India

Gaming in India is on the rise evidenced with the fact that Team Soul won the trophy of Rs. 30 lakh from PUBG Mobile...

Poker is a highly competitive skilled game.  It is also rising rapidly in popularity in India.  Taking this into account prestigious business schools such...

PokerRaj.com is an online poker site started under the popular licensing, entertainment and gaming company Viaan Industries Ltd. and is promoted by a leading...

Pocket52 is the new kid on the block in the Indian Online Poker market. The site has been a success ever since the start....

Dream11 is the largest fantasy sports company in India and has recently announced its partnership with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) making it the official fantasy gaming partner of the Indian Premier League (IPL) for a 4-year tenure.The partnership which is exclusive for 4 years begins with the upcoming season for IPL which starts on 23rd March 2019.  The agreement includes brand integration as well as on-ground activities at various points throughout the matches.  Dream11 will also launch various engaging multi-media advertising campaigns.Harsh Jain, the CEO of Dream11 commented “We are very excited to partner with the BCCI and provide an engaging cricketing experience for the IPL, which is the pinnacle of sports leagues in India.Dream11 is deeply integrating with the IPL, which is set to grow from its 1.4 billion TV impressions and 200 million online viewers in 2018, to achieve our goal of growing from 51 million users to 100 million users in 2019.It’s great to see how our dream of making fantasy sports intrinsic to sports fan engagement has come true.”BCCI’s Committee of Administrators (CoA) said in a statement “The online viewership of IPL is growing each year and it’s essential for us to engage with the fans on digital platforms as well. Partnering with the biggest fantasy sports platform in India, Dream11 will help us in further increasing the popularity of the IPL amongst cricket fans.”This is not the first official partnership agreement that Dream11 has signed.  Under its belt, it already has agreements with International Council of Cricket (ICC), Pro Kabaddi League (PKL), Indian Super League (ISL), National Basketball Association (NBA), Caribbean Premier League (CPL), International Hockey Federation (FIH) and even the Big Bash League (BBL)The company recently crossed a landmark figure of 5 crores registered users leading it to receive a potential investment call of $100 million from the UK based Alternative Asset Management Firm Stead view Capital putting Dream11 valuation at the US $ 1.3 to $1.5 billion, thus making it India’s probable first skill-gaming Unicorn! 

Alex Dreyfus’s Mediarex Sports and Entertainment is a global poker brand that owns the Global Poker League (GPL) which focuses on Poker. In order to...

Girish Chodankar is the president of the main opposition party in the state and had recently called for a total ban on gambling. The...

Shane Warne, the Aussie legend cricketer, and a part-time poker player has always been upfront in speaking out his mind. He questioned the Indian...

The Central Government of India has been reluctant to take a stand on the legality of fantasy sports gaming and effectively passing the back...

The PokerBaazi Premier League (PPL) winter’18 Edition was off with a smack on December 10 and with four days of the competition group previously...