Daily Majors: Nitin Rawat, Saransh Garg, Karan Sitlani & Amar Iyer Make Top Finishes in the Monday Flagships

Mondays are notorious for being slow days as far as online poker is concerned. Barring MPL Poker’s budget series Steal Deal Series 5, no flagship online series was running, and the tournament lineup featured the usual modest guarantees synonymous with Mondays.

However, the online MTT action will almost certainly be back in top gear once the fourth edition of PokerBaazi`s ₹10 Crores-plus GTD Asian Poker Tour (APT) India Online Series (July 1 – 10) takes flight on Friday.

Nitin Rawat topped the Monday charts for he won PokerBaazi’s The Big Show for ₹2.21 Lakhs, picking up his second flagship title on the site in three days. The poker streamer cashed another four events for a total take-home worth almost ₹2.51 Lakhs.

Last week`s Mega Suits champion ‘boosterx’ shipped Adda52`s Iron Man for ₹2.11 Lakhs. The #BB6 MoneyMaker runner-up finisher Saransh Garg lost the heads-up battle, collecting ₹1.28 Lakhs in second place (his 7th runner-up finish this year).

Spartan Poker’s Monday headliner ReCharge logged in a guarantee-crushing field that played down to a four-way deal. Dhaval Solanki won the title for a site-best ₹1,25 Lakhs, with ‘simsimpola’ (2nd for ₹1.19 Lakhs), this week`s Sunday Superstack third-place finisher Siddhanth Kapoor (3rd for ₹98,262), and Meet Jariwala (4th for ₹95,080) banking the other top payouts, courtesy of the FT deal.

Arjun Baskaran clinched his second (7-Max) Daily SPRINT title on PokerBaazi for ₹1.18 Lakhs and added ₹1.21 Lakhs in Monday winnings. Shrey Baj placed second for ₹82,550 and cashed ₹1.07 Lakhs (overall) across three ITM finishes.

PokerBaazi loyalist Karan Sitlani made it to the finish line in the (7-Max) SPRINT, grabbing the title for ₹1.15 Lakhs following a heads-up deal with Rahul Sengar (2nd for ₹1.02 Lakhs). Sitlani also cashed the Daily Boost, rounding up almost ₹1.20 Lakhs in Monday winnings.

Amar Iyer came out on top in PokerStars India`s Battle Royale for ₹89,479, with Vaibhav Temani finishing runner-up for ₹38,224.

Karan Jain won MPL Poker’s Monday Madness for ₹70,500 after beating Rohit Malhotra (2nd for ₹44,850) in heads-up play.

Ashish Pareek, Baiju Ray, Sundar Surya, Bharat Vasan, Ankit Gupta, Vikram Ved Batra, Mukesh Surana, Sanchit Anand, Nikhil Kashyap, and Ajay Singh Dasila won the other Monday marquees.

Here are the Monday highlights!

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Spartan Poker

ReCharge – ₹8 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹2,200

Entries – 190

Re-entries – 63

Rebuys – 155

Prize Pool – ₹8,16,000

Places Paid – 31

Dhaval ‘mahakal07’ Solanki parlayed a ₹165 satellite buy-in into a career-best ₹1.25 Lakhs payday in Spartan Poker’s Monday headliner, the ₹8 Lakhs GTD ReCharge. He overcame a guarantee-crushing 408-player field, and eventually shook hands on a four-way deal with ‘simsimpola’ (2nd for ₹1.19 Lakhs), Siddhanth ‘ChintuDedha’ Kapoor (3rd for ₹98,262), and Meet ‘gogobhai’ Jariwala (4th for ₹95,080).

Dhaval Solanki’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹17.58 Lakhs | Lifetime Profits: ₹1.51 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2022: #2

The 8 PM ReCharge ended at 3.21 AM, with the top 31 finishers digging into the ₹8.16 Lakhs prize pool.

Final Table Results

1. Dhaval ‘mahakal07’ Solanki – ₹1,24,656*
2. simsimpola – ₹1,19,134*
3. Siddhanth ‘ChintuDedha’ Kapoor – ₹98,262*
4. Meet ‘gogobhai’ Jariwala – ₹95,080*
5. Sandeep ‘PS_Sunshine’ Singh – ₹52,550
6. KEIKO – ₹39,902
7. Niharika ‘nutcracker303’ Bindra – ₹29,131
8. hemanya66 – ₹21,298

*denotes a four-way deal

Deepstack – ₹3 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹1,100

Entries – 167

Re-entries – 63

Rebuys – 112

Prize Pool – ₹3,42,000

Places Paid – 31

Coming in hot after a splendid run at the just-concluded IOPC June 2022 series, Ashish ‘X—factor’ Pareek toppled a 343-entry field in Spartan Poker ₹3 Lakhs GTD Deepstack, adding ₹72,333 to his poker bankroll. ‘sunrunner’ finished runner-up for ₹48,701.

Ashish Pareek cashed another three events on Spartan Poker, netting ₹85,796 overall. His Monday finishes include:

> 1st in Deepstack for ₹71,662

> 23rd in ReCharge for ₹8,813

> 24th in Sundowner for ₹3,009

> 27th in Monster Stack for ₹2,312

Ashish Pareek’s Spartan Poker stats: Site Winnings: ₹1.24 Crores | Site Profits: ₹22.57 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2022: #7

The ₹1,100 buy-in event ran from 9.30 PM to 5.34 AM, and the top 31 finishers earned a share from the ₹3.42 Lakhs prize pool.

Final Table Results

1. Ashish ‘X—factor’ Pareek – ₹72,333
2. sunrunner – ₹48,701
3. Abhishek Kumar ‘Bittur’ Chaurasia – ₹34,337
4. The Clairvoyant – ₹27,839
5. HarishChand007 – ₹22,025
6. Raghav ‘Mr. Bean’ Ananth – ₹16,724
7. Kailen – ₹12,209
8. Kaccha Limbu – ₹8,926

‘sajet69’ (Won ₹2 Lakhs GTD Monster Stack for ₹50,563), Ankit ‘BuddyLove’ Gupta (Won ₹1.75 Lakhs GTD Night Rider – Monster Stack for ₹46,556), ‘puffpuffpass’ (Won ₹2 Lakhs GTD Sundowner for ₹43,208), ‘gingu1989’ (Won ₹1 Lakh GTD Chip Up for ₹17,238), ‘Bounty_’ (Won ₹50K GTD The Centurion for ₹10,575) won the other Spartan Poker marquees.

PokerBaazi

The Big Show – ₹10 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹3,300

Entries – 184

Re-entries – 150

Prize Pool – ₹10,02,000

Places Paid – 36

Saturday`s Blockbuster winner, Nitin ‘Gambler42’ Rawat, did it again! The poker streamer came out on top of a 334-entry field in PokerBaazi`s ₹10 Lakhs GTD The Big Show to win ₹2.21 Lakhs, lapping up his second flagship title on the site in three days. The mystery user ‘Satya222’ collected ₹1.55 Lakhs in second place.

Nitin Rawat made another four ITM finishes last night, adding almost ₹2.51 Lakhs. His top Monday finishes include:

> 1st in PokerBaazi’s The Big Show for ₹2.21 Lakhs

> 3rd in Spartan Poker’s Sundowner for ₹21,011

Nitin Rawat’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹1.09 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹44.49 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2022: #15

The Monday headliner gathered a ₹10.02 Lakhs prize pool and paid out 36 places.

Final Table Results

1. Nitin ‘Gambler42’ Rawat – ₹2,21,342
2. Satya222 – ₹1,55,310
3. Harsh ‘harsh1327’ Bubna – ₹99,899
4. Ramu ‘Ramu0550’ Kushwaha – ₹73,948
5. bullets777 – ₹55,511
6. Rohit ‘rohitmalik777’ Malik – ₹44,389
7. Vaibhav ‘BeBoT’ Sharma – ₹36,874
8. Aditya ‘pnutbutterbacon’ Navalkar – ₹29,559

(7-Max) SPRINT – ₹5 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹1,650

Entries – 252

Re-entries – 171

Prize Pool – ₹6,34,000

Places Paid – 54

PokerBaazi’s (7-Max) SPRINT took off at its scheduled 9 PM slot and logged in 423 entries to generate a guarantee-crushing ₹6.34 Lakhs prize pool. Following six hours of fast-paced action, Karan ‘Collingwood’ Sitlani made it to the top and won the title for ₹1.15 Lakhs after striking a heads-up deal with Rahul ‘GhatakTheGreat’ Sengar (2nd for ₹1.02 Lakhs).

This was Sitlani’s second title on the site in three days.

Karan Sitlani also cashed the ₹2.50 Lakhs GTD Daily Boost (12th for ₹4,766), cumulatively adding ₹1.20 Lakhs in his Monday tally. His online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹82.44 Lakhs | Lifetime Profits: ₹6.89 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2022: #23

Final Table Results

1. Karan ‘collingwood’ Sitlani – ₹1,14,945*
2. Rahul ‘GhatakTheGreat’ Sengar – ₹1,01,991*
3. Amit Kumar ‘amit28091992’ Sahu – ₹57,486
4. Mukesh ‘Guruuu’ Surana – ₹42,512
5. Arvindhan ‘bblackdegen’ Lakshminarayanan – ₹31,915
6. Kunal ‘Kunal176’ Langer – ₹25,570
7. Gotiyaa – ₹21,319

*denotes a heads-up deal

(7-Max) Daily SPRINT – ₹5 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹2,200

Entries – 123

Re-entries – 96

Prize Pool – ₹5,00,000

Places Paid – 27

Arjun ‘Asuran’ Baskaran raced past a 219-player field in PokerBaazi’s ₹5 Lakhs GTD (7-Max) Daily SPRINT, winning the event for the second time this year for ₹1.18 Lakhs. Shrey ‘Kingsb30’ Baj, who seems to have made a habit of finishing runner-up in marquee tournaments, fell one place short of the title again, netting ₹82,550.

Arjun Baskaran also cashed the (7-Max) SPRINT (40th for ₹3,426), collectively earning ₹1.21 Lakhs. His PokerBaazi stats: Site Winnings: ₹9.46 Lakhs | Site Profits: ₹3.47 Lakhs | Titles Won: #2

The runner-up Shrey Baj ran deep in two more events, banking ₹1.07 Lakhs (overall). His Monday finishes include:

> 2nd in PokerBaazi’s 7-Max Daily SPRINT for ₹82,550

> 8th in Adda52’s Iron Man for ₹21,065

> 21st in Spartan Poker’s Deepstack for ₹3,694

Shrey Baj’s online stats (excluding PokerStars India): Lifetime Winnings: ₹1.34 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹25.58 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2022: #7

The 7.30 PM event filled in ₹62,000 in overlays.

Final Table Results

1. Arjun ‘Asuran’ Baskaran – ₹1,17,650
2. Shrey ‘Kingsb30’ Baj – ₹82,550
3. Vaibhav ‘BeBoT’ Sharma – ₹53,100
4. Dhaval ‘Faizal1506’ Doshi – ₹39,300
5. Vinay ‘keechad’ Verma – ₹29,500
6. solidpoker – ₹23,600
7. omajil – ₹19,600

The #BB3 MoneyMaker champion Mukesh ‘Guruuu’ Surana took down the ₹1 Lakh GTD Daily Afternoon SPRINT for ₹20,940. The 41-year-old poker pro from Chennai also FT-ed the (7-Max) SPRINT and cashed another two tourneys, lapping up ₹82,121 overall.

His Monday finishes include:

> 4th in PokerBaazi’s (7-Max) SPRINT for ₹42,512

>1st in PokerBaazi’s Daily Afternoon SPRINT for ₹20,939

> 11th in PokerBaazi’s The Big Show for ₹16,132

> 12th in PokerBaazi’s SPRINT for ₹2,538

Mukesh Surana’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹1.25 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹20.36 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2022: #11

Baiju ‘Nayandi’ Ray (Won ₹3 Lakhs GTD Holdem BOOST for ₹66,270), Sundar ‘Immeasurable’ Surya (Won ₹2.50 Lakhs GTD Daily Boost for ₹65,390), Bharat ‘Thinkfloyd’ Vasan (Won ₹2.50 Lakhs GTD Afternoon Boost for ₹62,170), ‘thala07’ (Won ₹1.50 Lakhs GTD Hyper Sprint for ₹45,260), ‘vipdaredevil’ (Won ₹1.50 Lakhs GTD Daily Night SPRINT for ₹38,720), ‘Shubham2708’ (Won ₹1 Lakh GTD PLO Boost Monster for ₹30,880), ‘skshivam43’ (Won ₹1 Lakh GTD SPRINT for ₹26,840), ‘ashishvyas999’ (Won ₹1 Lakh GTD Baazi Super Value for ₹16,280), Steelbala’ (Won ₹50K GTD 5-Max Daily for ₹9,010), and ‘ajayrawat08’ (Won ₹30K GTD Turbo Megastack for ₹8,870) won the other PokerBaazi marquees.

MPL Poker

Monday Madness – ₹3 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹1,500

Entries – 138

Re-entries – 79

Prize Pool – ₹3,00,000

Places Paid – 37

Karan ‘hoopsking9217347’ Jain outran a 217-entry field in MPL Poker’s Monday flagship, ₹3 Lakhs GTD Monday Madness, and won the title and the ₹70,500 up-top. Rohit ‘FOLDKARYAAAAAAR’ Malhotra came second for ₹44,850.

The ₹1,500 buy-in event registered a nominal ₹7,050 in overlays.

Final Table Results

1. Karan ‘hoopsking9217347’ Jain – ₹70,500
2. Rohit ‘FOLDKARYAAAAAAR’ Malhotra – ₹44,850
3. Naveen ‘queen0083’ Kumar – ₹30,450
4. virat1008 – ₹24,150
5. dilipd0075 – ₹15,900
6. TAJ – ₹11,250
7. Manish ‘any1willdo’ Kumar Barman – ₹9,000
8. winner3742760 – ₹7,200

‘virat1008’ (Won ₹70K GTD SDS #7 Monday Money Mania for ₹17,677), ‘88*****276’ (Won ₹80K GTD SDS #8 Monster Stack for ₹16,905), ‘santosh45’ (Won ₹50K GTD SDS #5 MPL Brunch for ₹13,000), ‘srtwbjh420’ (Won ₹50K GTD SDS #6 for ₹12,000), and ‘boss2666266’ (Won ₹40K GTD SDS #4 MPL Shark Nights for ₹10,800) won the Steal Deal Series branded events on Day 2 of the series.

PokerStars India

Battle Royale [8-Max] – ₹4 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹2,750

Entries – 100

Re-entries – 62

Regular Prize Pool – ₹2,02,500

Bounty Prize Pool – ₹2,02,500

Total Prize Pool – ₹4,05,000

Places Paid – 17

Amar ‘PsykoEko’ Iyer made the victory march in PokerStars India’s ₹4 Lakhs GTD Battle Royale [8-Max], collecting ₹89,479 along with his second title of the year. He bested the IOPC July 2021 – The Crown champion Vaibhav ‘Tems30’ Temani (2nd for ₹38,224) heads-up.

Amar Iyer’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹2.28 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹28.04 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2022: #2

Final Table Results (Including Bounties)

1. Amar ‘PsykoEko’ Iyer – ₹89,479
2. Vaibhav ‘Tems30’ Temani – ₹38,224
3. Anurag ‘GutshotHaiBro’ Srivastava – ₹28,728
4. Siddharth ‘gangnam gangi’ Gangwar – ₹30,434
5. Advait ‘ronaldinh18’ Rajguru – ₹31,496
6. Neeraj ‘SelfClaimedPro’ Kumar – ₹14,623
7. shital9236 – ₹11,358
8. sssss951 – ₹26,319
9. AJ14071988 – ₹15,505

Deepstack – ₹1.50 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹1,375

Entries – 81

Re-entries – 51

Regular Prize Pool – ₹82,500

Bounty Prize Pool – ₹82,500

Total Prize Pool – ₹1,65,000

Places Paid – 17

Vikram ‘swingtrader23’ Ved Batra was the last player standing in PokerStars India`s ₹1.50 Lakhs GTD Deepstack and won the top prize of ₹43,435 with ‘MeraDeshMahaan’ settling for a runner-up payday worth ₹19,085.

Vikram Ved Batra made another three deep runs yesterday, raking in 63,487 overall. His top Monday finishes include:

> 1st in PokerStars India’s Deepstack for ₹43,435

> 10th in Adda52’s Iron Man for ₹12,639

> 21st in PokerBaazi’s Daily SPRINT for ₹5,250

His online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹74.50 Lakhs | Lifetime Profits: ₹20.61 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2022: #9

The ₹1,375 buy-in event obliterated its listed guarantee by ₹15,000 (a 10% surplus) on the back of 132 entries, and 17 among them got paid.

Final Table Results (Including Bounties)

1. Vikram ‘swingtrader23’ Ved Batra – ₹43,435
2. MeraDeshMahaan – ₹19,085
3. AnirudhM1 – ₹10,363
4. Sanchit ‘devilsanchit’ Anand – ₹16,269
5. Aneesh ‘bellybuster87’ Jain – ₹10,694
6. Partho ‘SpidermanIndia’ Datta – ₹5,735
7. Sreeharsha ‘DonkeyCommitted’ Boneni – ₹5,274
8. noob_troller – ₹5,781
9. Shivam ‘brooskyradio1’ Shukla – ₹2,534

‘Karadia M’ (Won ₹1 Lakh GTD Ultrasonic for ₹32,165), Sanchit ‘devilsanchit’ Anand (Won ₹1 Lakh GTD Evening on Stars for ₹19,398), Nikhil ‘INDslayer’ Kashyap (Won ₹50K GTD Afternoon on Stars for ₹13,911), ‘highroller2301’ (Won ₹50K GTD Primetime Grind for ₹11,521), and ‘TRUMP 7557’ (Won ₹50K GTD Deepstack for ₹11,402) won the other PokerStars India marquees.

Adda52

Iron Man – ₹8 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹2,400

Entries – 217

Re-entries – 166

Prize Pool – ₹8,42,606

Places Paid – 38

Last week`s Mega Suits champion ‘boosterx’ added another Adda52 flagship to their name, winning the ₹8 Lakhs GTD Iron Man for ₹2.11 Lakhs. The #BB6 MoneyMaker runner-up finisher Saransh ‘don004’ Garg collected ₹1.28 Lakhs in second place.

‘boosterx’s Adda52 stats: Site Winnings: ₹29.22 Lakhs | Site Profits: ₹9.60 Lakhs | Titles Won: #34

Final Table Results

1. boosterx – ₹2,10,650
2. Saransh ‘don004’ Garg – ₹1,27,654
3. Dhirendra ‘dhirendta987’ Singh – ₹92,686
4. Sathriyan88 – ₹67,408
5. Advait ‘ronaldinho018’ Rajguru – ₹45,500
6. Amod1001 – ₹31,598

Voyager – ₹3 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹1,100

Entries – 162

Re-entries – 137

Prize Pool – ₹3,00,000

Places Paid – 30

Adda52 user ‘drunktoast’ took down the ₹3 Lakhs GTD Voyager for ₹77,250 (their second-best finish on the site). ‘goajaanahai’ finished runner-up for ₹46,814.

‘drunktoast’s Adda52 stats: Site Winnings: ₹3.06 Lakhs | Site Profits: ₹11,414| Titles Won: #2

Final Table Results

1. drunktoast – ₹77,250
2. goajaanahai – ₹46,814
3. Aarchit ‘Aarchit’ Dhadwal – ₹33,990
4. reyan147 – ₹25,802
5. shavzz – ₹17,768
6. Akshit ‘1willwin’ Aneja – ₹11,588
7. Abhiroop ‘Daniel90’ Gupta – ₹9,270
8. Vaibhav ‘vane_shado’ Temani – ₹7,725

‘bullzeye’ (Won ₹1.50 Lakhs GTD Nighttide DST Adda for ₹27,601), Ajay ‘juar1’ Singh Dasila (Won ₹50K GTD Sundown Adda for ₹11,600), ‘ImAlpha’ (Won ₹50K GTD Bounty Adda for ₹10,598), and ‘THEGAME26’ (Won ₹50K GTD Evening Adda for ₹10,020) won the other Adda52 marquees.

Khelo365

Khelo365’s ₹10K GTD Sundowner logged in 57 entries, and the user ‘CvS’ rode past them all to win the title for ₹5,000. ‘Akolum’ secured a runner-up payday of ₹3,000.

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