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there will not be too many indians for a long time to come. the online sites are blocked. not illegal. the live games in india in theory are low cost but in reality extreme high cost. the lower living cost countries will produce more highly motivated online grinders.

I'm going to goa at xmas and looked on the interwebz and found a casino near where we're staying in candolim (i think its a moored boat.)
i've sent an email asking about poker but got no reply can anyone tell me if cash games or tourneys run there ? (it says the offer poker and had a festival a few weeks ago.)

any help reg blinds / buy ins would be great thanks

I found there is a pokerroom from India called Adda52. Not sure if ROW can play there or if someone wants to give it a go.

I've recently returned from three months in india and I highly (highly!) doubt there will be any kind of boom. Religion dominates society there and gambling is frowned upon. Playing live in the floating casinos in goa is a blast (super laggy fish everywhere) but I'd expect nothing more than a trickle of players to play online. Not a single one of the ~20 players I asked had ever played online, nor do they intend to.

Most people don't play online from India because depositing money is virtually impossible. Best way to do it is to take a transfer from someone you know. However no online sites are blocked unlike what someone else said.

Regarding live poker, the tourneys seemed to be booming quite a bit, and attendance and guarantees seemed to be up every year from the previous, but the government recently imposed a TDS (tax deducted at source) of 30% on all tourney winnings which the casinos have to withhold. Losses aren't deductible here so it makes tourneys pretty much unbeatable.

Micro stakes are going to explode.

I disagree... Tongra & Patel are cool with me when I go to their 7-11. After all why wouldnt they be? Every dollar I spend in their store is 62+ times the value of their rupee. So when they send all that money home to India, their families live like kings.... oh wait... wtf?

Huh? Jewish people are good at everything, are you out of your mind?

They wanted to deposit but gave up when they couldn't understand the customer service people on the phone

the live games one can forget. paying tax of online gambling winnings from outside the country ... flat about 30% ... is risky as it is likely against their law to send money to another country and gamble with it, and probably its illegal to bring winnings back to country, even if just because of deposit. the penalty is three times the withdrawal amount. its not illegal to gamble online, except maybe from some states in india.

i dont know about india but 95% of the indians i've played with in maryland have had a lot of money and been very bad at poker.

With 200-300 million middle class folks in India those with disposable income this is only good news for long term online poker health.

The average of iq of any human is determined by their race..
Not sure of the average Indian iq...

So yes lets see how they do.. interesting.

I'm a British Indian living in Delhi.. Lets clear up a few things..

Plenty of Indians play online these days.. It is getting more and more popular as getting money online has become easier over the last couple of years.. there are communities of poker players that although new to the game, have a huge passion for learning..

The live poker scene is sick.. There are loads of cash games going on around the city.. The players are pretty awful.. i played a couple weeks ago a pretty good game.. The blinds were 500/500 with a 50k Rupees buy in.. That is equivalent to $8/$8 blinds with an $800 initial buy in.. Over the course of the night many players bought in for more like 200,000 rupees..

The players were all pretty chilled.. Just a lot of hash smoking and playing loose.. The money doesnt mean much to them to be honest, there are a lot of wealthy people in this city.. it means something to me, coz i take the game seriously, but most of the guys playing are pretty rich anyway and dont really value the money as much as one would assume..

The level of play is god awful, the players are chilled, and the game is juicy.. There are some top players in India, Intervention being the best in the country (online)..

I see a boom in the future as many in the country are moving away from crap games like teen patti (flash) and moving toward more skilled games such as NL Holdem and PLO.. During Diwali there are loads of poker games here all over India.. The games are absurd during this time and take place a few times a week over the course of like a month.. There are parties where a DJ is spinning, hot girls, world class catered food of all different cuisines and a bunch of poker tables.. it is **** awesome.. Other times, it is just a room at someones apartment with a poker table, a dealer most of the time, and a bunch of people blazing fatties..

The stereotypes in this thread regarding India are not completely untrue however.. The education system does not always permit the average person here from individually constructing a solution to a problem. The application of logic and concept eludes a large percentage of the population.. The entire government, education, caste system, infrastructure etc is in huge need of an overhaul.. I could go on for ages..

This being said, with regards to poker, it certainly isn't booming, but there is something whispering in the wind, and people are listening..

I'm actually off to Goa next month to play a 50k Rupee tournament, should be pretty sick.. An Indian Team Pokerstars Pro is certainly required at some point within the next year or two..

lol...

On their site under stats the unpossible number of

Hands Dealt - 1,10,00,000+

Wow you make it sound pretty awesome, i assume you profited huge while there. Makes me want to check out indian poker lol, but it sounds like home game local enviroment and im not indian

Are they still witholding a tds of 30% on tourney winnings?

I havent gone to goa for more than a year because of that. The first 25k ruppee tourney i played in india a couple of years ago was the most hilarious ive played in my life.

Midway through the tourney everyone is playing very tight and no one has a clue about push/fold, stack sizes etc. A player gets moved to my table and everyone starts whispering, apparently his nickname is machinegun, so i figured he's probably decent. Few hands in machine gun limps from button for 5 bbs, i fold, bigblind pushes allin for ~6bbs, machine gun instafolds a10o face up and berates the other guy. Other guy shows aks to show he indeed wasn't messing around with his superior stack. This continued for the rest of the tourney, people limp folded 4bb stacks regularly, but a guy who shoved 8bb with 66 was berated out of the room by his uncle.

Play did improve drastically between then and the second time i went a year later.

Legal poker games only exist in goa and sikkim in india.

Indians use a different numbering system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_A...mbering_system

That number is the same as 11,000,000.

Yep, kinda sucks and the corruption in India is soo rife on soo many levels that the games will never truly flourish regardless of how bad the play is or however many whale degens start to adopt skill games over teen panty. Source: British Indian, but never played poker in India.. and doubt i ever will!! Would love to grind online from there one day though when/if it ever became legit to do so

Question: In Goa/Sikkim.. is it legit to play online?? anyone know??? different rules for non-residents and locals?? or same for both???

Transcendence: if your ever back over here in UK and wanna play live, lemme know... will deffo hit up a small donkament with you as would love to hear more about the climate of the games over there. I'm down southeast. pm me anytime

so the guy who chopped for over $200k on TCOOP main (danish7) indian?? if he is things like that gonna help. (his country on stars was showing India)

Danish7 is Indian. There were a couple of Indians in the final 20s of the TCOOP High roller as well.

India/China poker boom would be soooo nice...

No. of Indians playing on pokerstars have increased a lot over the last few years with some of them chopping sunday million a year ago, tcoop main event this year, and again sunday million this week. Also pocketfives had only 100 Indian players registered last year but now its over 800. Also not to forget CEO of Amaya Baazov mentions India as one of the geographies that Amaya will look to target. True to their words Pokerstars launched freerolls from Aug 3-21 only for Indians and now again offering freerolls(105 total) as their diwali offer, offering $6500 worth of tickets and merchandise.

Not sure this is entirely true.

Court Ruling Poker as a game of Skill in Karnataka


In Karnataka (State where Bangalore is located for non geography majors), California Card club type rooms were shut down by govt a few years ago.

One club owner went to court, proved poker was a game of skill to the court, and thus were allowed to reopen, which they have. I believe several are operating in Bangalore now.

Still a very new B&M market, but has the potential to evolve much like the California card club market, but on a larger scale given population base in India.

I think there is another case pending before the Supreme which will be heard in early Nov involving rummy, poker, rake/commissions and online gaming, that could impact this as well.