Gone are the days when people used to consider poker as gambling. Today, it is regarded as the game of skill and is quite popular among the card game enthusiasts all across the globe.
In India, the online transformation of poker has invited bigger business groups and convinced them to invest in evolving online poker platforms. The verdict of the Supreme Court stating that poker is a game of skill and not gambling has further given confidence to investors to invest their money in the Indian poker startups.
A big credit for this intensifying growth in the online poker industry should also be given to the gaming enthusiasts who have taken this game beyond the misconceptions of gambling and have staged it as a game of skill. Youngsters have played a big role in bringing this boom in the card game industry.
Kunal Patni, a guy who left his job to be a professional poker player, stands as the icon for the youngsters who wish to become a professional poker player. He has motivated the poker enthusiasts to break the stereotypes.
Kunal is today regarded as one of the best poker players in India and he was also the runner up in the World Poker Tournament, sweeping a huge sum of 96,000 euros (Rs. 75 lakhs approx.). Guys like him have set an example on how to utilize the skills rightly and master the game of poker.
Similarly, Muskan Sethi, the first female professional poker player in India, is also an inspiration for those youngsters who want to become a professional poker player. Because of her remarkable achievement in Poker, she has also been honored by the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind.
Both for businesses as well as for players, numerous online poker software options are available on the internet. While businesses are utilizing such poker software choices to set up their poker businesses, the gaming lovers are utilizing the poker platforms, driven by such poker software, to make money online.
The five popular poker platforms such as Pokerstars, Adda52, Spartan Poker, 9stacks, and Pokerbaazi serve around 70 percent of the poker players in the country. And a majority of players playing on these platforms are millennials. Sources reveal that more than 50 lakh domestic players have signed up on the real money poker platforms in the past few months. It was the millennials who outnumbered in these sign-ups.
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