The ₹15K Big Bounty at the ongoing 2022 Baazi Poker Tour registered a better turnout than the series opener ₹15K Kickoff. With the allure of the bounties on offer, the Big Bounty locked in 468 entries, generating a ₹42.59 Lakhs prize pool.
25-year-old Shashank Shekhar (666,000) emerged as the end-of-day chip leader. An online reg, Shekhar’s claim to fame is his runner-up finish in the January edition of the IOPC Super High Roller for ₹30.55 Lakhs. He has been playing poker for the past three years, but the Big Bounty is his first time playing a live tournament. And what a start it has been for the young man who bagged the overnight chip lead among the 28 players advancing to Day 2.
Kunal Patni (526,500) and the 2020 BPT Main Event champion Gautam Sachdeva (461,000) round out the top three stacks.
The other notable stacks belong to Young Gun Ujjwal Narwal (447,000), Romit Advani (433,000), Aditya Kesharwani (376,000), and PokerGuru Ambassador Ratul Steves (359,000).
End of Day 1 Chip Counts
Table Seat Player Name Chip Count
6 1 Sanchit Nag 270000
6 3 Sanat Mehrotra 174500
6 4 Sachit Malik 59500
6 5 Debayan Das 170000
6 7 Kunal Patni 526500
6 8 Ankit Bhansali 410000
6 9 Prem Pooria 146000
7 1 Mayank Makhija 197000
7 2 Bharat Vasan 209000
7 5 Mohak Kapoor 308000
7 6 Cyrus Sidhwa 111000
7 7 Anant Purohit 145000
7 8 Shashank Shekhar 666000
7 9 Arshdeep Singh 303000
9 1 Romit Advani 433000
9 3 Ratul Steves 359000
9 5 Akshat Sharma 193000
9 6 Vineet Kumar 86000
9 7 Avneesh Munjal 148000
9 8 Manohar S 307000
9 9 Gautam Sachdeva 461000
10 1 Dhaval Mudgal 118000
10 3 Abhishek Kumar 231000
10 4 Unikrishnan 182000
10 6 Kunal Yadav 187000
10 7 Ujjwal Narwal 447000
10 8 Vinay Rajpal 90000
10 9 Aditya Kesharwani 376000
The top 49 places were paid, and leaderboard crusher Bhanu Prakash KC fell out in 50th place to become the last player to exit the tournament empty-handed (not counting bounties).
Among the notables who finished in the money were Abhishek Goindi (34th for ₹24,900), PokerGuru Ambassador Laksh Pal Singh (42nd for ₹21,500), Vinayak Bajaj (44th for ₹21,500), PokerGuru Ambassador Deepankur Gupta (49th for ₹18,300), Shuchi Chamaria (46th for ₹18,300), Nikunj Doshi (48th for ₹18,300), Gagandeep Malik (53rd for ₹18,300), Rubin Labroo (54th for ₹18,300), Vikram Mishra (55th for ₹15,500) and Anant Bhandari (56th for ₹15,500).
The play will resume at 2 PM on March 25, from Level 19, with blinds set at 6,000/12,000 and a running ante of 12,000.
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