The Spartan Poker

The Spartan Poker is an online poker gaming website based in India. It is one of India's prominent poker websites, offering cash games and tournaments.

History

The Spartan Poker was founded as SpartanPoker.com in 2014. The site was launched in March 2015. The founders were Rajat Agarwal, Bal Krishan Agarwal, Amin Rozani, Rajeev Kanjani, Sameer Rattonsey and Peter Abraham, all of them with a poker industry background. Their intention was to create an Indian poker platform like PokerStars.

PokerGuru, India`s most popular online poker media website ran two editions of its flagship PokerGuru Online League (PGOL) on SpartanPoker.com. and introduced the India Online Poker Championship on the site.

India Poker Championship (IPC), one of the oldest and biggest poker tournaments in India, ran its qualifying rounds on The Spartan Poker and introduced the India Online Poker Championship on the site.

Services

The Spartan Poker offers a range of online gaming services to poker players. As of February 2017, the site hosted 20-25 live tournaments each day. It also hosts big tournaments such as The Millionaire or The Gutshot. The Spartan Super Series is a four-day monthly event which features 19 tournaments.

In February 2017, Rajat Agarwal one of the co-founders of Spartan Poker filed a civil suit at the High Court of Calcutta against Quadrific Media Pvt Ltd (company running Spartan Poker), Spartan Online Private Limited and its directors Sameer Rattonsey, Amin Rozani, Peter Abraham, Rohit Bhalla and Rajeev Kanjani, claiming trademark and shareholder rights in Spartan Poker, diversion of business and defalcation of funds. The Calcutta High Court by an order dated 13-11-2017 upheld the partnership claims of Rajat Agarwal and appointed a chartered accountancy firm to look into the accounts and prepare a report on the valuation of the business as on 25-02-2017. Quadrific Media Private Limited had also filed a complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) against Rajat Agarwal claiming right over the domain name www.SpartanPoker.com. The said complaint was denied by WIPO vide order dated 31-08-2017.

Awards

The Spartan Poker won the Most Prestigious Brands Award by El Sol Research Trend & Consulting in 2017.

Charity

Much of the events' prize money is donated to Indian NGOs, such as Ketto Foundation, for the betterment of unprivileged children.