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PokerBaazi’s National Poker Series India 2023 came to a thrilling conclusion on Sunday after a grueling 18-day marathon run. The mega-series shattered previous records and left participants and fans alike electrified. However, the following Monday was noticeably lackluster on the virtual poker tables, as many regular players were occupied in the final tournaments at the WPT Prime India in Goa. As a result, most of the big-ticket tournaments experienced significant overlays.
Making the most of the abundance of value on offer was the Adda52 reg ‘Mahadevpoker,’ who won back-to-back tournaments on the site for a total take-home worth ₹2.76 Lakhs, recovering all losses in one day. They won Iron Man for a site-best ₹2.20 Lakhs and Nano DST for ₹56,000.
The NPS#38 Deepdive silver medallist Avish Sharma broke a month-long title drought by shipping PokerBaazi’s The Big Show for ₹1.72 Lakhs – the day’s second-biggest score. Prashant Kumar came second for ₹1.20 Lakhs.
Devendra Suthar championed Spartan Poker’s The CashMaker – Triple Chance for ₹1.55 Lakhs (won ₹1.63 Lakhs overall) – his first win in four weeks. He struck a three-way deal with Buhr Advirkar (2nd for ₹1.26 Lakhs) and Abhishek Garg (3rd for ₹1.22 Lakhs).
Buhr Advirkar cashed twice in The CashMaker – Triple Chance, finishing 15th on a second stack for ₹12,750 (won ₹1.39 Lakhs in the tournament) and collectively adding ₹1.58 Lakhs across his Monday run.
Online reg ‘Maharaj3’ (anonymity requested) won PokerBaazi’s Daily Value Boost for ₹1.45 Lakhs and made another podium finish in (7-Max) Daily SPRINT (3rd for ₹48,800), pocketing ₹1.94 Lakhs altogether.
Last week’s Uppercut winner Vikram Ved Batra accumulated ₹1.32 Lakhs from four Monday scores, including FT finishes in PokerBaazi’s Daily Value Boost (2nd for ₹1.12 Lakhs) and Adda52’s Nano Inception (3rd for ₹14,610).
PokerStars India loyalist Akash Sharma shipped Eliminator [8-Max] for ₹90,906 (₹44,418 in bounties). Amit Sinha bagged away the runner-up payday of ₹54,632 (₹8,144 in bounties).
Bhavyajeet Singh Rathore, Pranay Thawait, Animesh Tripathi, Jasvir Singh, Prateek Tibrewal, Abhishek Pal, Nishant Pandey, and Biswajit Mondal won the other Monday marquees.
Here are the Monday highlights!
Spartan Poker
The CashMaker – Triple Chance – ₹8.50 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹3,300
Entries – 132
Re-entries – 69
Re-buys – 60
Prize Pool – ₹8,50,000
Places Paid – 27
Devendra ‘thekid2003’ Suthar emerged victorious in Spartan Poker’s ₹8.50 Lakhs GTD The CashMaker – Triple Chance, which attracted 261 participants, including 132 unique players.
The primetime tournament lasted for seven hours before Suthar was crowned the champion. This marks Suthar’s first win in four weeks, and he locked in ₹1.55 Lakhs for the feat. Three-handed Suthar entered a deal with Buhr ‘C@rnage’ Advirkar (2nd for ₹1.26 Lakhs) and Abhishek ‘TheGrinder’ Garg (3rd for ₹1.22 Lakhs).
Devendra Suthar also cashed PokerBaazi’s Daily Value Boost (19th for ₹8,000), pocketing ₹1.63 Lakhs overall. His online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹1.46 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹50.99 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #5
Besides finishing runner-up in The CashMaker – Triple Chance, Buhr Advirkar also finished 15th on a second stack in the multi-entry tournament for ₹12,750, totaling ₹1.39 Lakhs. Advirkar also FT-ed PokerStars India’s Eliminator (7th for ₹16,806) and cashed PokerBaazi’s (7-Max) SPRINT (54th for 2,900), adding ₹1.58 Lakhs for the day`s work.
Buhr Advirkar’s online stats (excluding PokerStars India): Lifetime Winnings: ₹1.96 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹12.77 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #3
Sashank ‘TheTamizhDurrr’ Chakravarthy added ₹56,190 from two deep runs, which include:
> 6th in Spartan Poker’s The CashMaker – Triple Chance for ₹43,690
> 19th in PokerBaazi’s The Big Show for ₹12,500
Sashank Chakravarthy’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹1.87 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹39.26 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #4
Sunday’s Deepstack Turbo finalist, Venkatesh ‘Balthazar’ Mukundan, collected ₹68,330 from two runs, which include:
> 7th and 9th in Spartan Poker’s The CashMaker – Triple Chance for ₹50,830
> 13th in PokerBaazi’s The Big Show for ₹17,500
Venkatesh Mukundan’s online stats (excluding PokerStars India): Lifetime Winnings: ₹1.25 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹21.59 Lakhs | Titles Won: #3
Dhaval ‘optionseller’ Heda (8th for ₹23,035) also FT-ed the Monday flagship.
The ₹3,300 entry buy-in tournament suffered ₹67,000 in overlays, and 27 players boarded the money bus.
Final Table Results
*denotes a three-way deal
Daily Turbo (6-Max) – ₹3 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹1,650
Entries – 95
Re-entries – 35
Re-buys – 49
Prize Pool – ₹3,00,000
Places Paid – 17
Spartan Poker user ‘JehD’ scored their first win on the site yesterday after battling through the 179-strong field (95 unique) in the ₹3 Lakhs GTD Daily Turbo, nailing the 9:30 PM tournament for a personal-best ₹69,657. The user ‘boomhoops’ pocketed ₹56,823 in second place, courtesy of a heads-up deal.
JehD’s Spartan Poker stats: Site Winnings: ₹3.58 Lakhs | Titles Won: #1
The Millionaire Series April 2022 Main Event finalist, Biplob ‘hellhell’ Rana, added ₹47,150 from two deep runs, which include:
> 3rd in Spartan Poker’s Daily Turbo for ₹33,150
> 11th in Adda52’s Iron Man for ₹14,000
Biplob Rana’s online stats (Spartan Poker and Adda52): Lifetime Winnings: ₹1.71 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹41.59 Lakhs
Shreepad ‘SansuS’ Sansare (4th for ₹27,450) also FT-ed Daily Turbo.
The ₹1,650 buy-in tournament registered ₹31,500 in overlays, and 17 players got paid.
Final Table Results
*denotes a heads-up deal
‘pokerbadshahhh’ (Won ₹2 Lakhs GTD Monster Stack for ₹48,000), ‘limitless147’ (Won ₹1 Lakh GTD Sundowner – Triple Chance for ₹19,102), ‘Redeye’ (Won ₹1 Lakh GTD Chip Up- Triple Chance for ₹17,534) and ‘Play_like_pro’ (Won ₹50K GTD Centurion for ₹9,390) won the other Spartan Poker marquees.
PokerBaazi
The Big Show – ₹10 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹3,300
Entries – 166
Re-entries – 133
Prize Pool – ₹10,00,000
Places Paid – 35
The NPS#38 Deepdive silver medallist Avish ‘thehorse7’ Sharma saw his stagnant profit graph improving a few notches after taking down PokerBaazi’s Monday flagship, ₹10 Lakhs GTD The Big Show, for ₹1.72 Lakhs – the day’s second-biggest score and his first title win in almost a month.
Avish Sharma’s online stats (excluding PokerStars India): Lifetime Winnings: ₹1.86 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹52.20 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #5
Prashant ‘Prashant12’ Kumar (2nd for ₹1.20 Lakhs), Shravan ‘Enterthedragon’ Suresh (4th for ₹86,000), Surbhit ‘grovahova’ Grover (5th for ₹71,000), and Sunday’s Armageddon winner JaiKiran ‘testify’ Kumar (6th for ₹56,500) punched out FT scores in the tournament.
The ₹3,300 entry buy-in The Big Show registered a 299-player field (166 unique), filling in ₹1.03 Lakhs in overlays.
Final Table Results
Daily Value Boost – ₹10 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹1,650
Entries – 305
Re-entries – 226
Prize Pool – ₹10,00,000
Places Paid – 95
The online reg who plays under the moniker ‘Maharaj3’ (anonymity requested) on PokerBaazi trounced the 531-player starting field (305 unique) in the site’s 7:30 PM tournament, ₹10 Lakhs GTD Daily Value Boost to win ₹1.45 Lakhs.
‘Maharaj3’ made another podium finish in the ₹5 Lakhs GTD (7-Max) Daily SPRINT (3rd for ₹48,800), netting almost ₹1.94 Lakhs across their Monday run.
Last week’s Uppercut winner Vikram ‘vikrambatra’ Ved Batra added ₹1.32 Lakhs from four Monday scores (two FT finishes) and a bounty (worth ₹625), which include:
> 2nd in PokerBaazi’s Daily Value Boost for ₹1,12,000
> 3rd in Adda52’s Nano Inception for ₹14,610
> 18th in PokerBaazi’s Daily Boost for ₹3,124
> 7th in Adda52’s Nano Crack Jack for ₹2,077
Vikram Ved Batra’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹1.14 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹32.34 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #3
Ayush ‘ClassMonitor’ Goyal (5th for ₹41,700), the two-time gold medal winner at the recently concluded NPS India 2023, Shivam ‘daddyaddy’ Kumar Dubey (6th for ₹29,100), Rafiq ‘Mrkhan’ Khan (7th for ₹21,000), and Prashant ‘prashant031’ Pandagre (8th for ₹17,300) were the other site regs on the Daily Value Boost final table.
The ₹1,650 entry buy-in tournament had to fill in a glaring ₹2.03 Lakhs in overlays, with 95 players taking a bite out of the seven-figure prize pool.
Final Table Results
(7-Max) SPRINT – ₹5 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹1,650
Entries – 221
Re-entries – 105
Prize Pool – ₹5,00,000
Places Paid – 59
In an impressive display of skill and determination, PokerBaazi user ‘Anuj147’ turned a modest ₹165 satellite investment into a ₹79,300 cash prize in the ₹5 Lakhs GTD (7-Max) SPRINT last night. This marked ‘Anuj147’s second-best tournament score on the site and his second title win.
The 9 PM tournament had 326 hopefuls, with 221 unique players vying for the top prize. Arindam ‘darkhorse94’ Nayak came in second, taking home ₹58,500.
Anuj147’s PokerBaazi stats: Site Winnings: ₹4.60 Lakhs | Site Profits: ₹1.18 Lakhs | Titles Won: #2
Arindam Nayak picked up another small score in PLO5 BOOST (17th for ₹3,000), netting ₹61,500 overall. His online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹31.24 Lakhs | Lifetime Profits: ₹4.61 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #2
Rohan Thomas ‘RTJam’ John collected ₹24,750 from three Monday scores, and his top finishes include:
> 7th in PokerBaazi’s (7-Max) SPRINT for ₹13,750
> 14th in PokerBaazi’s Daily Value Boost for ₹11,000
Ankit ‘Ankitj’ Thakur (5th for ₹24,000) and Sandeep Varma ‘effuno’ RS (6th for ₹17,150) also FT-ed the 9 PM (7-Max) SPRINT.
The ₹1,650 entry buy-in tournament missed its advertised guarantee by ₹11,000, and 59 players got paid.
Final Table Results
(7-Max) Daily SPRINT – ₹5 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹2,200
Entries – 129
Re-entries – 101
Prize Pool – ₹5,00,000
Places Paid – 41
PokerBaazi loyalist ‘ramboczar’ came out on top of the 230-player field in the ₹5 Lakhs GTD (7-Max) Daily SPRINT, winning the 7:15 PM tournament for ₹73,360 following a heads-up deal with ‘tushars23’ (2nd for ₹71,590).
ramboczar’s PokerBaazi stats: Site Winnings: ₹8.47 Lakhs | Titles Won: #18
The SCS Mid Main Event champion Bhavyajeet Singh ‘brbhavya’ Rathore, last night`s Daily Boost winner, added ₹68,947 from two FT scores, which include:
> 1st in PokerBaazi’s Daily Boost for ₹41,847 (his first title win in five weeks)
> 5th in PokerBaazi’s (7-Max) Daily SPRINT for ₹27,100
Bhavyajeet Singh Rathore’s online stats (excluding PokerStars India): Lifetime Winnings: ₹56.76 Lakhs | Lifetime Profits: ₹14.77 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #2
Pratik ‘zpAAced’ Manjrekar (6th for ₹19,650) and Rohit ‘mrblue1205’ Malhotra (7th for ₹15,900) were others on the (7-Max) Daily SPRINT final table.
The ₹2,200 entry buy-in tournament recorded an overlay shortfall of ₹40,000, with 41 players crossing the money line.
Final Table Results
*denotes a heads-up deal
‘Harshbhog’ (Won ₹2.50 Lakhs GTD 7-Max Afternoon Boost for ₹47,900), Bhavyajeet ‘brbhavya’ Singh Rathore (Won ₹2.50 Lakhs GTD Daily Boost for ₹41,850), ‘Abhi3292’ (Won ₹2 Lakhs GTD PLO-5 Boost for ₹38,040), Animesh ‘ogamayaken’ Tripathi (Won ₹1.50 Lakhs GTD Daily Morning SPRINT for ₹36,040), ‘rup1999’ (Won ₹1.50 Lakhs GTD Daily Night SPRINT for ₹34,930), Jasvir ‘Jasvir88’ Singh (Won ₹1 Lakh GTD PLO-6 Boost PKO for ₹28,000), ‘shivamchhabra21’ (Won ₹1 Lakh GTD 7-Max SPRINT for ₹27,340), ‘ShreyMehta’ (Won ₹1.50 Lakhs GTD Daily Afternoon SPRINT for ₹22,220) and ‘ravikathad9’ (Won ₹50K 5-Max Daily for ₹6,100) won the other PokerBaazi marquees.
Pocket52
Pocket Jacks – ₹5 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹1,650
Entries – 128
Re-entries – 75
Prize Pool – ₹5,00,000
Places Paid – 30
Pocket52 user ‘vague_pune172_19284270’ raced to the top of the 203-player field in the poker network`s Action Packed April Monday marquee, ₹5 Lakhs GTD Pocket Jacks, banking a lofty ₹1 Lakh for the win.
Site-reg Mohit ‘Guruji’ Thakur missed shipping the classic Monday marquee by a narrow margin, settling for a runner-up payday worth ₹71,250.
Final Table Results
‘dhamna’ (Won ₹1.50 Lakhs GTD Pocket Brunch for ₹31,125), ‘samaresh1’ (Won ₹1.25 Lakh GTD Pocket Soda for ₹28,750), ‘MY_PROBLEM’ (Won ₹1 Lakh GTD Pocket Snacks for ₹23,000), and ‘Sagacity’ (Won ₹75K GTD Pocket Squares for ₹17,250) won the other Pocket52 marquees.
PokerSaint
Amethyst – ₹4 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹1,500
Entries – 110
Re-entries – 98
Prize Pool – ₹4,00,000
Places Paid – 35
PokerSaint user ‘WonderWarrior’ fired two bullets in the ₹4 Lakhs GTD Amethyst, eventually running through the 208-player field in the Monday marquee to win ₹74,435.
The PLO-6 BOOST champion from last month, Debashis ‘nazgul’ Bal, missed shipping the primetime tournament but scored a consolation ₹55,601 as the runner-up.
Debashis Bal’s online stats (excluding PokerSaint): Lifetime Winnings: ₹95.14 Lakhs | Lifetime Profits: ₹16.54 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #2
Final Table Results
PokerDangal
Monday Monster – ₹1 Lakh GTD
Buy-in – ₹770
Entries – 88
Re-buys – 30
Prize Pool – ₹1,00,000
Places Paid – 20
PokerDangal user ‘MattSaint92’ claimed the top honors in the site’s ₹1 Lakh GTD Monday Monster and ₹22,000 in first-place prize money. ‘DreddedDemon’ came second for ₹16,500.
Final Table Results
IndiaPlays
IBC – Texas Bounty – ₹25K GTD
Buy-in – ₹220
Entries – 45
Re-buys – 36
Prize Pool – ₹25,000
Places Paid – 12
The ₹100K GTD Texas runner-up finisher from March 24, Biswajit ‘Darinda’ Mondal, took down IndiaPlays’ ₹25K GTD IBC – Texas Bounty for ₹7,000 (₹1,000 in bounties), just as ‘OXHJ1518’ finished runner-up for ₹5,000 (₹500 in bounties).
Partha ‘Partha’ Basak added ₹2,000 to his poker bankroll for his fifth-place finish.
Final Table Results (Excluding Bounties)
The users ‘jiojio’ (Won ₹10K GTD PLO 6 Bounty for ₹4,350), ‘Deepak2020’ (Won ₹10K GTD PLO 6 Bounty for ₹2,900), ‘Jashhhhhh’ (Won ₹5K GTD Texas Bounty for ₹1,475) won the other IndiaPlays Bounty Championship tournaments.
PokerStars India
Eliminator [8-Max] – ₹3.50 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹2,500
Entries – 68
Re-entries – 43
Regular Prize Pool – ₹2,23,682
Bounty Prize Pool – ₹1,26,318
Total Prize Pool – ₹3,50,000
Places Paid – 11
PokerStars India loyalist Akash ‘as5072828’ Sharma returned to the winner’s circle after an over one-and-a-half-year-long gap yesterday! He took almost five and a half hours to champion the 111-player starting field (68 unique) in the site’s ₹3.50 Lakhs GTD Eliminator [8-Max] to win ₹90,906 (₹44,418 in bounties).
Akash Sharma’s PokerStars India stats: Site Winnings: ₹23.61 Lakhs | Site Profits: ₹2.82 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #1
Site-reg Amit ‘FeedMeUrStack’ Sinha fell inches short of the finish line in the 8 PM marquee, taking home the runner-up payday of ₹54,632 (₹8,144 in bounties).
Ankit ‘I am VR4Poker’ Nahar (4th for ₹30,044) (₹5,263 in bounties), yesterday’s The CashMaker – Triple Chance runner-up finisher Buhr ‘BeerusSama10’ Advirkar (7th for ₹16,806) (₹5,050 in bounties), Vaibhav ‘vaibsss’ Bhatia (8th for ₹12,654) (₹3,485 in bounties) and Utkarsh ‘GoShoveYourself’ Srivastava (9th for ₹11,402) (₹4,125 in bounties) were other site regs on the Eliminator final table.
The ₹2,500 entry buy-in tournament registered a significant ₹97,364 in overlays, and 11 players crossed the money line.
Final Table Results (Including Bounties)
Pranay ‘pranay1245’ Thawait (Won ₹1.50 Lakhs GTD Super Stack 8-Max for ₹36,158), Prateek ‘PrateekTib’ Tibrewal (Won ₹1 Lakh GTD Ultrasonic for ₹22,401), ‘Pappidi’ (Won ₹50K Bounty Adrenaline 6-Max for ₹12,181) and Abhishek ‘suyashroy’ Pal (Won ₹50K Bounty Adrenaline 6-Max for ₹9,875) won the other PokerStars India marquees.
Adda52
Iron Man – ₹8 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹2,400
Entries – 155
Re-entries – 88
Prize Pool – ₹8,00,000
Places Paid – 24
The yet unknown Adda52 reg ‘Mahadevpoker’ took the site`s Monday night marquees by storm. The mystery reg won back-to-back tournaments for a total take-home worth ₹2.76 Lakhs, recovering all site losses in one day.
The player started their winning streak by taming the 243-entry field (155 unique) in the Monday flagship, ₹8 Lakhs GTD Iron Man, winning the 8 PM event outright for a site-best ₹2.20 Lakhs. ‘Kingimo9’ collected ₹1.28 Lakhs in second place.
Two hours later, they won the ₹2 Lakhs GTD Nano DST for ₹56,000. Mahadevpoker’s Adda52 stats: Site Winnings: ₹7.01 Lakhs | Site Profits: ₹1.01 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #5
Vishal ‘vishalmaharaj’ Maharaj (4th for ₹68,800) also FT-ed Iron Man.
The ₹2,400 entry buy-in tournament registered a significant ₹2.65 Lakhs in overlays, and 24 players made the payouts list.
Final Table Results
‘abhispal’ (Won ₹90K GTD Nano Siesta for ₹27,363), ‘noobstar’ (Won ₹1.50 Lakhs GTD Nano Inception for ₹27,192), ‘gunrider’ (Won ₹70K GTD Nano Crack Jack for ₹15,175), ‘headsupheadsdown’ (Won ₹30K GTD Nano Battleship for ₹8,850) and Nishant ‘stcokfull’ Pandey (Won ₹25K GTD Nano PLO for ₹7,250) won the Nano Poker Series tournaments on Adda52.
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