Volume 1 | Issue 5 | Mumbai | www.gutshotmagazine.com December 2020 | Pages 42 POKER MILESTONES IS RUMMY OF 2020 THE NEW POKER? SEEN AND RAISED: Celebrating the BANDOOKBAAZ: Indomitable GUNNING FOR Spirit of the Gaming GLORY Industry in 2020 LIVING, LEARNING AND THRIVING IN 2020 AN INTERVIEW WITH AIGF CEO, ROLAND LANDERS 00 GUTSHOT DECEMBER 2020 https://bit.ly/3dlrewn GUTSHOT DECEMBER 2020 0 0 https://bit.ly/3dlrewn CONTENT 05 Editor’s Note SPECIAL FEATURE: 06 Poker News SEEN AND RAISED! 07 Rummy News 24 Deepanshi Tomar 08 Esports News 32 Seshu Pratap 41 Fun Section 38 Alvina Roy Joseph POKER RUMMY 10 Poker Milestones 2020 29 What is a Set, What is a 14 Siddhanth Kapoor: Hitting the Sequence, What is a Life Bull’s Eye in Poker Sequence? 22 Cards Speak: Making Poker 31 Is Rummy the New Poker? Content in 2020 27 Pandemic and Poker: PSL ESPORTS 34 Shooting for Fame: COVER STORY Indrajit Singh 16 Roland Landers: Surviving 36 Clash of Clans and Thriving in 2020 40 LawnSky: Streaming on a phone near you 00 GUTSHOT DECEMBER 2020 EDIT EDITOR’S NOTE elcome to the year ending edition Wof Gutshot and in case you were under a rock somewhere, nothing much has changed with regard to the pandemic. Although recent news of a vaccine by a www.gutshotmagazine.com pharmaceutical major has brought some amount of much needed cheer. Our cover this time around features Roland Landers, the top gun of the All India Gaming December 2020 Volume I Issue 5 RMG + LIFESTYLE Federation (AIGF). A key figure in the Indian MANAGING EDITOR gaming landscape, he and the AIGF have Sameer Rattonsey been taking many proactive steps to promote EDITOR-IN-CHIEF the burgeoning gaming industry in the Peter Abraham country. We speak with him about his views CONTENT on how far the industry has come along and Dwayne Fernandes Manthra Koliyer his thoughts looking ahead at the future of Donna Amo the industry as a whole. CONTENT STRATEGY Shriya Ghate With the year end coming up, we do our DESIGN customary wrap of the big news stories of the HB Design Pvt. Ltd. year. That is accompanied by a number of CREATIVE DIRECTOR special features and profile pieces on people Sajid Moinuddin who are part of the gaming industry who work Cover Photography Vishwas Gulati tirelessly behind the scenes. Some glam factor in this issue with actor/DJ Siddhanth Kapoor Volume 1 I Issue 5 December 2020 sharing his thoughts about the game they love and we’ve got articles on games like rummy and Printed and Published by: Peter Abraham for Gutshot Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., S/6-8 Khira Industrial Estate, B.M.Bhargava Road, Santacruz (West), esports as well rounding off the issue. Mumbai-400054 Gutshot Magazine is not responsible for the opinions or views This year has been a forgettable one and all we expressed by individuals or writers that may be included in any part of Gutshot Magazine. The views expressed are for encourage - ment and can do is look onward and upward. On behalf of entertainment purposes only. the entire team here at Gutshot, here’s wishing By being an author on this site all writers transfers copyright ownership of you and your loved ones a Merry Christmas and the manuscript to Gutshot Magazine. for publication in print, on line and Happy New Year! in downloadable form. Permission is also given to publish all subsequent electronic media, reprints, and any other subsidiary print rights worldwide of this article for Gutshot Magazine. The author(s) will have the unrestricted right to reuse this material on condition that credits are included for Till next time, stay safe and keep crushing! prior publication in Gutshot Magazine, to include the issue and date of publication. Interviews are the personal opinions of the interviewee and are not necessarily the views of Gutshot Magazine or it’s Publishers Gutshot Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. take no responsibility for any of their answers or comments. All interviews are subject to editing spelling, grammar, and any content that is not useful may be disregarded when posted/published. PETER ABRAHAM Editor-In-Chief Gutshot Magazine reserves the right to change, update this disclaimer and policy at will without any notice. GUTSHOT DECEMBER 2020 0 5 POKER NEWSS Joe Biden gets elected as US president, Poker industry may flourish Donald Trump’s administration had reinstated the Wire Act, which sought to criminalize certain forms of interstate gaming, including online poker. The Biden Annie Duke Gives A administration, however, has assured US citizens that Talk For Motilal he will reverse the Wire Act implying that the gaming industry will be allowed to operate without any unnec- Oswal On Decision essary restrictions. Making World renowned poker pro, a decision strat- egist, an author, and a performance coach, Annie Duke, gave an insightful talk on deci- sion making to view- ers as part of Motilal Oswal’s investment series. Duke covered points such as ‘re- sulting’, knowledge India Poker Championship Conducts One Of The tracking, and hindsight bias. She also empha- Biggest Poker Tournaments this year! sized the three Ps of The prestigious online poker event, Final Table Series decision-making: Pref- (FTS) by India Poker Championship boasted of a mas- erences, Payoffs and sive prize pool of INR 8+ Crore GTD, one of the biggest Probabilities. prize pools for an online gaming event in India. Held be- tween 16 – 23 November, 2020, it was one of the most The webinar was a sought after events this year. huge hit with prom- inent names in the Like icing on cake, the FTS also had five international industry such as and Indian commentators taking viewers through the Muskan Sethi in action, namely Maria Ho, Sam Razavi, Ramesh Tho- attendance. tapalli, Kevin Macphee and Radhika Shankar. 06 GUTSHOT DECEMBER 2020 RUMMY NEWSS Tamil Nadu Bans Online Rummy And Other Gambling Games The Tamil Nadu government banned all online betting and gambling games in the state last month. The decision was made by the AIADMK government, A New Look for The Rummy Federation headed by Chief Minister Edap- padi K Palaniswami. Petitions for The Rummy Federation (TRF), changed the ban were made after reports their corporate name to The Online Rum- of gambling related suicides, my Federation (TORF) earlier this year. deaths, and cheating began to The decision had been made to keep up increase. The ban includes on- with the game’s rising online popularity. line poker, rummy and other on- They also changed their seal and logo in line gambling apps. This move line with the new name. The organization puts Tamil Nadu in the growing continues to be a self-regulatory body for list of Indian states banning all the online rummy industry. Their objec- forms of gambling and is a ma- tives are to develop and promote online jor setback to the rummy indus- rummy, while also ensuring that online try. The Online Rummy Feder- rummy operators are following the stan- ation (TORF) were in favour of dards and guidelines that will promote a the game’s regulation but are healthy environment for gaming. against its outright ban. RummyCircle Announces Exciting Christmas Specials RummyCircle announced a Rumble 2020 tournament which will run from 25 De- cember, 2020 to 1 January, 2021. Players will be able to win from a prize pool of INR 75,000 every Rumble Hour. A player with an unbeaten high score by the end of the event will win first place and a prize of INR 5 Lakh. Along with this RummyCircle will also be hosting a Christmas Tournament for all rummy lovers from 23 - 28 December. There will be three finales through the week, each with a prize pool of INR 20 Lakh. Players who don’t qualify for the first finale can still qualify for the remaining two. GUTSHOT DECEMBER 2020 0 7 ESPORTS NEWS NRG Esports unveils a $10 million Gaming Fantasy Factory! NRG Esports, an Ameri- creation of over-the- can professional esports top gaming content and organization based out esports competitions. It LoL and TFT Tourna- of Los Angeles, Califor- lies in the heart of Los nia, has revealed a $10 Angeles. It is a multi- ments to pay for your million worth massive level spot with a unique education? “NRG Gaming Castle” design in the world of on 18 November, 2020. gaming. Executive pro- Personal Finance app It is a 20,000 square ducer Grady says, “You SoFi has decided to foot gaming studio that can technically play ev- partner with N3rd Street mirrors Rob Dyrdek’s ery video game ever cre- Gamers and Riot Games Fantasy Factory or Wil- ated on this giant movie for a series of collegiate ly Wonka’s Chocolate screen,” placed inside of League of Legends and Factory, specifically for the castle. Teamfight Tactics tourna- ments introducing Meta Melee to students’ lives. Say goodbye to League The prize pool will be of Legends’ Prestige $50k which can only be Points AT the end of utilized to pay for school fees and investment in 2020! shares and other secu- rities. The students will Riot Games announced be expected to open up that LoL fans will soon a free account on SoFi be saying goodbye to Active Invest and to have the prestige points or at some serious LoL & TFT least the way they used to skills to convert their work. The organization is winning prize money into making some significant investment options. To changes to the Prestige qualify, players have to system for the upcoming be above 18 years of age year.