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Goa

Stories tagged Goa.

Jim's Poker Room at the Diamond Lounge, Casino Marina, Colombo: green poker tables, gold chairs and a dealer at work

People

Jim Ramm and the long game

He came to poker through home games in the Caribbean and stayed to build the game across South Asia: on river boats in Goa, in a Colombo room with one table's worth of players, and through a casino licence carried all the way to a Ministry. The man behind Jim's Poker Room on trust, discipline and the night he never went home.

Nikkhil Mannocha

Joy Das in a dark blazer, leaning on a blue poker table in a card room

People

Joy Das: from a casino ship to the poker floor

He went to a ship for a steward's job and came out a dealer. Eighteen years later, the freelance floor manager talks about high-stakes games, family first and what makes a great floor.

Nikkhil Mannocha

A riverboat casino lit up at dusk on an Indian river lined with palm trees

Scene

Where poker lives in India

Floating casinos in Goa, hotel rooms in Sikkim, and members' clubs in the big cities, led by Delhi NCR. A map of the live game, state by state.

Shelley