PokerStellar

Online poker has been around for many years, and we are seeing a huge growth in popularity of poker in India. If you want to play online poker in India, there are many poker sites to play at, but how much do you know about the game itself? Take the starting hands for instance, most people know at AA is the best, but surely one of the worst is 10 2? Well, not for double WSOP Main Event champion Doyle Brunson who won the big one not just once but twice using that hand – in successive years as well! He beat Jesse Alto head-s up to win the 1976 WSOP Main Event and then followed it up by winning the 1977 version against Gary Berland heads-up. Both times, the final hand saw him all-in with 8 2 – no wonder it is his favourite hand! How about playing in a poker game that lasted slightly longer than the average session time? Well, back in 1881 a game began in the Bird Cage Theatre in Tombstone, Arizona in the USA. Maybe the name of the town was about right as the game lasted...

Poker has been the most popular card game the world over for some time, but it has recently started to take off in a big way in India. Whether you want to play poker in India at home, play in a club, or play online poker at one of the many available online poker sites, it has never been more popular. We look at some of the reasons that the Indian Poker market has grown so much over recent years. 2017 WSOP India recently had their first WSOP bracelet winners in the form of Aditya Sushant and Nipun Java. They took down not 1 but 2 tournaments at the 2017 WSOP, teaming up to win the $1,000 Tag Team event with Java then going it alone to win the $1,000 Online NL Hold’Em Championship. Sushant also made another final table, capping off a very good tournament for Indian poker in general. Professional Players On top of Aditya and Nipun, the success of many Indian Poker professionals has been high over the last few years. Raghav Bansal won over Hong Kong $1m by choppin...