‘YES I CAN!’ A Better Approach For A New Normal

While 2020 has created much ruckus in the entire world, it has also been a great teacher. The one that has practically proved that life is not so good to treat you only the best on a platter. Sitting there and expecting good things to happen on their own does not work. Good things will happen for you if you take the right steps yourself. You need to be mentally, physically and financially fit in order to live a good life of your choice. It only depends on how you choose to live. In these pandemic times, staying indoors has given most people an excuse to justify the extra kilos on their bodies now, but there’s no one else to blame for that, not even the pandemic itself. 

Today, I want to tell you how much difference your approach can bring in your life. While I forcefully stayed home too, I approached it in a different way. I thought of doing trying out something that I have been wanting for long but could never achieve. I thought of changing my lifestyle and going for a heathier me.

The most important question, ‘How did I do it’?

Well, the start was the same. Just expecting that some magical powers will appear overnight and next morning the mirror will speak a different language. For those thinking that they eat a lot, do NOT worry! I wasn’t any lesser, trust me. This wasn’t the first time I decided to go for it. I had multiple tries, even hit the gym many times, but couldn’t really control eating. So, what changed this time?

Somewhere in May I happened to speak to my good friend, Vaibhav Saigal, who is a poker player and also an expert in nutritional science and wellness. He shared a form with me to do a lifestyle analysis and as most of you would do, I just kept it lying there. We spoke again after a month and he pressed hard on the fact that the process will not give me a hard time at all. I said to myself that this is enough, let me approach it positively this one time. I filled up the form and had a call with him the next Sunday. He beautifully explained the whole logic and just what’s exactly required as per my goal. When I saw the diet routine, I figured that it’s not about quitting food rather choosing the right stuff at the right time of the day. Just three months down the lane, with strict routine following and a daily 20 minute exercise (nothing more), I lost around 12 Kgs!

It’s a whole new world today. Being in a good shape adds so much positivity to your day. You wake up fresh, you are energetic through the day and it all reflects in your work as well. 

I am thankful to Vaibhav for making this happen for me and doing a fabulous work with helping shape so many other people’s wellness, my friend and my CEO Navkiran Singh for always endorsing a healthy living, and my family for supporting this routine and not forcing morning Parathas on me! 

I am very happy to know the progress of my dear friend & poker veteran Jasven Saigal, who is also following a routine under Vaibhav. Watching him perform so well in online tournaments recently, which can be grueling at times, is another testament of how things can be different for you vs a healthier you. 

It’s all about your approach. There could be many ways to do a particular thing, but the right way to do it is to first understand the best route for you that will lead you to your desired goal. 

But before any of this, the first thing that will always come your way is a question, ‘Can I do it?’. To that, just say ‘YES I CAN’!

PokerBaazi blazes its guns with Responsible Gaming and Human Touch to tackle Compulsive Gaming practices

In what could possibly be termed as one of the tipping points of the online gaming industry, PokerBaazi has released its latest player-friendly regulation called Responsible Gaming. This initiative aims to rein in the obsessive behavior that may lead a player to go further down the road of compulsiveness where the risks may far exceed the rewards. This would also help them maintain a more fruitful and positive balance with their game, and the same effect would snowball into a more focused gaming experience every day.

PokerBaazi ranks among some of the best sites to play online poker in India. Part of this glorious reputation runs through its five-year-old inception and its remarkable list of player-centric initiatives across all skill brackets. You could count on its comprehensive spectrum of online gaming events as an overarching function of skills, dexterity and focus spread over a period and the proportionate rewards on the other side of the show. Its seven-figure fan following has already blasted its popularity to a new stratosphere and this presentation is only here to add some more spice to add to the terrific sauce. 

Those playing live or online poker on this portal can rest assured of their skills (and their hard-earned labour) being equated in close tandem with competitive tournaments over a sane period. These tourneys run with madhouse entries and often present a scintillating picture of this glamorous sport for those looking from the sidelines. Nested in a world where everything seems hunky-dory, poker indeed is tantalizing. 

The wrong way of playing online poker

If there’s one aspect that is central to almost all the best sites to play online poker, it is that of playing for a win. Possibly BIG wins. 

And possibly that’s just where the danger lies. 

Too many new players often jump on to play real money games without testing their own mettle. They get carried away with the blitz, the glamour and the truckload of cash that they feel is out there on the table and is busy waiting for them. What they fail to realize is that the players who are playing there and are driving to the edge with commendable daredevilry are trained professionals who have spent years perfecting their craft. They are the ones who have spent countless days and nights “grinding” their way to learn the game in the holiest of all manners and are still learning the game. It should take a new player an insane amount of patience and persistence to outsmart them on the table.

Novices often disregard the hard phase and only focus on the easier (read: lucrative) one. Soon their ship thus runs aground off the coast of their la-la land and worse, they keep on helming its rudder in the forlorn hope of sailing all over again. That’s the stuff Kryptonite is made of. 

Help is just an arm’s length away!

We have already referenced PokerBaazi as a popular online poker portal and its class-leading offerings across a varying superset of gaming skills. Built by some battle-hardened card players, the latter offers you a 360-degree approach to online gaming as per your skill set so you could best blossom as a skillful card player. 

The online portal is home to a beginner’s guide to playing poker in text and multimedia and offers practice events (called Free Entry Tournaments) to help you learn the sport practically. The latter run every 20 minutes round-the-clock and are your go-to point to learn this card game practically in its true spirit. These freerolls come with an incentivized prize pool of INR 40LAC per month and two Leaderboards too. As and when you think you have got it all covered, you can go to play its cash offerings (as real money online poker games) with all your guns blazing!

Responsible Gaming: The Preamble to Play Real Money Earning Games in India

Poker is a skill-based sport but some overzealous (read: misguided) players may take it too far to derive justification. It is just like cricket or football, there are moments when you win and when you lose. Poker acknowledges demarcated zones for players to respect it but it often takes someone with an iron will to enforce it on the offending players so they do not abuse their talent.

PokerBaazi (PB) is religiously committed to addressing this rampant malaise and has thus unearthed its latest player-centric offering called Responsible Gaming to contain the issue. This new initiative shall help all compulsive players place limits on their gaming practices and to call it a day when they think they have had enough. 

Responsible Gaming: Four top reasons to embrace the change!

PB has zinged the answer home on all players that nothing holds more significance than their personal and mental well-being. All players deserve to be cared in their own special way by their near and dear ones and poker should never be a hindrance to it. 

There are several obsessive or compulsive players who are playing this sport to contain their losses even when they are not exactly performing their best, and this failure has possibly short-circuited their minds to an extent where they can sense no good. 

This is just where the Responsible Gaming feature kicks in to help those players so that they can rethink their way out and perform better over an extended spectrum of time and skill. Here are four adages this new initiative aims to stand by and we suggest you read them in their entirety.

  1. PB’s Responsible Gaming initiative is powered by a laser-focused data analysis and it banks over rapidly evolving algorithms of Artificial Intelligence to track a player’s gaming habits in real-time. This includes the following aspects of his or her game:
    Playing patterns
    Deposits
    Withdrawals
    Stakes

  2. PB has gone the extra mile to create an optimal gaming experience by allowing affected players to choke-off their route to its gaming apps. Once opted for, this would place limits on the concerned player’s way to play poker online. Players can thus self-limit and self-exclude themselves from playing real money earning games when they are not in the right frame of mind.

  3. Players can turn on Responsible Gaming feature in the all-new PokerBaazi apps by logging in and going through the following segments: 
    Setting Deposits Limits
    Setting Cash Tables and OFC Table Limits
    Logging out for a pre-disclosed duration of time

  4. Baazi Care is a professional and free-of-cost counseling service offered by PokerBaazi. It provides quality-centric psychological help and seasoned game-centric guidance by some of the most reputed names in the medical industry. Players can simply drop in a line at baazicare@pokerbaazi.com to get in touch with the counselors. 

This forms only the superficial part of a proliferating malpractice that PokerBaazi is so keen to resolve. The onus is now on the (compulsive) players to watch their step as they go on to play games and earn money in India. It all makes sense because the gaming industry perceives them as the very future on which the success of this sport is based on for years to come by.

Playing Real Money Games in India

Poker is on its way to emerge as the next BIG thing on the horizon of our country’s nascent online gaming space. The canvas is expanding and it is taking along player’s skillsets and expectations to a more rewarding level than ever. Playing Real Money Earning Games in India is a resource-centric and time-intensive process, and everyone expects you to work hard in a reasonable manner. 

The key is to understand that poker is a lot like life- you get up, you fall down, then you get yourself back up before you fall down, and it goes over until you have learned how to walk. There is no prize or reward for getting back up first or getting back up in the most emphatic way ever, but rather affirming to yourself that you can get up one more time than you’d fall. We can all be sensible and sensitive enough to respect this maxim, can’t we?

It’s not the destination but rather the journey that’s the reward!