Due to a row over a winning number plus the New York market's five-day week schedule, compulsive betters began looking for alternatives. Gradually, it became a big gambling hub as the quantum of bets and betters increased. Khatri's matka syndicate started in the bustling business area of Dhanji Street in Mumbadevi where idlers used to wager on the daily trickle of the fluctuating cotton rates from the New York market. Ratan Khatri, known as the original Matka King, from the early 1960s to mid-1990s controlled a nationwide illegal gambling network with international connections which involved several lakh punters and dealt with crores of rupess. After his death in the early 1990s, his son Suresh Bhagat eventually took over his business Ratan Khatri He used to operate from the compound of his building Vinod Mahal, in Worli. In the 1960s, when Kalyanji Bhagat was running a grocery shop in Worli, he began the first rudimentary form matka gambling by accepting bets based on the opening and closing rates of cotton traded on the New York wholesale market.

He arrived as a migrant in Bombay in 1941 and initially did odd jobs such as masala ferriwala (spice seller) to managing a grocery store. Kalyanji's family name was Gala and the name Bhagat, a modification of bhakt, was a title given to their family by the King of Kutch for their religiousness. Kalyanji Bhagat was born a farmer in the village of Ratadia, Games Wala in Kutch, Gujarat. The lead person who runs the syndicate of matka gambling is known as a 'Satta Matka King'. In the 1960s, the system was replaced with other ways of generating random numbers, including pulling slips from a large earthenware pot known as a matka, or dealing with playing cards. It originates from before the era of Indian independence when it was known as Ankada Jugar ('figures gambling'). Satta Matka gambling or satta is a form of betting and lottery which originally involved betting on the DPMATKA opening and closing rates of cotton transmitted from the New York Cotton Exchange to the Bombay Cotton Exchange. if pair is 76, berij is 7+6 = 13 last digit is 3 means berij is 3) The Berij is last digit of jodi's/pair's sum.

The Farak is how many difference from close result to open result (e.g.if the jodi/pair is 57, 7-5 the farak is 2 some another: '73' is 13-7 - 6 )

if the patti is 128, the cycle patti is 28) The last two digit of the patti is called the cycle patti or cp (e.g.

The first part is called open result and the second part close result. The outcome of matka betting is divided into two parts. Such pots were used in the past to draw the numbers.Īny digit between 0 and 9 which involves in bettingĪny pair of two digits between 00 and 99 involves in matkaĪ three digit result comes as betting result. The word matka is derived from a word for an earthen pot. Satta Matka gambling History Wikipedia Matka Rule/term

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