Arsh Grover Ships $400 Monster Stack at Venetian’s DeepStack Showdown Series For $9,100 (₹7.27 Lakhs)

Indians have been dominating the live tournament circuit in South Asia, but a handful of Indian pros have been doing well in tournaments in Europe and the US. Among them is Young Gun Arsh Grover (cover image). The Delhi-based pro flew out to Las Vegas about two months ago for the 2022 World Series of Poker (WSOP) and is yet to return to home soil.

Off late, Grover has been keeping himself busy by hitting the live poker venues in Sin City. On August 24, he shipped Event #42: $400 NLH MonsterStack of the DeepStack Showdown Series at the Venetian poker room. Grover clinched the DeepStack Showdown Bronze coin and the $9,100 (₹7.27 Lakhs) up top.

PokerGuru reached out to Grover, and talking about his first live victory this year, he said, “It feels good to win a live tournament after a while. It was a pretty small turnout as it was a 1-day event (85-90 players played).”

Grover said about his tournament run, “It was pretty smooth throughout. 30 min levels, so it went pretty quick. Venetian does a good job with the tournaments throughout the year.”

Grover had a decent summer with four scores at the 2022 WSOP, cumulatively worth $23,976 (₹19.14 Lakhs). The IPC Megastack ₹100K Highroller runner-up finisher had a couple of deep runs outside of the WSOP as well and picked up scores in the $500 NLHE WPT Venetian Resort Las Vegas (84th for $11,150, ₹8.91 Lakhs) at the Venetian DeepStack Championship Series, Event #131: $2,500 NLHE – The Grand Finale (33rd for $9,515, ₹7.59 Lakhs) at the MGM Grand Summer Series and Event #73: $600 NLHE – Championship (78th for $1,515, ₹1.20 Lakhs) at The Grand Poker Series at the Golden Nugget.

The Young Gun’s Instagram stories give us a reasonably good idea of how he has been spending his time in Las Vegas. The fitness freak has been hitting the gym as often as he has the poker tables and knows how to party!

When asked how long he intends to stay in Vegas, Grover replied, “I arrived two months back for the World Series in late June. I’m here for September not too sure after that. Will take it a month at a time, maybe travel to Asia for some tournament stops or stay back here for longer.”

Even though away from home, it hasn’t stopped Grover from putting in volume on Indian sites. Since June, Grover has won three flagship titles online, and his latest win saw him taking down Spartan Poker’s Friday High Roller on July 29.

Grover is one of the POY contenders and has held the #3 position in the annual winnings and profits leaderboards for almost six months. He boasts ₹2.59 Crores in yearly winnings and ₹1.08 Crores in corresponding profits and is one of three players apart from Young Guns Sahil Chutani and Anuj Yadav sitting on eight-figures in net earnings in 2022.

While Grover is trailing annual leaderboard topper Anuj Yadav by about ₹58 Lakhs, there is still time for Grover to make a run for the POY glory. Sharing his views on chasing the POY title, Grover said, “I’m still playing online every day, so we’ll see how it goes.”