Are You Ready For India’s Biggest MTT Series? Spartan Poker’s ₹30 Crores GTD IOPC Starts on January 20

Lo and behold! India’s biggest online MTT series, Spartan Poker’s India Online Poker Championship, is just a day away. The bi-annual stop returns for its 12th edition on January 20 with the same ₹30 Crores in guaranteed prizes as last time!

The 18-day series has a well-planned schedule of 116 events running up to February 6. The prize money aside, several other value-addons make this a MUST-PLAY series for almost every poker player!

If we count out the USPs, topping the list is the ginormous ₹1 CRORE IOPC Leaderboard race that has a jaw-dropping ₹30 Lakhs set aside for the ‘Player of the Series.’

Adding some novelty to the upcoming series is the new Crusher of the Day concept introduced for the first time. Anyone who eliminates the maximum players across IOPC events on a day wins tickets to all of next day’s events.

Add to that the other means through which players on a budget can get in on the action like the Game of Tickets, Single Day Satellites, Deposit Offers, and Daily Satellites, and we’d say IOPC has insane value on offer.

Amin Rozani, CEO of the Spartan Group, reiterating the brand’s vision behind the latest edition, said, “We’ve always believed in value-laden and rewarding gameplay, and this IOPC ups the ante. With 116 events featuring a whopping ₹30 Crores in prizes, a ₹1 Crore leaderboard, and buy-ins from just ₹550, there’s something for everyone at this year’s edition.”

“We’ve also introduced the all-new Crusher of the Day, which not only recognizes and appreciates players who play smart, aggressive poker but rewards them with tickets to all of the next day’s events! IOPC is all about celebrating the game. Let’s make this year bigger than ever before. All the best to the players!” he added.

IOPC Schedule

Here are the major IOPC attractions at a glance:

• IOPC – The Crown ₹3.50 Crores GTD – ₹11,000 buy-in, January 31 – February 6 (4 Starting Flights) (Day 2 on February 6 at 10 PM)
• IOPC Legends ₹2 Crore GTD: ₹27,500 buy-in, January 28 – 30 (4 Starting Flights) (Day 2 on January 30 at 10.30 PM)
• IOPC Blaze ₹1.50 Crores GTD: ₹8,800 buy-in, January 20 – 23 (6 Starting Flights) (Day 2 on January 23 at 10 PM)
• IOPC Super High Roller ₹1.30 Crore GTD: ₹1.05 Lakhs buy-in, February 3 (9 PM)
• IOPC High Roller ₹1 Crore GTD: ₹55,000 buy-in, January 27 (9 PM)
• IOPC PLO High Roller ₹45 Lakhs GTD: ₹22,000 buy-in, February 5 (9 PM)
• IOPC Wanderer ₹40 Lakhs GTD: ₹880 buy-in, January 24 – 30 (9 Starting Flights) (Day 2 on January 24 at 10 PM)
• IOPC Value Mine ₹40 Lakhs GTD: ₹660 buy-in, January 31 – February 6) (9 Starting Flights) (Day 2 on February 6 at 10 PM)
• IOPC D’ Lite ₹30 Lakhs GTD: ₹550 buy-in, January 20 – 23 (8 Starting Flights) (Day 2 on January 23 at 10 PM)
• Prime events – daily 8 PM events guaranteeing between ₹20 – ₹50 Lakhs
• Spotlight events – 9.30 PM tourneys boasting of ₹15 – ₹50 Lakhs in guarantees
• All Rounder events – 11 PM events – featuring a ₹12 Lakhs prize pool guarantee

It promises to be a strong start for the series with the ₹12 Lakhs GTD IOPC #1 Launch Party getting the series underway at 1 PM on January 20. In all, six IOPC champions will be declared on Day 1 of the series, and over ₹91 Lakhs in cash prizes to be won. Headlining the action will be the 8 PM slotted ₹35 Lakhs GTD IOPC #4 – Thursday Prime. Two other IOPC flagships, ₹30 Lakhs GTD D’ Lite and the ₹1.50 Crores – Blaze of Glory, will also hit the ground running.

Win IOPC Tickets For Less!

Spartan Poker has laid out the red carpet for players, rolling out several super-value offers (adding many more in the last few weeks), offering players numerous options to win free IOPC tickets.

Even though some of them, like the Daily Bubble Insurance (December 23 – 31, 2021) and Daily Final Table (December 22 – 31, 2021), have run their course, several others are still ongoing.

These include:

• Weekly Freerolls (December 26, 2021 – January 30)
• Daily Mega Satellites (January 2 – 16)
• Game of Tickets (GOT) (January 2 – February 5)
• NEW – Daily Satellites (January 19 – February 6)

Given the immense popularity of the IOPC, the tickets are going by fast. Till Saturday, 827 IOPC tickets had already been claimed via the GOT promotion.

The Daily Mega Satellites have been pulling in the crowds, with over 387 tickets being claimed over two weeks.

If you missed out on the Daily Mega Satellites or have your eye on playing an IOPC marquee out of your bankroll, worry not! Starting today, i.e., January 19 and until February 6, Spartan Poker will be running round-the-clock Daily Satellites. The satellite buy-ins vary between ₹55 to ₹11,000, and each of them guarantees anywhere from one ticket to 25 tickets.

Daily Satellite Schedule

Deposit Now to Win IOPC Tickets

For the site that practically invented deposit offers for MTTs, Spartan Poker is going all-out to make the upcoming IOPC special for depositors.

Deposit as less as ₹3,500 to win free tickets to 11 IOPC events. If you have a particular tournament you want to play, look it up in the table below, and deposit the amount mentioned using the specific deposit code, and voila – the IOPC ticket will automatically be credited to your Spartan Poker account!

Several deposit offers have expired, while most others are still valid. The Deposit Code offer is first-come, first serve. A lot of the codes have sold out in the past few hours. So hurry, if you’re keen on using one!

Check the details below.

IOPC – Driving Up the Excitement!

IOPC is India`s BIGGEST online poker series, and unsurprisingly, the excitement among the player community is palpable. We spoke to a few former IOPC champions, and all of them sounded gung-ho about the upcoming edition.

The IOPC – The Crown July 2021 champion Vaibhav Temani, who is recovering from COVID-19, commented how the upcoming series comes laden with value. “Certainly the time of year when everyone wants to put up their best foot forward. I expect pretty tough competition going into this.”

The first-ever IOPC Main Event – The Crown champion Harshit Sanghi was confident of guarantee-crushing turnouts at IOPC. “Expecting a lot of new players to join in along with the old pros. Every tournament should be crushing the guarantee pretty easily according to me.”

Sanghi’s victory in the series’ showstopper in July 2020 fetched him ₹47.33 Lakhs. But he has been hard at work preparing to better his past run. “Planning to better my previous record in IOPC and reclaim the Crown!,” he said while adding that he isn’t very satisfied with his current form. However, that’s not going to keep this Kanpur-based entrepreneur away from all the fireworks at IOPC. “Let’s just say I’m saving the good run for the IOPC!! Good luck to all the players. See you at the tables.”

The media-shy IOPC – Millionaire Main Event Anurag Srivastava is another former IOPC champion looking forward to a profitable series. “The plan is to just try and give my best…while still maintaining a good sleep schedule which is often difficult during the series.”

Six-time IOPC champion Sriharsha Doddapaneni was also quite excited about the IOPC. “It’s been a while since I put in some serious volume, and I will be getting back to the grind with IOPC. This is one series which always excites me, and I am looking forward to this time as well to make some deep runs.”

Doddapaneni, who enjoys a strong fan following in the Indian poker community, says his volume or study hasn’t been so good over the past year. Still, his plan remains the same – to play good poker. “My form is probably the worst since I started playing poker, but results are pretty good, which I attribute to variance and being much wiser in applying things I have learnt. That is the thing with poker. You can’t plan the results, but you keep working hard, and results will come when they have to.”

While we are not BIG on predictions. Still, something tells us the 12th edition of the IOPC could very well be the biggest ever to date! The question is, are you ready to rock the show this IOPC season?!

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