RUMMY
RIO 2021: Slaying The Red Carpet of Rummy Championship We caught up with Deepak Gullapalli, Founder and CEO, Head Digital, to know about ideating and devising world-class event like the Rummy Indian Open 2021 -colossal prize pool of �25 crores for a meagre entry fee of �11.
By Mrinal Gujare
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emember the time when everyone in the family got together to play rummy during festivals or just played it as a regular game with the fam jam over dinner! So, rummy was more than ‘just a game’; it was a crucial element that people bonded over. Emotions run high and
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low when people win or lose in rummy, but that’s just how it is. This sought-after game has now gradually turned into a lucrative professional career option for many who excelled at it. The twist in the tale came when the game went online. Playing online rummy as a source of fun and frolic turned into a source of
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income for players who took it up as a means of earning livelihood. It may not be a conventional choice, but many chose to break the shackles of orthodox living by taking up rummy as a profession. Moving on to the tournament’s scene in, one can safely say that online rummy operators are
