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The online MTT turnouts on Wednesday were not any better than Tuesday, as most flagships were run over by overlays. The two featured attractions, PokerBaazi’s Baazi Turbo Series 3.0 and IndiaPlays’ rake-free The Dominator Series, along with the significant value in all the regular tournaments, were a delight for the tournament crowd.
Headlining the Wednesday charts was the iconic Aditya Agarwal. The latest IOPC 14.0 The Crown champion may not have won any titles. Still, he pulled off two top finishes in Spartan Poker’s Wednesday High Roller (2nd for ₹3.98 Lakhs) and PokerBaazi’s The Pride (5th for ₹86,700), netting ₹4.85 Lakhs overall, becoming the third player to cross ₹1 Crore on the annual charts!
The 2022 POY, Young Gun Anuj Yadav, championed Spartan Poker`s Wednesday High Rollerr for ₹4.12 Lakhs, striking a heads-up deal with Agarwal.
Gaurav Bhandari had a lot going for him last night, for he won Spartan Poker`s Destiny 26.0 for ₹4.23 Lakhs, closing out a seven-month-long title drought. The win ensured Bhandari a seat in the Destiny 26.0 SnG Finale.
Shubham Agarwal finally ended a four-week-long title curse by championing the Baazi Turbo Series Wednesday headliner, PokerBaazi`s BTS#20 Mini Main Event, for ₹4.21 Lakhs (his third-best online score).
Sreeharsha Boneni had his best online run yet last night, reeling in a career-best ₹3.98 Lakhs from three ITM finishes. He made the big breakthrough in Adda52`s Maverick, winning the tournament for ₹3.90 Lakhs – his second title victory in three days. Sunday`s Armageddon runner-up finisher Debneil Mukherjee scored ₹2.21 Lakhs in second place.
Bharat Suda shipped PokerBaazi’s The Pride for a site-best ₹2.56 Lakhs, ending an 11-month-long title slump. Chandan Arora finished runner-up for ₹1.70 Lakhs.
Ashish Nailwal championed PokerBaazi’s (7-Max) SPRINT for ₹2.07 Lakhs (won ₹2.17 Lakhs overall), while the two-time POY, Young Gun Gaurav Sood won the Daily Value Boost for ₹1.48 Lakhs (won ₹2.63 Lakhs overall). Like Aditya Agarwal, Sood also crossed the ₹1 Crore mark in annual earnings.
Raghav Ananth went on a blistering mid-week run, winning PokerBaazi`s BTS#19 (₹1.28 Lakhs) and Spartan Poker`s Daily Turbo (₹1.08 Lakhs), rounding up an impressive ₹2.40 Lakhs across three deep runs.
The current BTS leaderboard topper Uttam Gope (Won BTS#18 Hyper for ₹91,560) and ‘Playcool’ (Won BTS#17 for ₹62,008) claimed the other Baazi Turbo Series titles on Wednesday.
Young Gun Sanat Mehrotra was the last player standing in PokerStars India’s Master Minds [8-Max] and won the title for ₹1.01 Lakhs (won ₹3.01 Lakhs overall).
Divyansh Chandra, Shashank Shekhar, Sanjay Khanna, Mandar Madaye, Sandeep Varma RS, Swapnil Patil, Kamal Punjabi, and Rohan Patwa shipped the other Wednesday marquees.
Here are the Wednesday highlights!
Spartan Poker
Destiny 26.0 – ₹20 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹5,500
Entries – 196
Re-entries – 53
Rebuys – 147
Prize Pool – ₹20,00,000
Places Paid – 31
The stars aligned for Gaurav ‘zillastar’ Bhandari on Wednesday as he stormed past a stacked 396-player field (196 unique) in Spartan Poker’s ₹20 Lakhs GTD Destiny 26.0 to win ₹4.23 Lakhs – ending a seven-month long title drought. The win has made the IOPC 13.0 Legends finalist the fifth entrant on the ₹10 Lakhs GTD Destiny 26.0 SnG scheduled for May 14, 2023 (9 PM).
Shalvin ‘tigress83’ Vohra scored a personal best (on Spartan Poker) ₹2.85 Lakhs as the Destiny 26.0 runner-up.
Gaurav Bhandari’s online stats (excluding PokerStars India): Lifetime Winnings: ₹2.24 Crores | Titles Won in 2023: #1 | Annual Winnings: ₹13.59 Lakhs
The Destiny 26.0 final table featured a mix of regs like Haider ‘Callmebabe’ Madraswala (3rd for ₹2.01 Lakhs), Ritika ‘Sweetie12’ Kumari (4th for ₹1.63 Lakhs), Sandy ‘Fifa21’ Lamba (5th for ₹1.29 Lakhs), Rising Star Ritwik ‘Fisherman1997’ Khanna (7th for ₹71,400), and Guneet ‘GeeKay’ Kwatra (8th for ₹52,200).
The ₹5,500 entry buy-in Destiny collected ₹22.30 Lakhs in prize money, distributed among the top 39 finishers.
Final Table Results
Wednesday High Roller (6-Max) – ₹18 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹16,500
Entries – 62
Re-entries – 27
Rebuys – 32
Prize Pool – ₹18,15,000
Places Paid – 13
Spartan Poker’s ₹18 Lakhs GTD Wednesday High Roller saw 62 regs (121 total entries) colliding. It all played down to a thrilling heads-up finale between two poker phenoms – the 2022 POY Anuj ‘br0ckLesnar95’ Yadav and the country’s poker pioneer Aditya ‘Yennefer’ Agarwal. Both players had fired two bullets in the tournament and quickly agreed to a chop, with Yadav winning the title and ₹4.12 Lakhs in prize money – his eighth title of the year.
The IOPC 14.0 The Crown champion Aditya Agarwal locked in a comparable ₹3.98 Lakhs in second place, crossing ₹1 Crore on his annual scorecard.
Agarwal announced his comeback on PokerBaazi with an FT finish in the site’s mid-week flagship, The Pride (5th for ₹86,700), netting almost ₹4.85 Lakhs last night – making him the Wednesday MVP.
Aditya Agarwal’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹3.36 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹1.85 Crores | Titles Won in 2023: #2 | Annual Winnings: ₹1.02 Crores | Ranked #3 in the 2023 Leaderboard Standings (Total Cashes) | Ranked #1 in Annual Profits
Tuesday’s The Mint champion Ujjwal ‘$hitreg’ Narwal (4th for ₹1.73 Lakhs) and BTS#16 Freeze runner-up finisher from the day before, Faiz ‘FoldTo1BB’ Alam (5th for ₹1.40 Lakhs) (won ₹2.20 Lakhs overall) were other regs on the 6-Max Wednesday High Roller final table.
LPS Main Event champion Dhinesh ‘kendralust’ Kumar (7th for ₹86,213), Advait ‘Rattler$’ Rajguru (8th for ₹67,155), Harshad ‘omglukbox’ Barve (9th for ₹50,820), Mahima ‘mambojojo’ Walia Das (10th for ₹41,745), and Avish ‘thehorse7’ Sharma (13th for ₹37,208) were other regs to cross the money line in the Wednesday High Roller.
The ₹16,500 entry buy-in High Roller dished out a guarantee-crushing ₹25.05 Lakhs in prize money to the top 17 finishers.
Final Table Results
*denotes a heads-up deal
Daily Turbo (6-Max) – ₹5 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹1,650
Entries – 170
Re-entries – 54
Rebuys – 117
Prize Pool – ₹5,11,500
Places Paid – 31
Raghav ‘Mr. Bean’ Ananth had an eventful Wednesday run, winning two tournaments back-to-back, adding ₹2.40 Lakhs for the day’s work. Ananth’s smashing mid-week run began with a victory march in PokerBaazi’s ₹8 Lakhs GTD BTS#19 KO, and he won the 6 PM BTS marquee for ₹1.28 Lakhs.
Later in the night, the online reg overcame a 341-player field in Spartan Poker’s ₹5 Lakhs GTD Daily Turbo (6-Max), winning the 9:30 PM marquee for ₹1.08 Lakhs. He made another ITM finish in PokerBaazi’s Daily Value Boost (57th for ₹4,500).
Raghav Ananth’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹2.10 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹62.03 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #6
Paras ‘Jhukega nahi $ala’ Jain (3rd for ₹51,355) and Vishal ‘vishalkumar1’ Kumar (5th for ₹32,941) were other MTT regs picking up an FT score in the third-ever running of the 9:30 PM Daily Turbo.
The ₹1,650 entry buy-in tournament collected almost ₹5.12 Lakhs in the prize pool, with 31 players crossing the money line.
Final Table Results
Shashank ‘Bihari_bhaia’ Shekhar (Won ₹3 Lakhs GTD Turbo for ₹66,450), ‘rawan1987’ (Won ₹1.50 Lakhs GTD Night Rider for ₹37,740), ‘Amor Mio’ (Won ₹1 Lakh GTD Chip Up – Triple Chance for ₹22,369), ‘EDITH11’ (Won ₹1 Lakh GTD Sundowner – Triple Chance for ₹22,150), ‘Papapoker69’ (Won ₹50K GTD Turbo – Triple Chance for ₹12,161), Rohan ‘lucky Fish’ Patwa (Won ₹50K GTD Monster Stack – 4 Card PLO for ₹9,574), and ‘rajatkumar12’ (Won ₹50K GTD Centurion for ₹9,054) won the other Spartan Poker marquees.
PokerBaazi
BTS#20 Mini Main Event – ₹28 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹4,400
Entries – 433
Re-entries – 365
Prize Pool – ₹31,92,000
Places Paid – 115
Shubham ‘backchod’ Agarwal was due a title win for some time now, and he got it in the BTS headliner last night, PokerBaazi’s ₹28 Lakhs GTD BTS#20 Mini Main Event! After six FT scores this past month (two of them runner-up finishes), Agarwal finally broke the title jinx by outplaying a vast 798-strong field (433 unique) in the biggest guaranteed tournament running last night to win ₹4.21 Lakhs (his third-best career score)!
Shubham Agarwal’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹1.99 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ~₹55 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #2
PokerBaazi reg Dhirendra ‘dhirekum’ Kumar Chauhan finished runner-up in BTS#20 Mini Main Event for a site-best ₹2.59 Lakhs and accumulated ₹2.90 Lakhs from three deep runs, which include:
> 2nd in PokerBaazi’s BTS#20 Mini Main Event for ₹2,58,552
> 6th in PokerBaazi’s BTS#19 for ₹26,080
> 9th in PokerBaazi’s Daily Boost for ₹5,711
Dhirendra Kumar Chauhan’s online stats (PokerBaazi and Spartan Poker): Lifetime Winnings: ₹25.53 Lakhs | Lifetime Profits: ₹4,253 | Titles Won in 2023: #2
The latest ‘₹12 Crore Club’ entrant Sahil ‘ImHighIshove’ Mahboobani (3rd for ₹2,09,714), the recent ‘₹10 Crore Club’ member Vaibhav ‘WakhraSwagNi’ Sharma (4th for ₹1,75,241), Akshat ‘takingcuntrol’ Sharma (5th for ₹1,41,725), Monday’s The CashMaker – Tiple Chance winner Advait ‘ExploitativeGTO’ Rajguru (6th for ₹1,09,166) and Niraj ‘niraj2401’ Munka (7th for ₹81,396) also FT-ed BTS#20 Mini Main Event.
The top 115 finishers got a share from the hefty ₹31.92 Lakhs collected in the prize pool.
Final Table Results
The Pride – ₹15 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹3,850
Entries – 214
Re-entries – 186
Prize Pool – ₹15,00,000
Places Paid – 49
After keeping a relatively low profile for the last 11 months, Bharat ‘Bharat29’ Suda announced his return to the winner’s circle with a bang, shipping PokerBaazi’s 8 PM Wednesday flagship, ₹15 Lakhs GTD The Pride, for a site-best ₹2.56 Lakhs. The 2019 BPT Main Event champion trounced a field of 400 entrants (214 unique) and pipped Chandan ‘darkfish’ Arora (2nd for ₹1.70 Lakhs) heads-up.
Bharat Suda’s online stats (excluding PokerStars India): Lifetime Winnings: ₹56.29 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #1
Aditya ‘Istredd’ Agarwal has been creating quite the storm on the virtual felts lately! The original ‘Poker Guru’ has posted multiple deep runs (four FT finishes) since taking down the IOPC 14.0 The Crown earlier this month. The poker coach topped the Wednesday charts with ₹4.85 Lakhs in total earnings through two FT finishes, crossing ₹1 Crore in annual winnings.
Improving upon his sixth-place finish in Spartan Poker’s Wednesday High Roller last week, Agarwal placed runner-up in the same tournament for ₹3.98 Lakhs yesterday. Before his runner-up finish, the Kolkata-born pro FT-ed PokerBaazi’s The Pride (5th for ₹86,700), marking his return to the site in style.
Aditya Agarwal’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹3.36 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹1.85 Crores | Titles Won in 2023: #2 | Annual Winnings: ₹1.02 Crores | Ranked #3 in the 2023 Leaderboard Standings (Total Cashes) | Ranked #1 in Annual Profits
Sunday’s (7-Max) BSS Championship winner Tanmay ‘truman’ Benara locked in ₹1.47 Lakhs last night through five deep runs, which include:
> 6th in PokerBaazi’s The Pride for ₹70,800
> 5th in PokerBaazi’s BTS#21 for ₹38,160
> 26th in PokerBaazi’s BTS#20 Mini Main Event for ₹23,940
> 34th in PokerBaazi’s (7-MAX) SPRINT for ₹9,000
> 52nd in Adda52’s Maverick for ₹5,250
Tanmay Benara’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹4.38 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹1.43 Crores | Titles Won in 2023: #1
Pranav ‘MeenakshiSundareshwar’ Khandalkar (7th for ₹56,100) and Hardik ‘HARDIKHARDIK’ Nair (8th for ₹42,750) were other known MTT regs on The Pride final table.
The ₹3,850 entry buy-in flagship registered an overlay shortfall of ₹1 Lakh, and 49 players survived past the money bubble.
Final Table Results
(7-Max) SPRINT – ₹12 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹3,850
Entries – 184
Re-entries – 115
Prize Pool – ₹12,00,000
Places Paid – 35
Last July’s APT#25 PLO Highroller champion, Ashish ‘Notoriouskonvict’ Nailwal, charged through the 299-strong field (184 unique) in PokerBaazi’s ₹12 Lakhs GTD (7-Max) SPRINT to win ₹2.07 Lakhs, closing out a 17-week-long title slump. Young Gun Devang ‘laila’ Yadav finished runner-up in the 9 PM tournament for ₹1.44 Lakhs.
Ashish Nailwal lapped up ₹2.17 Lakhs across his Wednesday run from the following ITM finishes:
> 1st in PokerBaazi’s (7-Max) SPRINT for ₹2,06,520
> 14th in PokerBaazi’s Daily Boost for ₹4,476
> 64th in PokerBaazi’s BTS#19 for ₹3,520
> 48th in PokerBaazi’s BTS#17 for ₹2,250
Ashish Nailwal’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹2.36 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹64.79 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #1
Last night’s Master Minds champion Sanat ‘mehro2511’ Mehrotra added ₹3.01 Lakhs across six deep runs last night, banking his biggest score in PokerBaazi’s (7-Max) SPRINT (3rd for ₹1.22 Lakhs). His online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹11.05 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹3.88 Crores | Titles Won in 2023: #5
Tuesday’s Mega Stack runner-up Gautam ‘johny3’ Bansal (4th for ₹1.03 Lakhs), Rahul ‘rahullpharm’ Agarwal (5th for ₹85,200), Sunday’s (7-MAX) BSS Championship finalist Chirag ‘miyagi’ Sodha (6th for ₹67,800), and Rishabh ‘Langdaa’ Baj (7th for ₹51,000) made for a star-studded FT lineup in the (7-Max) SPRINT.
The ₹3,850 entry buy-in tournament fell ₹1.54 Lakhs short of breaking even. The top 35 finishers crossed the money line.
Final Table Results
Daily Value Boost – ₹10 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹1,650
Entries – 296
Re-entries – 199
Prize Pool – ₹10,00,000
Places Paid – 89
The two-time POY, Young Gun Gaurav ‘gaug17’ Sood, has made an early bid to win the coveted title for a record-extending third time, and his Wednesday run got him past ₹1 Crore in annual earnings – pitting him in a tight three-way battle for the 2023 POY title!
The winningest player on our tracked database, Sood, scooped up ₹2.63 Lakhs through four deep runs last night, winning a marquee tournament and posting another FT finish. He closed out an over three-week-long title dry spell by championing a 495-player field (296 unique) in PokerBaazi’s ₹10 Lakhs GTD Daily Value Boost, winning the 7:30 PM tournament for the first time for ₹1.48 Lakhs.
The dentist-turned-poker pro’s Wednesday finishes include:
> 1st in PokerBaazi’s Daily Value Boost for ₹1,47,600
> 3rd in PokerBaazi’s BTS#21 for ₹72,720
> 19th in Spartan Poker’s Destiny 26.0 for ₹23,600
> 17th in PokerBaazi’s The Pride for ₹18,750
Gaurav Sood’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹15.66 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹7.85 Crores | Titles Won in 2023: #7 | Ranked #2 in the 2023 Leaderboard Standings (Total Cashes) | Ranked #8 in Annual Profits
Rahul ‘GhatakTheGreat’ Sengar collected ₹1.33 Lakhs from four deep runs – and fired up three FT finishes.
His Wednesday finishes include:
> 2nd in PokerBaazi’s Daily Value Boost for ₹1,12,000
> 4th in PokerBaazi’s PLO-5 BOOST for ₹14,940
> 4th in PokerBaazi’s PLO Daily for ₹3,746
> 23rd in PokerBaazi’s Daily Night SPRINT for ₹2,202
Rahul Sengar’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹2.26 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹46.29 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #4
Aniruddha ‘PocketacesAJ’ Joshi (3rd for ₹82,000), last night’s Master Minds seventh-place finisher Akshay ‘CallmeAK’ Kapoor (4th for ₹60,100), Harsh ‘harsh1327’ Bubna (5th for ₹41,900), Ketan ‘PokerKhiladi’ Sengar (6th for ₹29,200), JaiKiran ‘testify’ Kumar (7th for ₹22,200) and Himanshu ‘Venomaster’ Aggarwal (8th for ₹18,600) were other known players on the Daily Value Boost final table.
The ₹1,650 entry buy-in tournament overlaid ₹2.58 Lakhs, and 89 players got a slice of the added value.
Final Table Results
BTS#19 – ₹8 Lakhs GTD (KO-RE)
Buy-in – ₹2,200
Entries – 248
Re-entries – 179
Prize Pool – ₹8,54,000
Places Paid- 77
Raghav ‘scambrahm’ Ananth pulled out an impressive two-for-two last night, winning marquee tournaments on PokerBaazi and Spartan Poker and adding a lofty ₹2.40 Lakhs across three deep runs.
Ananth scored his biggest payday in PokerBaazi`s ₹8 Lakhs GTD BTS#19, where he toppled a 427-player field (248 unique) to win ₹1.28 Lakhs (₹4,400 in bounties). ‘TheWhiteSwan’ finished runner-up for ₹92,400 (₹2,800 in bounties).
Last September’s ITM #18 Blizzard third-place finisher, Ananth, also championed Spartan Poker’s Daily Turbo for ₹1.08 Lakhs.
His Wednesday finishes include:
> 1st in PokerBaazi’s BTS#19 for ₹1,27,600
> 1st in Spartan Poker’s Daily Turbo for ₹1,08,182
> 57th in PokerBaazi’s Daily Value Boost for ₹4,500
Raghav Ananth’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹2.10 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹62.03 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #6
Puneet ‘puneetdurr111’ Sachan accumulated ₹1.28 Lakhs from five deep runs on PokerBaazi, and he cashed four BTS tournaments.
His Wednesday finishes include:
> 3rd in PokerBaazi’s BTS#19 (KO-RE) for ₹71,360
> 4th in PokerBaazi’s BTS#17 for ₹30,050
> 46th in PokerBaazi’s The Pride for ₹10,500
> 11th in PokerBaazi’s BTS#18 Hyper for ₹10,260
> 44th in PokerBaazi`s BTS#21 (WTB – RE) for 5,360
Puneet Sachan’s online stats (excluding PokerStars India): Lifetime Winnings: ₹1.13 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹69.37 Lakhs
Nikhil ‘muraxion’ Unnikrishnan (4th for ₹52,880), BTS#20 Mini Main Event runner-up finisher Dhirendra Kumar ‘dhirekum’ Chauhan (6th for ₹26,080), and Neha ‘Nkush’ Mehta (7th for ₹24,240) were others on the 8-max BTS#19 FT.
The ₹2,200 entry buy-in tournament paid out 77 players a share of the ₹8.54 Lakhs prize pool.
Final Table Results (Including Bounties)
BTS#18 Hyper – ₹6 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹1,650
Entries – 194
Re-entries – 166
Prize Pool – ₹6,00,000
Places Paid – 65
Uttam ‘brokenpocker’ Gope kept his superlative form in PokerBaazi’s Baazi Turbo Series going strong by taking down his third BTS title last night, pretty much locking up the #1 position on the series’ leaderboard.
The BTS#2 (PLO-6) and BTS#13 Hyper winner, Gope made it in the money in all five BTS tournaments yesterday, bringing his total to 17 cashes in the 21 BTS tournaments played so far. However, what stood out was his victory march in the ₹6 Lakhs GTD BTS#18 Hyper, where he stomped past a 360-entry field (194 unique) in the 5 PM tournament to collect ₹91,560 – his third BTS title.
Uttam Gope’s Wednesday finishes include:
> 1st in PokerBaazi’s BTS#18 Hyper for ₹91,560
> 80th in PokerBaazi’s BTS#20 Mini Main Event for ₹11,172
> 43rd in PokerBaazi’s BTS#21 WTB for ₹5,360
> 48th in PokerBaazi’s BTS#19 KO for ₹5,120
> 30th in PokerBaazi’s BTS#17 for ₹3,350
Uttam Gope’s PokerBaazi stats: Site Winnings: ₹42.63 Lakhs | Site Profits: ₹14.63 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #6
Kovid ‘fzzzyyy’ Saraswat (3rd for ₹49,800), Tuesday’s BTS#12 winner Nandan ‘ragemonster’ Pugalia (4th for ₹37,860), La Luna third-place finisher Shrey ‘Kingsb30’ Baj (6th for ₹19,800), and Ishan ‘ishan1993’ Dhar (7th for ₹15,660) were the other FT finishers in BTS#18 Hyper.
The ₹1,650 entry buy-in tournament fell ₹60,000 short of its advertised guarantee, and 65 players dug into the ₹6 Lakhs in the prize pool kitty.
Final Table Results
BTS#17 – ₹5 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹1,100
Entries – 273
Re-entries – 205
Prize Pool – ₹5,00,000
Places Paid – 89
The user ‘Playcool’ shattered a 478-entry field in PokerBaazi’s ₹5 Lakhs GTD BTS#17, bagging away ₹62,008 in first-place prize money. Another mystery user, ‘rampal2000,’ collected a better ₹67,792 in second place, courtesy of a heads-up deal.
Playcool’s PokerBaazi stats: Site Winnings: ₹9.20 Lakhs | Site Profits: ₹18,545 | Titles Won: #14
Himanshu ‘Venomaster’ Aggarwal accumulated ₹46,752 across his Wednesday run from three ITM finishes (including two FT scores), which include:
> 5th in PokerBaazi’s BTS#17 for ₹20,950
> 8th in PokerBaazi’s Daily Value Boost for ₹18,600
> 114th in PokerBaazi’s BTS#20 Mini Main Event for ₹7,022
Himanshu ‘NoNutsNoGlory’ Dadhich made good on a ₹220 investment (fired two bullets in the ₹110 BTS#17 satellite), scoring ₹14,600 in sixth place.
Kshitij ‘kmk1127’ Kucheria (3rd for ₹41,000), BTS#19 (KO) finalist Puneet ‘puneetdurr111’ Sachan (4th for ₹30,050) & Ankit ‘ankit9300’ Mathani (7th for ₹11,100) were others who made the BTS#17 final table.
The ₹1,100 entry buy-in tournament fell ₹22,000 short of its advertised guarantee, and 89 players scored a payday.
Final Table Results
*denotes a heads-up deal
BTS 3.0 Leaderboard Standings – Day 4
With four days of the Baazi Turbo Series in the books, the top three on the series’ leaderboard showed no changes over Tuesday.
Uttam Gope (5,331 points) kept the momentum going by taking down his third BTS tournament last night! With 17 cashes and three titles, Gope has almost locked in the #1 position on the series’ leaderboard.
Gaurav Bhutra (3,347 points) continues to track him at #2 – although the points deficit has extended significantly. The #1 ranked player in the annual TLB (points) standings, Mohak Kapoor (2,994 points), is ranked #3.
Mandar ‘MAMA04’ Madaye (Won ₹2.50 Lakhs GTD (7-Max) Midnight SPRINT for ₹43,870), ‘Abhi3292’ (Won ₹2 Lakhs GTD PLO-5 BOOST for ₹39,300), ‘HeavenKing’ (Won ₹1.50 Lakhs GTD Morning SPRINT for ₹38,890), Sandeep ‘effuno’ Varma RS (Won ₹1.50 Lakhs GTD Daily Night SPRINT for ₹35,900), ‘prometheus1224’ (Won ₹2.50 Lakhs GTD Daily Boost for ₹35,190), ‘Movieee’ (Won ₹1 Lakh GTD (7-Max) SPRINT for ₹24,630), ‘Badshah05’ (Won ₹1 Lakh GTD PLO-6 Boost PKO for ₹21,150), and ‘Kinkarmandal’ (Won ₹50K GTD 5-Max Daily for ₹5,830) won the other PokerBaazi marquees.
Pocket52
Pocket Jacks – ₹4.50 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹1,650
Entries – 113
Re-entries – 70
Prize Pool – ₹4,50,000
Places Paid – 27
Pocket52 user ‘miaddamo’ outclassed a 183-entry field in the poker network`s Wednesday primetime offering, ₹4.50 Lakhs GTD Pocket Jacks, banking ₹93,375 for the win. ‘Karthik_TNqWYdnF’ posted a runner-up finish worth ₹69,750.
Final Table Results
IndiaPlays
TDS – PLO6 – ₹200K GTD
Buy-in – ₹1,100
Entries – 101
Rebuys – 30
Prize Pool – ₹200,000
Places Paid – 31
IndiaPlays user ‘Sammy11’ topped a 131-strong field in the site`s ₹200K GTD PLO6, winning the 8 PM Dominator Series marquee for ₹46,000. ‘Sujut211990’ finished runner-up for ₹30,000.
Final Table Results
PokerStars India
Master Minds [8-Max] – ₹5 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹2,500
Entries – 101
Re-entries – 76
Prize Pool – ₹5,00,000
Places Paid – 23
The cash registers went ringing for the recent ‘₹11 Crore Club’ entrant, Young Gun Sanat ‘durrsanta’ Mehrotra, who, returning to the grind after a ten-day break, fired up six deep runs for a Wednesday haul worth ₹3.01 Lakhs.
The top pro most notably outran a 177-entry field (101 unique) in PokerStars India’s ₹5 Lakhs GTD Master Minds [8-Max], nailing the 8 PM flagship for almost ₹1.01 Lakh. Abhijeet ‘sexylady7766’ Kumar pocketed ₹77,362 for his second-place finish.
Mehrotra`s Wednesday finishes include:
> 3rd in PokerBaazi’s (7-Max) SPRINT for ₹1,22,400
> 1st in PokerStars India’s Master Minds [8-Max] for ₹1,00,669
> 10th in Spartan Poker’s Destiny 26.0 for ₹36,600
> 35th in PokerBaazi’s BTS#20 Mini Main Event for ₹19,152
> 22nd in PokerBaazi’s The Pride for ₹15,000
> 38th in Adda52’s Maverick for ₹6,750
Sanat Mehrotra’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹11.05 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹3.88 Crores | Titles Won in 2023: #5
The in-form Sandeep ‘effuno007’ Varma RS made away with ₹1.04 Lakhs last night, including a title!
His Wednesday finishes include:
> 3rd in PokerStars India’s Master Minds [8-Max] for ₹59,451
> 1st in PokerBaazi’s Daily Night SPRINT for ₹35,897
> 27th in Adda52’s Maverick for ₹8,250
The Tuesday High Roller third-place finisher, Karan ‘gogikaran’ Malhotra, was another top reg who booked a profitable Wednesday session, lapping up ₹1.48 Lakhs across three epic runs!
His Wednesday finishes include:
> 4th in PokerStars India’s Master Minds [8-Max] for ₹45,687
> 2nd in PokerBaazi’s BTS#21 for ₹93,680
> 9th in Adda52’s La Luna for ₹9,000
Karan Malhotra’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹2.61 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹78.85 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #2
Prashanth ‘nemesis9961’ Sekar (5th for ₹35,109), Anish ‘downswing4ever’ Arora (6th for ₹26,981), Akshay ‘LalaSaab’ Kapoor (7th for ₹20,734), the #3 ranked player in the annual TLB (points) standings Neeraj ‘SelfClaimedPro’ Kumar (8th for ₹15,934), and Anmolraj ‘modi chai wala’ Singh Chawla (9th for ₹13,122) also featured on the ₹5 Lakhs GTD Master Minds [8-Max] final table.
The ₹2,500 entry buy-in tournament registered an overlay shortfall of ₹1.01 Lakh, and 23 players made the payouts list.
Final Table Results
Sanjay ‘raghav1990’ Khanna (Won ₹2 Lakhs GTD Big Bubble Rush for ₹52,727), Swapnil ‘pokpom1’ Patil (Won ₹1 Lakh GTD Ultrasonic for ₹28,747), ‘ShaktiMaaan’ (Won ₹50K GTD Super Stack PKO 8-Max for ₹13,731), and ‘kabir2203’ (Won ₹50K GTD Bounty Adrenaline for ₹13,421) won the other PokerStars India marquees.
Adda52
Maverick – ₹15 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹2,750
Entries – 273
Re-entries – 264
Prize Pool – ₹15,00,000
Places Paid – 55
Sreeharsha ‘yuddam547’ Boneni had his best online run yet last night, reeling in a personal-best ₹3.98 Lakhs from three ITM finishes. The circuit reg can credit most of this to his outright victory in Adda52`s Wednesday headliner, ₹15 Lakhs GTD Maverick, for ₹3.90 Lakhs (his second title victory in three days)!
Debneil ‘NoobNeil’ Mukherjee was part of the 537-entry field in the 8 PM headliner and scored a runner-up payday of ₹2.21 Lakhs – his second close finish this week.
Sreeharsha Boneni`s Wednesday finishes:
> 1st in Adda52’s Maverick for ₹3,90,000
> 25th in PokerBaazi’s Daily Value Boost for ₹6,700
> 18th in PokerStars India’s Big Bubble Rush for ₹1,563
Sreeharsha Boneni’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹2.06 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹72.21 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #4
The LPS Main Event champion Dhinesh ‘dinzy009’ Kumar has been chasing a top finish for over two months and again faltered close to the finish line. He posted ₹1.16 Lakhs in Wednesday earnings from the following deep runs:
> 7th in Spartan Poker’s Wednesday High Roller for ₹86,213
> 8th in Adda52’s The Mint for ₹30,000
Dhinesh Kumar’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹6.81 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹2.55 Crores
Last week’s Thursday High Roller Rishabh ‘rishabh002’ Gupta (5th for ₹79,500), long-time pro Shravan ‘sweatmyass13’ Chhabria (6th for ₹52,500), and IOPC 14.0 leaderboard topper Vinay ‘vinay0902’ Rajpal (7th for ₹41,250) were other notables on the 8-max Maverick final table.
The ₹2,750 entry buy-in tournament got walloped for a ₹1.58 Lakhs overlay shortfall, paying out 55 places.
Final Table Results
La Luna – ₹4 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹1,800
Entries – 108
Re-entries – 100
Prize Pool – ₹4,00,000
Places Paid – 21
Divyansh ‘divyansh2906’ Chandra fired two bullets in Adda52’s ₹4 Lakhs GTD La Luna before taking down the 208-strong field (108 unique) in the 9:30 PM tournament for a personal-best ₹1.11 Lakhs. Site user ‘narayanpn’ collected ₹65,000 in second place.
Divyansh Chandra’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹5.82 Lakhs | Lifetime Profits: ₹2.11 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #2
Shrey ‘kingsb30’ Baj added ₹1.11 Lakhs from three deep runs, which include:
> 4th in PokerBaazi’s BTS#21 for ₹54,000
> 3rd in Adda52’s La Luna for ₹49,400
> 28th in Adda52’s Maverick for ₹7,500
Shrey Baj’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹1.79 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹29.61 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #1
Tuesday`s BTS#16 Freeze (FO) runner-up finisher Faiz ‘theinternetkid’ Alam fired up five ITM finishes, netting ₹2.20 Lakhs overall.
His Wednesday finishes include:
> 5th in Spartan Poker’s Wednesday High Roller for ₹1,39,755
> 9th in Adda52’s Maverick for ₹22,500
> 29th in PokerBaazi’s BTS#20 Mini Main Event for ₹23,940
> 12th in PokerBaazi’s The Pride for ₹22,500
> 8th in Adda52’s La Luna for ₹11,000
Faiz Alam’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹1.45 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹18,55 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #2
JaiKiran ‘jeditriv’ Kumar (4th for ₹36,000), Jimish ‘JimCorbet’ Bathia (5th for ₹25,000), and Satish ‘Sathriyan88’ M (6th for ₹17,200) were others on the La Luna final table.
The ₹1,800 entry buy-in tournament recorded an overlay shortfall of ₹58,880, with the top 21 finishers making the payouts list.
Final Table Results
Kamal ‘kamalpunjabi11’ Punjabi (Won ₹1.20 Lakhs GTD Afternoon Adda for ₹24,749), ‘S1mplyZeus’ (Won ₹1.20 Lakhs GTD Maverick Lite for ₹24,567), ‘Samimeel’ (Won ₹40K GTD Sundown Adda for ₹11,744), ‘narayanpn’ (Won ₹40K GTD Morning Adda for ₹10,832), ‘GABBARISBACK143’ (Won ₹30K GTD Freeze Out Adda for ₹10,699), and ‘PokerHead777’ (Won ₹60K GTD Bounty Adda for ₹10,336), won the other Adda52 marquees.
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