Online poker has seen phenomenal growth during the last few years with millions of Indians taking on the game and challenging themselves towards achieving success. Tapping into this trend and growing popularity for the sport is Pokernation.com, India's latest online poker playing site that may be dedicated only to poker. After having sharpened its teeth in lottery, Playwin makes its foray in online gaming with Pokernation that may be aimed toward popularising this game of skill and providing a novel platform for players to be told this fascinating game, compete with other players online and enhance their skills through championships and tournaments.

Unlike another gaming platform in India, Pokernation launch might be supported by an in depth communication and activations campaign within the launch phase, with a focal point on popularising the sport amongst non-poker players and ladies (it's estimated that virtually 25% of poker playing audience comprises of ladies and growing) . As part of this campaign, Pokernation has already conducted over 25 workshops and tournaments across major corporate campuses and universities within the beta stage, and plans to conduct over 100 workshops and tournaments by December 2016. The workshops could be used as training tools at corporate campuses for 'Leadership and Negotiation Skills' coaching. At the digital front, a sequence of engagement campaigns may help the logo recruit its community and spread awareness concerning the platform. Probably the most major thrusts of the promoting efforts might be training and teaching poker through personality-led tutorials.

Sree Ram Somayajula , AVP - marketing - Pokernation.com says, " Excluding its single-minded do something about the game of poker, what sets pokernation.com with the exception of other players out there could be it's emphasis on teaching the finer nuances of the sport to beginners and amateurs alike, and providing them with a platform to experience the sport in all its varied colours."

Some interesting insights came to fore within the pre-launch market study conducted by Pokernation that clearly defined the will and set the trail for marketing the platform in India. Through a multi-city 'teach-learn-play' model, the emblem conducted free poker tournaments to review the keenness and gauge the poker knowledge of the youth about this game and test their abilities at decision-making and skilful thinking. After interacting with over 5000 teenagers from Mumbai to Delhi to Punjab to Indore, the logo had a reason to believe that a new narrative is steadily developing in India's burgeoning e-gaming world. "We identified the desire for teaching the game because the primary task for ourselves. This after which giving people the chance to compete against one another in live tournaments and sharpen their skills, will form the point of interest of our efforts within the coming few years,"adds Gautam Thawani, Business Head - PokerNation.com.

The design, UI and playing experience of pokernation.com is themed at the grandeur of professional tournament play replete with an experience so that it will be markedly different and engrossing for each player.

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