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Goa to host India's first million-dollar poker game

Goa is set to host India's biggest professional poker tournament, with up to 150 players gunning for a share of a million-dollar pot.

DNA Web Team

Updated : Nov 19, 2013, 11:17 PM IST

NEW DELHI: Goa is set to host India's biggest professional poker tournament, with up to 150 players gunning for a share of a million-dollar pot.

The "introductory" Asian Poker Classic tournament is sponsored and guaranteed by the online gaming club MaharajahClub.com.

The five-day event starting on Thursday is expected to attract online poker players.

It is based on the No limit Texas Hold 'em version, of poker, said a release posted on the website www.MaharajahClub.com.

This is a form of poker that allows several rounds of betting per hand, which can boost the pot and encourages bluffing.

The tournament hopes to persuade high rollers to pay an entry fee of several thousand dollars by giving them free hotel rooms and other perks.

Goa -- described as India's tourist paradise -- legalised gambling decades ago in an effort to replicate the success of another former Portuguese enclave, Macau, and is the only Indian state to have done so.

Goa's solitary privately run floating casino, Carvella, plies the Mandovi River and is packed after sundown. Last year, the state received 600 chartered flights from Europe, with 800 booked for this year, state tourism officials said.

At least 2.4 million overseas tourist arrivals were reported in Goa for the year ended March 2006.

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