Online Poker world has brought a new avenue in India when a globally renowned online poker gaming brand associated to, so called, American actor and international Instagram celebrity, Dan Bilzerian recently announced its presence in Indian market. BLITZPOKER – Official Poker Room of Dan Bilzerian is an American based Poker site which offers top poker games like Texas Holdem, Open Face Chinese Poker and Omaha Poker. The announcements to begin its operation were made during the ongoing lock-down. However, the trend for carrying a business around ‘real money’ card games in lieu of Legal ambiguity in Indian territories have already emboldened gaming companies like Adda52 and Spartan Poker to offer such gaming services.

Though the Supreme Court of India, in a 1967 judgment, ruled that rummy and other cards based games involving money are considered to be the games of skill and can be legally played in clubs, it didn’t clarify on the use of stake money. Thereafter, various high courts in India have given conflicting verdicts around rummy – and the use of money while playing it. That apart, several state-level anti-gambling laws have added more knots to the legal tangle.

The rising interest and involvement of users in these online platform based gambling would certainly add up to some interesting and evolving judicial interpretations around the globally accepted notion which recognises Poker as to be a game requiring high level of intellect and mental prowess.

Legality apart, these online gambling portals are usually required to spend a lot of efforts to strengthen their gaming technology and other legal compliances with respect to allied regulations in order to attract more users. They have to keep updating technology that takes care of game security, payments, game integrity (anti-collusion and pattern tracking programs) and unpredictable shuffle algorithms.