This Saturday, November 14, India would observe festival of lights, Diwali.
Gambling and betting on the day of Diwali has become almost custmory in India and continues since a long period of time.
People usually resort to dice games, card games, betting etc. However, this season, there might be shooting up in online gambling.
As online gambling still falls in grey area and all the states in India have not banned online gambling exclusively, therefore, operators of online gambling platforms such as Pocket 52, Baazi Games, Stickpool etc. seem hopeful about rise in gambling activity on occasion of Diwali.
Pocket52 CEO and founder Nitesh Salvi stated that, “Apart from a regular poker player, some occasional and recreational poker players come and play during Diwali. We have Diwali Freerolls with guaranteed real cash prize pools worth Rs 3 lakh up for action this Diwali”, reported CalvinAyre.
While police continues to crackdown unlicensed gambling, several gabling related arrests continue to make headlines.