Madhav took the plunge from his very successful family business to pursue his passion for Poker, whereas Pranav is a professional Poker player who has played Main event at WSOP and Sachin recently relocated to India after successfully selling his stake in an online gaming site in UK, which he founded.
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