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Similar to Monday, Tuesday was relatively slow on the virtual felts! However, PokerGuru’s Team of Ambassadors had a fantastic outing, bagging two titles and multiple deep runs.
Here is a quick recap of all that transpired yesterday.
Spartan Poker
Spartan Poker’s ₹16 Lakhs GTD Mega Stack – Millionaire Bubble, once again offered the biggest prize pool guarantee across all online poker platforms on Monday. The ₹3,300 entry buy-in tournament logged in 517 entries, overlaying ₹49,000. Young Gun Kanchan ‘Midge Maisel’ Sharma championed the event to collect ₹3.12 Lakhs after eliminating two-time Millionaire champion Manish ‘thekid’ Lakhotia (runner-up for ₹1.98 Lakhs) in the heads-up finale. After this win, Sharma pushed her MTT tally to ₹2.16 Crores.
The runner-up Lakhotia now has ₹6.06 Crores in recorded winnings.
The Mega Stack – Millionaire Bubble, as the name suggests, awards a free Millionaire ticket to the player eliminated on the money bubble. ‘yondu’ fell out on the money bubble last night and won a free ticket worth ₹5,500 to the Millionaire Day 1A that starts at 6 PM on February 19.
The ₹6.5 Lakhs GTD The Race wrangled in 406 runners to fall ₹41,000 short of meeting its advertised guarantee. Following a three-way deal, ‘Ak1011’ was the last player standing and banked ₹1.04 Lakhs for the win. The player’s overall site cashes are now ₹9.66 Lakhs. ‘Chipking008’ placed runner-up for ₹99,604, while Shobhit ‘StuUngar 0002’ Gupta posted a third-place score worth ₹77,214, courtesy of the deal.
PokerStars India
The featured tourney on PokerStars India, the ₹5 Lakhs GTD Sixth Sense, logged in 235 entries, overlaying ₹30,000. Racing past them all was PokerGuru Ambassador Devvrat ‘bhasm@sur1’ Arya, who pocketed ₹92,186 for the win. Shubham ‘theViperArena’ Chaudhary finished runner-up for ₹66,829. Arya’s lifetime scores now stand tall at ₹4.77 Crores.
Starting 90 minutes after the Sixth Sense was the ₹1,375 entry buy-in Uppercut Mini that wrangled in 172 entries, collecting ₹2.15 Lakhs in the prize pool. Eventually, Raghavendra ‘Pokeriyaa’ Hada decimated his competition and won ₹44,628 (₹20,644 in prize money and ₹23,984 in bounties), while Anmolraj ‘modi chai wala’ Singh Chawla placed runner-up for ₹26,619 (15,251 in prize money and ₹11,367 in bounties).
In the ₹1 Lakh GTD Bigstack Turbo, Varun ‘wardev’ Devayya outlasted the 66-entry strong field to win ₹30,488. ‘nikpokernoob’ finished runner-up for ₹20,032. Devayya also FT-ed Adda52’s Sundown Adda, placing sixth for ₹2,500. His recorded MTT scores are now ₹21.85 Lakhs.
All ITM finishers in the Sixth Sense and Bigstack Turbo collected TLB points for PokerStars India’s “Star of the Month” – February leaderboard race. For more details and the latest leaderboard standings, visit the promotions page.
PokerBaazi
PokerBaazi’s Tuesday headliner, ₹12 Lakhs GTD The Endeavour, pulled in 313 challengers, and the top 36 places benefitted from the ₹1.04 Lakhs overlay. The anonymous user ‘foodie’ walked away with the ₹2.65 Lakhs first-place prize money after defeating Sagar ‘sagarpupul’ Choudhury (runner-up for ₹1.86 Lakhs) in the heads-up showdown. This was the champion’s best score on the site pushing their overall site scores to ₹3.97 Lakhs (₹61,437 in site-profits).
The runner-up Choudhury FT-ed two more events for a cumulative score of ₹4.04 Lakhs yesterday. His lifetime scores were pushed to ₹5.69 Crores.
Choudhury’s other deep runs included:
Ø 3rd in Adda52’s The Mint for ₹1.65 Lakhs.
Ø 7th in Spartan Poker’s Mega Stack – Millionaire Bubble for ₹53,120
The ₹1.5 Lakhs GTD Grinders#10 Holdem Boost posted a guarantee-surpassing ₹1.79 Lakhs prize pool after registering 179 entrants. In the end, Rehmat ‘seinfeld’ Singh Walia topped the field and won ₹44,517 after eliminating ‘Mohitkomal1’, who secured a runner-up payout worth ₹31,200. Walia now has ₹7.78 Lakhs in lifetime scores.
Adda52
Adda52’s ₹1 Crore GTD Full House played out its second starting flight yesterday. Day 1B logged in 205 entries adding to its existing 138 runners from Day 1A. After 29 ten-minute levels of play, only 20 players bagged Day 2 stacks. Manish ‘poketacesaa’ Gandhi bagged the biggest stack of 340,847, with Jaideep ‘nawjas’ Sajwan (331,364) and PokerGuru Ambassador Arjanveer Singh ‘arjan30’ Chadha (295,005) rounding out the top three stacks from the flight.
The site’s Tuesday extravaganza, ₹15 Lakhs GTD The Mint, registered 363 entries, filling in ₹2.30 Lakhs in overlays. After seven hours and eighteen minutes of play, PokerGuru Ambassador and IOPC The Crown champion Laksh Pal ‘BoomTilt23’ Singh championed the tourney to win ₹3.75 Lakhs. Laksh Pal Singh is currently the #2 ranked player in our annual leaderboard with more than ₹86.46 Lakhs in yearly scores. His lifetime tally now stands tall at ₹5.8 Crores.
Devrat ‘Vickypune’ Singh placed runner-up for ₹2.27 Lakhs. Devrat Singh now has ₹1.12 Crores in recorded MTT scores.
The ₹2.75 Lakhs GTD Voyager pulled in 296 participants, collecting ₹2.96 Lakhs in the prize pool. Lavesh ‘lavesh7’ Meena took down the event for a career-best ₹75,776, beating ‘confabhi’ placing runner-up for ₹45,140. The champion Meena now has ₹12.23 Lakhs in recorded earnings.
The other Tuesday winners were:
Player | Prize Amount | Event | Poker Site |
---|---|---|---|
Raghavendra 'Pokeriyaa' Hada | ₹44,628 | Uppercut Mini ₹2 Lakhs GTD | PokerStars India |
Rehmat 'seinfeld' Singh Walia | ₹44,517 | Grinders#10 Holdem Boost ₹1.5 Lakhs GTD | PokerBaazi |
Naman ‘KidPoker09’ Puri | ₹42,230 | Turbo ₹1.5 Lakhs GTD | PokerBaazi |
sanjbat | ₹37,899 | Ultrasonic ₹1.5 Lakhs GTD | PokerStars India |
DestinyTraveller | ₹31,356 | Grinders#11 PLO Boost ₹1 Lakh GTD | PokerBaazi |
Varun 'wardev' Devayya | ₹30,488 | Bigstack Turbo ₹1 Lakh GTD | PokerStars India |
Shooter19 | ₹30,301 | Nighttide DST Adda ₹1.5 Lakhs GTD | Adda52 |
fzzzyyy | ₹28,820 | Grinders#12 6-Max ₹1 Lakh GTD | PokerBaazi |
Rehmat ‘seinfeld’ Singh Walia | ₹28,820 | Grinders#10 Holdem Boost ₹1.5 Lakhs GTD | PokerBaazi |
Joonjoon | ₹24,500 | Battlefield Tuesday ₹1 Lakh GTD | PokerDangal |
RyadAll | ₹14,000 | Under The Gun ₹20K GTD PLO | Khelo365 |
DEEPA48 | ₹6,800 | Grinder 2.0 ₹20K GTD | Khelo365 |
Full House ₹1 Crore GTD Day 1B – Adda52
Buy-in – ₹5,500
Entries – 141
Re-entries – 64
Survivors – 20
The ₹1 Crore GTD Full House played out its second starting flight yesterday. Day 1B dragged in 205 entries and after the stipulated 29 Levels of play, only 20 could book their berth for Day 2. Carrying the biggest stack from the flight is MTT reg Manish ‘poketacesaa’ Gandhi who bagged 340,847.
Jaideep ‘nawjas’ Sajwan (331,364) and PokerGuru Ambassador Arjanveer Singh ‘arjan30’ Chadha (295,005) round out the top three stacks from the flight.
Peushup ‘peushup’ Eugene (277,762), Myron ‘zzzzz369’ Pereira (192,558), Akshay ‘Powershell’ Asawa (189,237), Young Gun Anmol ‘anzzzzz’ Mehta (176,487), Rudramani ‘rud1478’ Pokhrel (170,740), Shashank ‘felter’ Jain (142,849) and Binit ‘Punter27’ Saraf (142,069) are the other top stacks from the flight.
Added to 138 Day 1A entries, there are now 343 entries in the field, with four more flights to go before all qualifying stacks converge for Day 2 on Sunday.
Top 10 Chip Counts At the End of Day 1B
Mega Stack ₹16 Lakhs GTD – Spartan Poker
Buy-in – ₹3,300
Entries – 263
Re-entries – 85
Rebuys – 169
Prize Pool – ₹16,00,000
Places Paid – 47
Headlining the Tuesday tournament schedule on Spartan Poker was the ₹3,300 buy-in Mega Stack that pulled 517 challengers, falling ₹49,000 of meeting the ₹16 Lakhs prize pool guarantee. Navigating her way to claim the title was Young Gun Kanchan ‘Midge Maisel’ Sharma who pocketed the top prize of ₹3.12 Lakhs after defeating Manish ‘thekid’ Lakhotia (runner-up for ₹1.98 Lakhs) heads-up.
On November 23, 2020, the young and talented Sharma had placed fourth in the FTS #19 Main Event for ₹13.79 Lakhs. While Sharma still has to best that score, she has exerted a consistent presence on the virtual felts. Last Friday, she picked up a runner-up score in the ₹10 Lakhs GTD Futuristic for ₹1.54 Lakhs. With the Mega Stack win to her name, Sharma’s lifetime winnings now stand at ₹2.16 Crores.
Rajat ‘BloatedBelly’ Mahajan (3rd for ₹1.48 Lakhs), Rainik Swarup ‘dvaio’ Das (4th for ₹1.20 Lakhs), Advait ‘Ronaldinho18’ Rajguru (5th for ₹94,720), Young Gun Anmol ‘Anzzzzz’ Mehta (6th for ₹72,320), Sagar ‘strangeplay’ Choudhury (7th for ₹53,120), and PokerGuru Ambassador Ashish ‘Spewushhhiiiii’ Ahuja (8th for ₹39,040) also FT-ed the event.
Final Table Results
The Mint ₹15 Lakhs GTD – Adda52
Buy-in – ₹3,850
Entries – 203
Re-entries – 160
Prize Pool – ₹15,00,000
Places Paid – 38
Adda52’s Tuesday signature event, the ₹15 Lakhs GTD The Mint, wrangled in 363 entries and the site had to fill in an overlay of ₹2.29 Lakhs.
A little over seven hours of play later, PokerGuru Ambassador and Young Gun Laksh Pal ‘BoomTilt23’ Singh pocketed the ₹3.75 Lakhs payday after beating Devrat ‘Vickypune’ Singh (runner-up for ₹2.27 Lakhs) to the finish line. The IOPC The Crown champion currently has over ₹5.8 Crore in recorded MTT winnings and is ranked #2 on the 2021 annual leaderboard with ₹78.96 Lakhs in winnings.
Sagar ‘alwaysnutz’ Choudhury (3rd for ₹1.65 Lakhs), Anurag ‘NormanBates’ Srivastava (5th for ₹81,000), Masroor ‘jason911’ Ansari (6th for ₹56,250), and Tanmay Sanjay ‘tsb2127’ Bhalerao (8th for ₹37,500) also earned final table payouts.
Final Table Results
The Endeavour ₹12 Lakhs GTD – PokerBaazi
Buy-in – ₹3,850
Entries – 200
Re-entries – 113
Prize Pool – ₹12,00,000
Places Paid – 36
The ₹12 Lakhs GTD Tuesday marquee, The Endeavour on PokerBaazi booked a ₹1.04 Lakhs shortfall, after engaging 313 players.
Starting at 8 PM, it took almost seven and half hours for the unknown player ‘foodie’ to champion the event, collecting the lion’s share of the prize pool kitty worth ₹2.65 Lakhs. The victor prevailed over MTT crusher Sagar ‘sagarpupul’ Choudhury who finished runner-up for ₹1.86 Lakhs.
Choudhury FT-ed two more marquee events for a cumulative score of ₹4.04 Lakhs yesterday. His lifetime scores were boosted to ₹5.69 Crores.
Choudhury’s other deep runs included:
Ø Adda52’s The Mint (3rd for ₹1.65 Lakhs).
Ø Spartan Poker’s Mega Stack – Millionaire Bubble (7th for ₹53,120)
Other notable FT finishers were Myron ‘priyankAAchoprAA’ Pereira (3rd for ₹1.20 Lakhs), PokerGuru Ambassador Arjanveer ‘holdbaby’ Singh Chadha (4th for ₹88,560), Guruprasad ‘fish_calling’ Gupta (5th for ₹66,480), Honey ‘ho9ey’ Bijlani (6th for ₹53,160), Vishnu ‘violator’ Khandelwal (7th for ₹44,160), and Rishab ‘ryuk’ Malik (8th for ₹35,400).
Final Table Results
Sixth Sense ₹5 Lakhs GTD – PokerStars India
Buy-in – ₹2,200
Entries – 127
Re-Entries – 108
Prize Pool – ₹5,00,000
Places Paid – 41
The highlighted event on PokerStars India yesterday was the ₹5 Lakhs GTD Sixth Sense ran from 7:30 PM to 2:43 AM. Pulling in 235 entrants, the ₹2,200 buy-in tourney suffered a ₹30,000 shortfall.
PokerGuru Ambassador Devvrat ‘bhasm@sur1’ Arya championed the event for ₹92,186, after besting Shubham ‘theViperArena’ Chaudhary (runner-up for ₹66,829). With this win, Arya’s lifetime tally of online cashes touched ₹4.76 Crores.
Abhishek ‘abhiaum’ Chhajer (5th for ₹25,460) and Prashanth ‘nemesis9961’ Sekar (6th for ₹18,457) also cashed the final table.
Final Table Results
Voyager ₹2.75 Lakhs GTD – Adda52
Buy-in – ₹1,100
Entries – 180
Re-entries – 116
Prize Pool – ₹2,96,000
Places Paid – 30
Lavesh ‘lavesh7’ Meena came out on top of a 296-entry strong field to win the ₹2.75 Lakhs GTD Voyager for a career-best ₹75,776. Meena now has ₹12.23 Lakhs in recorded MTT earnings. Mystery user ‘confabhi’ placed runner-up for ₹45,140.
Abhishek ‘abhi_1234’ Jaiswal (3rd for ₹34,040), Vidur ‘bullgod89’ Singhal (4th for ₹25,160), and Pratibh ‘MrGTO’ Saluja (5th for ₹17,020) FT-ed the event.
Uppercut Mini ₹2 Lakhs GTD – PokerStars India
Buy-in – ₹1,375
Entries – 106
Re-Entries – 66
Prize Pool – ₹2,15,000
Places Paid – 29
The ₹2 Lakhs GTD Uppercut Mini on PokerStars India posted a ₹2.15 Lakhs prize pool on the back of 172 entries.
The ₹1,375 buy-in event ran for nearly six hours before Raghavendra ‘Pokeriyaa’ Hada emerged as the ultimate winner. Hada pocketed ₹44,628 (₹20,644 in prize money and ₹23,984 in bounties) in top prize, taking his overall online cashes close to ₹70 Lakhs.
Runner-up Anmolraj ‘modi chai wala’ Singh Chawla netted ₹26,619 (₹15,251 in prize money and ₹11,367 in bounties) for his efforts. This was his second final table score of the night, as he had also scored in the Bigstack Turbo, finishing seventh for ₹4,312.
Other notables who featured on the final table included Utkarsh ‘GawdManyu Reniwal (3rd for ₹18,572), Debneil ‘ChhotaD0N’ Mukherjee (5th for ₹12,087), and Amit ‘Stu Ungar 7694’ Kaushik (6th for ₹5,168).
Grinders#10 Holdem Boost ₹1.5 Lakhs GTD – PokerBaazi
Buy-in – ₹1,100
Entries – 106
Re-entries – 73
Prize Pool – ₹1,79,000
Places Paid – 21
Rehmat ‘seinfeld’ Singh Walia took down PokerBaazi’s ₹1.5 Lakhs GTD Grinders #10 Holdem Boost for a payday worth ₹44,517.
It took a little more than four hours for Walia to run past the 179-player field to claim the title. The total entry field crushed the advertised guarantee and the top 21 players earned payouts.
Adarsh ‘lazygamer007’ Subham placed sixth for ₹8,914.
Bigstack Turbo ₹1 Lakh GTD – PokerStars India
Buy-in – ₹1,100
Entries – 47
Re-Entries – 19
Prize Pool – ₹1,00,000
Places Paid – 11
The ₹1 Lakh GTD Bigstack Turbo on PokerStars India registered 66 entries, leading to a deficit of ₹34,000.
The fast-paced event took just three hours to crown a winner in Varun ‘wardev’ Devayya who banked ₹30,488 for his outright victory. ‘nikpokernoob’ came in second for ₹20,032. Devayya now has ₹21.46 Lakhs in online MTT cashes.
Akash ‘fisheater0510’ Gupta (3rd for ₹13,162), Bharath ‘hzgod’ Kumar (5th for ₹5,682), and Anmolraj ‘modi chai wala’ Singh Chawla (7th for ₹4,312) also cashed the event.
Battlefield Tuesday ₹1 Lakh GTD – PokerDangal
Buy-in – ₹1,100
Entries – 62
Re-entries – 23
Prize Pool – ₹1,00,000
Places Paid – 23
The ₹1 Lakh GTD Battlefield Tuesday on PokerDangal faced an overlay deficit of ₹15,000 on the back of 85 entrants and the top 23 places boarded the money bus.
Besting them all was a mystery player ‘Joonjoon’ who earned a paycheck of ₹24,500 after outduelling ‘Skdoc’ (runner-up for ₹18,500) in the heads-up match.
Under The Gun ₹20K GTD PLO – Khelo365
Buy-in – ₹330
Entries – 8
Re-buys – 8
Prize Pool – ₹20,000
Places Paid – 2
The 20K GTD PLO event on Khelo365 was taken down by ‘RyadAll’ who took away ₹14,000 in cash prize after prevailing over ‘zravasya’ (runner-up for ₹6,000) in the heads-up match.
The ₹330 buy-in event suffered a significant overlay of more than 75% of the posted guarantee after pulling in a modest 16 entries.
Grinder 2.0 ₹20K GTD – Khelo365
Buy-in – ₹275
Entries – 49
Re-entries – 27
Prize Pool – ₹20,000
Places Paid – 8
‘DEEPA48’ came out on top of the 76-entry field of Khelo365’s ₹20K GTD Grinder 2.0 and claimed the up ₹6,800 top prize money after prevailing over ‘garvn09’ (runner-up for ₹4,000) in the heads-up battle.
This report was updated at 4 PM on 17.02.2020.
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