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India’s Poker Super Star Aditya Agarwal Champions Biggest-Ever ₹5 Crores GTD IOPC #141 The Crown For ₹65.93 Lakhs!

With Spartan Poker’s India Online Poker Championship 14.0 and PokerStars India’s Red Spade Series wrapping up, and PokerBaazi’s brand-new PLO Championship Series hitting its first weekend, it was an EPIC Sunday for online players! But it turned out to be an extra special one for us as the original ‘Poker Guru’ Aditya Agarwal donned the glittering IOPC The Crown!

The Kolkata-born pro has been a beacon for the domestic circuit and proved that the legendary status asserted to him is well deserved. Agarwal blasted through a guarantee-crushing 5,173-entry field (2,577 unique) in Spartan Poker’s Sunday showstopper and the biggest-guaranteed IOPC The Crown to date, the ₹5 Crores GTD IOPC #141 The Crown, to win an eye-popping ₹65.93 Lakhs* (from four stacks). When we said before that Agarwal donned the IOPC The Crown, we weren’t kidding since he will also be receiving a real-life 18-carat gold crown studded with 0.6-carat diamonds to commemorate this fantastic win!

While Agarwal was indubitably the star last night, Young Gun Arsh Grover‘s runner-up finish in IOPC #141 The Crown worth a career-best ₹48.93 Lakhs (from three stacks), courtesy of a heads-up deal, was equally commendable. The Delhi-based pro made four deep runs on Sunday, raking in a monstrous ₹50.55 Lakhs.

Following their top two finish in IOPC The Crown, Grover has taken charge of the #1 rank in the annual POY race, while Agarwal locked up the #2 position.

The four-time IOPC leaderboard topper and last night’s IOPC #142 winner, Bhanu Prakash KC (4th for a career-best ₹24.85 Lakhs), Eka Vedantham (4th for ₹17.80 Lakhs), and Abhishek Tibrewala (5th for ₹12.32 Lakhs) were other players to bank seven-figure scores in IOPC #141 The Crown.

Md Asraf Ali was another Sunday trailblazer for his dominating run in Spartan Poker IOPC #136 Sunday Prime, which earned him his first IOPC silver badge and a career-best ₹16.52 Lakhs – 16.5X more than his previous best score.

Young Gun Abhinav Iyer broke through a ten-week-long title slump to clinch his first IOPC title of the series in Spartan Poker`s IOPC #38 Sunday High. He converted a ₹3,300 satellite investment into a massive ₹14.62 Lakhs top prize (won ₹17.59 Lakhs overall), with Mohammad Azhar finishing runner-up for ₹10.07 Lakhs (won ₹13.37 Lakhs overall).

Amol Nimsarkar nailed Spartan Poker`s IOPC #139 Value Millionaire for ₹8.72 Lakhs, following a heads-up deal with Mohsin Shaikh (2nd for ₹7.03 Lakhs) (won ₹7.49 Lakhs overall).

Prince Kumar (Won IOPC #140 Value Mine for a career-best ₹4.13 Lakhs), Bhanu Prakash KC (Won IOPC #142 for ₹3.03 Lakhs), Vikas Yadav (Won IOPC #137 All Rounder SNG for a site-best ₹3 Lakhs), Shagun Jain (Won IOPC #135 Monster Stack for ₹1.78 Lakhs), and Utkarsh Vaish (Won IOPC #134 for ₹1.69 Lakhs) captured the last few IOPC 14.0 titles.

Vinay Rajpal topped the ₹1.50 Crores GTD IOPC 14.0 leaderboard on the back of a 14-day streak on the top of the standings, banking ₹30 Lakhs in bonus money.

Vishnu Adithan came out on top in PokerBaazi’s (7-Max) BSS Championship to collect a site-best ₹5.96 Lakhs. Deepankur Gupta pocketed ₹3.95 Lakhs as the runner-up.

The #BB2 MoneyMaker champion Sahil Nair won PokerBaazi`s BSS SuperStack, posting his second-best score on PokerBaazi worth ₹4.63 Lakhs (won ₹4.78 Lakhs overall).

Harshad Barve conquered PokerBaazi`s BSS HighRoller for ₹5.46 Lakhs (won ₹6.15 Lakhs overall), and Advait Rajguru raked in ₹3.61 Lakhs in second place.

PokerBaazi Team Pro Abhishek Goindi closed out a two-month-long title drought with a dominating run in his sponsor site`s PC#11 (PLO-4), walking away with ₹3.41 Lakhs (won ₹5.92 Lakhs overall).

Anindit Pan (Won PC#9 (PLO-4) for a site-best ₹2.06 Lakhs), Ashish Garg (Won PC#12 (PLO-5) for ₹86,222) and Sony Puthussery (won PC#10 PLO-5 for ₹62,308) won the other PLO Championship Series titles on Sunday.

Avinash Kumar drove up the action on Adda52, winning the site`s first-ever Big Whale, parlaying a ₹1,650 satellite buy-in into a hefty ₹7.97 Lakhs winner’s paycheque (won ₹12.75 Lakhs overall). A heads-up deal saw the #1 ranked player of January, Tarush Gupta, take home ₹7.54 Lakhs for his second-place finish.

Ratul Steves opened his title scorecard of the year with a victory march in Adda52`s Mega Suits for ₹5.05 Lakhs. The 2018 WSOP The Closer runner-up finisher Paawan Bansal had to make do with the runner-up payday of ₹3.42 Lakhs (won ₹3.80 Lakhs overall).

Manan Arora shipped PokerStars India’s Red Spade Series showstopper, RSS-13 [Sunday Special], netting ₹4.86 Lakhs in first-place prize money.

Adithya N G won the other Red Spade Series headliner, RSS-14 [Sunday Highroller], for ₹3.16 Lakhs.

Sambantha Sedhuraman, Hemant Meena, Laksh Pal Singh, Clinton Tavares, Shivakumar Dubey, Sarvesh Shahni, Saurav Ghosh, and Deepak Kumar Singh shipped the other Sunday marquees.

Here are the Sunday highlights!

 

Spartan Poker

IOPC #141 The Crown – ₹5 Crores GTD

Buy-in – ₹11,000

Entries – 2,577

Re-entries – 1,121

Rebuys – 1,475

Survivors – 771 (406)

Prize Pool – ₹5,03,00,000

Places Paid – 765

There are poker superstars, then there are legends, and Aditya ‘Yennefer’ Agarwal, who’s played an instrumental role in shaping the poker landscape in the country, further affirmed his status as India`s biggest poker LEGEND last night!

Aditya Agarwal
Aditya Agarwal

 

The poker pioneer rampaged through a guarantee-crushing field in the showstopper tournament in the country’s biggest-ever online festival, Spartan Poker’s ₹5 Crores GTD IOPC #141 The Crown, for a whopping ₹65.93 Lakhs* (from four stacks) – winning a real-life 18-carat gold crown studded with 0.6-carat diamonds fit for a poker king.

The win is a redemption of sorts for “Adi,” who lost the prestigious title in the IOPC July 2021 edition in the most brazen manner, losing the heads-up battle to Vaibhav Temani after starting with an overwhelming chip lead. But karma landed him the title, and that too, in the biggest-ever The Crown – his second top finish at IOPC 14.0.

Aditya Agarwal’s The Crown ITM finishes:

> 1st for ₹57,73,215* (heads-up deal with Arsh Grover)

> 8th for ₹6,27,750 (carried two stacks to the FT)

> 21st for ₹1,71,020

> 765th for ₹20,120

Aditya Agarwal’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹3.27 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹1.85 Crores | Titles Won in 2023: #2 | IOPC Titles Won: #3 | Ranked #2 on the Annual Leaderboard (Total Cashes)

Agarwal struck a heads-up deal in IOPC #141 The Crown with online beast Arsh ‘BigggTymeR’ Grover – the latter scoring a career-best ₹48.93 Lakhs (from three stacks). Grover’s phenomenal Sunday performance propelled him into the #1 rank on the annual POY race. He raked in a jaw-dropping ₹50.55 Lakhs last night from the following deep runs:

Arsh Grover
Arsh Grover

 

> 2nd in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #141 The Crown for ₹48,92,900* (heads-up deal) (from three stacks)

> 12th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #136 Sunday Prime for ₹1,01,598

> 11th in PokerStars India’s Red Spade Series-14 [Sunday Highroller] for ₹40,394

> 34th in PokerBaazi’s BSS SuperStack for ₹20,440

Arsh Grover’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹13.82 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹6.54 Crores | Titles Won in 2023: #3 | Finished #4 in the 2022 Leaderboard Standings (Total Cashes) | Ranked #1 on the 2023 Leaderboard Standings (Total Cashes)

The four-time IOPC leaderboard topper Bhanu ‘MafiaGaming’ Prakash KC finished third in IOPC #141 The Crown for a career-best ₹24.85 Lakhs (from three stacks) – and made the same third-place finish on the IOPC 14.0 leaderboard, netting as additional ₹18 Lakhs in bonus money.

Bhanu Prakash KC
Bhanu Prakash KC

 

Eka ‘Live2Bluff’ Vedantham (4th for ₹17.80 Lakhs), Abhishek ‘chicky’ Tibrewala (5th for ₹12.32 Lakhs), Areyann ‘TheManiachInTheCircuit’ Gurbaxani (6th for ₹9.16 Lakhs), Sahil ‘Variance’ Agarwal (7th for ₹7.65 Lakhs) and the user ‘MixedReality’ (8th for ₹5.28 Lakhs) were others who FT-ed IOPC #141 The Crown.

With the top 765 finishers assured payouts, Yudhishter ‘McFly’ Jaswal (9th for ₹4.33 Lakhs), Rishab ‘NoChanc3’ Malik (10th for ₹4.33 Lakhs), Avinash ‘BeastPitamah’ Kumar (11th for ₹4.33 Lakhs), Vivek ‘KasolHieghts’ Singh (12th for ₹4.33 Lakhs), Aditya ‘SuperuSer’ Sushant (14th for ₹4.33 Lakhs), Anand ‘$treet$mart’ Babu Pallikona (16th for ₹2.57 Lakhs), Sanjay ‘Apollo1’ Taneja (18th for ₹1.71 Lakhs), Azaan ‘papertiger’ Ahmed (19th for ₹1.71 Lakhs), and Jimmy ‘brahmos999’ Arora (20th for ₹4.33 Lakhs) were among the top 20 runners to cross the money line.

Final Table Results

  1. Aditya ‘Yennefer’ Agarwal – ₹57,73,215*
  2. Arsh ‘BigggTymeR’ Grover – ₹48,35,055*
  3. Bhanu ‘MafiaGaming’ Prakash KC – ₹24,64,700
  4. Eka ‘Live2Bluff’ Vedantham – ₹17,79,614
  5. Abhishek ‘chicky’ Tibrewala – ₹12,32,350
  6. Areyann ‘TheManiachInTheCircuit’ Gurbaxani – ₹9,15,460
  7. Sahil ‘Variance’ Agarwal – ₹7,64,560
  8. MixedReality – ₹5,28,150

*denotes a heads-up deal

 

IOPC #136 Sunday Prime – ₹70 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹11,000

Entries – 424

Re-entries – 155

Rebuys – 282

Prize Pool – ₹86,10,000

Places Paid – 79

It was a night for the stars to shine! And while the OGs proved their mettle, new supernovas also made their presence known. One such upcoming star was Md ‘Asraf786786’ Asraf Ali, who traversed the 861-player field (424 unique) in Spartan Poker’s ₹70 Lakhs GTD IOPC #136 Sunday Prime, winning his first IOPC silver badge and a career-best ₹16.52 Lakhs. The user ‘ECSTACY’ finished runner-up for ₹10.37 Lakhs.

Md Asraf Ali
Md Asraf Ali

 

Ali’s previous best finish had come in Friday’s IOPC #125 All Rounder (3rd for ₹95,810), and he improved upon that record 16.5X. His online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹23.47 Lakhs | Lifetime Profits: ₹16.97 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #2 | IOPC Titles Won: #1

Mahesh ‘mariokart’ Shyamsundar (3rd for ₹7.42 Lakhs), Ravindra ‘wormhole’ Arikeri (4th for ₹5.79 Lakhs), the #2 ranked player of 2022, Ashish ‘Spewushhhiiiii’ Ahuja (6th for ₹3.57 Lakhs), Prachir ‘Hangry Hulk’ Singh (7th for ₹2.66 Lakhs) and Asheesh ‘sceptre’ Boyapati (8th for ₹1.84 Lakhs) were among the notables to FT the ₹70 Lakhs GTD IOPC #136 Sunday Prime.

The 8 PM flagship generated a jaw-dropping ₹86.10 Lakhs prize pool, and 79 players got paid.

Final Table Results

  1. Md ‘Asraf786786’ Asraf Ali – ₹16,52,259
  2. ECSTACY – ₹10,36,644
  3. Mahesh ‘mariokart’ Shyamsundar – ₹7,42,182
  4. Ravindra ‘wormhole’ Arikeri – ₹5,78,592
  5. R-Dog – ₹4,53,747
  6. Ashish ‘Spewushhhiiiii’ Ahuja – ₹3,56,454
  7. Prachir ‘Hangry Hulk’ Singh – ₹2,66,049
  8. Asheesh ‘sceptre’ Boyapati – ₹1,84,254

 

IOPC #139 Value Millionaire – ₹50 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹2,750

Entries – 1,153

Re-entries – 483

Rebuys – 682

Prize Pool – ₹58,00,000

Places Paid – 239

Amol ‘Likita Nuther’ Nimsarkar had a Sunday run he is unlikely to forget anytime soon, for he trounced a massive 2,318-player field (1,153 unique) in Spartan Poker’s 9:30 PM Sunday headliner, ₹50 Lakhs GTD IOPC #139 Value Millionaire, to win the IOPC silver badge and ₹8.72 Lakhs in prize money. He struck a heads-up deal with Mohsin ‘gongo’ Shaikh (2nd for ₹7.03 Lakhs).

Amol Nimsarkar

 

Mohsin Shaikh made another three deep runs, filling in ₹7.49 Lakhs in Sunday winnings. His online stats (excluding PokerStars India): Lifetime Winnings: ₹1.21 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹41.22 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #3

Wednesday’s Big Bubble Rush champion, Raghav ‘Mr. Bean’ Ananth accumulated ₹4.01 Lakhs through three ITM finishes (and one bounty), and his best finish came in IOPC #139 Value Millionaire (4th for ₹2.89 Lakhs)

Raghav Ananth
Raghav Ananth

 

Raghav Ananth’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹2.06 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹57.78 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #4

The ₹2,750 entry buy-in flagship created a guarantee-shattering ₹58 Lakhs prize pool. The top 239 runners crossed the money line.

Final Table Results

  1. Amol ‘Likita Nuther’ Nimsarkar – ₹8,71,484*
  2. Mohsin ‘gongo’ Shaikh – ₹7,03,216*
  3. J@i Shri R@M – ₹3,97,880
  4. Raghav ‘Mr. Bean’ Ananth – ₹2,89,420
  5. chips generator – ₹2,29,100
  6. retaliate – ₹1,79,452
  7. Severide – ₹1,37,228
  8. AsAboveSoBelow – ₹96,918

*denotes a heads-up deal

 

IOPC #38 Sunday High (6-Max) – ₹40 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹44,000

Entries – 80

Re-entries – 26

Rebuys – 37

Prize Pool – ₹57,20,000

Places Paid – 15

Abhinav ‘hightr0ller’ Iyer has had an excellent run in IOPC 14.0. Even though a title victory eluded him till the last day of the series, the WSOP bracelet winner has two standout runner-up finishes on his tally in IOPC #115 Mega High Roller and IOPC #29 Sunday High.

Abhinav Iyer
Abhinav Iyer

 

The top pro finally bagged the IOPC silver badge (his first this year) last night after ransacking a reg-laden 143-entry field (80 unique) in Spartan Poker’s ₹40 Lakhs GTD IOPC #38 Sunday High. He parlayed a ₹3,300 satellite buy-in into an impressive ₹14.62 Lakhs payday (his sixth-biggest seven-figure score) – ending an almost ten-week-long title drought.

The former APT#38 Super Highroller champion, Iyer, locked horns with the first-ever NPS Main Event winner, Mohammad ‘Cupid stunt’ Azhar, in the final showdown. The Young Gun bested Azhar heads-up, with the latter banking an equally commendable ₹10.07 Lakhs in second place.

Abhinav Iyer’s explosive Sunday run saw him banking a mouth-watering ₹17.59 Lakhs across five deep runs, which include:

> 1st in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #138 Sunday High for ₹14,61,460

> 5th in PokerBaazi’s BSS HighRoller for ₹1,41,000

> 100th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #141 The Crown for ₹1,13,175

> 49th in PokerBaazi’s (7-MAX) BSS Championship for ₹24,500

> 21st in Adda52’s Mega Suits for ₹18,750

Abhinav Iyer’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹7.94 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹3.64 Crores | Titles Won in 2023: #1 | IOPC Titles: #2

Last Sunday’s BSS SuperStack champion, Mohammad Azhar, fired up seven deep runs – two of them FT finishes – locking in ₹13.37 Lakhs overall. His top Sunday finishes include:

Mohammad Azhar
Mohammad Azhar

 

> 2nd in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #138 Sunday High for ₹10,06,720

> 3rd in PokerStars India’s Red Spade Series-14 [Sunday Highroller] for ₹1,77,079

> 254th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #141 The Crown for ₹61,366

> 18th in PokerBaazi’s BSS HighRoller for ₹35,250

Mohammad Azhar’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹6.43 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹2.72 Crores | Titles Won in 2023: #1 | IOPC Titles: #2

Last night’s Red Spade Series-14 [Sunday Highroller] fourth-place finisher Manish ‘thekid’ Lakhotia (3rd for ₹6.61 Lakhs), Kunal ‘SoormaBhopali’ Patni (4th for ₹5.35 Lakhs), Vivek ‘KasolHieghts’ Singh (5th for ₹4.14 Lakhs) and Aditya ‘Ben K Rolle’ Singh (6th for ₹3.38 Lakhs) were other top guns who FT-ed the 9 PM IOPC flagship.

The ₹44,000 entry buy-in IOPC #38 Sunday High paid out 15 players a share of the guarantee-crushing ₹57.20 Lakhs prize pool.

Vaibhav ‘Nikka Zaildar’ Sharma (7th for ₹2.66 Lakhs), Goonjan ‘gmtesting’ Mall (8th for ₹2.03 Lakhs), Debneil ‘ChhotaDon’ Mukherjee (9th for ₹1.49 Lakhs), Young Gun Kanchan ‘Midge Maisel’ Sharma (10th for ₹1.20 Lakhs), Sanjay ‘Apollo1’ Taneja (11th for ₹1.20 Lakhs), Advait ‘Rattler$’ Rajguru (12th for ₹1.12 Lakhs), Abhishek ‘MambaMentality’ Goindi (13th for ₹1.12 Lakhs), Young Gun Gaurav ‘mozzie17’ Sood (14th for ₹1.03 Lakhs), and Rising Star Ritwik ‘Fisherman1997’ Khanna (15th for ₹1.03 Lakhs) were others who crossed the money line.

Final Table Results

  1. Abhinav ‘hightr0ller’ Iyer – ₹14,61,460
  2. Mohammad ‘Cupid stunt’ Azhar – ₹10,06,720
  3. Manish ‘thekid’ Lakhotia – ₹6,60,660
  4. Kunal ‘SoormaBhopali’ Patni – ₹5,34,820
  5. Vivek ‘KasolHieghts’ Singh – ₹4,13,860
  6. Aditya ‘Ben K Rolle’ Singh – ₹3,37,480

 

IOPC #140 Value Mine – ₹35 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹660

Entries – 3,983

Re-entries – 552

Rebuys – 1,869

Prize Pool – ₹38,42,400

Places Paid – 665

Arguably the most value-laden tournament at the just-concluded IOPC 14.0, the ₹660 entry buy-in and ₹35 Lakhs GTD IOPC #140 Value Mine registered a guarantee-crushing 6,404 entries across six starting flights, collecting a generous ₹38.42 Lakhs prize pool.

Day 2 began at 10 PM on Sunday, and the competition was intense as 672 stacks (487 unique players) returned to win one of the last IOPC silver badges of the series.

It took a little over six hours for Prince ‘drilller’ Kumar to come out on top, scoring a career-best ₹4.13 Lakhs. Gunisha ‘FrenchVanilla’ Sinha – the better half of the winningest player in the country – Gaurav Sood – collected a runner-up payday of ₹3.11 Lakhs.

Gunisha Sinha
Gunisha Sinha

 

Prince Kumar’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹55.74 Lakhs | Lifetime Profits: ₹6.06 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #1 | IOPC Titles Won: #1

Vinay ‘ConCrete’ B thrashed out six deep runs on Sunday, netting ₹5.23 Lakhs altogether. His top finishes include:

Vinay B
Vinay B

 

> 3rd in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #140 Value Mine for ₹2,98,457

> 72nd in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #141 The Crown for ₹1,68,505

> 69th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #16 Sunday Prime for ₹31,857

Vinay B’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹6.95 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹1.35 Crores | Titles Won in 2023: #3

Gaurang ‘callmerockets’ Bhatti (4th for ₹1.27 Lakhs), the 2022 POY, Young Gun Anuj ‘br0ckLesnar95’ Yadav (5th for ₹1.08 Lakhs), Ravi ‘Rvjn91’ Jain (6th for ₹84,533), yesterday’s IOPC #35 #MonsterStack winner Shagun ‘icansuckout’ Jain (7th for ₹74,543) & two-time annual POY winner Gaurav ‘mozzie17’ Sood (8th for ₹53,794) were other known players on the 8-max Value Mine final table.

The top 665 places got paid a share from the ₹38.42 Lakhs prize pool.

Final Table Results

  1. Prince ‘drilller’ Kumar – ₹4,12,928
  2. Gunisha ‘FrenchVanilla’ Sinha – ₹3,10,694
  3. Vinay ‘ConCrete’ B – ₹2,98,457
  4. Gaurang ‘callmerockets’ Bhatti – ₹1,26,799
  5. Anuj ‘br0ckLesnar95’ Yadav -₹1,07,587
  6. Ravi ‘Rvjn91’ Jain – ₹84,533
  7. Shagun ‘icansuckout’ Jain – ₹74,543
  8. Gaurav ‘mozzie17’ Sood – ₹53,794

 

IOPC #142 – 15 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – 2,200

Entries – 492

Re-entries – 122

Rebuys – 291

Prize Pool – 18,10,000

Places Paid – 87

Bhanu ‘MafiaGaming’ Prakash KC has an enviable record at the IOPC – he is the only player to have won the fiercely contested leaderboard race FOUR TIMES!

Bhanu Prakash KC
Bhanu Prakash KC

 

The hard-working leaderboard chaser gave it his all in IOPC 14.0. Making a late rush up the ranks, Prakash made a podium finish in the biggest-ever IOPC #141 The Crown and won a second IOPC silver badge at the series to finish a close #3 behind the 2022 POY Anuj Yadav on the IOPC 14.0 leaderboard – banking 18 Lakhs in bonus money.

Anuj Yadav
Anuj Yadav

 

Prakash navigated past a 905-player field (492 unique) in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #142, bagging away 3.02 Lakhs in the first-place prize money. Dhirendra ‘dhirekum’ Kumar Chauhan placed runner-up for 2.60 Lakhs.

With 17,166 TLB points, Prakash fell two places short of topping the IOPC leaderboard for a record-extending fifth time as Vinay Rajpal (19,989 points) kept his lead to walk away with the 30 Lakhs (bonus money) up top.

Vinay Rajpal
Vinay Rajpal

 

However, he won`t be too disappointed as the notorious leaderboard crusher collected a career-best 28.39 Lakhs (overall) yesterday on the back of five ITM finishes (including a title victory and a podium finish).

His Sunday finishes include:

> 3rd in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #141 The Crown for a career-best ₹24,84,820

> 1st in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #142 for ₹3,02,486

> 66th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #136 Sunday Prime for 25,206

> 214th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #140 Value Mine for ₹13,833

> 70th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #139 Value Millionaire for ₹13,050

Bhanu Prakash K C’s Spartan Poker stats: Site Winnings: ₹56.55 Lakhs | Site Profits: 41 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #2

The 2,200 entry-buy tourney had 905 hopefuls (492 unique) vying for a share of the 18.10 Lakhs prize pool, and 87 players got paid.

Final Table Results

  1. Bhanu ‘MafiaGaming’ Prakash KC – 3,02,486
  2. Dhirendra ‘dhirekum’ Kumar Chauhan – 2,59,881
  3. Samyak ‘stonedurr’ Sethi – 1,53,210
  4. a10jkq – 1,19,460
  5. Zeshan ‘Zed49’ Hamza – 94,120
  6. Devang ‘THENERDGUY’ Yadav – 73,667
  7. Deepak ‘Optimist’ Singh – 54,481
  8. RinkuPaaji – 37,467

 

IOPC #135 Monster Stack – 8 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – 990

Entries – 542

Re-entries – 152

Rebuys – 351

Prize Pool – 9,40,500

Places Paid – 103

The two-time Game Changer champion and last Sunday’s IOPC #82 Sunday High winner, Shagun ‘icansuckout’ Jain (opted out of tracking), outlasted a guarantee-crushing 1,045-player field in Spartan Poker`s 8 Lakhs GTD IOPC #135 Monster Stack to collect 1.78 Lakhs. The user ‘haramialpha’ came second for 1.09 Lakhs.

Shagun Jain
Shagun Jain

 

The Jaipur-based MTT crusher Jain, fell one shy of winning a second Sunday marquee as he placed runner-up in PokerStars India’s Red Spade Series-14 Sunday Highroller [6-Max] (2nd for ₹2.37 Lakhs) and ran deep in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #140 Value Mine (7th for ₹74,543), bagging away at least ₹4.89 Lakhs.

The top 103 places got a share from the ₹9.41 Lakhs collected in the prize pool.

Final Table Results

  1. Shagun ‘icansuckout’ Jain – 1,78,131
  2. haramialpha – 1,09,004
  3. FieryMarty – 77,873
  4. R-Dog – 58,969
  5. TheMagician007 – 46,931
  6. _sanskrit_ – 36,021
  7. s4udilse – 26,052
  8. Twins_ ACES – 17,775

 

IOPC #134 – 8 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – 2,200

Entries – 252

Re-entries – 48

Rebuys – 179

Prize Pool – ₹9,58,000

Places Paid – 39

The Destiny champion from August last year, Utkarsh ‘kidpokerNJ’ Vaish, broke an over three-month-long title drought yesterday after besting a 479-entry field (252 unique) in Spartan Poker’s 8 Lakhs GTD IOPC #134, winning his first IOPC silver badge of the year (his second IOPC title) and 1.69 Lakhs* (heads-up deal) in first-place prize money.

Utkarsh Vaish
Utkarsh Vaish

 

Vaish also posted a deep run in IOPC #142 (32nd for 8,145), making for a Sunday take-home worth 1.77 Lakhs. His Spartan Poker’s stats: Site Winnings: ₹1.72 Crores | Site Profits: ₹52.51 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #1

A heads-up deal fetched the DCS #26 Mid PKO champion from October, Biplob ‘hellhell’ Rana 1.49 Lakhs in second place. He made another two deep runs last night, raking in 3.60 Lakhs overall.

Biplob Rana
Biplob Rana

 

His Sunday finishes include:

> 67th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #141 The Crown for ₹2,04,218

> 2nd in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #134 for ₹1,49,120

> 125th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #139 Value Millionaire for ₹6,760

Biplob Rana’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: 1.45 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹38.53 Lakhs

The 2 PM IOPC marquee registered 479 entrants (252 unique), falling ₹42,000 short of breaking even. The top 39 places got paid.

Final Table Results

  1. Utkarsh ‘kidpokerNJ’ Vaish – 1,69,240*
  2. Biplob ‘hellhell’ Rana – 1,49,120*
  3. Kashish ‘Nahihorha’ Gupta – 93,405
  4. Adwait ‘AdwaitPol’ Pol – 75,395
  5. FlintOwl – 59,109
  6. Skylark77 – 43,318
  7. Amor Mio – 32,859
  8. Paras ‘Jhukega nahi $ala’ Jain – 24,142

* denotes a heads-up deal

 

IOPC #137 All Rounder SNG – 6 Lakhs GTD

Entries: 11

Prize Pool – 6,00,000

Places Paid – 3

One of the more competitive contests on the last day of the guarantee-crushing IOPC 14.0 was the 6 Lakhs GTD IOPC #137 All Rounder SNG!

The 11 IOPC – All Rounder winners (Mohit Mehta qualified twice) converged for the faceoff at 9 PM last night, and the action went down the wire at 12.39 AM today. The IOPC #8 All Rounder Deepstack champion Vikas ‘Grabaka_Hitman’ Yadav took down the SNG Finale for a site-best 3 Lakhs, besting the previous best 2.04 Lakhs he won in the IOPC All Rounder last month.

Vikas Yadav
Vikas Yadav

 

Yadav made another three deep runs, accumulating 3.35 Lakhs across his Sunday run. His top finishes include:

> 1st in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #137 All Rounder SNG for 3,00,000

> 282nd in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #141 The Crown for 25,150

> 159th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #139 Value Millionaire for 5,948

Vikas Yadav’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: 1.45 Crores | Lifetime Profits: 51.22 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #2

Mohit ‘thejoker’ Mehta carried a 1.5X starting stack in the All Rounder SnG for qualifying twice for taking down IOPC #40 All Rounder Monster Stack, and IOPC #93 All Rounder. He almost carried that early advantage to the finish line, pocketing 1.80 Lakhs in second place.

Mohit Mehta
Mohit Mehta

 

Wednesday`s IOPC #109 All Rounder champion Varun ‘Varun Bansal’ Bansal rounded out the payouts, finishing third for 1.20 Lakhs. Bansal’s Sunday haul came in at 1.37 Lakhs from three ITM finishes, which include:

> 3rd in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #137 All Rounder SNG for 1,20,000

> 284th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #140 – Value Mine for5,764

> 88th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #139 Value Millionaire for 11,136

Varun Bansal’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: 28.73 Lakhs | Lifetime Profits: 17.36 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #3

Final Results

  1. Vikas ‘Grabaka_Hitman’ Yadav – 3,00,000
  2. Mohit ‘thejoker’ Mehta – 1,80,000
  3. Varun ‘Varun Bansal’ Bansal – 1,20,000

 

IOPC 14.0 Final Leaderboard Standings

Vinay Rajpal has done it! The online reg topped the 1.50 Crores GTD IOPC leaderboard in Spartan Poker’s biggest-ever IOPC 14.0 convincingly on the back of a 14-day streak on the top of the standings. Rajpal cashed as many as 85 IOPC events, including ten FT finishes and three IOPC silver badges, to win the bragging rights of topping one of the most fiercely competitive leaderboard races in the country and raked in a well-deserved 30 Lakhs (bonus money) for his consistency and hard work.

Vinay Rajpal
Vinay Rajpal

 

The 2022 POY, Anuj Yadav, displayed why he is one of the country’s best, placing second on the leaderboard for 20 Lakhs (bonus money).

The four-time IOPC leaderboard topper Bhanu Prakash K C made a late rush up the ranks, displacing the user ‘p@tience7744’ from third place on the last day of the series! He made a podium finish in the biggest-ever IOPC #141 The Crown and won IOPC #142 (his second IOPC silver badge) to finish a close #3 for 18 Lakhs (bonus money).

RankPlayerPrize Money (BM)
1Vinay 'vinay0902' Rajpal₹30,00,000
2Anuj 'br0ckLesnar95' Yadav₹20,00,000
3Bhanu Prakash 'MafiaGaming' KC₹18,00,000
4p@tience7744₹15,00,000
5Kabir 'KAKAROT98$' Tandon₹11,00,000
6Vikram 'GreenSTUFF79' Mishra₹8,00,000
7Saransh 'TerrorGandhi$' Garg₹7,00,000
8Arjanveer 'bazzingaa' Singh Chadha₹6,00,000
9Vikhyat 'Super Saiyan' Ahlawat₹5,50,000
10Samay Singh 'Limitless' Modi₹5,00,000

 

‘MacMafia’ (Won 1.50 Lakhs GTD Night Rider for 28,055), ‘naghiss’ (Won 1 Lakh GTD Hold’em PKO for 19,402), Naman ‘Nammy09’ Puri (Won 1 Lakh GTD Chip Up – Triple Chance for 18,610), and ‘albyjohn’ (Won 50K GTD The Centurion for 10,025) won the other Spartan Poker marquees.

 

PokerBaazi

It was an action-packed Sunday on PokerBaazi with the first-ever 5 Crores GTD PLO Championship Series and the 1 Crore GTD Value Blast running alongside the site`s other regular marquees.

(7-Max) BSS Championship – 35 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – 8,250

Entries – 228

Re-Entries – 209

Prize Pool – 35,00,000

Places Paid – 49

The two-time Daily Afternoon SPRINT winner Vishnu ‘superstarrajni’ Adithan outplayed the 437-entry field (228 unique) in PokerBaazi’s 35 Lakhs GTD (7-Max) BSS Championship, winning the Sunday title for a site-best 5.96 Lakhs (his third title on the site) – recovering all his losses in one go.

Vishnu Adithan
Vishnu Adithan

 

Vishnu Adithan’s PokerBaazi stats: Site Winnings: 9.32 Lakhs | Site Profits: Site Profits: 6,066 | Titles Won in 2023: #1

The Millionaire champion from August 2021, Deepankur ‘Dp179’ Gupta, secured a runner-up payday worth 3.95 Lakhs.

Deepankur Gupta
Deepankur Gupta

 

Last night`s IOPC #141 The Crown finalist Eka ‘Gettingthere’ Vedantham (3rd for 3.07 Lakhs), Young Gun Shardul ‘duuurrrr’ Parthasarathi (4th for 2.43 Lakhs) & Guneet ‘guntz’ Kwatra (6th for 1.31 Lakhs) were others posting FT scores in the 6 PM flagship!

The 8,250 entry buy-in (7-Max) BSS Championship fell 2.22 Lakhs short of its advertised guarantee and paid out 49 players.

Final Table Results

  1. Vishnu ‘superstarrajni’ Adithan – 5,96,050
  2. Deepankur ‘Dp179’ Gupta – 3,95,500
  3. Eka ‘Gettingthere’ Vedantham – 3,07,300
  4. Shardul ‘duuurrrr’ Parthasarathi – 2,43,250
  5. Hc27 – 2,02,300
  6. acessorted – 1,65,200
  7. Guneet ‘guntz’ Kwatra – 1,30,900

 

BSS Superstack – 25 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – 5,500

Entries – 286

Re-entries – 298

Prize Pool – 29,20,000

Places Paid – 70

Sahil ‘you3bi4b’ Nair bested a 584-strong field (286 unique) in PokerBaazi’s 7 PM Sunday headliner, 25 Lakhs GTD BSS SuperStack, winning the top prize of 4.63 Lakhs – his second-best score on the site since the #BB2 MoneyMaker win last April. Former BTS Main Event runner-up finisher Neelakantan ‘difsripp007’ Murali finished second for 2.77 Lakhs.

Sahil Nair
Sahil Nair

 

Sahil Nair crossed an almost month-long title slump with the top finish yesterday, banking a hefty 4.78 Lakhs overall. His Sunday finishes include:

> 1st in PokerBaazi’s BSS SuperStack for 4,62,528 (his second-best score on the site)

> 33rd in PokerStars India’s Red Spade Series-13 [Sunday Special] for 10,983

> 36th in PokerBaazi’s (7-Max) BSS SPRINT for 4,570

Sahil Nair’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: 2.26 Crores | Lifetime Profits: 86.22 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #2

The BSS Superstack ran from 7 PM to 4:02 AM, with the top 70 finishers earning a share of the 29.20 Lakhs prize pool.

Final Table Results

  1. Sahil ‘you3bi4b’ Nair – 4,62,528
  2. Neelakantan ‘difsripp007’ Murali – 2,76,524
  3. Ronywalker – 2,17,832
  4. Gaurav ‘gaug17’ Sood – 1,66,148
  5. Chat.081 – 1,34,028
  6. Sanjay ‘raskolnikov’ Chaudhury – 1,02,200
  7. Shyam ‘ayyappa1963’ Sundar – 71,540
  8. royalking7424 – 58,400

 

BSS HighRoller – 20 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – 11,000

Entries – 134

Re-Entries – 101

Prize Pool – 23,50,000

Places Paid – 22

The IOPC July 2021 Blaze of Glory champion Harshad ‘omglukbox’ Barve had a terrific Sunday grind, for he added 6.15 Lakhs to his online scorecard, crossing 5 Crores in tracked online winnings.

Harshad Barve
Harshad Barve

 

The long-time circuit reg from Pune made his best finish in PokerBaazi’s 20 Lakhs GTD BSS HighRoller, winning the 8:30 PM title for 5.46 Lakhs after beating Advait ‘ExploitativeGTO’ Rajguru (2nd for 3.61 Lakhs) heads-up!

Advait Rajguru
Advait Rajguru

 

Harshad Barve’s Sunday finishes include:

> 1st in PokerBaazi’s BSS HighRoller for 5,46,375

> 195th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #141 The Crown for 68,408 (from two stacks)

Harshad Barve’s online stats (excluding PokerStars India): Lifetime Winnings: 5.03 Crores | Lifetime Profits: 59.56 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #2

The winningest player on our database and two-time POY, Young Gun Gaurav ‘gaug17’ Sood, ITM-ed ten Sunday tournaments – making the FT in three of them – packing in 8.24 Lakhs overall, crossing 15.50 Crores in tracked online earnings.

Gaurav Sood
Gaurav Sood

 

His Sunday finishes include:

> 3rd in PokerBaazi’s BSS HighRoller for 2,64,375

> 4th in PokerBaazi’s BSS SuperStack for 1,66,148

> 14th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #138 Sunday High for 1,02,960 (qualified through a 3,850 buy-in satellite)

> 298th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #141 The Crown for 95,570 (from three stacks)

> 9th in PokerBaazi’s (7-Max) BSS Championship for 70,000

> 8th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #140 Value Mine for 53,794

> 75th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #136 Sunday Prime for 29,274

> 20th in PokerStars India’s Red Spade Series-13 [Sunday Special] for 18,174

> 29th in Adda52’s Mega Suits for 16,250

> 164th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #139 Value Millionaire for 7,424

Gaurav Sood’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: 15.50 Crores | Lifetime Profits: 7.82 Crores | Titles Won in 2023: #6 | Ranked #3 in the 2023 Leaderboard Standings (Total Cashes) | Finished #7 in the 2022 Leaderboard Standings (Total Cashes)

Young Gun Anmol ‘anzzzzz’ Mehta (4th for 1.87 Lakhs), last night’s IOPC #138 Sunday High champion, WSOP bracelet winner Abhinav ‘griezmann’ Iyer (5th for 1.41 Lakhs), and Tanmay ‘truman’ Benara (6th for 1.14 Lakhs) round out the 6-max FT in the 20 Lakhs GTD BSS HighRoller.

The 11,000 entry buy-in BSS HighRoller collected a guarantee-crushing 23.50 Lakhs in the prize pool (over 1.175x its listed guarantee) and paid out 22 players.

Final Table Results

  1. Harshad ‘omglukbox’ Barve – 5,46,375
  2. Advait ‘ExploitativeGTO’ Rajguru – 3,60,725
  3. Gaurav ‘gaug17’ Sood – 2,64,375
  4. Anmol ‘anzzzzz’ Mehta – 1,86,825
  5. Abhinav ‘griezmann’ Iyer – 1,41,000
  6. Tanmay ‘truman’ Benara – 1,13,975

 

PC#11 (PLO-4) – 20 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – 5,500

Entries – 181

Re-entries – 179

Prize Pool – 20,00,000

Places Paid – 49

PokerBaazi Team Pro Abhishek ‘singhsaab’ Goindi came out all guns firing last night – making four deep runs (including a PLO Championship title) – rounding up a hefty 5.92 Lakhs in Sunday winnings.

Abhishek Goindi
Abhishek Goindi

 

The poker coach notably won the PLO Championship Series Sunday headliner, PokerBaazi’s 20 Lakhs GTD PC#11 (PLO-4), where he outclassed a 360-entry field (181 unique) to win 3.41 Lakhs, ending a two-month-long title drought.

Goindi’s Sunday finishes include:

> 1st in PokerBaazi’s PC#11 (PLO-4) for 3,40,600

> 187th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #141 The Crown for 1,20,720 (from three stacks)

> 13th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #138 Sunday High for 1,11,540

> 42nd in PokerBaazi’s BSS SuperStack for 18,980

Abhishek Goindi’s online stats (excluding PokerStars India): Lifetime Winnings: 3.91 Crores | Lifetime Profits: 1.31 Crores | Titles Won in 2023: #1

The PC#4 (PLO-6) champion ‘hik18’ ITM-ed three PLO Championship Series events yesterday (two FT finishes) for a collective 2.92 Lakhs, storming to the #1 position on the 10 Lakhs GTD PLO Championship leaderboard.

hik18’s Sunday finishes include:

> 2nd in PokerBaazi’s PC#11 (PLO-4) for 2,26,000

> 5th in PokerBaazi’s PC#9 (PLO-4) PKO for 63,190

> 29th in PokerBaazi’s PC#10 (PLO-5) for 3,066

hik18’s PokerBaazi stats: Site Winnings: 7.96 Lakhs | Site Profits: 3.90 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #1 | Moves to #1 on the PLO Championship Leaderboard

The IOPC 14.0 Leaderboard topper Vinay ‘vinay09’ Rajpal (4th for 1.39 Lakhs), Myron ‘priyankAAchoprAA’ Pereira (5th for 1,16 Lakhs), and Prasit ‘Stungunner’ Chowdhury (6th for 94,400) also FT-ed the 20 Lakhs GTD PC#11 (PLO-4).

The 5,500 entry buy-in (7-Max) PC#11 (PLO-4) registered an overlay shortfall of 2 Lakhs, and the top 49 finishers benefitted from the value on offer.

Final Table Results

  1. Abhishek ‘singhsaab’ Goindi – 3,40,600
  2. hik18 – 2,26,000
  3. delicioso – 1,75,600
  4. Vinay ‘vinay09’ Rajpal – 1,39,000
  5. Myron ‘priyankAAchoprAA’ Pereira – 1,15,600
  6. Prasit ‘Stungunner’ Chowdhury – 94,400

 

PC#9 (PLO-4) – 10 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – 2,750

Entries – 134

Re-entries – 101

Prize Pool – 10,00,000

Places Paid – 49

Anindit ‘pindapanda1’ Pan nailed a reg-laden 235-player field (134 unique) in PokerBaazi’s PLO Championship Series Sunday kick-off event, 10 Lakhs GTD PC#9 (PLO-4), winning his second title on the site (first this year) for a personal-best 2.06 Lakhs (35,366 in bounties). Aditya ‘jesus’ Pratap Singh finished runner-up for 1.24 Lakhs (11,000 in bounties).

Anindit Pan’s PokerBaazi stats: Site Winnings: 11.11 Lakhs | Site Profits: Site Profits: 1.06 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #1

The 2,750 entry buy-in 3 PM marquee registered a glaring 4.12 Lakhs in overlays and paid out 49 players.

Final Table Results

  1. Anindit ‘pindapanda1’ Pan – 2,05,666
  2. Aditya ‘jesus’ Pratap Singh – 1,24,000
  3. Sanjay ‘Sanju876’ Bharti – 99,168
  4. Prashant ‘zalimlonda19’ Chawda – 76,640
  5. hik18 – 63,190
  6. shades92 – 51,576

 

BSS Value Boost – 10 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – 1,650

Entries – 308

Re-entries – 242

Prize Pool – 10,00,000

Places Paid – 101

Last month’s IOPC #71 All Rounder second-place finisher, Hemant ‘Hkm2828’ Meena, fired four bullets in PokerBaazi’s 10 Lakhs GTD BSS Value Boost before storming past a 550-entry field, winning the 6:30 PM Sunday marquee for 1.23 Lakhs* (three-way deal).

Last month’s 1000X#17 champion, Sanjay ‘sanjaykotak’ Khanna (2nd for 1.12 Lakhs) and ‘prashant1982’ (3rd for 1.09 Lakhs) lapped up profitable payouts on the podium, courtesy of the three-way deal.

Sanjay Khanna
Sanjay Khanna

 

Sanjay Khanna’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: 34.88 Lakhs | Lifetime Profits: 8.49 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #2

The 1,650 entry buy-in BSS Value Boost registered an overlay shortfall of 1.75 Lakhs, and the top 101 finishers made the payouts.

Final Table Results

  1. Hemant ‘Hkm2828’ Meena – 1,22,981*
  2. Sanjay ‘sanjaykotak’ Khanna – 1,11,739*
  3. prashant1982 – 1,08,780*
  4. rionbaazi – 63,800
  5. Amar ‘kidpoker0109’ Mehta – 41,600
  6. Anant ‘antypanty93’ Chaudhary – 29,000
  7. shraban56 – 20,200
  8. Debneil ‘ChhotaDon’ Mukherjee – 16,000

*denotes a three-way deal

 

PC#12 (PLO-5) – 6 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – 1,650

Entries – 149

Re-entries – 188

Prize Pool – 6,00,000

Places Paid – 35

Ashish ‘goodpoker68’ Garg came out on top of a 337-player field (149 unique) in PokerBaazi’s 6 Lakhs GTD PC#12 (PLO-5), winning the 8 PM marquee for 86,222 (his maiden title of the year). He chopped the title heads-up with the mid-stakes grinder Neeraj ‘SelfClaimedPro’ Kumar (2nd for 88,978).

Ashish Garg
Ashish Garg

 

The former AOPS Main Event runner-up finisher, Garg reeled in 1.11 Lakhs across four deep runs last night, which include:

> 1st in PokerBaazi’s PC#12 (PLO-5) for 86,222

> 28th in PokerBaazi’s PC#11 (PLO-4) for 16,000 (qualified through a 550 satellite)

> 9th in Adda52’s Holdem Bash for 5,625

> 31st in PokerBaazi’s PC#10 (PLO-5) for 3,066

Ashish Garg’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: 83.19 Lakhs | Lifetime Profits: 45.77 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #1

Last month`s IOPC #92 Monday Spotlight champion, Neeraj Kumar, made away with 1.34 Lakhs on Sunday from five deep runs, which include:

Neeraj Kumar
Neeraj Kumar

 

> 2nd in PokerBaazi’s PC#12 (PLO-5) for 88,978

> 349th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #141 The Crown for 22,635

> 139th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #140 Value Mine for 9,414

> 129th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #139 Value Millionaire for 6,760

> 71st in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #142 for 6,335

Neeraj Kumar’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: 8.32 Crores | Lifetime Profits: 1.58 Crores | Titles Won in 2023: #3

The 1,650 buy-in PC#12 (PLO-5) fell 94,500 short of hitting its advertised guarantee, and 35 players made the payouts list.

Final Table Results

  1. Ashish ‘goodpoker68’ Garg – 86,222*
  2. Neeraj ‘SelfClaimedPro’ Kumar – 88,978*
  3. Deepanjan ‘Bluffstar’ Das – 61,200
  4. scoodyboo – 51,600
  5. Varun ‘omniknight’ Meena – 42,600
  6. Vikhyat ‘supersaiyan57’ Ahlawat – 33,900
  7. Sachin ‘browguy26’ Raj – 25,500
  8. Ankit ‘TunaFishz’ Sinha – 19,500

 

(7-Max) BSS SPRINT – 5 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – 2,200

Entries – 190

Re-entries – 123

Prize Pool – 6,26,000

Places Paid – 59

The former IOPC The Crown champion Laksh ‘boomtlt23’ Pal Singh scored a thumping victory in PokerBaazi’s (7-Max) BSS SPRINT, winning the Sunday title for 99,284, with Myron ‘priyankAAchoprAA’ Pereira banking 73,242 as the runner-up.

Laksh Pal Singh
Laksh Pal Singh

 

The top pro, Singh, raked in 2.35 Lakhs from four deep runs last night, which include:

> 1st in PokerBaazi’s (7-Max) BSS SPRINT for 99,284

> 101st in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #141 The Crown for 80,480

> 17th in Adda52’s Big Whale for 44,625 (qualified through a 1,650 satellite)

> 35th in PokerStars India’s Red Spade Series-13 [Sunday Special] for 17,233

> 26th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #142 for 10,679

Laksh Pal Singh’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: 12.14 Crores | Lifetime Profits: 5.03 Crores | Titles Won in 2023: #2

Myron Pereira also had a profitable Sunday run, for he notched up 5.76 Lakhs from an impressive 12 ITM finishes – hitting 1 Crore in online profits.

His top Sunday finishes include:

> 10th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #136 Sunday Prime for 1,13,028

> 306th in SpartanPoker’s IOPC #141 The Crown for 1,13,175

> 5th in PokerBaazi’s PC#11 (PLO-4) for 1,15,600

> 2nd in PokerBaazi’s (7-Max) BSS SPRINT for 73,242

Myron Pereira’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: 8.14 Crores | Lifetime Profits: 1.02 Crores

The 2,200 entry buy-in BSS SPRINT had 313 hopefuls vying for a share of the 6.26 Lakhs prize pool, and 59 players got paid.

Final Table Results

  1. Laksh ‘boomtlt23’ Pal Singh – 99,284
  2. Myron ‘priyankAAchoprAA’ Pereira – 73,242
  3. Anmolraj ‘PINCIOTTI’ Singh Chawla – 57,717
  4. Aditya ‘pnutbutterbacon’ Navalkar – 42,380
  5. Hemant ‘hkm2828’ Meena – 30,173
  6. akashjasus – 21,472
  7. Raghav ‘godspeeed’ Aggarwal – 17,215

 

Sony ‘swAAmi’ Puthussery (Won 4 Lakhs GTD PC#10 PLO-5 for 62,308) was the other PLO Championship Series title winner on Sunday.

 

1 Crore GTD Value Blast – Qualifier 1 & 2

Qualifier 1: Entries – 460 | Re-entries – 60 | Survivors – 167 | Chip Leader – Pranay ‘5pranay’ Chaudhry (203,000)

Qualifier 2: Entries – 344 | Re-entries – 71 | Survivors – 119 | Chip Leader – ‘Digitalbuoy’ (190,000)

Combined: Entries – 804 | Re-entries – 131 | Survivors – 280 (unique) | Overall Chip Leader – Pranay ‘5pranay’ Chaudhry (203,000)

 

‘mayso18’ (Won 1.50 Lakhs GTD Daily Night SPRINT for 57,394), Shivakumar ‘daddyaddy’ Dubey (Won 1.50 Lakhs GTD Daily Morning SPRINT for 44,853), ‘YNWA1892’ (Won 2 Lakhs GTD BSS for 42,851), ‘lilyrohit’ (Won 1.50 Lakhs GTD Daily Afternoon SPRINT for 37,923), Sarvesh ‘Sarveshshahni’ Shahni (Won 1 Lakh GTD BSS for 32,127), ‘basu166’ (Won 1 Lakh GTD 7-Max SPRINT for 24,319), ‘bholukaka’ (Won 40K GTD 5-Max Daily for 9,900), and Deepak Kumar ‘deepakking’ Singh (Won 40K GTD PLO Daily for 6,100) won the other Sunday marquees on PokerBaazi.

 

PokerStars India

Red Spade Series-13 [Sunday Special] [8-Max, PKO] – 25 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – 5,500

Entries – 238

Re-entries – 242

Regular Prize Pool – 13,00,000

Bounty Prize Pool – 12,00,000

Total Prize Pool – 25,00,000

Places Paid – 63

It was a bountiful Sunday for PokerStars India loyalist Manan ‘Wanabepro299’ Arora, who decimated a 480-player field (238 unique) in the Red Spade Series showstopper, 25 Lakhs GTD Red Spade Series-13 [Sunday Special] [8-Max, PKO], to win 4.86 Lakhs (2.85 Lakhs in bounties)! ‘Bedevilforyou’ (anonymity requested) collected 2.11 Lakhs (10,234 in bounties) as the runner-up.

Sanish ‘sneakysani’ Chhabra accumulated 2.20 Lakhs across three deep runs yesterday, which include:

Sanish Chhabra
Sanish Chhabra

 

> 4th in PokerStars India’s Red Spade Series-13 [Sunday Special] for 1,15,549

> 193rd in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #141 The Crown for 93,558

> 25th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #140 Value Mine for 11,105

Sanish Chhabra’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: 6.32 Crores | Lifetime Profits: 1.90 Crores | Titles Won in 2023: #1

The 5,500 entry buy-in Red Spade Series-13 [Sunday Special] filled in 1 Lakh in overlays, and 63 players boarded the money bus.

Final Table Results (Including Bounties)

  1. Manan ’Wanabepro299’ Arora – 4,85,860
  2. Bedevilforyou – 2,11,192
  3. Devendra ‘ThaBlack(3’ Suthar1,99,450
  4. Sanish ‘sneakysani’ Chhabra1,15,549
  5. asdfmrinal – 1,01,199
  6. Rishab ’NoChan(3’ Malik69,448
  7. Clinton ‘Clinton Tavares’ Tavares – 50,942
  8. Deepankur ‘dp8218’ Gupta47,775
  9. Dhaval ‘BithBecool’ Mudgal40,671

 

Red Spade Series-14 [Sunday Highroller] [6-Max] – 15 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – 11,000

Entries – 87

Re-entries – 48

Prize Pool – 15,00,000

Places Paid – 19

Adithya ‘RloxRenfield1’ N G busted an almost two-week-long dry spell last night by taking down a 135-player field (87 unique) in PokerStars India’s Red Spade Series-14 [Sunday Highroller] [6-Max], winning the HR title for 3.16 Lakhs.

Adithya N G
Adithya N G

 

Last night’s IOPC #35 Monster Stack champion, the Jaipur-based MTT crusher Shagun ‘Sogani22’ Jain, fell one shy of winning a second Sunday marquee, banking 2.37 Lakhs as the runner-up.

Shagun Jain
Shagun Jain

 

Adithya N G accumulated 5.44 Lakhs on the back of four ITM finishes, which include:

> 1st in PokerStars India’s Red Spade Series-14 [Sunday Highroller] [6-Max] for 3,16,427

> 24th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #141 The Crown for 2,11,260

> 27th in PokerStars India’s Red Spade Series-13 [Sunday Special] [8-Max, PKO] for 12,537

> 184th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #140 Value Mine for 4,035

Adithya N G’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: 1.72 Crores | Lifetime Profits: 29.69 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #3

The 11,000 entry buy-in Red Spade Series-14 [Sunday Highroller] registered an overlay shortfall of 1.50 Lakhs, and 19 players got a share from the ₹15 Lakhs guaranteed prize pool.

Final Table Results

  1. Adithya ‘RloxRenfield1’ N G3,16,427
  2. Shagun ‘Sogani22’ Jain2,36,712
  3. Mohammad ‘Bund_Blaster’ Azhar1,77,079
  4. theoldestkid – 1,32,469
  5. Sanat ‘durrsanta’ Mehrotra99,097
  6. Snehil ‘snehil99’ Aggarwal74,133
  7. Rishab ‘NoChan(3’ Malik60,549

 

‘theghoti’ (Won 1.50 Lakhs GTD Red Spade Series-17 Ultrasonic for 35,473), ‘Prophet414’ (Won 2 Lakhs GTD Red Spade Series-15 Sunday Storm for 31,751), ‘wildshark100’ (Won 75K GTD Red Spade Series-16 Bounty Adrenaline for 20,334), and Saurav ‘Saurav007’ Ghosh (Won 50K GTD Super Stack PKO for 12,428) won the other PokerStars India marquees.

 

Adda52

Big Whale – 30 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – 16,500

Entries – 139

Re-entries – 99

PrizePool – 35,70,000

Places Paid – 24

Thursday’s (7-Max) SPRINT champion Avinash ‘I_fart_you_faint’ Kumar had a super Sunday run! He whaled Adda52`s brand-new 30 Lakhs GTD Big Whale, spinning up a 1,650 satellite buy-in into a whopping 7.97 Lakhs winners payday (his second-best online score) following a heads-up deal with the #1 ranked player of January, Tarush ‘tarush123’ Gupta (2nd for 7.54 Lakhs).

Avinash Kumar
Avinash Kumar

 

Kumar raked in a personal-best 12.75 Lakhs last night from five deep runs – his first time reeling in a seven-figure payday. His top Sunday finishes include:

>1st in Adda52’s Big Whale for 7,97,272

> 12th in The Spartan Poker’s IOPC #141 The Crown for 4,52,700 (from two stacks)

> 40th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #139 Value Millionaire for 14,764

Avinash Kumar’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: 1.27 Crores | Lifetime Profits: 14.32 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #5

The LPS Main Event champion Dhinesh ‘dinzy009’ Kumar lapped up 2.47 Lakhs from two deep runs, which include:

Dhinesh Kumar
Dhinesh Kumar

 

> 5th in Adda52’s Big Whale for 2,14,200

> 12th in PokerStars India’s Red Spade Series-14 [Sunday Highroller] for 32,992

Dhinesh Kumar’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: 6.73 Crores | Lifetime Profits: 2.58 Crores

Amit ‘ragingbull’ Kaushik fired up seven ITM finishes, netting 2.50 Lakhs overall. His top Sunday finishes include:

Amit Kaushik
Amit Kaushik

 

> 6th in Adda52’s Big Whale for 1,51,725

>13th in PokerBaazi’s BSS Super Stack for 43,800

> 57th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #136 Sunday Prime for 31,857

Amit Kaushik’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: 5.03 Crores | Lifetime Profits: 1.76 Crores | Titles Won in 2023: #1

Dhavaldirtyzoso’ Mudgal (7th for 1.16 Lakhs), Young Gun Kanchan ‘thandicoke’ Sharma (9th for 71,400), and two-time The Millionaire champion Ayush ‘lazyman’ Garg (10th for 62,475) were others who made a deep run in Big Whale.

The 238-player field generated a 35.70 Lakhs prize pool, and the top 24 finishers got paid.

Final Table Results

  1. Avinash ‘I_fart_you_faint’ Kumar – 7,97,272
  2. Tarush ‘tarush123’ Gupta – 7,53,893
  3. ChupaRustam2901 – 4,28,400
  4. narsimha3 – 3,07,020
  5. Dhinesh ‘dinzy009’ Kumar – 2,14,200
  6. Amit ‘ragingbull’ Kaushik – 1,51,725

 

Mega Suits – 25 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – 5,500

Entries – 269

Re-entries – 230

Prize Pool – 25,00,000

Places Paid – 55

Ratul ‘riverking021’ Steves was one of Sunday`s standout winners and earned that distinction after overcoming the 499-player field (269 unique) in Adda52’s 25 Lakhs GTD Mega Suits, bagging away the winner’s payday worth 5.05 Lakhs (his first title of the year)!

Ratul Steves
Ratul Steves

 

Chasing his first online title of the year, the former APT Mini Main champion Paawan ‘fullflush24’ Bansal pocketed 3.42 Lakhs as the runner-up! The 2018 WSOP The Closer runner-up finisher, Bansal, lapped up 3.80 Lakhs across three ITM finishes, which include:

Paawan Bansal
Paawan Bansal

 

> 2nd in Adda52’s Mega Suits for 3,42,275

> 63rd in PokerBaazi’s BSS SuperStack for 17,520

> 378th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #141 The Crown for 20,120

Paawan Bansal’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: 1.22 Crores | Lifetime Profits: 37.13 Lakhs

Last week`s breakout scorer, Sahil ‘imhighishove’ Mahboobani, kept his scorecard ticking by reeling in 6.08 Lakhs on Sunday from the following deep runs:

Sahil Mahboobani
Sahil Mahboobani

 

> 3rd in Adda52’s Mega Suits for 3,39,967

> 93rd in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #141- The Crown for 1,48,385

> 7th in PokerBaazi’s BSS HighRoller for 88,125

> 58h in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #136 Sunday Prime for 31,857

Sahil Mahboobani’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: 11.76 Crores | Lifetime Profits: 4.11 Crores | Titles Won in 2023: #2

Last week’s IOPC #106 Wednesday Prime and Godfather champion, Sashank ‘TheTamizhDurrr’ Chakravarthym accumulated 3.47 Lakhs from deep runs in four Sunday marquees, which include:

> 4th in Adda52’s Mega Suits for 1,87,500

> 77th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #141 The Crown for 1,28,265

> 45th in PokerBaazi’s (7-Max) BSS Championship for 24,500

> 67th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #142 for 6,335

Sashank Chakravarthy’s online stats (excluding PokerStars India): Lifetime Winnings: 1.53 Crores | Lifetime Profits: 40.16 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #2

The former FTS Big Game champion Pavan Kiran ‘RootahuaMacchi’ B belted out 2.41 Lakhs in Sunday winnings from the following deep runs:

Pavan Kiran B
Pavan Kiran B

 

> 91st in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #141 The Crown for 1,21,223

> 21st in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #136 Sunday Prime for 61,131

> 8th in Adda52’s Mega Suits for 50,000

> 123rd in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #139 Value Millionaire for 8,236

Pavan Kiran B’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: 2.82 Crores | Lifetime Profits: 62.91 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #1

The #1 ranked player on the 2023 TLB (points) leaderboard, Mohak ‘sparkie’ Kapoor (6th for 87,500) and Bibhu ‘vibhuiit17’ Agarwal (8th for 62,500) also FT-ed the 25 Lakhs GTD Mega Suits.

The 5,500 entry buy-in Mega Suits fell one entry short of its 500-player guarantee, and the top 55 places got paid.

Final Table Results

  1. Ratul ‘riverking021’ Steves – 505,258
  2. Paawan ‘fullflush24’ Bansal – 342,275
  3. Sahil ‘imhighishove’ Mahboobani – 3,39,967
  4. Sashank ‘TheTamizhDurrr’ Chakravarthy – 1,87,500
  5. justhenuts7 – 1,25,000
  6. Mohak ‘sparkie’ Kapoor – 87,500
  7. Bibhu ‘vibhuiit17’ Agarwal – 62,500
  8. Pavan Kiran ‘RootahuaMacchi’ B – 50,000

 

Sunday Showdown – ₹10 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹2,750

Entries – 178

Re-entries – 121

Prize Pool – ₹10,00,000

Places Paid – 31

Sambantha “suryasedhu2817” Sedhuraman scored his first title victory on the site last night, taking down a 299-player field (178 unique) in the 7.30 PM marquee, ₹10 Lakhs GTD Sunday Showdown, for ₹1.55 Lakhs. A three-way final table deal saw Ashwin ‘Ashwinvijay1399’ Vijay (2nd for ₹1.53 Lakhs) and ‘prasad1naik’ (3rd for ₹1.46 Lakhs) banking the other top payouts.

Ashwin Vijay
Ashwin Vijay

 

Sambantha Sedhuraman`s Adda52’s stats: Site Winnings: ₹1.69 Lakhs | Site Profits: ₹1.46 Lakhs | Titles Won: #1

Ashwin Vijay cashed in ₹2.01 Lakhs from three ITM finishes last night, which include:

> 2nd in Adda52’s Sunday Showdown for ₹1,53,457

> 136th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #141 The Crown for ₹45,270

> 129th in PokerStars India’s Red Spade Series-13 [Sunday Special] for ₹2,500

Ashwin Vijay’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹2.08 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹49.52 Lakhs

Gautam ‘aa_kk’ Sachdeva made away with ₹2.01 Lakhs across five deep runs. His top finishes include:

Gautam Sachdeva
Gautam Sachdeva

 

> 4th in Adda52’s Sunday Showdown for ₹80,773

> 10th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #139 Value Millionaire for ₹62,060

> 149th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #141 The Crown for ₹45,270

> 26th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #140 Value Mine for ₹11,105

Gautam Sachdeva’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹47.28 Lakhs | Lifetime Profits: ₹1.29 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #1

Aditya ‘Aditya_mNm’ Sinha (8th for ₹24,310) also FT-ed the 7.30 PM Sunday Showdown.

The ₹2,750 entry buy-in Sunday Showdown registered an overlay shortfall of ₹2.53 Lakhs, and the top 31 finishers got paid.

Final Table Results

  1. Sambantha “suryasedhu2817” Sedhuraman – ₹1,55,177*
  2. Ashwin ‘Ashwinvijay1399’ Vijay – ₹1,53,457*
  3. prasad1naik – ₹1,46,435*
  4. Gautam ‘aa_kk’ Sachdeva – ₹80,773
  5. Learnnwin – ₹59,827
  6. DooMAni – ₹44,313
  7. UNKNOWN – ₹32,822
  8. Aditya ‘Aditya_mNm’ Sinha – ₹24,310

*denotes a three-way deal

 

Clinton RedArmy07’ Tavares (Won 2.50 Lakhs GTD Hold’em Bash for 55,896), ‘vision100’ (Won 2 Lakhs GTD Mega Suits Lite for 37,568), and ‘MADpoker2192’ (Won 1.50 Lakhs GTD Nighttide DST Adda for 32,063) won the other Sunday marquees on Adda52.

 

Khelo365

Khelo365 regular ‘Reverse88’ championed the site`s Sunday showstopper, 1 Lakh GTD Big Bang, for 37,000. ‘Christo91’ secured the runner-up cash prize worth 25,000.

The 50K GTD Dominator was taken down by ‘WTO160’ for 15,000, who edged ‘CONclusion777’ (2nd for 10,000) in the heads-up play.

 

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Daily Majors: Anirudh Reddy, Allen Romeo, Nitin Rawat & Nishaanth S Conquer the Wednesday Flagships

Wednesday was another action-driven day for online MTT players, with PokerBaazi’s Baazi Turbo Series, Pocket52’s Pocket Poker Championship, PokerDangal’s Destiny Changer Lite, and IndiaPlays’s Independence Special Tournament setting up a firecracker line-up of tournaments!

Anirudh Reddy made the mid-week headlines for winning Spartan Poker’s Wednesday High Roller for 5.88 Lakhs (his first title in almost four months) and crossed 3 Crores in tracked online earnings. He chopped the title heads-up with PokerGuru Ambassador Ratul Steves (2nd for 5.57 Lakhs).

Spartan Poker user ‘MagicMan13’ took down the site’s other Wednesday flagship, Destiny, scoring a site-best 4.55 Lakhs and a seat in the Destiny 24.0 SnG Finale. Upcoming poker pro Gopal Bajaj came second for 3.03 Lakhs.

PokerBaazi reg Allen Romeo shipped the Baazi Turbo Series headliner last night, BTS#19 Mini Main Event, for a career-best 4.31 Lakhs. Ankit Agarwal made away with an even better 5.01 Lakhs (personal-best) in second place, courtesy of a heads-up deal.

The BTS#14 Tuesday Prime runner-up finisher, poker streamer Nitin Rawat fired up five ITM runs yesterday, netting an impressive 3.92 Lakhs. He notably took down PokerStars India’s Night on Stars (1.01 Lakhs) and booked third-place finishes in Adda52’s Maverick (2.34 Lakhs) (three-way deal) and Spartan Poker’s Wed Poker Nite #1 (46,305). The BTS#16 third-place finisher Himanshu Kataria came second in the Night on Stars for 77,611 (won 1.46 Lakhs overall).

Last week`s FCS #69 High Roller runner-up finisher, Nishaanth Shanmughasundaram, championed Adda52’s Maverick for 2.69 Lakhs following a three-way deal with Vishnu Khandelwal (2nd for 2.46 Lakhs) and the Night on Stars winner Nitin Rawat (3rd for 2.34 Lakhs).

Kunal Agrawal topped PokerBaazi’s BTS#18 for 1.28 Lakhs, with Ishaan Pandya collecting 94,480 as the runner-up.

Pradip Ghosh conquered PokerBaazi`s BTS#21 WTB for 1.26 Lakhs, picking up his fourth title this month. Vishal Kumar (2nd for 96,642) and Siddhanth Kapoor (3rd for 68,719) locked in podium finishes.

Manoj Sharma (Won BTS#17 4-Max Hyper for 1.08 Lakhs) and Prince Singh (Won BTS#16 for 74,400) won the other Baazi Turbo Series titles.

Sankalp Marwah, Sanjay Khanna, Avinash Kumar, Shibsambhu Ghosh, Clinton Tavares, Rahul Agarwal, Bhanu Prakash KC, Shobhit Bhargava, Abhishek Sonu, Akash Saluja, Ravi Kumar, and Naresh Kumar won the other Wednesday marquees.

Here are the Wednesday highlights!

 

PokerBaazi

BTS#19 Mini Main Event – 25 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – 4,400

Entries – 416

Re-entries – 341

Prize Pool – 30,28,000

Places Paid – 90

PokerBaazi loyalist Allen ‘romeo333’ Romeo clinched his first seven-figure score on the site yesterday, taking down Wednesday`s featured Baazi Turbo Series attraction, 25 Lakhs GTD BTS#19 Mini Main Event, for a career-best 4.31 Lakhs.

Allen Romeo
Allen Romeo

 

Romeo outplayed the 757-entry field and chopped the Mini Main Event title heads-up with Ankit ‘gabru1410’ Agarwal, who locked in the biggest share of the prize pool, a personal-best 5.01 Lakhs in second place.

Allen Romeo fired up another three ITM runs across PokerBaazi events, adding 4.45 Lakhs altogether. His Wednesday finishes include:

> 1st in PokerBaazi`s BTS#19 Mini Main Event for 4,31,020

> 15th in PokerBaazi`s BTS#17 4-Max Hyper for 9,870

> 60th in PokerBaazi`s BTS#16 for 2,100

> 67th in PokerBaazi`s Daily Boost for 1,769

Allen Romeo’s online stats (excluding PokerStars India): Lifetime Winnings: 21.45 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2022: #7

Final Table Results

  1. Allen ‘romeo333’ Romeo – 4,31,020*
  2. Ankit ‘gabru1410’ Agarwal – 5,01,301*
  3. Vishal ‘Darky’ Ojha – 2,47,690
  4. CrystalTurtle44 – 1,83,194
  5. Kovid ‘fzzzyyy’ Saraswat – 1,37,168
  6. Mayank ‘Newsolidcash’ Maruka – 1,10,825
  7. Sanket ‘aslipapaji’ Jain – 91,748
  8. Prashant ‘prashant031’ Pandagre – 72,975

*denotes a heads-up deal

 

BTS#18 PKO – ₹8 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹2,200

Entries – 241

Re-entries – 192

Prize Pool – ₹8,00,000

Places Paid – 77

Kunal ‘symbolicchamp’ Agrawal waded across the 433-entry field in PokerBaazi’s BTS#18, winning the 7 PM flagship for ₹1.28 Lakhs (₹7,200 in bounties). Ishaan ‘ideatheater11’ Pandya collected ₹94,480 (₹2,000 in bounties) in second place.

Agrawal also cashed the Daily Boost (62nd for ₹1,769), bringing his Wednesday take-home to ₹1.34 Lakhs and his tracked online winnings to ₹29.35 Lakhs.

The ₹2,200 buy-in tournament had to fill in ₹1.07 Lakhs in overlays, and 77 places earned a share of the prize pool.

Final Table Results (Includes Bounties)

  1. Kunal ‘symbolicchamp’ Agrawal – 1,28,000
  2. Ishaan ‘ideatheater11’ Pandya – 94,480
  3. abhi321letsgo – 71,760
  4. qwertyyy2621 – 50,880
  5. Arjun ‘Asuran’ Baskaran – 37,200
  6. Sankalp ‘Wobbegong’ Marwah – 26,480
  7. Vishal ‘karan23’ Kumar – 23,440
  8. Harshit ‘Gotiyaa’ Swaika – 17,680

 

BTS#21 WTB – 8 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – 2,200

Entries – 259

Re-entries – 159

Prize Pool – 8,36,000

Places Paid – 77

Pradip ‘Nit2Donk’ Ghosh has been having a gala time in online MTTs and the online reg picking up his fourth title of the month last night, winning PokerBaazi`s 8 Lakhs GTD BTS#21 WTB for 1.26 Lakhs.

Pradip Ghosh
Pradip Ghosh

 

Vishal ‘karan23’ Kumar (2nd for 96,642) and the multi-talented Siddhanth ‘Bullzeye’ Kapoor (3rd for 68,719) locked in podium finishes.

Siddhanth Kapoor
Siddhanth Kapoor

 

Pradip Ghosh’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: 2.47 Crores | Lifetime Profits: 1.01 Crores | Titles Won in 2022: #22 | Annual Winnings: 1.21 Crores

Siddhanth Kapoor has been on a scoring spree recently, and he made away with 1.08 Lakhs last night from six ITM finishes, which include:

> 3rd in PokerBaazi’s BTS#21 WTB for 68,719

> 40th in PokerBaazi’s BTS#19 Mini Main Event for 14,534

> 11th in PokerBaazi’s Afternoon Boost for 10,400

> 13th in Spartan Poker’s Wed Poker Nite #1 for 7,425

> 55th in Adda52’s Maverick for 4,500

> 80th in PokerBaazi’s BTS#16 for 1,950

Siddhanth Kapoor’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: 2.53 Crores | Titles Won in 2022: #6 | Annual Winnings: 1.14 Crores

Final Table Results

  1. Pradip ‘Nit2Donk’ Ghosh – 1,26,236
  2. Vishal ‘karan23’ Kumar – 96,642
  3. Siddhanth ‘Bullzeye’ Kapoor – 68,719
  4. Amit ‘churu’ J – 51,498
  5. Aditya ‘adit11’ Kulkarni – 35,948
  6. Rafiq ‘Mrkhan’ Khan – 25,164
  7. Rohit ‘mrblue1205’ Malhotra – 20,315
  8. Ravi ‘rvjn91’ Jain – 16,386

 

BTS#17 4-Max Hyper – 7 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – 1,650

Entries – 169

Re-entries – 177

Prize Pool – 7,00,000

Places Paid – 65

Improving upon his third-place finish in BTS#5 earlier in the week, Manoj ‘cutymannu’ Sharma made the victory march in PokerBaazi`s 7 Lakhs GTD BTS#17 4-Max Hyper last night, picking up his first BTS title and 1.08 Lakhs in first-place prize money. Rohit ‘mrblue1205’ Malhotra finished runner-up for 80,290.

Rohit Malhotra
Rohit Malhotra

 

The small stakes grinder, Manoj Sharma, had a breakout run last, cashing almost 1.29 Lakhs from two final table scores. His Wednesday finishes include:

> 1st in PokerBaazi’s BTS#17 4-Max Hyper for 1,08,500

> 2nd in Adda52’s Nano Maverick for 20,088

Manoj Sharma’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: 34.02 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2022: #23

The 7 PM marquee registered a 346-player field and had to fill in a glaring 1.81 Lakhs in overlays.

Final Table Results

  1. Manoj ‘cutymannu’ Sharma – 1,08,500
  2. Rohit ‘mrblue1205’ Malhotra – 80,290
  3. Ravi ‘rvjn91’ Jain – 58,100
  4. Jitin ‘Jraj94’ Nath – 44,170

 

BTS#16 – 5 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – 1,100

Entries – 231

Re-entries – 205

Prize Pool – 5,00,000

Places Paid – 83

PokerBaazi loyalist Prince ‘NaNki’ Singh came out on top in PokerBaazi`s 5 Lakhs GTD BTS#16 to collect a winner’s paycheck worth 74,400.

Prince Singh
Prince Singh

 

The five-time SPRINT champion, Prince Singh, lapped up ₹78,900 in Wednesday winnings as he also cashed PokerBaazi’s Afternoon Boost (29th for ₹4,500). His online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹1.77 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹46 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2022: #24

The 1,100 buy-in tournament attracted 436 entrants, and the top 83 finishers benefitted from the ₹64,000 in overlay value added by the site.

Final Table Results

  1. Prince ‘NaNki’ Singh – 74,400
  2. Satya222 – 57,000
  3. Himanshu ‘himkat’ Kataria – 43,000
  4. anish130 – 31,050
  5. Maverick_ – 21,800
  6. Nadeem ‘SpadeHunter’ Basha – 15,350
  7. HGOEL1993 – 12,250
  8. Pranay ‘hungryanimal’ Sikka – 9,750

 

1 Crore GTD BTS#20 Main Event – Day 1A

> Day 1A – Entries: 229 | Re-entries: 114 | Survivors: 48 | Chip Leader: ‘Lexux2302’ (264,000)

 

BTS Leaderboard Standings After Day 4

After four action-packed days of action, the top three names on the BTS leaderboard standings remain unchanged from Tuesday. Rising Star Aman ‘KarmaPoker’ Parakh (3,555 points) is still the player to catch in the 10 Lakhs GTD BTS Leaderboard race, with Ashish ‘Notoriouskonvict’ Nailwal (3,419 points) and Ganesh ‘Ganesh24’ Durgade (3,222 points) ranked #2 & #3 respectively.

RankPlayerPoints
1Aman 'KarmaPoker' Parakh3,555
2Ashish 'Notoriouskonvict' Nailwal3,419
3Ganesh 'Ganesh24' Durgade3,222
4Bhanu 'Chennaino1' Prakash KC3,044
5Mohit 'thejoker' Mehta2,952
6CrystalTurtle442,872
7Neeraj 'SelfClaimedPro' Kumar2,829
8Siddhanth 'Bullzeye' Kapoor2,733
9Pritam 'Pritam1301' Amritkar2,710
10Shubham 'bakchod' Agarwal2,513

 

Sankalp ‘Wobbegong’ Marwah (Won 5 Lakhs GTD Afternoon Boost for 80,000), Sanjay ‘sanjaykotak’ Khanna (Won 2.50 Lakhs GTD Daily Boost for 60,700), ‘Kunnuuu’ (Won 1.50 Lakhs GTD Daily Night SPRINT for 53,060), ‘Sksushil’ (Won 1 Lakh GTD SPRINT for 37,310), Rahul ‘rahullpharm’ Agarwal (Won 1 Lakh GTD Daily Afternoon SPRINT for 23,110), Akash ‘Bazingaking’ Saluja (Won 1 Lakh GTD Baazi Super Value for 10,700), and ‘migueangel’ (Won 50K GTD 5-Max Daily for 5,830) won the other PokerBaazi marquees.

 

Spartan Poker

Destiny – ₹22 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹5,500

Entries – 205

Re-entries – 78

Rebuys – 171

Prize Pool – ₹22,70,000

Places Paid – 39

Spartan Poker user ‘MagicMan13’ conquered the site’s Wednesday headliner ₹22 Lakhs GTD Destiny, outlasting a vast 454-player field to win a site-best ₹4.55 Lakhs and a seat in the Destiny 24.0 SnG Finale. Upcoming poker pro Gopal ‘Mamacita’ Bajaj came second for ₹3.03 Lakhs – his third time making it into the FT in the Wednesday flagship.

Gopal Bajaj
Gopal Bajaj

 

Gopal Bajaj made away with almost ₹3.14 Lakhs in Wednesday winnings on the back of three ITM finishes. His online stats (Spartan Poker & PokerStars India): Lifetime Winnings: ₹2.37 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹72.36 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2022: #28 | Annual Winnings: ₹1.26 Crores

Final Table Results

  1. MagicMan13 – ₹4,55,135
  2. Gopal ‘Mamacita’ Bajaj – ₹3,02,591
  3. Nadeem ‘blindgame’ Basha – ₹2,21,325
  4. Armaan ‘space ace’ Kochhar – ₹1,78,649
  5. Sreekanth ‘GL1DE’ Narayan – ₹1,40,059
  6. Rahul ‘JacK`spArrow’ Kumar M Jain – ₹1,06,009
  7. frostbyte28 – ₹77,861
  8. bigbucks – ₹57,204

 

Wednesday High Roller – ₹20 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹16,500

Entries – 91

Re-entries – 38

Rebuys – 52

Prize Pool – ₹27,15,000

Places Paid – 17

Taking down his first flagship title since returning from the 2022 WSOP, Anirudh ‘flash’ Reddy galloped across the finish line in Spartan Poker’s ₹20 Lakhs GTD Wednesday High Roller, overcoming a guarantee-crushing 181-entry field to win ₹5.88 Lakhs. He struck a heads-up deal with PokerGuru Ambassador Ratul ‘Atriohm’ Steves (2nd for ₹5.57 Lakhs).

Anirudh Reddy
Anirudh Reddy

 

Not only was yesterday’s victory Reddy’s first in almost four months, but it also pushed him past ₹3 Crores in tracked online earnings.

Anirudh Reddy’s online stats (excluding PokerStars India): Lifetime Winnings: ₹3.03 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹99.49 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2022: #6

Sahil ‘d0nkish’ Mahboobani picked up ₹2.54 Lakhs on the back of two ITM runs, which include:

Sahil Mahboobani
Sahil Mahboobani

 

> 4th in Spartan Poker’s Wednesday High Roller for ₹2,48,423

> 39th in Adda52’s Maverick for ₹6,000

Sahil Mahboobani’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹10.9 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹3.90 Crores |Titles Won in 2022: #8

Final Table Results

  1. Anirudh ‘flash’ Reddy – ₹5,88,102*
  2. Ratul ‘Atriohm’ Steves – ₹5,56,542*
  3. Tom Keen – ₹3,00,008
  4. Sahil ‘d0nkish’ Mahboobani – ₹2,48,423
  5. Raghav ‘Mr. Bean’ Ananth – ₹2,00,367
  6. Anish ‘TheProtagonist’ Arora – ₹1,58,013

*denotes a heads-up deal

 

‘aashikali13’ (Won 4 Lakhs GTD Wed Poker Nite #1 for 99,675) and ‘vishalguru’ (Won 2.50 Lakhs GTD Sundowner for 60,000) won the other Spartan Poker marquees.

 

Pocket52

PPC#17 Pocket Jacks – 6 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – 2,500

Entries – 120

Re-entries – 88

Prize Pool – 6,00,000

Places Paid – 30

The user ‘GotNoChange’ took the 208-player field by storm in Pocket52’s Wednesday PPC flagship, 6 Lakhs GTD PPC#17 Pocket Jacks, adding first place prize money worth 1.20 Lakhs to their bankroll.

Shrvan ‘SSAHisoka’ Amlekar fell inches short of the finish line, taking home 85,500 in second place.

Shrvan Amlekar
Shrvan Amlekar

 

Final Table Results

  1. GotNoChange – 1,20,000
  2. Shrvan ‘SSAHisoka’ Amlekar – 85,500
  3. Gizopy – 60,000
  4. killer001 – 42,000
  5. Madlen – 31,500
  6. Salazar – 24,000

 

PPC#18 Pocket Tanks – 3 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – 1,650

Entries – 111

Re-entries – 60

Prize Pool – 3,00,000

Places Paid – 24

Pocket52 network user ‘Jayjay’ emerged triumphant over the 171-strong field in the other PPC marquee, 3 Lakhs GTD PPC#18 Pocket Tanks, accumulating 63,000 in first-place prize money.

‘rocks_hPLmeIVX82’ banked 46,500 in second place.

Final Table Results

  1. jayjay – 63,000
  2. rocks_hPLmeIVX82 – 46,500
  3. user1654179704 – 34,500
  4. quick_farfetch’d165_9398083 – 24,000
  5. tiltmenot – 18,000
  6. Sam_PEDbKBtEzK – 13,500

 

Shailesh ‘MrShailesh’ Kumar Patel (Won 2 Lakhs GTD PPC#15 Pocket Brunch for 40,200), ‘tiltmenot’ (Won 1.50 Lakhs GTD PPC#20 Pocket Chips for 34,500), ‘jayjay’ (Won 1.50 Lakhs GTD PPC#16 Pocket Snacks for 32,960), ‘kof98’ (Won 1 Lakh GTD PPC#14 Pocket Soda for 23,000), and ‘known_bear55_19204157’ (Won 75K GTD PPC#19 PocketsFull for 13,875) won the other Pocket Poker Championship titles on Wednesday.

 

MPL Poker

Wednesday Bonanza – 3 Lakh GTD

Buy-in – 1,100

Entries – 247

Prize Pool – 3,00,000

Places Paid – 37

MPL Poker user ‘ninja910549’ trampled over a 247-player field in the 3 Lakh GTD Wednesday Bonanza to win 70,500. The user ‘gaganlovepriya’ finished runner-up for 44,850.

Final Table Results

  1. ninja910549 – 70,500
  2. gaganlovepriya – 44,850
  3. r_g_love – 30,450
  4. Mampi ‘smartmaps189060’ Biswas – 24,150
  5. mirajahmed11 – 15,900
  6. Sandeep ‘kryptic99’ Varma R S – 11,250
  7. Mumal ‘yashashvi20’ Bhati – 9,000
  8. Suresh ‘fakir0098’ Kumar – 7,200

 

 

PokerDangal

PokerDangal’s “more affordable” 30 Lakhs GTD Destiny Changer Lite made its grand debut yesterday, playing out the first of six starting flights.

30 Lakhs GTD Destiny Changer Lite – Day 1A

> Day 1A – Entries: 97 | Rebuys: 18 | Survivors: 22 | Chip Leader: ‘Allin1’ (160,398)

 

PokerStars India

Night on Stars – 5 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – 2,750

Entries – 94

Re-entries – 70

Prize Pool – 5,00,000

Places Paid – 20

A day after finishing runner-up in BTS#14 Tuesday Prime, poker streamer Nitin ‘NRIPOKER’ Rawat scored the winning touchdown in PokerStars India`s 5 Lakhs GTD Night on Stars, netting 1.01 Lakhs. Last night`s BTS#16 third-place finisher, Himanshu ‘himkat@stars’ Kataria, made away with 77,611 in second place.

Nitin Rawat
Nitin Rawat

 

The two-time FTS title winner, Nitin Rawat, accumulated almost 3.92 Lakhs across five ITM runs, including three FT finishes, and even made Day 2 in the BTS Main Event!

His Wednesday finishes include:

> 3rd in Adda52’s Maverick for 2,33,612

> 1st in PokerStars India’s Night on Stars for 1,00,803

> 3rd in Spartan Poker’s Wed Poker Nite #1 for 46,305

> 79th in PokerBaazi`s BTS#19 Mini Main Event for 7,570

> 61st in PokerBaazi`s BTS#21 for 3,678

> Made Day 2 in PokerBaazi`s BTS#20 Main Event

Nitin Rawat’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: 1.33 Crores | Lifetime Profits: 54.87 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2022: #19

The 2,750 buy-in tournament clocked in 164 entries, falling ₹90,000 short of breaking even.

Final Table Series

  1. Nitin ‘NRIPOKER’ Rawat – 1,00,803
  2. Himanshu ‘himkat@stars’ Kataria – 77,611
  3. sudhipoker7 – 59,755
  4. prithvirajpalta – 46,007
  5. kuberan0 – 35,422
  6. Sriharsha ‘1ll|1ll1|ll1|’ Doddapaneni – 27,273
  7. roadiebanega – 20,998
  8. Pratibh ‘Pratibh Saluja’ Saluja – 16,167

 

‘jjrock420’ (Won 1.50 Lakhs GTD Big Bubble Rush for 37,057), Clinton ‘Clinton Tavares’ Tavares (Won 1 Lakh GTD Ultrasonic for 24,024), Abhishek ‘Addysonu’ Sonu (Won 50K GTD Afternoon on Stars for 12,145), Shobhit ‘shobz569’ Bhargava (Won 50K GTD Deepstack for 14,467), and Ravi ‘rkcravi’ Kumar (Won 40K GTD Primetime Grind for 9,558) won the other PokerStars India marquees.

 

IndiaPlays

5 Lakhs GTD Independence Special – Day 1C

> Day 1C – Entries: 44 | Rebuys: 20 | Survivors: 6 | Chip Leader: ‘godsfavchild’ (163,275)

 

Adda52

Maverick – ₹15 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹2,750

Entries – 289

Re-entries – 298

Prize Pool – ₹15,00,000

Places Paid – 63

Last Thursday’s FCS #69 High Roller runner-up finisher, Nishaanth ‘superdeluxe’ Shanmughasundaram (opted out of our tracking), did one better in Adda52’s Maverick last night as he overcame a field of 587 entries to win the top prize of ₹2.69 Lakhs. Before taking down the title, he struck a three-way deal with Vishnu ‘violator’ Khandelwal (2nd for ₹2.46 Lakhs) (opted out of our tracking) and last night`s Night on Stars champion Nitin ‘JeeneNhiDunga’ Rawat (3rd for ₹2.34 Lakhs).

Nishaanth Shanmughasundaram
Nishaanth Shanmughasundaram

 

The ₹2,750 buy-in event registered an overlay shortfall of ₹32,500, and the top 63 places crossed the money line.

Final Table Results

  1. Nishaanth ‘superdeluxe’ Shanmughasundaram – 2,69,310*
  2. Vishnu ‘violator’ Khandelwal – 2,46,328*
  3. Nitin ‘JeeneNhiDunga’ Rawat – 2,33,612*
  4. Sanat ‘mehro2511’ Mehrotra – 1,08,750
  5. Kanishka ‘kanishka27’ Samant – 75,000
  6. Pranay ‘setmeup’ Chawla – 52,500
  7. Shravan ‘sweatmyass13’ Chhabria – 41,250
  8. Vishwanath ‘vish4u2’ Borhade – 22,500

*denotes a three-way deal

 

La Luna – ₹4 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹1,800

Entries – 123

Re-entries – 93

Prize Pool – ₹4,00,000

Places Paid – 24

The Adda52 user ‘oshosidhant’ overcame the 216-entry field in Adda52’s La Luna, winning the 9:30 PM marquee for a site-best ₹1.10 Lakhs. Rishabh ‘rishabhharsh’ Harsh finished runner-up for ₹64,000.

oshosidhant’s Adda52 stats: Site Winnings: ₹6.96 Lakhs | Site Profits: ₹36,202.

The ₹1,800 buy-in event filled in an overlay shortfall of ₹45,760 and paid out 24 places.

Final Table Results

  1. oshosidhant – 1,09,800
  2. Rishabh ‘rishabhharsh’ Harsh – 64,000
  3. pokerkingAnish – 48,000
  4. rajsac – 34,400
  5. Drisha97 – 24,000
  6. Sanish ‘sanish21’ Chhabra – 17,000

 

Avinash ‘i_fart_you_faint’ Kumar (Won ₹2 Lakhs GTD Nano DST for ₹60,621), ‘Ganesh0606’ (Won ₹1.50 Lakhs GTD Nano Maverick for ₹27,406), Shibsambhu ‘robot3’ Ghosh (Won ₹1 Lakh GTD Nano Daily Adda for ₹26,250), Bhanu Prakash ‘ChennaiNo1’ KC (Won ₹90K GTD Nano Siesta for ₹21,291), ‘Machine541’ (Won ₹70K GTD Nano Crack Jack for ₹15,436), Naresh ‘nareshnow’ Kumar (Won ₹30K GTD Nano Battleship for ₹9,495), and ‘Don_07’ (Won ₹25K GTD Nano PLO for ₹7,623) won the other Adda52 marquees.

 

Khelo365

Khelo365 user ‘barath0’ fired three bullets in the 25K GTD 6 feet Under PLO Deepstack before taking down the title for 12,500. Site regular ‘Helperofpoker’ came second for 7,500.

 

Keep following PokerGuru for daily updates on the biggest winners across the major domestic networks!

Dhaval Mudgal, Sahil Chutani, Rajat Sharma & Pavankiran Bellamkonda Rake in Seven-Figure Scores on Sunday

This past Sunday was an action-packed one with two ₹50 Lakhs GTD tournaments – Adda52 Big Game and PokerDangal’s Destiny Changer – leading the charge. Pocket52`s Pocket Friendly Series also wound down to a close yesterday.

The player who towered over everyone on Sunday was musician-and-poker pro Dhaval Mudgal! Interestingly, though Mudgal won no titles, his runner-up finishes in the Adda52 Big Game (₹11.89 Lakhs), and Spartan Poker’s Armageddon (₹3.06 Lakhs) and another two deep runs earned him a jaw-dropping ₹15.19 Lakhs – making him the Sunday chartbuster!

One of the longest-running heaters this year has been that of Young Gun Sahil Chutani. Chutani, the most profitable player of the year on our tracked database, delivered another smashing run last night, where he took down Adda52 Big Game for ₹12.94 Lakhs following a three-way deal. The Sunday score catapulted him to the top of the July leaderboard standings and helped him close in significantly to Young Gun Anuj Yadav for the #1 position on the annual leaderboard.

Veteran pro Rajat Sharma claimed the third spot in the Adda52 Big Game for ₹11.42 Lakhs. He ended the Sunday grind with ₹11.45 Lakhs in total winnings, storming into the “₹10 Crores Crore Club” (₹10.09 Crores) in tracked online winnings.

Pavankiran Bellamkonda was another player making a seven-figure Sunday haul worth ₹10.31 Lakhs. He finished runner-up in PokerBaazi’s BSS SuperStack (₹4.42 Lakhs) and followed it up with a fourth-place finish in the Adda52 Big Game (₹5.89 Lakhs).

Sunday`s other star attraction was PokerDangal`s biggest-ever ₹50 Lakhs GTD Destiny Changer. Bharat Goswami trounced the massive 1,304-entry field to walk away as the first-ever Destiny Changer champion and the top prize of ₹10 Lakhs!

Online reg ‘waghoneblood$’ (anonymity requested) took down Spartan Poker’s Sunday headliner, Sunday Superstack, for a career-best ₹7.68 Lakhs. They wrapped up their Sunday run with ₹7.87 Lakhs in overall winnings.

Actor, DJ, and poker player Siddhanth Kapoor was the last player standing in PokerBaazi’s BSS SuperStack, and pocketed a site-best ₹4.85 Lakhs, following a three-way deal with Pavankiran Bellamkonda (2nd for ₹4.42 Lakhs) and ‘Rids’ (3rd for ₹4.08 Lakhs). Kapoor cashed in two more events, locking in ₹5.77 Lakhs in Sunday winnings.

Siddharth Gangwar was another top reg who stood out on Sunday. He shipped Spartan Poker`s Armageddon and fired up a litany of deep runs, rounding up ₹5.10 Lakhs in Sunday winnings.

Young Gun Gaurav Sood was back to his winning ways last night! The two-time annual leaderboard topper shipped Spartan Poker’s Sunday DST for ₹3.78 Lakhs (won ₹4.27 Lakhs overall), picking up his first title in over six weeks.

Bracelet winner Aditya Sushant nailed PokerStars India’s Sunday Special, claiming ₹3.32 Lakhs up top, which is his best finish on the site this year. Vinayak Bajaj came second for ₹1.60 Lakhs.

Saurabh Rohila made the victory march in PokerStars India’s Sunday Highroller to win ₹2.40 Lakhs after defeating Chirag Sodha (2nd for ₹1.84 Lakhs) heads-up.

Pocket52’s Pocket Friendly Series (PFS) culminated yesterday, with the user ‘TryHard’ shipping the site’s Sunday flagship, The Bracelet Main Event, for ₹2.13 Lakhs.

Anirudh Valayaputtur won MPL Poker’s Sunday Showstopper for ₹73,500, while Monowar Hosen finished runner-up for ₹50,250.

Atishay Samuel, Ashit Sharma, Sachit Malik, Anurag Srivastava, Mohit Savargaonkar, Shubhadip Dasgupta, Utkasrh Vaish, Devinder Bahia, Shailesh Patel, Mohsin Shaikh, Nishant Pandey, Clinton Tavares, and Tejas Kadam won the other Sunday majors.

Here are the Sunday highlights!

 

Spartan Poker

Sunday Superstack – ₹35 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹11,000

Entries – 194

Re-entries – 76

Rebuys – 113

Prize Pool – ₹38,30,000

Places Paid – 39

Online reg ‘waghoneblood$’ (anonymity requested) shipped Spartan Poker’s signature Sunday tournament, ₹35 Lakhs GTD Sunday Superstack, for a career-best ₹7.68 Lakhs (their first title of the year). They cashed another ₹19,124 in PokerBaazi’s BSS SuperStack (32nd), rounding up an impressive ₹7.87 Lakhs overall.

waghoneblood$’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹1.52 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹30.65 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2022: #1

PokerGuru Ambassador Ratul ‘Atriohm’ Steves finished runner-up in Sunday Superstack and made another deep run, netting ₹5.25 Lakhs last night. His Sunday finishes include:

Ratul Steves
Ratul Steves

 

> 2nd in Spartan Poker’s Sunday Superstack for ₹5,10,539

> 48th in PokerBaazi’s BSS SuperStack for ₹14,091

Ratul Steves`s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹5.57 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹2.28 Crores | Titles Won in 2022: #5

Arman ‘ThandaBloke’ Khan was another player firing up two deep runs last night, pocketing ₹3.86 Lakhs (including bounties). His top Sunday finishes include:

Arman Khan
Arman Khan

 

> 3rd in Spartan Poker’s Sunday Superstack for ₹3,73,425

> 56th in PokerBaazi’s BSS SuperStack for ₹11,743

Rishab ‘NoChanc3’ Malik made five deep runs yesterday, accumulating ₹2.79 Lakhs through them. His Sunday finishes include:

Rishab Malik
Rishab Malik

 

> 6th in Spartan Poker’s Sunday Superstack for ₹1,78,861

> 6th in PokerStars India’s Sunday Highroller for ₹64,041

> 20th in Spartan Poker’s Sunday DST for ₹21,063

> 19th in PokerStars India’s Sunday Special for ₹10,210

> 52nd in PokerBaazi’s (7-Max) BSS SPRINT for ₹4,374

Rishab Malik’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹4.68 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹1.53 Crores | Titles Won in 2022: #11

Final Table Results

  1. waghoneblood$ – ₹7,67,915
  2. Ratul ‘Atriohm’ Steves – ₹5,10,539
  3. Arman ‘ThandaBloke’ Khan – ₹3,73,425
  4. Drunken Monk – ₹3,01,421
  5. Jaydeep ‘GOOGLE’ Dawer – ₹2,30,486
  6. Rishab ‘NoChanc3’ Malik – ₹1,78,861
  7. Guneet ‘GeeKay’ Kwatra – ₹1,31,369
  8. Michael ‘folditnoob’ Keishing – ₹96,516

 

Armageddon – ₹20 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹5,500

Entries – 204

Re-entries – 70

Rebuys – 185

Prize Pool – ₹22,95,000

Places Paid – 39

Siddharth ‘cooking_nuts’ Gangwar has been beasting the online MTTs since the start of the year and hit another career milestone yesterday by becoming the eighth player on our tracked database to cross ₹2 Crores in annual winnings. He packed in a hefty ₹5.10 Lakhs in Sunday winnings across a litany of deep runs, banking most of it from taking down Spartan Poker’s ₹20 Lakhs GTD Armageddon.

Siddharth Gangwar
Siddharth Gangwar

 

His top Sunday finishes include:

> 1st in Spartan Poker’s Armageddon for ₹4,60,148

> 41st in PokerBaazi’s BSS SuperStack for ₹16,440

> 3rd in PokerStars India’s Big Bubble Rush for ₹10,602

Siddharth Gangwar’s online stats: Lifetime Winning: ₹3.64 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹1.42 Crores | Titles Won in 2022: #20 | Annual Winnings: ₹2.03 Crores | Ranked #3 in the Annual TLB (Points) Standings | Ranked #8 in the 2022 Leaderboard Standings (Total Cashes)

Sunday`s biggest scorer, Dhaval ‘ElegantlyWasted’ Mudgal, finished runner-up for ₹3.06 Lakhs. He scored in three other events, including a runner-up finish in Adda52’s Big Game for ₹11.89 Lakhs, making away with the day`s best ₹15.15 Lakhs. The Sunday haul has pushed Mudgal past ₹1 Crore in annual winnings.

Dhaval Mudgal
Dhaval Mudgal

 

Dhaval Mudgal’s online stats (excluding PokerStars India): Lifetime Winnings: ₹4.70 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹1.31 Crores | Titles Won in 2022: #17 | Annual Winnings: ₹1.05 Crores

PokerGuru Ambassador Debneil ‘ChhotaDon’ Mukherjee had an eventful Sunday run with five ITM finishes, collectively worth ₹2.33 Lakhs. His Sunday finishes include:

> 5th in Spartan Poker`s Armageddon for ₹1,41,602

> 15th in PokerBaazi’s BSS SuperStack for ₹36,905

> 7th in PokerBaazi’s BSS MonsterStack for ₹30,268

> 13th in Adda52’s Sunday Showdown for ₹13,928

> 26th in Spartan Poker’s Battlezone for ₹10,143

Debneil Mukherjee’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹1.57 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹27.13 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2022: #10

Final Table Results

  1. Siddharth ‘cooking_nuts’ Gangwar – ₹4,60,147
  2. Dhaval ‘ElegantlyWasted’ Mudgal – ₹3,05,924
  3. Murakunda ‘@Valmiki@’ Ratnakar – ₹2,23,763
  4. Rahul ‘JacK`spArrow’ Jain – ₹1,80,617
  5. Debneil ‘ChhotaDon’ Mukherjee – ₹1,41,602
  6. Punya ‘madhumangal’ Behera – ₹1,07,177
  7. Harsht ‘HeroCaller2.0’ Sanghi – ₹78,719
  8. Ashish ‘Donkey 07’ Munot – ₹57,834

 

Sunday DST (6-Max) – ₹15 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹5,500

Entries – 179

Re-entries – 45

Rebuys – 133

Prize Pool – ₹17,85,000

Places Paid – 31

The two-time ‘Player of the Year,’ Young Gun Gaurav ‘mozzie17’ Sood, might have fallen behind in the POY race this year, but he is not out of form. The winningest online MTT player in the country filled in a nifty ₹4.27 Lakhs in Sunday winnings, including Spartan Poker’s ₹15 Lakhs GTD Sunday DST (6-Max) title for ₹3.78 Lakhs.

Gaurav Sood
Gaurav Sood

 

His Sunday finishes include:

> 1st in The Spartan Poker’s Sunday DST for ₹3,77,528 (his first title victory in over six weeks)

> 37th in Spartan Poker’s # Sunday Superstack for ₹26,427

> 54th in PokerBaazi’s BSS SuperStack for ₹14,091

> 37th in PokerStars India’s Sunday Special for ₹8,750

Gaurav Sood’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹13.04 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹6.67 Crores | Titles Won in 2022: #7 | Annual Winnings: ₹1.90 Crores | Ranked #12 in the 2022 Leaderboard Standings (Total Cashes)

Last week`s Friday High Roller champion, PokerGuru Ambassador Deepankur ‘AngryPitbull’ Gupta, raked in ₹2.16 Lakhs through four ITM finishes (and bounties).

Deepankur Gupta
Deepankur Gupta

 

His Sunday finishes include:

> 5th in Spartan Poker’s Sunday DST for ₹1,14,954

> 29th in Adda52’s Big Game for ₹55,400

> 23rd in PokerBaazi’s BSS SuperStack for ₹24,827

> 21st in Spartan Poker’s Armageddon for ₹17,957

Deepankur Gupta’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹2.32 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹90.66 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2022: #6

The first-ever THC Main Event champion Abhimanyu ‘Asraat Manfi’ Mittal, packed in ₹1.54 Lakhs through five ITM finishes, which include:

Abhimanyu Mittal
Abhimanyu Mittal

 

> 6th in Spartan Poker’s Sunday DST for ₹87,287

> 8th in Adda52’s Sunday Showdown for ₹25,821

> 34th in PokerBaazi’s BSS SuperStack for ₹19,124

> 14th in PokerStars India’s Sunday Special for ₹15,192

> 21st in Spartan Poker’s Sunday PN for ₹6,590

Abhimanyu Mittal’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹2.65 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹1.27 Crores | Titles Won in 2022: #5

Final Table Results

  1. Gaurav ‘mozzie17’ Sood – ₹3,77,528
  2. SlugaBed – ₹2,54,184
  3. SiValee – ₹1,79,214
  4. Samyak ‘stonedurr’ Sethi – ₹1,45,299
  5. Deepankur ‘AngryPitbull’ Gupta – ₹1,14,954
  6. Abhimanyu ‘Asraat Manfi’ Mittal – ₹87,287

 

Battlezone – ₹10 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹3,300

Entries – 161

Re-entries – 52

Rebuys – 132

Prize Pool – ₹10,35,000

Places Paid – 31

Atishay ‘momstacos’ Samuel raced past a 345-entry field in Spartan Poker’s ₹10 Lakhs GTD Battlezone, winning the evening tournament for ₹2.19 Lakhs (his third title of the month). Jyoti ‘joey114114’ Ranjan Nayak finished runner-up for ₹1.47 Lakhs.

Atishay Samuel
Atishay Samuel

 

Atishay Samuel`s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹2.34 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹70.04 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2022: #16

Final Table Results

  1. Atishay ‘momstacos’ Samuel – ₹2,18,903
  2. Jyoti ‘joey114114’ Ranjan Nayak – ₹1,47,384
  3. Mahesh ‘mariokart’ Shyamsundar – ₹1,03,914
  4. Siddharth ‘FLIPopotamus’ Kadel – ₹84,249
  5. Kunal ‘SoormaBhopali’ Patni – ₹66,654
  6. devildash10 – ₹50,612
  7. AREWEALIENS – ₹36,950
  8. Pranav ‘R_U_SUAR’ Khandalkar – ₹27,014

 

Sunday PN – ₹10 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹1,100

Entries – 477

Re-entries – 176

Rebuys – 295

Prize Pool – ₹10,00,000

Places Paid – 95

Spartan Poker reg Mohit ‘OfcourseOfcourse’ Savargaonkar championed over the 357-entry field in Spartan Poker’s ₹10 Lakhs GTD Sunday PN to collect the ₹1.52 Lakhs top prize. The three-time PN Hi-Fi winner struck a three-way deal with ‘ronzy’ (2nd for ₹1.20 Lakhs) and ‘ksmunda’ (3rd for ₹1.20 Lakhs).

Mohit Savargaonkar
Mohit Savargaonkar

 

Mohit Savargaonkar fired up another two ITM runs on Spartan Poker yesterday, cashing the Sunday DST (26th for ₹17,493) and Battlezone (24th for ₹7,683) for a total take-home worth ₹1.78 Lakhs. His Spartan Poker’s stats: Site Winnings: ₹1.16 Crores | Site Profits: ₹25.67 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2022: #12

Final Table Results

  1. Mohit ‘OfcourseOfcourse’ Savargaonkar – ₹1,52,472*
  2. ronzy – ₹1,20,291*
  3. ksmunda – ₹1,20,038*
  4. Myron ‘mehhhhh’ Pereira – ₹64,500
  5. Rids1 – ₹51,100
  6. Nitesh ‘hopster90’ Baliyan- ₹39,800
  7. Rishi ‘rb316’ Bhardwaj – ₹28,382
  8. Raman ‘Ranzoo9’ Arora – ₹19,820

*denotes three-way deal

 

Utkasrh ‘kidpokerNJ’ Vaish (Won ₹2 Lakhs GTD Sundowner for ₹42,005), ‘LaCatedral’ (Won ₹1.25 Lakhs GTD PN Night Rider for ₹39,229), Devinder ‘Greko‘ Bahia (Won ₹1.50 Lakhs GTD PN Reloaded for ₹34,875), ‘Bittu Bauji’ (Won ₹1 Lakh GTD PN Ultimate 4 Card PLO for ₹31,350), Mohsin ‘gongo’ Shaikh (Won ₹1 Lakh GTD Chip Up for ₹21,150), ‘Bustednoob9’ (Won The Centurion ₹50K GTD for ₹9,452) won the other Spartan Poker marquees.

 

PokerDangal

Destiny Changer – ₹50 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹3,850

Total Entries – 912

Total Rebuys – 392

Total Survivors – 120

Prize Pool – ₹50,00,000

Places Paid – 120

PokerDangal`s biggest-ever ₹50 Lakhs GTD Destiny Changer was the biggest attraction on the site on Sunday. The ₹3,850 buy-in MTT packed in a lot of action, gathering 1,304 entries across six starting flights. A total of 120 qualifying stacks returned for Day 2 at 9 PM yesterday, and all received payouts.

Bharat ‘bhootnath’ Goswami walked away as the first-ever Destiny Changer champion and a personal-best ₹10 Lakhs payday! ‘rawalpindi’ netted ₹5 Lakhs towards their second-place finish, while online regular Gadadhar ‘gd1921’ Behera cashed ₹3.07 Lakhs in third place.

Final Table Results

  1. Bharat ‘bhootnath’ Goswami – ₹10,00,000
  2. rawalpindi – ₹5,00,000
  3. Gadadhar ‘gd1921’ Behera – ₹3,07,000
  4. Avinash ‘janab’ Koneru – ₹2,25,500
  5. Locknkey – ₹1,95,000
  6. Rakesh ‘GagubaiXXX’ Singh – ₹1,60,000

 

PokerBaazi

BSS SuperStack – ₹20 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹5,500

Entries – 329

Re-entries – 342

Prize Pool – ₹33,55,000

Places Paid – 81

Actor, DJ, and poker reg Siddhanth ‘Bullzeye’ Kapoor gave the top pros a run for their money last night, cashing a personal-best ₹5.77 Lakhs across his Sunday run. He most prominently championed the 671-entry field in PokerBaazi’s BSS SuperStack for a site-best ₹4.85 Lakhs, following a three-way deal with Pavankiran ‘rootahuamachi’ Bellamkonda (2nd for ₹4.42 Lakhs) and ‘Rids’ (3rd for ₹4.08 Lakhs).

Siddhanth Kapoor
Siddhanth Kapoor

 

Kapoor`s top Sunday finishes include:

> 1st in PokerBaazi`s BSS SuperStack for a site-best ₹4,84,520 (3-way deal) (his first title win in three months)

> 11th in Spartan Poker`s Sunday DST for ₹32,666

> 21st in SpartanPoker`s Sunday Superstack for ₹31,709

Siddhanth Kapoor`s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹2.30 Crores | Titles Won in 2022: #3

Pavankiran Bellamkonda had a memorable Sunday grind, with two FT finishes and a whopping ₹10.31 Lakhs in total winnings. His top Sunday finishes include:

Pavankiran B
Pavankiran B

 

> 4th in Adda52’s Big Game for ₹5,88,625

> 2nd in PokerBaazi`s BSS SuperStack for ₹4,42,191 (3-way deal)

Pavankiran Bellamkonda`s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹1.81 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹46.64 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2022: #5

Final Table Results

  1. Siddhanth ‘Bullzeye’ Kapoor – ₹4,84,520*
  2. Pavankiran ‘rootahuamachi’ Bellamkonda – ₹4,42,191*
  3. Rids – ₹407,573*
  4. Shravan ‘FishStars’ Chhabria – ₹2,07,004
  5. Amar ‘kidpoker0109’ Mehta – ₹1,55,001
  6. Ganesh ‘Ganesh24’ Durgade – ₹1,25,142
  7. Ujjwal ‘Mr_Robot’ Narwal – ₹1,03,670
  8. Lordofspades62 – ₹82,533

*denotes a three-way deal

 

(7-Max) BSS SPRINT – ₹5 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹2,200

Entries – 258

Re-entries – 239

Prize Pool – ₹9,94,000

Places Paid – 63

PokerBaazi’s (7-Max) BSS SPRINT brought in 497 entrants (including 239 re-entries), generating a profitable ₹9.94 Lakhs prize pool. Sachit ‘Happihigh’ Malik fired five bullets in the Sunday marquee before taking down the title for a personal-best ₹1.93 Lakhs. Abilash ‘Steelbala’ Bala finished runner-up for ₹1.35 Lakhs.

Sachit Malik’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹26.06 Lakhs | Lifetime Profits: ₹13,200 | Titles Won in 2022: #4

Final Table Results

  1. Sachit ‘Happihigh’ Malik – ₹1,93,134
  2. Abilash ‘Steelbala’ Bala – ₹1,35,383
  3. Rids – ₹87,074
  4. happyfish – ₹64,411
  5. Neeraj ‘SelfClaimedPro’ Kumar – ₹48,308
  6. Abhishek ‘ketchup’ Kumar – ₹38,766
  7. Dayanand ‘dayanandprass’ Prass – ₹32,305

 

BSS MonsterStack 6-Max – ₹5 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹2,500

Entries – 182

Re-entries – 147

Prize Pool – ₹8,22,000

Places Paid – 36

The former IOPC – The Millionaire Main Event champion Anurag ‘13anurag’ Srivastava overcame the 329-player field in PokerBaazi’s ₹5 Lakhs GTD BSS MonsterStack, winning the 5 PM Sunday marquee for the second time last night for ₹1.82 Lakhs. Yesterday`s Sunday DST fourth-place finisher, Samyak ‘stonedurrr’ Sethi, making his second FT appearance of the day, cashed ₹1.27 Lakhs in second place.

Anurag Srivastava
Anurag Srivastava

 

One of the most consistent winners on the circuit today, Srivastava cashed another five events, cumulatively adding ₹2.66 Lakhs. His top Sunday finishes include:

> 1st in PokerBaazi’s BSS MonsterStack (6-Max) for ₹1,81,690

> 9th in Spartan Poker’s Armageddon for ₹47,966

> 18th in Spartan Poker’s Sunday DST for ₹21,063

Anurag Srivastava’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹8.44 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹2.67 Crores | Titles Won in 2022: #19 | Annual Winnings: ₹1.84 Crores | Moves to #13 in the 2022 Leaderboard Standings (Total Cashes)

Final Table Results

  1. Anurag ‘13anurag’ Srivastava – ₹1,81,690
  2. Samyak ‘stonedurrr’ Sethi – ₹1,27,488
  3. rajuchacha11 – ₹82,003
  4. blondBarrel2417 – ₹60,701
  5. Priyank ‘Piko1432’ Kothari – ₹45,567
  6. mradul28399 – ₹36,437

 

‘kabirsingh11’ (Won ₹2 Lakhs GTD BSS for ₹61,563), ‘charliejod’ (Won ₹1.50 Lakhs GTD BSS Night SPRINT for ₹51,072), ‘lklboss’ (Won ₹1 Lakh GTD SPRINT for ₹26,080), ‘yano’ (Won ₹1 Lakh GTD Baazi Super Value for ₹11,460), Kamal ‘syrubinek’ Punjabi (Won ₹40K GTD PLO Daily for ₹9,900), and ‘punisher03’ (Won ₹50K GTD 5-Max Daily for ₹6,100) won the other Sunday majors on PokerBaazi.

 

MPL Poker

Sunday Showstopper – ₹3 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹1,500

Entries – 155

Prize Pool – ₹3,00,000

Places Paid – 30

Anirudh ‘comeback’ Valayaputtur sailed past the 155-player field in MPL Poker’s ₹3 Lakhs GTD Sunday Showstopper to win his maiden online title and a personal-best ₹73,500. Monowar ‘lutlunga’ Hosen took home ₹50,250 for his second-place finish.

Final Table Results

  1. Anirudh ‘comeback’ Valayaputtur – ₹73,500
  2. Monowar ‘lutlunga’ Hosen – ₹50,250
  3. Shreyas ‘smarthealth9065’ Mantri – ₹31,500
  4. Himanshu ‘comeontheboyzz’ Arora – ₹26,700
  5. Jharna ‘expert5244801’ Pan – ₹18,300
  6. Anil ‘rajajee0070’ Chaudhary – ₹12,450
  7. Amit ‘TAJ’ Joshi – ₹9,450
  8. Ramesh ‘sunday0050’ Pandit – ₹7,950

 

 

Pocket52

THE BRACELET MAIN EVENT – ₹15 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹1,100

Entries – 214

Prize Pool – ₹15,00,000

Places Paid – 214

Pocket52 network user ‘TryHard’ outclassed the 214-player survivor field in the Pocket-Friendly Series showstopper, ₹15 Lakhs GTD THE BRACELET MAIN EVENT, to win ₹2.13 Lakhs. ‘finish’ settled for a runner-up payday worth ₹1.28 Lakhs.

Final Table Results

  1. TryHard – ₹2,13,000
  2. finish – ₹1,27,500
  3. kanhaiya0011 – ₹82,500
  4. KOHINOOR – ₹63,750
  5. Sunny82 – ₹48,450
  6. Prabhat ‘Prabhat2810’ Kumar – ₹36,000

 

PFS#45 POCKET KINGS – ₹5 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹1,000

Entries – 339

Re-entries – 251

Prize Pool – ₹5,00,000

Places Paid – 92

Site user ‘kingthinosc’ bested a stacked 590-player field in the PFS headliner on the last day of the series, ₹5 Lakhs GTD PFS#45 POCKET KINGS, to win ₹89,564. ‘Novus’ took home ₹61,676 in second-place prize money.

Final Table Results

  1. kingthinosc – ₹89,564
  2. Novus – ₹61,676
  3. DONKESHWAR – ₹40,223
  4. user1654705244 – ₹29,497
  5. 88##.580##129182_5254453 – ₹21,452
  6. puffpuffpass – ₹21,452

 

‘4betbluff’ (Won ₹2 Lakhs GTD PFS#46 POCKET QUEENS for ₹36,000), ‘darbarji’ (Won ₹2 Lakhs GTD PFS#43 POCKET LUNCH for ₹36,000), ‘user1654113800’ (Won ₹1.50 Lakhs GTD PFS#44 SUPER SNACKS for ₹27,750), Shailesh ‘MrShailesh’ Patel (Won ₹1.25 Lakhs GTD PFS#48 SUPER DESSERT for ₹23,875), and ‘VINVIN’ (Won ₹75K GTD PFS#42 POCKET SODA for ₹ 15,563), won the other Pocket Friendly Series titles on the last day of the series!

 

PokerStars India

Sunday Special (On-time Rake Refund) – ₹15 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹5,500

Entries – 157

Re-entries – 121

Total Prize Pool – ₹15,00,000

Regular Prize Pool – ₹8,05,000

Bounty Prize Pool – ₹6,95,000

Places Paid – 31

Back from an eventful 2022 WSOP, bracelet winner Aditya ‘serendipity789’ Sushant overcame a stacked 278-player field (including 121 re-entries) in PokerStars India’s ₹15 Lakhs GTD Sunday Special (On-time Rake Refund) to win ₹3.32 Lakhs (₹1.97 Lakhs in bounties) (his best finish on the site this year). Vinayak ‘koi.toh.rok.lo’ Bajaj collected ₹1.60 Lakhs (₹25,156 in bounties) for his second-place finish.

Aditya Sushant
Aditya Sushant

 

In line with its On-Time Rake Refund promotion, PokerStars India refunded the ₹500 in rake to everyone registered for the event before the first hand was dealt.

Final Table Results (Includes Bounties)

  1. Aditya ‘serendipity789’ Sushant – ₹3,31,796
  2. Vinayak ‘koi.toh.rok.lo’ Bajaj – ₹1,60,312
  3. Aditya ‘ukid767’ Singh – ₹1,02,287
  4. Akshat ‘takingcuntrol’ Sharma – ₹87,045
  5. Madhab ‘madhabpal2015’ Pal – ₹70,271
  6. Arun ‘realruny’ Sriram – ₹50,771
  7. thisisme16 – ₹80,680
  8. sssss951 – ₹30,632
  9. Vaibhav ‘Tems30’ Temani – ₹28,406

 

Sunday Highroller (On-time Rake Refund) – ₹10 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹11,000

Entries – 67

Re-entries – 37

Prize Pool – ₹10,40,000

Places Paid – 13

The IOPC July 2022 The Crown champion Saurabh ‘saurabh21’ Rohila hit the jackpot in PokerStars India’s ₹10 Lakhs GTD Sunday Highroller (On-time Rake Refund). He won the Sunday marquee for the first time yesterday for ₹2.40 Lakhs. The NPS 2.0 Main Event champion Chirag ‘WhyworrY_56’ Sodha placed runner-up for ₹1.84 Lakhs.

Saurabh Rohila
Saurabh Rohila

 

Rohila drove up the Sunday action by making away with ₹3.04 Lakhs across four deep runs. His Sunday finishes include:

> 1st in PokerStars India’s Sunday Highroller (On-time Rake Refund) for ₹2,39,652

> 20th in PokerBaazi’s BSS SuperStack for ₹27,847

> 11th in PokerStars India’s Sunday Special (On-time Rake Refund) for ₹27,015

> 18th in PokerBaazi’s BSS MonsterStack (6-Max) for ₹9,294

Saurabh Rohila’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹4.51 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹1.80 Crores | Titles Won in 2022: #15 | Annual Winnings: ₹2.18 Crores | Annual Profits: ₹1.17 Crores | Ranked #4 in the 2022 Leaderboard Standings (Total Cashes)| Ranked #3 in Annual Profits

Like every Sunday, the site refunded the ₹700 in rake to everyone registered in the Sunday Highroller before the first hand was dealt.

Final Table Results

  1. Saurabh ‘saurabh21’ Rohila – ₹2,39,652
  2. Chirag ‘WhyworrY_56’ Sodha – ₹1,84,059
  3. Mithun ‘ThePokeRajaIN’ Mahesh – ₹1,41,362
  4. Sanish ‘sneakysani’ Chhabra – ₹1,08,569
  5. Ashit ‘Cringing’ Sharma – ₹83,384
  6. Rishab ‘NoChan(3’ Malik – ₹64,041
  7. Myron ‘khAAbib’ Pereira – ₹49,185
  8. Ashwin ‘Ashwinvijay’ Vijay – ₹37,775
  9. tabahi2k18 – ₹29,012

 

‘Fi$h@rk’ (Won ₹1.50 Lakhs GTD for Big Bubble Rush for ₹39,732), ‘RAV1619’ (Won ₹1 Lakh GTD Ultrasonic for ₹26,448), ‘Ansh362’ (Won ₹1.25 Lakhs GTD Sunday Storm for ₹19,029), ‘ps pro vegas’ (Won ₹40K GTD Total KO 100% for ₹18,363), Clinton ‘Clinton Tavares’ Tavares (Won ₹50K GTD Afternoon on Stars for ₹17,577), and Tejas ‘fookerpoker’ Kadam (Won ₹50K GTD Deepstack for ₹10,184) won the other Sunday marquees on PokerStars India.

 

Adda52

Adda52 Big Game – ₹50 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹27,500

Entries – 163

Re-Entries – 114

Prize Pool – ₹69,25,003

Places Paid – 30

The most profitable player of 2022, Young Gun Sahil ‘bluffme19’ Chutani, continued his indomitable run by championing the biggest guaranteed tournament on Sunday, the ₹50 Lakhs GTD Adda52 Big Game. The two-time IOPC – Legends winner outran the guarantee-crushing 277-entry field to win ₹12.94 Lakhs – his sixth seven-figure online score. He chopped the Sunday headliner with seasoned pros Dhaval ‘dirtyzoso’ Mudgal (2nd for ₹11.89 Lakhs) and Rajat ‘oshoswami’ Sharma (3rd for ₹11.42 Lakhs).

Sahil Chutani
Sahil Chutani

 

With the win, Sahil Chutani extended his commanding lead on the 2022 profit charts and jumped to the #1 position in the July leaderboard standings. He also reduced the gap between him and fellow BTR coach Young Gun Anuj Yadav in the 2022 Player of the Year race.

Anuj Yadav
Anuj Yadav

 

Sahil Chutani’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹6.30 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹3.51 Crores | Titles Won in 2022: #17 | Annual Winnings: ₹2.71 Crores | Annual Profits: ₹1.89 Crores | Moves to #1 in the July Leaderboard Standings | Ranked #2 in the 2022 Leaderboard Standings | Ranked #1 in Annual Profits

The Apr 2022 TMS – Monday Millionaire champion Dhaval Mudgal was Sunday`s top scorer with two runner-up finishes and a jaw-dropping ₹15.19 Lakhs in total winnings. Last night`s run has pushed him past ₹1 Crore in annual winnings.

Dhaval Mudgal
Dhaval Mudgal

 

His Sunday finishes include:

> 2nd in Adda52’s Big Game for ₹11,89,345

> 2nd in Spartan Poker’s Armageddon for ₹3,05,924

> 31st in Spartan Poker’s Sunday DST for ₹15,708

> 33rd in Adda52’s Sunday Showdown for ₹8,496

Dhaval Mudgal’s online stats (excluding PokerStars India): Lifetime Winnings: ₹4.70 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹1.31 Crores | Titles Won in 2022: #17 | Annual Winnings: ₹1.05 Crores

Last night`s BSS SuperStack runner-up finisher Pavankiran ‘RootahuaMacchi’ Bellamkonda (4th for ₹5.89 Lakhs), the #2 ranked player of July, Aayush ‘aayusharya’ Arya (5th for ₹3.98 Lakhs), and PokerGuru Ambassador Ankit ‘d00mtr00p3r’ Wadhawan (6th for ₹2.77 Lakhs) also FT-ed the Big Game.

The ₹27,500 buy-in Big Game collected a guarantee-crushing ₹69.25 Lakhs prize pool (almost 40% more than its advertised guarantee) and paid out 30 places.

Final Table Results

  1. Sahil ‘bluffme19’ Chutani – ₹12,93,660*
  2. Dhaval ‘dirtyzoso’ Mudgal – ₹11,89,345*
  3. Rajat ‘oshoswami’ Sharma – ₹11,42,233*
  4. Pavankiran ‘RootahuaMacchi’ Bellamkonda – ₹5,88,625
  5. Aayush ‘aayusharya’ Arya – ₹3,98,188
  6. Ankit ‘d00mtr00p3r’ Wadhawan – ₹2,77,000

*denotes a three-way deal

 

Sunday Showdown – ₹10 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹2,500

Entries – 265

Re-entries – 279

Prize Pool – ₹12,24,000

Places Paid – 55

The two-time Sunday Special winner Ashit ‘nexus010’ Sharma topped a 544-entry field in Adda52`s ₹10 Lakhs GTD Sunday Showdown to win ₹2.02 Lakhs, following a heads-up deal with ‘arjunraghani4444’ (2nd for ₹1.92 Lakhs).

Ashit Sharma
Ashit Sharma

 

Sharma crossed the money line in another three events, making away with ₹3.48 Lakhs overall – enough to push him past ₹1 Crore in lifetime profits.

His Sunday finishes include:

> 1st in Adda52’s Sunday Showdown for ₹2,02,035

> 5th in PokerStars India’s Sunday Highroller (On-time Rake Refund) for ₹83,384

> 9th in Spartan Poker’s Sunday DST for ₹38,556

> 31st in Spartan Poker’s Armageddon for ₹17,901

Ashit Sharma’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹3.78 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹1.01 Crores | Titles Won in 2022: #12 | Annual Winnings: ₹1.04 Crores

Final Table Results

  1. Ashit ‘nexus010’ Sharma – ₹2,02,035*
  2. arjunraghani4444 – ₹1,91,570*
  3. Ashwin ‘Ashwinvijay1399’ Vijay – ₹1,22,030
  4. Kashish ‘Fletcher03’ Gupta – ₹89,448
  5. Umesh ‘Mandyd723’ Singh – ₹65,565
  6. Sanjay ‘Floppednuts’ Kumar – ₹48,059
  7. Vaibhav ‘Vaibhi18’ Arora – ₹35,227
  8. Abhimanyu ‘PsychoDrama’ Mittal – ₹25,821

*denotes a heads-up deal

 

Shubhadip ‘mig22’ Dasgupta (Won ₹2.50 Lakhs GTD Holdem Bash for ₹69,500), ‘avd2991995’ (Won ₹1.50 Lakhs GTD Dinesh Karthik Pinch Hitter for ₹26,890), and Nishant ‘stockfull’ Pandey (Won ₹1.25 Lakhs GTD Sunday Bounty for ₹21,016) won the other Sunday marquees on Adda52.

 

Khelo365

Khelo365’s Sunday staple, ₹1 Lakh GTD Big Bang, drew 42 hopefuls and ‘inderenggi’ outlasted them all to win the title for ₹37,000. ‘Reverse88’ placed runner-up for ₹25,000.

The user ‘Weather65’ took down Khelo365’s ₹50K GTD Dominator for ₹15,000, beating ‘Sogaya123’ (2nd for ₹10,000) heads-up.

 

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This Week in Poker: June 29 – July 5

In the PokerGuru feature ‘This Week in Poker,’ we bring you the weekly roundup of the most significant online scores by Indian MTT players and the top stories from both the live and online poker circuit. Here are this week’s top stories!

The last seven days seemed to have passed by faster than usual as the high-octane action both online and offline had us working overtime! The 2022 WSOP and PokerBaazi`s APT Online India series were the top themes this week.

With the world`s biggest poker spectacle, the 2022 WSOP, well underway, it’s only natural to begin the week’s top stories coming out of Las Vegas. It`s been a busy summer, and turnouts at the new home of the WSOP have pretty much been around to or exceeded records.

India is well represented at the annual this time with a sizable contingent of players in the bracelet race. Still, one player who has been genuinely crushing the series is our PokerGuru Ambassador Kartik Ved. The former bracelet winner made a close run to adding a second bracelet (his first in a live event) in Event #66: $1,000 Mini Main Event. He finished third for a massive $275,593 (~2.17 Crores) – the highest by anyone from India at the 2022 WSOP and the fourth-best score overall – making him an easy choice as our “PokerGuru Star of the Week!”

On a side note, Ved had a great start in the 2022 WSOP Main Event and headlines a group of 19 Indians to Day 2D.

Young Gun Neel Joshi, Nirav Parekh & India’s poker pioneer Aditya Agarwal raked in the other top scores from the team at the 2022 WSOP.

As for the online railbird report, Young Gun Anuj Yadav is almost guaranteed to extend his reign as the #1 ranked player of the year to a 20th consecutive week. The reclusive poker pro (we say reclusive because you won’t find him on any social media platform) pulled out one of his characteristic runs this week, winning two flagships and making another runner-up finish for a leaderboard topping 23.17 Lakhs.

Aayush Arya was another chartbuster who posted three podium place finishes (including a title win) for a cumulative 19.91 Lakhs.

PokerGuru Ambassador Ratul Steves, Young Gun Ujjwal Narwal, PokerGuru Ambassador Ashish Munot, and Ashish Nailwal were others who made quite the mark with their online exploits.

If PokerBaazi signing up Bollywood A-lister Shahid Kapoor was one of the top stories last week, the poker operator wasted very little time in launching a brand campaign ‘You Hold the Cards’ with its newly signed brand ambassador.

Spartan Poker, the other top poker platform in the country, seems to have taken it upon itself to ensure MTT players have the best experience on the site. On those lines, it has launched the all-new India Turbo Masters series. The fast-paced series will make its inaugural run from July 10 to 17 with ₹5 Crores GTD guaranteed across 50 action-packed tournaments and ₹10 Lakhs in leaderboard prizes.

The go-to site for the low to mid-stakes players, Pocket52 has a hectic July in store for tournament enthusiasts. Don`t take our word for it – log on to the site to check the list of 200-plus high-value tournaments with a jaw-dropping 3.40+ Crores in assured cash prizes.

Cash game players, while already enjoying lucrative promotions under the Cash Carnival on the Quadnet Poker Network (Spartan Poker and PokerHigh etc.), can also check out IndiaPlays. The upcoming site’s popular Progressive Leaderboard promotion is back this month and, like always, offers players a chance to win uncapped prizes.

In gaming news, the pending GST Council`s decision on the GoM proposed 28% GST across all gaming sectors was a much-awaited one by the industry and professional players alike. While the uniform 28% GST across casinos, horse racing, and online gaming (both skill games and those of chance) are verbally confirmed by insiders, the decision on the methodology adopted to value the services remains in debate. Moreover, objections by the Goa government over the tax on the purchase of chips and other activities inside the casino prompted the GST Council to defer a final decision on the matter to August.

Accusations of cheating were quite the rage, and several top names got embroiled in controversies before the WSOP arrived, distracting everyone from the hot topic. In the aftermath of the debate, online poker giants PokerStars and GGPoker seemed to have woken up to the issue of enforcing fair play and a way to punish anyone suspected of using unfair means by banning them from live events.

 

Online Railbird Report

The POY leaderboard topper Young Gun Anuj Yadav has done it again! The three-time The Millionaire champion pulled off another blistering run this past week, winning two flagship titles and another runner-up finish for a leaderboard topping 23.17 Lakhs.

Anuj Yadav
Anuj Yadav

 

His top finishes include:

> 1st in PokerBaazi’s APT#4 Friday Major for 7,49,941

> 1st in Spartan Poker’s Thursday High Roller for 7,08,273

> 2nd in Spartan Poker’s Tuesday High Roller for 3,55,950

Aayush Arya was another chartbuster who posted three podium place finishes (including a title win), raking in an impressive 19.91 Lakhs.

Aayush Arya
Aayush Arya

 

His top finishes include:

> 2nd in Spartan Poker’s Sunday High Roller (6-Max) for 11.13 Lakhs

> 3rd in Spartan Poker’s Wednesday High Roller (6-Max) for 3.20 Lakhs

> 1st in Spartan Poker’s Wednesday Vibes for 1.04 Lakhs

> 7th in Spartan Poker’s Tuesday High Roller (6-Max) for 89,496

> 5th in Spartan Poker’s Battlezone for 66,900

PokerGuru Ambassador Ratul Steves added a cool 14.13 Lakhs across his weekly run, including PokerBaazi’s APT#20 Monday Major title for 5 Lakhs.

Ratul Steves
Ratul Steves

 

His top finishes include:

> 1st in PokerBaazi’s APT#20 Monday Major for 5 Lakhs

> 3rd in Spartan Poker’s Sunday SuperStack for 3.93 Lakhs

> 3rd in Adda52’s Adda52 Millions for 3 Lakhs

Young Gun Ujjwal Narwal made the Sunday headlines for taking down Spartan Poker’s Sunday High Roller (6-Max) for 13.58 Lakhs (heads-up deal).

Ujjwal Narwal
Ujjwal Narwal

 

Like Anuj Yadav, PokerGuru Ambassador Ashish Munot won two Spartan Poker flagships and placed runner-up in another – all in a span of five days for 13.67 Lakhs.

Ashish Munot
Ashish Munot

 

His top finishes include:

> 1st in Spartan Poker’s Trending Thursday for 4.55 Lakhs

> 1st in Spartan Poker’s Armageddon for 4.37 Lakhs

> 2nd in Spartan Poker’s Wednesday High Roller (6-Max) for 4.23 Lakhs

Ashish Nailwal, Arun Sriram, Abhishek Kumar, Dhaval Mudgal, Avinash Kumar, Saurabh Rohila, and Sanket Jain were the other big winners across the online MTTs.

 

Notable Winners of the Week

PlayerPrize AmountEventPoker Site
Ujjwal Narwal
₹13.57 LakhsSunday High Roller ₹50 Lakhs (6-Max)Spartan Poker
Avinash Kumar₹8.08 LakhsAPT#15 Sunday Major - ₹40 Lakhs GTD
PokerBaazi
Abhishek Kumar₹8.08 LakhsSunday SuperStack ₹35 Lakhs GTD
Spartan Poker
Anish Grover₹8.03 LakhsFriday High Roller (6-Max) - ₹30 Lakhs GTD
Spartan Poker
Aman Bhadu₹7.60 LakhsThe Elite (6-Max) - ₹30 Lakhs GTDSpartan Poker
Anuj Yadav₹7.50 LakhsAPT#4 Friday Major – ₹40 Lakhs GTDPokerBaazi
Anuj Yadav₹7.08 LakhsThursday High Roller (6-Max) - ₹25 Lakhs GTDSpartan Poker
Ashish Nailwal
₹6.86 LakhsAPT#25 PLO Highroller - ₹30 Lakhs GTD
PokerBaazi
Sanket Jain
₹6.86 LakhsAdda52 Millions ₹25 Lakhs GTD
Adda52
Anant Purohit
₹6.61 LakhsMega Suits ₹25 Lakhs GTDAdda52
"proff_z4"₹6.12 LakhsGodfather – ₹25 Lakhs GTDAdda52
"bopin"₹5.59 LakhsThe Ballers - ₹20 Lakhs GTDAdda52
Vivek Singh₹4.88 LakhsWednesday High Roller (6-Max) - ₹20 Lakhs GTDSpartan Poker
Ashish Munot₹4.55 LakhsTrending Thursday - ₹21 Lakhs GTDSpartan Poker
Dhaval Mudgal₹4.49 LakhsDestiny - ₹22 Lakhs GTDSpartan Poker
Ashish Munot₹4.37 LakhsArmageddon ₹20 Lakhs GTDSpartan Poker
Rajat Sharma₹4.13 LakhsMega Stack – ₹20 Lakhs GTD
Spartan Poker
"Tasduq"₹4.09 LakhsThe Summit - ₹15 Lakhs GTDPokerBaazi
Ratul Steves₹4.01 LakhsAPT#20 Monday Major - ₹25 Lakhs GTDPokerBaazi
Shashank Jain₹3.90 LakhsMaverick – ₹15 Lakhs GTDAdda52
“happyfish”₹3.74 LakhsThe Mint – ₹14 Lakhs GTD
Adda52
Jasven Saigal₹3.40 LakhsAPT#1 Kickoff – ₹20 Lakhs GTDPokerBaazi
Arun Sriram
₹3.33 LakhsAPT#13 MonsterStack - ₹15 Lakhs GTD
PokerBaazi
Sahil Mahboobani
₹3.24 LakhsAPT#16 MegaStack - ₹15 Lakhs GTD
PokerBaazi
Shagun Jain₹3.14 LakhsSunday Special (On-time Rake Refund) – ₹15 Lakhs GTD
PokerStars India
Nitin Rawat₹2.82 LakhsAPT#5 (7-Max) Turbo - ₹12 Lakhs GTDPokerBaazi
Gurpal Singh₹2.80 LakhsAPT#12 Sunday Kick-off - ₹12 Lakhs GTDPokerBaazi
Puneet Dua₹2.71 LakhsAPT#26 MegaStack - ₹8 Lakhs GTD
PokerBaazi
Vinay Rajpal₹2.52 LakhsThe Pride – ₹10 Lakhs GTDPokerBaazi
“AceMirage81”₹2.49 LakhsSunday Highroller (On-time Rake Refund) – ₹10 Lakhs GTD
PokerStars India
Karan Malhotra₹2.43 LakhsAPT#19 PKO - ₹10 Lakhs GTDPokerBaazi
Utkarsh Vaish₹2.36 LakhsThe Rainmaker ₹12 Lakhs GTDSpartan Poker
Bharath Kumar₹2.34 LakhsBounty Builder HR (On-time Rake Refund) ₹10 Lakhs GTD
PokerStars India
Shravan Suresh₹2.27 LakhsAPT#6 KO - ₹10 Lakhs GTDPokerBaazi
“filmyjuwari”₹2.27 LakhsIron Man – ₹8 Lakhs GTDAdda52
Priyanshu Garg₹2.26 LakhsAPT#22 (6-Max) Turbo - ₹8 Lakhs GTDPokerBaazi
"rkcravi"₹2.19 LakhsHighroller (On-time Rake Refund) – ₹10 Lakhs GTDPokerStars India
Utkarsh Vaish₹2.07 LakhsBattlezone ₹10 Lakhs GTD
Spartan Poker
Mohammed Arshaq
₹1.91 LakhsSunday Showdown ₹10 Lakhs GTD
Adda52
Nisha Devi₹1.80 LakhsSDS#40 Main Event ₹10 Lakhs GTD
MPL Poker
Raghav Chauhan₹1.76 LakhsAPT#2 MegaStack - ₹8 Lakhs GTDPokerBaazi
Uttam Kumar Sinha₹1.60 LakhsSunday PN ₹10 Lakhs GTD
Spartan Poker
Pranay Chawla₹1.48 LakhsMonster Turbo – ₹5 Lakhs GTDAdda52
"Tasduq"₹1.44 Lakhs(7-Max) SPRINT – ₹5 Lakhs GTDPokerBaazi
Dishani Vijay₹1.31 LakhsAPT#14 (6-Max) Turbo - ₹7 Lakhs GTDPokerBaazi
“nanuabhi”₹1.31 LakhsAPT#21 (PLO-5) - ₹6 Lakhs GTDPokerBaazi
"bencb789"₹1.29 Lakhs(7-Max) Daily SPRINT - ₹5 Lakhs GTDPokerBaazi
Vaibhav Arora₹1.27 LakhsMega Sundowner - ₹8 Lakhs GTDSpartan Poker
Abhiraj Singh₹1.25 Lakhs(7-Max) SPRINT - ₹5 Lakhs GTDPokerBaazi
Puneet Sachan
₹1.23 LakhsAPT#24 PKO - ₹6 Lakhs GTD
PokerBaazi
Sonu Shejpal₹1.21 Lakhs(7-Max) Daily SPRINT – ₹5 Lakhs GTDPokerBaazi
Rakasn Kumar₹1.20 LakhsThursday Smash – ₹5 Lakhs GTDMPL Poker
“sunilkjha"₹1.18 LakhsAPT#18 DST - ₹7 Lakhs GTDPokerBaazi
"nuts280889"₹1.10 LakhsLa Luna - ₹4 Lakhs GTDAdda52
Ashish Nailwal
₹1.07 LakhsAPT#23 (5-Max) Hyper - ₹6 Lakhs GTD
PokerBaazi
Prince Vishwakarma₹1.06 LakhsAPT#3 (PLO-6) - ₹6 Lakhs GTDPokerBaazi
Aayush 'Eureka226' Arya₹1.04 LakhsWednesday Vibes - ₹4.50 Lakhs GTDSpartan Poker
Nitin Rawat ₹1.02 LakhsUppercut - ₹5 Lakhs GTDPokerStars India
"miim90"₹1.03 LakhsAPT#17 (6-Max) - ₹5 Lakhs GTDPokerBaazi
"Don903"₹1.01 LakhsNight on Stars - ₹5 Lakhs GTDPokerStars India
Saurabh Rohila₹98KFriday Bounty - ₹4 Lakhs GTDAdda52
Karan Malhotra₹97KDeepstack - ₹4.50 Lakhs GTDSpartan Poker
Suraj Parkash₹96KWednesday Bonanza – ₹4 Lakhs GTDMPL Poker
Harsh Bubna₹79KBattle Royale [8-Max] ₹4 Lakhs GTDPokerStars India

 

Spartan Poker Brand-New India Turbo Masters Series Runs From July 10 – 17

Spartan Poker`s brand-new India Turbo Masters series runs from July 10 to 17. Fast structures, jaw-dropping 5 Crores in guaranteed prizes, and 10 Lakhs in leaderboard rewards make this a must-play festival for all MTT players.

Spartan - ITM

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PokerBaazi Launches Catchy ‘You Hold the Cards’ Campaign With Brand Ambassador Shahid Kapoor

PokerBaazi has launched a new brand campaign, ‘You Hold the Cards,’ with their latest brand ambassador Shahid Kapoor. The campaign was launched across several digital channels last week and is geared towards generating awareness among the masses that poker is a skill-based sport.

PokerBaazi - Shahid Kapoor

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Pocket52 to Award Over 3.40 Crores in MTT Prizes in July

The go-to site for upcoming players, Pocket52 has a very appetizing schedule for MTT players in July, with over 200 high-value tournaments guaranteeing a whopping 3.40-plus Crores in prizes and 5.80 Lakhs through two separate leaderboards races.

Pocket52's July MTT

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IndiaPlays’ Popular Progressive Leaderboard Promotion is Back

Cash game players can rejoice for IndiaPlays’ popular Progressive Leaderboard promotion in back. The month-long promotion runs from July 1 to 30 and is divided across two separate leaderboard sprints from July 1 to 14 and July 15 to 29 and offers players a chance to win uncapped prizes.

IndiaPlays - PL - Cover

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PokerStars & GGPoker Crack Down on Poker Cheaters

In the wake of the cheating allegation on many top names in the industry, online poker giants PokerStars and GGPoker have answered the community`s call to form a poker blacklist for such cheaters.

PokerStars & GGPoker Crack Down on Poker Cheaters

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Decision on 28% GST on Online Gaming, Casinos & Horse Racing Deferred to August

The much-awaited 47th meeting of the Central GST Council took place in Chandigarh on June 28-29. Looking into the recommendations by the Group of Ministers (GoM), the council deferred a decision on introducing 28% GST across all forms of online gaming, horse racing, and casinos. The GoM has been asked to re-examine the sectors and re-submit its report by July 15.

Union FM Nirmala Sitharaman (Centre) at the 47th GST Council Meeting
Union FM Nirmala Sitharaman (Centre) at the 47th GST Council Meeting

 

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2022 WSOP Updates

With less than two weeks left for the 53rd annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) to wrap up, the ongoing series has already awarded 69 live bracelets and seven online bracelets. And things have taken a more serious turn with the series headliner, Event #70: $10K Main Event NLHE World Championship now well underway.

With the WSOP Main Event on the brink of hitting a new attendance record, a recap of some standout winners has some big names and massive prizes to report.

No one comes close to the legendary Dan Cates, who created history last week after becoming the first player to win the prestigious Poker Players Championship bracelet in consecutive years. In addition to writing his name down in the history books, Cates collected his best finish at the WSOP, a whopping $1,449,103 for the feat.

Dan Cates
Dan Cates

 

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The North Olmstead, Ohio resident Sean Troha staged an epic comeback in Event #69: $10,000 PLO Championship to win his maiden WSOP gold bracelet and $1,246,770.

Sean Troha
Sean Troha

 

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The Albert Lea, Minnesota resident Quincy Borland outlasted a massive 14,112-player field in the trendy Event #68: $1,000 Million Dollar Bounty, collecting his first WSOP gold bracelet and a career-best $750,120. High-stakes cash game pro Matt Glantz drew the jackpot $1 Million bounty in the event.

Quincy Borland
Quincy Borland

 

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Poker Hall of Famer Eli Elezra clinched his fifth bracelet in Event #63: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship for $611,362.

Eli Elezra
Eli Elezra

 

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The other top story at the WSOP was David Jackson taking down Event #65: $3,000 Freezeout for $598,173, denying ‘poker brat’ Phil Hellmuth a record-extending 17th gold bracelet.

David Jackson
David Jackson

 

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Young Sik (Won Event #66: $1K Mini Main Event for $593,985), Nacho Barbero (Won Event #67: $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty for $587,520), Paul Hizer (Won Event #51: $400 Colossus for $414,490), Massoud Eskandari (Won Event #59: $1,000 Super Seniors No-Limit Hold’em for $330,609), Dash Dudley (Won Event #62: $1,500 Super Turbo Bounty Freezeout for $301,396), Tamas Lendvai (Won Event #57: $600 Deep Stack Championship NLHE for $299,464), Lawrence Brandt (Won Event #58: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better for $289,610), Shota Nakanishi (Won Event #60: $10K Short Deck NLHE for $277,212), Konstantin Angelov (Won Event #64: $600 Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack for $199,466), Jessica Teusl (Won Event #61: $1,000 Ladies NLHE Championship for $166,975), James Todd (Won Event #54: $500 Salute to Warriors for $161,256), Sane “Ooohwee213” Chung (Won Online Event #7: $500 NLHE Deepstack for $149,729), and Patrick Leonard and Espen Jørstad (Won Event #55: $1,000 Tag Team for $148,067) won the other bracelets this week.

 

Team India at 2022 WSOP

India has won zero bracelets so far in the series. Still, these past few days were not dull for the Indian contingent in Las Vegas. Last year`s only Indian bracelet winner, Kartik Ved, gave us all a bracelet sweat unlike any this year by placing third in Event #66: $1,000 Mini Main Event for a career-best $275,593 (~2.17 Crores). Ved’s winnings in the Mini Main Event are the most by an Indian in the ongoing series and the fourth-highest score overall, making him our “PokerGuru Star of the Week!”

Kartik Ved
Kartik Ved

 

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Young Gun Neel Joshi delivered the other standout performance this week, finishing 12th in Event #65: $3K Freezeout NLHE for $30,435 (~24.02 Lakhs).

Neel Joshi
Neel Joshi

 

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Nirav Parekh opened his WSOP scorecard with a deep run in Event #68: $1K Million Dollar Bounty, placing 60th for $14,130 (~11.17 Lakhs).

Nirav Parekh
Nirav Parekh

 

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Last year`s Super Turbo Bounty runner-up finisher Aditya Agarwal made back-to-back deep runs in the super-fast event. He fell out in 44th place in Event #67: $10K Super Turbo Bounty NLHE for $13,730 (~10.84 Lakhs).

Aditya Agarwal
Aditya Agarwal

 

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Team India Cashes at WSOP 2022

RankPlayerEventPrize Amount
3rdKartik VedEvent#66: $1K Mini Main Event$275,593 (~₹2.17 Crores)
125thSonam JainEvent #61: $1,000 Ladies Championship$1,750 (~₹1.38 Lakhs)
12thNeel JoshiEvent #65: $3K Freezeout NLHE$30,435 (~₹24.02 Lakhs)
60thNirav ParekhEvent #68: $1K Million Dollar Bounty$14,130 (~₹11.17) Lakhs)
44thAditya AgarwalEvent #67: $10K Super Turbo Bounty NLHE$13,730 (~₹10.84 Lakhs)
89thNishant SharmaEvent #68: $1K Million Dollar Bounty$8,360 (~₹6.63 Lakhs)
16thNishant SharmaEvent #64: $600 Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack$7,779 (~₹6.14 Lakhs)
95thAbhinav IyerEvent #65: $3K Freezeout NLHE$6,803 (~₹5.37 Lakhs)
217thGokul KrishnaEvent #68: $1K Million Dollar Bounty$5,260 (~₹4.17 Lakhs)
194thKartik VedEvent #65: $3K Freezeout NLHE$4,818 (~₹3.80 Lakhs)
234thAditya SystlaEvent #68: $1K Million Dollar Bounty$4,560 (~₹3.62 Lakhs)
142ndSiddharth KariaEvent #51: $400 COLOSSUS$3,180 (~₹2.50 Lakhs)
183rdYudhishter JaswalEvent #62: $1,500 Super Turbo Bounty Freezeout$2,063 (~₹1.63 Lakhs)
216thNathan RaoEvent #57: $600 Deep Stack Championship NLHE$1,902 (~₹1.50 Lakhs)
124thNikita Luther & Dinesh AltEvent #55: $1,000 Tag Team$1,611 (~₹1.27 Lakhs)
200thPaawan BansalEvent #54: $500 Salute to Warriors$1,277 (~₹1.01 Lakhs)
202ndMuskan SethiEvent #54: $500 Salute to Warriors$1,277 (~₹1.01 Lakhs)
143rdNeel JoshiOnline Event #7: $500 NLHE Deepstack$1,167 (~₹92,535)
768thParth JhaEvent #51: $400 COLOSSUS$1,020 (~₹80,637)
972ndAbhishek GoindiEvent #51: $400 COLOSSUS$890 (~₹70,109)
463rdJaydeep DawerEvent #54: $500 Salute to Warriors$800 (₹63,200)
1374thPaawan BansalEvent #51: $400 COLOSSUS$700 (~₹55,142)
1845thVinay PatelEvent #51: $400 COLOSSUS$640 (~₹50,596)
192ndAshish AhujaOnline Event #7: $500 NLHE Deepstack$973 (~₹77,151)
204thAkash MalikOnline Event #7: $500 NLHE Deepstack$973 (~₹77,151)

 

And with this, we conclude this week’s roundup of the latest news updates and developments from poker. We will return next week with our weekly report. Stay tuned.

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5.Vinay B Vinay B
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