Daily Majors: Anmol Narang, Sahil Chutani, Gaurav Sood, Myron Pereira & Armaan Kochhar Bank the Top Paydays in the Thursday Flagships

Thursday delivered another king-size dose of MTT action with Spartan Poker`s The Millionaire returning for another edition.

The former Full House champion Rohit Vaswani emerged as Thursday`s top scorer after taking down Adda52’s Godfather for ₹6.54 Lakhs.

Birthday boy Anmol Narang rang in the celebrations in style by lapping up over ₹4.50 Lakhs in total winnings.

> 2nd in PokerBaazi’s Summit for ₹2.93 Lakhs

> 4th in Spartan Poker’s Trending Thursday for ₹1.57 Lakhs

Young Gun’s Sahil Chutani & Gaurav Sood, Myron Pereira, Armaan Kochhar, Archit Saraogi, Abhishek Chhajer, and Yash Dutt banked the other top finishes of the day.

Here`s a quick recap of the day`s highlights.

Spartan Poker

Spartan Poker’s weekend flagship, the ₹1 Crore GTD The Millionaire, flagged its final edition of the month last night. The ₹5,500 entry buy-in event logged in 295 entries (182 unique, 36 re-entries, and 77 rebuys) on Day 1A, and only 40 survived the stipulated 25 levels of play. Nitin ‘demogorgon’ Arora (210,139), Amar B ‘PsykoEko’ Iyer (190,690), and Sriharsha ‘Potato Player’ Doddapaneni (183,290) bagged the top stacks of the day.

The bigger of the two Daily Poker Marathon tourneys running on the site, the ₹3,850 entry buy-in ₹16 Lakhs GTD Trending Thursday fared better than last week as 599 entries (270 unique players, 90 re-entries, and 239 re-entries) ensured a guarantee-smashing ₹20.97 Lakhs prize pool. The tourney played down to a heads-up showdown between the anonymous user ‘Flahoolick’ and PokerStars India’s “Star of the Month” – February Armaan ‘space ace’ Kochhar. The former came out on top to collect ₹4.09 Lakhs, with the two-time Destiny winner Kochhar raking in ₹2.60 Lakhs for his runner-up finish.

Kochhar FT-ed two more events on Thursday for almost ₹2.95 Lakhs in total winnings, pushing his lifetime MTT winnings north of ₹4.15 Crores. His other deep runs were:

> 5^th in Spartan Poker’s ₹3.5 Lakhs GTD Monster Stack for ₹25,218

> 4^th in PokerStars India’s ₹50K GTD Deepstack for ₹4,520

The ₹7 Lakhs GTD Monster Stack had Archit ‘Richie4ich’ Saraogi outlasting the competition to collect his first MTT title of the year and a ₹1.96 Lakhs payday. PokerGuru Ambassador Kartik ‘TheInternetKid’ Ved finished runner-up for ₹1.24 Lakhs.

Archit Saraogi now has ₹61.27 Lakhs in lifetime winnings.

PokerStars India

PokerStars India’s Thursday flagship, the ₹10 Lakhs GTD Highroller, recorded a player-field of 171 hopefuls (93 unique and 78 re-entries). With each of them ponying up ₹7,700 to enter, the tourney ended up accumulating ₹11.97 Lakhs in the prize pool. The two-time Uppercut champion Myron ‘khAAbib’ Pereira was the last player standing and won ₹2.72 Lakhs (includes ₹163,406 in bounties). Young Gun Arsh ‘BiggggTymeR’ Grover, following through on his Monday night rampage, booked a runner-up finish for ₹1.57 Lakhs (includes ₹48,234 in bounties).

Myron Pereira’s stats: Lifetime Earnings: ₹3.6 Crores (₹33.49 Lakhs in net profits), Annual Earnings: ₹85.58 Lakhs (~₹27.50+ Lakhs in net profits).

The user ‘kunnotaguero’ topped a field of 133 entries in the ₹2 Lakhs GTD The Classic PKO to win ₹47,650 (includes ₹28,857 in bounties) after striking a heads-up deal with poker streamer Aniruddha ‘pocketacesaj69’ Joshi (2nd for ₹26,908) (includes ₹8,115 in bounties).

PokerBaazi

PokerBaazi’s ₹50 Lakhs GTD Value Bomb played out its second-starting flight on Thursday. Flight 1B registered 1,081 entries (776 unique and 305 re-entries), a slight dip from the 1,217 entries on Flight 1A. After close to five hours of play, 115 runners bagged Day 2 stacks with ‘aryamancr7’ (467,000), ‘Dp179’ (432,000), and Young Gun Gaurav ‘gaug17’ Sood (431,000) topping the survivor`s list.

The Flight 1A chip leader Siddhanth ‘ender’ Kripalani (490,000) continues to hold the overall chip lead with three more flights to go.

The Thursday headliner, the ₹15 Lakhs GTD The Summit, recorded 237 entries (119 unique players and 118 re-entries), collecting a hefty ₹17.77 Lakhs prize pool. Young Gun Sahil ‘bluffme19’ Chutani was the last player standing and added ₹4.18 Lakhs to his burgeoning bankroll. This was the seventh title victory of the year for the three-time Adda52 Millions champion, boosting Chutani`s lifetime winnings to ₹2.45 Crores (₹1.14 Crores in net profits).

The birthday boy Anmol ‘airball’ Narang placed second in The Summit for a site-best ₹2.93 Lakhs. Narang made quite the splash on his birthday as he also placed fourth in Spartan Poker’s Trending Thursday for ₹1.57 Lakhs, cashing almost ₹4.51 Lakhs in total winnings.

Abhishek ‘abhiom’ Chhajer (Won Holdem BOOST DST ₹1.5 Lakhs GTD for ₹61,410) and Yash ‘paranoid’ Dutt (Won PLO BOOST Monster ₹1 Lakh GTD for ₹31,530) took down the late-night marquees on the site.

Adda52

Adda52`s ₹25 Lakhs GTD Godfather offered the most massive prize pool guarantee among all the Thursday tourneys that played down to a winner. The ₹5,500 entry buy-in tourney filled in 545 entries, collecting ₹27.25 Lakhs in the prize pool. The former Full House champion Rohit ‘rohitvaswani’ Vaswani championed the tourney for ₹6.54 Lakhs – the day`s single-largest score. The only player on our database in the “8 Crore Club,” Young Gun Gaurav ‘gauravarod’ Sood finished runner-up for ₹3.82 Lakhs.

Rohit Vaswani has ₹58.9 Lakhs in recorded winnings on Adda52 after the win, with ₹44.29 Lakhs in net profits.

Gaurav Sood is ranked #3 on the annual leaderboard with ₹1.43 Crores in annual scores and ₹68.84 Lakhs in net profits. His lifetime tally stands tall at ₹8.11 Crores (~₹4.06 Crores in net profits).

The ₹5 Lakhs GTD Monster Turbo wrangled in 260 runners, and 27 places got paid a share of the ₹5.85 Lakhs prize pool. The mystery user ‘Mitsen’ shipped the tourney to collect ₹1.58 Lakhs, with Niteen ‘niteenplus’ Raj conceding to a runner-up finish worth ₹92,138.

The current Big Game champion ‘Mitsen’ registered their second-best score on the site, touching ₹18.63 Lakhs (₹17.19 Lakhs in net profits) in recorded winnings on Adda52.

The other Thursday winners were:

NOTE: Due to unavoidable circumstances, we will not be publishing the detailed Daily Majors report today.