In Season 3, Poker Sports League puts its chips on the virtual table

The Dabur chairman has invested Rs 17 crore in Mind Sports League, which is valued at Rs 40 crore and which he owns 90 per cent of together with its CEO and co-founder Pranav Bagai

The first year he organised it, Dabur India chairman Amit Burman hosted the Poker Sports League (PSL) on the five-storey Deltin Royale, India's largest casino ship anchored in the Mandovi river in Panjim, the Goa capital. That was in 2016. This year, however, the pandemic put paid to all plans of a physical event. So, like several other things, PSL too has assumed a virtual avatar as Poker Sports League-Virtual, or PSL-V – among the world’s largest such events in terms of participation and prize pool (Rs 1.8 crore this year).

The qualifiers, held online between October and November, are