Daily Majors: Shardul Parthasarathi Emerges as the Biggest Thursday Champion!

Who says Thursdays are dull and boring?! Certainly not on the virtual felts that were full to the brim with high-octane action!

Spartan Poker

The showstopper tourney of the day was Spartan Poker`s Ultron ₹30 Lakhs GTD, where a field of 798 entries (365 unique players, 132 re-entries and 301 rebuys) helped generate a prize pool worth ₹31.92 Lakhs. Chandran ‘mechchan01’ Ramasamy traversed the vast field, besting ‘Rohini Sharma’ (runner-up for ₹3.88 Lakhs) to win ₹6.16 Lakhs.

The other marquee tourney on the site, the Big Bounty ₹7.5 Lakhs GTD logged in 336 entries (197 unique, 39 re-entries and 100 re-buys), falling ₹78,000 short on the guarantee. Topping the competition was the site regular ‘SAMWELL TARLY,’ who won ₹1.74 Lakhs after striking a heads-up deal with Kanishka ‘Wildflower’ Samant. Notably, Samant collected a larger ₹1.76 Lakhs in prize money.

Vikranth Varma and ‘champion2020’ took down the other major titles on Spartan Poker. ‘champion2020’ won the Monster Stack ₹5 Lakhs GTD for ₹1.34 Lakhs, while Varma topped a field of 238 entries (124 unique, 31 re-entries and 83 re-buys) in the Afternoon Showdown – Monster Stack ₹5 Lakhs GTD, adding ₹1.16 Lakhs to his bankroll. The online reg further added to his day`s tally by finishing ninth in PokerBaazi’s Summit Mini for ₹17,625.

It has been encouraging to see the increasing participation of women in the game, and last night brought two big finishes by women players! The first came from the usual suspect, the first-ever Millionaire United champion Mahima ‘mambojojo’ Walia Das, who took down the Ultimate PLO on Spartan Poker for ₹72,188. Another active poker pro Kanchan ‘Bubblegum’ Sharma did well to finish seventh in the Ultron for ₹1.01 Lakhs.

PokerBaazi

The biggest winner on PokerBaazi last night was ‘dilbaghsingh’. The player outlasted a field of 359 entries (173 unique and 186 re-entries) in The Summit ₹15 Lakhs GTD and defeated the formidable Srihari ‘bangbang999’ Bang heads-up to win ₹5.65 Lakhs. Bang added ₹3.96 Lakhs to his bankroll.

Incidentally, Bang ran deep in Spartan Poker’s Monster Stack as well, where he posted a sixth-place finish worth ₹31,382.

‘CopyNinja’ and Vivekk ‘Vivek25’ Dube were the two other big winners on PokerBaazi. ‘CopyNinja’ topped a 219-entry field (122 unique and 97 re-entries) that included his heads-up opponent Dinesh ‘Daddu26’ Singh (runner-up for ₹1.24 Lakhs) to win the Summit Mini ₹7.5 Lakhs GTD for ₹1.76 Lakhs.

Dube, on the other hand, denied Anirban D. ‘pottysingh’ Das (2nd for ₹97,820) the Thursday MonsterStack ₹5 Lakhs GTD title and pocketed ₹1.39 Lakhs.

Moving over to the ongoing PBBS #19 Main Event that pulled in 158 entries (112 unique and 203 re-entries) on Flight 4. After hours of action, only 15 survived the onslaught. Topping the chip counts was Prabhat ‘gudmorning’ Kumar (379,000), with Dhaval ‘dhavhe’ Heda (281,000) and ‘chokku’ (200,000) rounding out the top three stacks from the flight.

The site seems to be having several grand plans up its sleeves for May. A special edition of PokerBaazi Monthly Value Series (PMVS) promising ₹2.2 Crores guaranteed across 25 events is coming up next week. The series commences on May 6 and will run till May 10. From what we hear, the site also plans to announce a month-long cash game promotion, aka TDS Carnival, where players may be able to avail up to 100% tax-free withdrawals in exchange for reward points. Stay tuned on PokerGuru for more updates on this.

Adda52

The Godfather ₹25 Lakhs GTD headlined the action at Adda52 last night. As many as 708 runners (357 unique and 351 re-entries) signed up to play, making for a ₹35.40 Lakhs prize pool. Seasoned reg Shardul ‘Vamos96’ Parthasarathi captured the title, pocketing the biggest paycheque of the night worth ₹8.14 lakhs after he beat out the ever-consistent Young Gun Gaurav ‘gauravarod’ Sood (runner-up for ₹4.69 Lakhs) heads-up. This also seems to be the single largest online score for Parthasarathi.

The Hexagram attracted 154 entries (88 unique and 66 re-entries), generating a ₹3.08 Lakhs prize pool. PokerGuru Ambassador Laksh Pal ‘BoomTilt23’ Singh sprinted to the top where he squared off with ‘faizal1506’ heads-up. The duo eventually shook hands on a deal that saw the latter snag the title and the top prize of ₹72,210. Singh finished a close second for ₹71,780.

It was another profitable day for PokerGuru Ambassadors. Looking across the sites, we saw Madhav ‘Madzoopa’ Gupta placing ninth in the

Ultron for ₹55,860. Teammates Arjanveer ‘bazzingaa’ Singh Chadha (3rd for ₹87,738) and Ankit ‘Shippament’ Wadhawan (8th for ₹25,575) ran deep in the Big Bounty, while Ashish ‘rocky3705’ Ahuja (5th for ₹1.77 Lakhs) and Ashish ‘chipcharity999’ Munot (7th for ₹97,350) final tabled the Godfather.

PokerStars India

Munot was among the last two players standing from a starting field of 233 entries (127 unique and 106 re-entries) in PokerStars India`s Highroller – INSCOOP Edition ₹15 Lakhs GTD. He eventually finished runner-up for ₹2.13 Lakhs. The tournament had a fantastic run and collected a ₹16.65 Lakhs prize pool. It was ‘PsykoEko’ who came out on top to win the winner’s paycheque worth ₹2.89 Lakhs. The tournament further awarded the top 15 finishers a free ticket to the INSCOOP Main Event.

NOTE: We will not be updating this report with the more comprehensive online results for Thursday since today is a public holiday.