MUMBAI: 9stacks, India’s fastest growing online poker company is preparing to up the game even further by taking 100 poker players from the country to Melbourne, Australia to play during the prestigious Aussie Millions poker tournament. The tournament will happen in late January to February 2019 and the 100 winners to represent #9stacksTeamIndia will be announced by mid-December.
The team selection is already underway with the first set of 15 poker players having already been announced. This includes Chandni Malik, who is the first woman member of the team. Interestingly, Chandni started her poker journey on 9stacks last year, and in less than a year she has improved her game to a level where she regularly finishes ‘in the money’ in online tournaments and gives the most seasoned poker professionals a run for their money.
“At 9stacks, our aim has always been to come up with the most rewarding and innovative, yet extremely do-able tournament formats and contests. We want to encourage amateur poker players with a desire to play and get exposed to some of the biggest, most premium poker tournaments and platforms in the world. After #LFGVegas made the WSOP dreams of 25 Indian poker players come true and made stars out of Nishant Sharma and Vivek Rughani, we hope that at least one person from the #Aussie100 will go even better and win the main event there,”, 9stacks CEO Sudhir Kamath said.
Kamath was referring to World Series of Poker, one of the most sought-after and popular poker tournaments in the world that happens annually in Las Vegas, where 9Stacks made a name by sending India’s largest ever contingent to the event of 25 poker players.
