Wikipedia Draft:Adda52

Adda52 is a real money online gaming card portal founded in 2011. Players can buy money to purchase chips that enables them to enter the paid games and other tournaments. In 2017, the incorporated company was acquired by Delta Corps. Ajay Gupta was the founder and CEO till August 2019 then he succeeded by Naveen Goyal. Adda52 is known for providing a platform to learn and experience the poker game for all levels of players. It provides options to players such as playing at freeroll poker tables to begineers and at real money poker tables to the pros.

History
In 2018, Jamaican cricketer Chris Gayle was a brand ambassador of Adda52. During the lockdown in April 2020, it engaged users with entertainment and the tournament name Falcon for donating the revenue to the government’s Covid-19 Relief Fund.

Partnerships

 * Adda52 Partnership with World Poker Tour in 2020 for Online India series of poker game.


 * In 2019, Deltin Poker Tournament was hosted by Adda52 which is a live poker tournament series


 * Poker Nights with Gayle (2018)

Controversy
The government of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh saw it as gambling and imposed a ban on Adda52 since it violated the Public Gambling Act of 1867. The Chief Minister of Andra Pradesh, Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, also urged the central government to block Adda52. Later southern Indian state, Tamil Nadu also banned the site for the same reason. In response to this Adda52 counters tha it needs for a regulatory authority and licencing to avoid defaulters.

In Aug 2020, Due to malicious activity like chip dumping, collusion, multi-accounting, ghosting, bonus misuse and the use of scripts etc, Adda52 closed 9148 Accounts Later, UK Casino forced to close Adda52 partnership with World Poker Tour and sports betting in Nevada