Interview With Aditya Agarwal - Indian Pokerstar Pro

1) When and how did you start playing poker?

2004, in my freshman year of college. I was an international student at Drexel University Philadelphia and learnt the game playing 5$ buying with my friends at the dorms. Chris money maker winning the WSOP was on TV the entire time that year which definitely played a big role in my early days.

2) Can you describe your journey with poker in a few words?

 It's been amazing, there have been lot of ups and downs but I wouldn't change anything, Everything has been an amazing learning experience which never seems to end.

3) You are also the only Indian brand ambassador for a global online poker brand, what has that done for you?

 Being associated with Poker Stars is amazing, everyone knows the pros representing the site and it's a great privilege to be representing them and India at the same time.

4) What do you think separates the WSOP from other events?

 It's the biggest event in poker hands down, the field sizes, prize money and the glory just can't be compared to any other events

5) This was your 10th year at the WSOP, What’s surprised you the most about poker over the last ten years?

World Series is great; it's amazing how they have maintained their numbers over the years. It is also very well run considering the new things they try out each year and the sheer number of players playing.

6) What is the status of Poker in India?

Poker in India is in the process of being legalised and regulated, it has already been declared a game of skill in some
Courts in India opening doors for cardrooms in cities besides casinos. In coming years I feel a huge poker boom coming to India

7) What would you say to all the new players that are interested in the game?

Work hard and stay disciplined. It's important to learn the game before u start playing it. It's easy game to learn and very difficult to get great at.

8) What is your plan for the next few years?

I plan to play a lot of tournaments across Asia and WSOP each year, besides that I will be playing online from the comfort of my home. Lot of young Indian players look upto me so I would like to work hard and make everyone proud.

India now has a mentor fot this sport and we look forward to more Poker Stars. Besides  we have Aditya claiming that he too wants to use his role as an ambassador a way of promoting poker in India, helping to establish the game as a professional sport across the country, and to inspire the next generation of players.

Kelly Minkin - The Last Woman Left on WSOP 2015

 Only six females left on the fifth day of 2015 WSOP Poker Main Event but only Minkin is last woman standing on the day. Due to this she got her name on the list growing list of Tiffany Williamson, Gaëlle Baumann and Breeze Zuckerman who will forever be arbitrarily linked to the poker world for their main event run.

She had studied molecular and cellular biology from University of Arizona. She also attended Arizona Summit Law School. She is also doing job as a medical malpractice defence attorney in Phoenix law firm.

 “The firm I work for in Phoenix, Kent and Wittekind, has been awesome,” Minkin explained. “They knew I was a poker player when they hired me, and they were great about working their schedule around mine so that I could continue playing. I can’t even describe how happy that made me. Honestly, I was willing to give up playing poker to continue my career as an attorney, but the fact that I’m able to do both is like a dream come true.”

Source : CardPlayer

Bobbe Suri - A Venture Capitalist & Poker Player

Jaswinder Singh Suri is also known as the Bobbe Suri in the world of India poker. This poker player is from Mumbai and by profession he is a Venture Capitalist.  He started playing poker at online but after spending some time on it he become used to it and began playing poker on high stakes table. His hobby includes horse riding, listening music and reading.


In the World Gaming Festival Poker Tour – 2011, which included buy-in of INR 100,000, Suri claimed the top spot and won USD $66,778 as the prize money after defeating India’s well-known player, Aditya “Intervention” Agarwal, at heads up.


he won INR 465,000 at IPC 2011 and also involved in ACOP Main Event 2013 as player. He stands at 64th place in NLHE Macau Poker Cup – Red Dragon event in 2013

Rummy with Maths

In our second year of school, Shreya and I chose to be flat mates in the inn, however we didn't have any acquaintance with one another that well. We had been amicable, yet were not yet companions. Before long, be that as it may, we found the delights of card recreations, and immediately reinforced exaggerating rummy together.

School, for all its romise of energy and opportunity, can likewise be very stale and schedule bound. Amid the day we went to addresses, while nights were saved for going out with companions or sitting in the library. We had a time limit in our inn, so after supper there was little else to do in the room other than to mull over. In these circumstances, diversions of rummy following an hour or two of perusing gave a much needed reprieve from drudgery.

We preferred rummy best in light of the fact that it was anything but difficult to play but then obliged some bit of abilities. Most critical, it could be played by two individuals — two exhausted flat mates hoping to enjoy a short reprieve from their tedious scholarly calendars. Before long we were playing so much rummy I once tongue in cheek recommended that we had an example of recreations of a size sufficiently extensive to demonstrate the 'laws of huge numbers'. It is a hypothesis in likelihood that demonstrates that in the event that you, for instance, flip a coin a thousand times, you ought to get more or less equivalent number of heads and tails. In the event that this hypothesis is right, I contemplated, the two of us ought to win a practically equivalent number of recreations.

For reasons unknown this investigation got our creative energy and we chose to test it out. Shreya created a journal to record the scores in, and our amusements from that point on accepted a touch of nobility, now that we were playing in light of a legitimate concern for arithmetic. Our eagerness was just coordinated by our innocence.

As a rule, a large portion of our sessions included playing three diversions, as the two of us would win one amusement each and after that we would play a third choosing diversion. Some way or another, I constantly quite often wound up losing the sudden death round. Maybe the reason was an absence of nerves? I don't have the foggiest idea. However, we rapidly saw that this example was influencing our scores. In the event that anything, we were refuting the law of huge numbers, as Shreya was obviously winning a greater number of recreations than me.

"Do you understand what this implies?" I asked her one day. She chose to answer with a delighted look toward me. "This implies we're on the edge of leaving a mark on the world! We're without any help refuting a thousand-year-old numerical hypothesis! Incidentally, do you know whether they have a Nobel Prize in Mathematics?" "I don't think they do," she herself answered, "however there's one in Economics." "It doesn't mind," I said gravely, as Shreya kept on giggling. "This is greater than the two of us. Our discoveries will have expansive outcomes in all fields of human attempt. We've to play our amusement more sincerely than some time recently."

We didn't wind up continuing our amusement all the more truly, be that as it may. In the end we had our fill of playing rummy. We still sometimes played to enjoy a short reprieve amid examination time, yet we recorded our scores just sporadically. Before third year's over of school as we were all going to graduate, we had totally quit playing, so I was astounded when Shreya skilled me a trademark Beatles set of playing cards as a separating blessing. I discovered it an extremely well-suited typical motion of our companionship, and it turned into one of my most prized belonging.

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