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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.
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
*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)
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.
Vishal ‘karan23’ Kumar (2nd for ₹96,642) and the multi-talented Siddhanth ‘Bullzeye’ Kapoor (3rd for ₹68,719) locked in podium finishes.
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
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.
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
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.
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 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.
Rank Player Points
1 Aman 'KarmaPoker' Parakh 3,555
2 Ashish 'Notoriouskonvict' Nailwal 3,419
3 Ganesh 'Ganesh24' Durgade 3,222
4 Bhanu 'Chennaino1' Prakash KC 3,044
5 Mohit 'thejoker' Mehta 2,952
6 CrystalTurtle44 2,872
7 Neeraj 'SelfClaimedPro' Kumar 2,829
8 Siddhanth 'Bullzeye' Kapoor 2,733
9 Pritam 'Pritam1301' Amritkar 2,710
10 Shubham 'bakchod' Agarwal 2,513
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 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
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).
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:
> 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
*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.
Final Table Results
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
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
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.
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
‘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).
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
*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
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.
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