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Thursday featured a firecracker lineup of tournaments running across the prominent poker sites, with PokerBaazi’s National Poker Series India 2023 again headlining the day’s proceedings.
The first-ever IndiaPlays Bounty Championship has been hosting a delectable set of bounty tournaments for the upcoming players since April 7, and it’s time for the main course today. The series showstopper, ₹5 Lakhs GTD Texas Bounty Main Event, starts at 9 PM tonight!
Taking many regs away from the online grind was the flurry of action unfolding onboard Casino Deltin Royale in Goa, where two champions were crowned in the ongoing WPT Prime India on Thursday. Birthday boy Mithun Mahesh clinched his first live title in the series-opening ₹15K Superstack (₹10.89 Lakhs), while Adithya NG bagged his maiden live title in the ₹50K Freezeout (₹15.84 Lakhs).
Coming to the online recap, three-time The Millionaire champion Vishal Tulsyan was Thursday`s breakout winner. Picking up his second title on consecutive days, Wednesday’s Monster Stack winner, Tulsyan, clinched the long overdue NPS gold medal in PokerBaazi’s NPS#86 Deepstack Championship for ₹7.65 Lakhs (won ₹7.75 Lakhs overall).
The NPS#9 Slamdunk runner-up finisher Gaurav Bhutra grabbed his second silver medal and ₹4.69 Lakhs (won ₹5.11 Lakhs overall) as the NPS#86 runner-up. Making his first NPS podium finish, Dev Mittal bagged the bronze medal and a site-best ₹3.80 Lakhs in third place.
After a runner-up finish in NPS#18 (5-Max) Hyper SPRINT last week, Anirban D Das won his first NPS gold medal of the series (his second overall) in PokerBaazi’s NPS#87 SPRINT and ₹2.15 Lakhs in first-place prize money (won ₹2.43 Lakhs overall). The users ‘ChiruG’ (2nd for ₹1.29 Lakhs) and ‘iamsid2904’ (3rd for ₹1.01 Lakhs) won the silver and bronze medals on the podium.
Vikranth Varma (Won NPS#83 Slamdunk for ₹1.85 Lakhs), Samay Singh Modi (Won NPS#88 PLO-5 for₹1.51 Lakhs), poker streamer Thiyam Dannish (Won NPS#84 Marathon for ₹89,660), and M Jimmy (Won NPS#85 Deepdive for ₹75,811) won the other NPS gold medals on Thursday.
Apoorv Rajore scored an insane ROI on his satellite investments. He entered Spartan Poker’s Ultron through a ₹660 satellite and took it down for ₹3.73 Lakhs (his second-best online score) (won ₹4.07 Lakhs overall). Sunday’s ITM #110 Triple Chance Turbo winner Satyam Verma came second for ₹2.52 Lakhs.
Online crusher Saurabh Rohila championed PokerStars India’s The Colosseum [6-Max] for ₹2.44 Lakhs (won ₹2.93 Lakhs overall). The winningest player on our tracked database, Young Gun Gaurav Sood, fell one place short of winning the Thursday flagship for the third time in five months, boosting his bankroll by ₹1.86 Lakhs.
Monster Poker Community streamer Animesh Thakur shipped Pocket52 Action Packed April Thursday attraction, Pocket Magnets, for ₹92,500.
Hardik Nair, Anshul Garg, Mukesh Surana, Clinton Tavares, Manish Jangid, Sneha Moondra Heda, Mohit Savargaonkar, and Md Nazim were other players making the Thursday winners list.
Here are the Thursday highlights!
PokerBaazi
National Poker Series India 2023 continued its guarantee-smashing run on Thursday. Day 15 of the series had six NPS tournaments awarding medals, with ₹50 Lakhs GTD NPS#86 Deepstack Championship the day`s top attraction!
NPS#86 Deepstack Championship – ₹50 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹8,250
Entries – 403
Re-entries – 369
Prize Pool – ₹57,90,000
Places Paid – 115
The three-time The Millionaire champion, Vishal ‘dilbaghsingh’ Tulsyan, is not the most active reg online, but he sure knows how to hit it BIG when he gets down to it.
Picking up his second title on consecutive days, Wednesday’s Monster Stack winner, Tulsyan clinched the long overdue NPS gold medal in the Thursday showstopper, ₹50 Lakhs GTD NPS#86 Deepstack Championship, for ₹7.65 Lakhs – picking up his second-best paycheque on PokerBaazi.
Showing his versatility, Tulsyan pulled off another deep run in NPS#88 (PLO-5) (26th for ₹10,530), bagging away the day’s best ₹7.75 Lakhs overall. His online stats (excluding PokerStars India): Lifetime Winnings: ₹6.94 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹2.38 Crores | Titles Won in 2023: #2 | NPS Medals Won: 1 Gold
The NPS#9 Slamdunk runner-up finisher Gaurav ‘gauravgoru’ Bhutra added a second silver medal and ₹4.69 Lakhs (won ₹5.11 Lakhs overall) (his third-best online score) as the NPS#86 runner-up. Making his first NPS podium finish, Dev ‘rucharth’ Mittal bagged the bronze medal and a site-best ₹3.80 Lakhs in third place.
NPS#86 Deepstack Championship final table was replete with top regs like Wednesday’s NPS#82 (7-Max) SPRINT champion Abhishek ‘chipndchair’ Sonu (4th for ₹3.18 Lakhs), Tarush ‘Busterr’ Gupta (5th for ₹2.57 Lakhs), Monday’s The CashMaker – Triple Chance winner Siddharth ‘Siddonuts’ Pandey (7th for ₹1.48 Lakhs), and Amit ‘quark’ Kaushik (8th for ₹1.16 Lakhs).
The ₹8,250 entry buy-in NPS#86 Deepstack Championship attracted a guarantee-crushing 772 entries (403 unique), with 115 players digging into the massive ₹57.90 Lakhs prize pool.
Final Table Results
NPS#87 SPRINT – ₹12 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹2,200
Entries – 396
Re-entries – 284
Prize Pool – ₹13,60,000
Places Paid – 70
Doing one better than his runner-up finish in NPS#18 (5-Max) Hyper SPRINT earlier this month, Anirban ‘pottysingh’ D Das clinched his first NPS gold medal of the series (his second overall) in PokerBaazi’s ₹12 Lakhs GTD NPS#87 SPRINT, ransacking a 680-strong field (396 unique) to win ₹2.15 Lakhs.
The users ‘ChiruG’ (2nd for ₹1.29 Lakhs) and ‘iamsid2904’ (3rd for ₹1.01 Lakhs) won the silver and bronze Medals on the podium.
Anirban ‘pottysingh’ D Das accumulated a lofty ₹2.43 Lakhs from seven deep runs on Thursday. He crossed the money line in five of the six NPS tournaments drawing to a close yesterday, jumping to #11 on NPS Series and #18 on the NPS Podium leaderboard.
His Thursday finishes include:
> 1st in PokerBaazi’s NPS#87 SPRINT for ₹2,15,424
> 34th in Adda52’s Godfather for ₹13,455
> 42nd in PokerBaazi’s NPS#83 Slamdunk for ₹4,949
> 74th in PokerBaazi’s NPS#88 (PLO-5) for ₹4,914
> 73rd in PokerBaazi’s NPS#84 Marathon for ₹2,105
> 124th in PokerBaazi’s NPS#85 Deepdive for ₹1,293
> 43rd in Adda52’s Godfather Lite for ₹1,271
> Made Day 2 in PokerBaazi’s NPS#106 Main Event (through Qualifier 4)
> Made Day 2 in PokerBaazi’s NPS #104 Golden Rush (through Qualifier 8)
Anirban D Das’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹7.16 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹2.12 Crores | Titles Won in 2023: #4 | NPS Medals Won: 2 Gold and 1 Silver | Moves to #11 on the NPS Series and #18 on the NPS Podium Leaderboard
NPS#86 Deepstack Championship finalist Abhishek ‘chipndchair’ Sonu (5th for ₹62,424), Rising Star Aman ‘KarmaPoker’ Parakh (7th for ₹33,320) (made three FT runs), and NPS Series leaderboard contender Vaibhav ‘durrrr1310’ Saigal (8th for ₹27,200) were other online regs on the NPS#87 SPRINT final table.
The ₹2,200 entry tournament distributed ₹13.60 Lakhs in prize money to the top 70 finishers with a min-cash worth ₹8,160.
Final Table Results
NPS#83 Slamdunk – ₹10 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹1,650
Entries – 386
Re-entries – 460
Prize Pool – ₹12,69,000
Places Paid – 143
Sunday’s NPS#66 SPRINT champion, Vikranth ‘borntrouble’ Varma, scored another “Slamdunk” last night. One of 846 hopefuls (386 unique) in PokerBaazi’s ₹10 Lakhs GTD NPS#83 Slamdunk, the well-known reg toppled the competition in the 4 PM tournament to win his second gold medal this series (his third overall) and a top prize worth ₹1.85 Lakhs, climbing to #10 on the NPS Podium leaderboard.
Rajat ‘happyfish’ Mahajan won the NPS silver medal and ₹1.38 Lakhs, while Akhilesh ‘Aone1’ Gautam picked up his first NPS bronze medal and ₹1.05 Lakhs in third place.
Varma accumulated ₹2.28 Lakhs last night across two deep runs, which include:
> 1st in PokerBaazi’s NPS#83 Slamdunk for ₹1,84,513
> 23rd in PokerBaazi’s NPS#86 Deepstack Championship for ₹43,425
Vikranth Varma’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹8.29 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹3.15 Crores | Titles Won in 2023: #4 | NPS Medals Won: 3 Gold | Moves to #10 on the NPS Podium Leaderboard
The NPS#59 Sunday Kickoff silver medallist Anant ‘Pro_Pro’ Purohit made a close run to the podium in NPS#83 Slamdunk and locked in ₹1.16 Lakhs from three deep runs yesterday (two FT scores), which include:
> 4th in PokerBaazi’s NPS#83 Slamdunk for ₹75,759
> 8th in PokerBaazi’s NPS#88 (PLO-5) for ₹28,080
> 108th in PokerBaazi’s NPS#86 Deepstack Championship for ₹12,738
Anant Purohit’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹10.49 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹4.11 Crores | Titles Won in 2023: #5 | NPS Medals Won: 4 Gold and 2 Silver
Wednesday’s NPS#81 (PLO-4) winner, Rising Star Aman ’KarmaPoker’ Parakh, who hit ₹2 Crores in online profits the day before, bagged away ₹1.22 Lakhs across six deep runs last night (three FT scores), which include:
> 5th in PokerBaazi’s NPS#83 Slamdunk for ₹54,821
> 7th in PokerBaazi’s NPS#87 SPRINT for ₹33,320
> 5th in PokerBaazi’s Daily Boost for ₹16,082
> 114th in PokerBaazi’s NPS#86 Deepstack Championship for ₹12,738
> 101st in PokerBaazi’s NPS#88 (PLO-5) for ₹3,089
> 103rd in PokerBaazi’s NPS#84 Marathon for ₹1,734
Aman Parakh’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹6.18 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹2 Crores | Titles Won in 2023: #9 | NPS Medals Won: 2 Gold, 1 Silver, and 2 Bronze
NPS#86 Deepstack Championship runner-up finisher Gaurav ‘gauravgoru’ Bhutra (6th for ₹37,182), Tuesday`s chartbuster and Wednesday`s Monster Stack winner Vikram ‘Poker_lover’ Mishra (7th for ₹27,918), and the current NPS Podium leaderboard topper Areyann ‘kreishhAA’ Gurbaxani (8th for ₹20,177) were other NPS fiends on the NPS#83 Slamdunk final table.
The ₹1,650 entry buy-in tournament crushed its listed guarantee by ₹2.69 Lakhs, and 143 players took a bite out of the ₹12.69 Lakhs prize pool.
Final Table Results
NPS#88 (PLO-5) – ₹10 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹2,200
Entries – 270
Re-entries – 432
Prize Pool – ₹14,04,000
Places Paid – 111
Samay ‘Sammybigstac’ Singh Modi is now a two-time NPS gold medallist! He won the first in NPS#40 (PLO-6) SPRINT last week and fought hard for the second one, firing six bullets in PokerBaazi’s ₹10 Lakhs GTD NPS#88 (PLO-5) last night before edging past 269 other contenders (702 total entries) in the 9:30 PM PLO-5 tournament for a winner’s payday worth ₹1.51 Lakhs, jumping to #8 on the NPS Podium leaderboard.
Shreyas ‘hercules0304’ Bhargava (2nd for ₹1.49 Lakhs) and Raman ‘Ranzoo9’ Arora (3rd for ₹92,243) (second medal in the ongoing series) won the silver and bronze medals, respectively.
The aspiring actor and The Player Hunt Season 2 winner, Modi, added ₹1.90 Lakhs from five deep runs on Thursday, counting his gold medal victory.
His top Thursday finishes include:
> 1st in PokerBaazi’s NPS#88 (PLO-5) for ₹1,50,502
> 44th in PokerBaazi’s NPS#86 Deepstack Championship for ₹28,950
Samay Singh Modi’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹2.44 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹86.74 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #3 | NPS Medals Won: 2 Gold | Moves to #8 on the NPS Podium Leaderboard
Kapil ‘kapsa92’ Vasita (4th for ₹77,080), Monday`s NPS#68 Big Knockout winner Ishaan ‘ideatheater11’ Pandya (5th for ₹62,338), and veteran pro Sumit ‘boronyx’ Sapra (6th for ₹48,017) were other regs on the NPS#88 (PLO-5) final table.
The ₹2,200 entry buy-in tournament had 111 players digging into the generous ₹14.04 Lakhs prize pool.
Final Table Results
NPS#84 Marathon – ₹5 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹880
Entries – 359
Re-entries – 415
Prize Pool – ₹6,19,000
Places Paid – 137
Manipur-based streamer extraordinaire Thiyam ‘thiyam’ Dannish pulled out another blinder of a run last night, winning his second NPS gold medal (his fourth medal this series) and, once again, on a marathon stream (pun intended) that lasted over eight hours!
Dannish played several NPS tournaments stream and cashed two for ₹91,137 in total earnings. But the highlight of his Thursday stream was his clinical gameplay in PokerBaazi’s ₹5 Lakhs GTD NPS#84 Marathon. He outmatched the 774-strong field (415 unique) in the 5:30 PM tournament to collect the shiny gold medal and ₹89,660, climbing to #3 on the NPS Podium leaderboard (locked in a three-way tie with Areyann Gurbaxani and Vikram Mishra with 30 points but Gurbaxani leading with three gold medals).
Dannish`s Thursday finishes include:
> 1st in PokerBaazi’s NPS#84 Marathon for ₹89,660
> 89th in PokerBaazi’s NPS#85 Deepdive for ₹1,477
You can watch the replay of his Thursday stream below.
Thiyam Dannish’s online stats (PokerBaazi and Spartan Poker): Lifetime Winnings: ₹29.49 Lakhs | Lifetime Profits: ₹5.35 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #2 | NPS Medals Won: 2 Gold and 2 Silver | Moves to #3 on the NPS Podium Leaderboard (Joint #3 in Points) | Moves to #30 on the NPS Series Leaderboard
The lawyer-turned-poker-pro Armaan ‘Armaan007’ Kochhar won the silver medal and ₹69,350 in NPS#84 Marathon, with NPS#80 Wednesday Volley runner-up finisher, Surbhit ‘grovahova’ Grover, grabbing the bronze medal and ₹51,703 in third place.
Armaan Kochhar accumulated ₹74,659 from three deep runs, which include:
> 2nd in PokerBaazi’s NPS#84 Marathon for ₹69,350
> 18th in PokerBaazi’s Daily Turbo for ₹3,524
> 74th in PokerBaazi’s NPS#85 Deepdive for ₹1,785
> Made Day 2 in PokerBaazi’s NPS#104 Golden Rush (through Qualifier 8)
Armaan Kochhar’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹8.96 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹1.67 Crores | Titles Won in 2023: #4 | NPS Medals Won: 1 Silver
Surbhit Grover bagged away ₹86,443 from two deep runs, which include:
> 3rd in PokerBaazi’s NPS#84 Marathon for ₹51,703
> 37th in PokerBaazi’s NPS#86 Deepstack Championship for ₹34,740
> Made Day 2 of PokerBaazi’s NPS#104 Golden Rush (through Qualifier 8)
Surbhit Grover’s online stats (excluding PokerStars India): Lifetime Winnings: ₹2.49 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹7.93 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #2 | NPS Medals Won: 2 Silver and 1 Bronze
Ashish ‘Krazy8’ Mudgil (5th for ₹24,768), Aritra ‘morsmordre’ Hazra (7th for ₹11,765), and Raman ‘Ranzoo9’ Arora (8th for ₹8,916) also FT-ed NPS#84 Marathon.
The ₹880 entry buy-in tournament had 137 players digging into the ₹6.19 Lakhs prize pool.
Final Table Results
NPS#85 Deepdive – ₹5 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹550
Entries – 647
Re-entries – 584
Prize Pool – ₹6,16,000
Places Paid – 209
The THC#1 Kick-Off winner from last May, M ‘Bluffmaster055’ Jimmy, punched his ticket to the NPS Awards Night by outlasting a sizable 1,231-player field (647 unique) in PokerBaazi’s ₹5 Lakhs GTD NPS#85 Deepdive, winning his first NPS gold medal and ₹75,811 in prize money.
Jimmy struck a heads-up deal in the 6:30 PM tournament with Shashank ‘shazhank’ Choudhary, the latter bagging his first silver medal of the series and ₹72,094 as the runner-up. Rituraj ‘bigdaddy1’ Mandal won the bronze medal and ₹46,901 on the podium.
M Jimmy’s PokerBaazi stats: Site Winnings: ₹17.07 Lakhs | Site Profits: ₹3.85 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #2 | NPS Medals Won: 1 Gold and 1 Bronze
Ishan ‘Ishan2203’ Sharma (4th for ₹31,514), Naman ‘namsbohra’ Bohra (6th for ₹15,880), and NPS#9 Slamdunk winner JaiKiran ‘testify’ Kumar (8th for ₹7,694) also FT-ed NPS#85 Deepdive.
The ₹550 entry buy-in tournament generated a prize pool worth ₹6.16 Lakhs, and 209 players scored a payday.
Final Table Results
*denotes a heads-up deal
₹3 Crores GTD NPS Main Event – Qualifier 4
Qualifier 4: Entries – 424 | Re-entries – 223 | Survivors – 75 | Chip Leader: Allen ‘romeo33’ Romeo (432,000)
Combined: Entries – 2,463 | Re-entries – 719 | Survivors (Unique) – 341 | Overall Chip Leader: Ravinder ‘ravikirti’ Singh (536,000)
₹1 Crore GTD Golden Rush – Qualifier
Q 7 & 8: Entries – 936 | Re-entries – 377 | Survivors – 167 | Chip Leader – ‘Pralayantaka197’ (623,000)
Combined: Entries – 7,300 |Re-entries – 1,972 | Survivors (Unique) – 1,050 | Overall Chip Leader – ‘Pralayantaka197’ (623,000)
NPS India 2023 Leaderboard Standings After Day 15
Monday’s NPS#69 Deepdive winner Avneesh ‘iamam’ Munjal (15,245 points) enters his fifth day as the top-ranked player on the ₹50 Lakhs GTD NPS Series leaderboard. Munjal has cashed 69 of the 88 NPS tournaments, won a gold and silver medal each in the series, and posted three other final table scores. He crossed the money line in five NPS tournaments yesterday, pulling further away from the others.
The NPS 2.0 Main Event champion Chirag ‘miyagi Sodha (13,704 points) has been in grind mode this series. With an incredible 77 scores, Sodha has been hard at work but needs a few deeper runs in massive fields to close the 1,541 points deficit on Munjal.
After falling to #6 on the NPS Series leaderboard on Wednesday, Vaibhav ‘durrrr1310’ Saigal (13,314 points) bounced back to #3 with deep runs in all six NPS tournaments yesterday, improving his tally to 52 cashes in the series.
The Thursday action left the NPS Podium leaderboard in a frenzy as the three players on top of the standings have the same 30 points. Areyann ‘KreishhAA’ Gurbaxani (30 points) continues leading the charge, courtesy of his three gold medals.
Vikram ‘Poker_lover’ Mishra (30 points) holds two gold and two silver medals. Thiyam ‘thiyam’ Dannish (30 points) rose to #3 after shipping NPS#84 Marathon and boasts of two gold and two silver medals.
Rank Player Points
1 Avneesh 'iamam' Munjal 15,245
2 Chirag 'miyagi Sodha 13,704
3 Vaibhav 'durrrr1310' Saigal 13,314
4 Vikhyat 'supersaiyan57' Ahlawat 13,017
5 Rishabh '13rishabh' Harsh 12,857
6 Sam 'thereallokimon' Anand 12,716
7 Gautam 'M8a7' Rohilla 12,474
8 Ankit 'akj290' Jajodia 12,333
9 Vaibhav 'vane_shado' Temani 12,294
10 Advait 'ExploitativeGTO' Rajguru 12,279
Mukesh ‘Guruuu’ Surana (Won ₹2.50 Lakhs GTD Daily Boost for ₹52,360), ‘Hearthacker0143’ (Won ₹1.50 Lakhs GTD Daily Night SPRINT for ₹37,680) and ‘Deadmansong’ (Won ₹1 Lakh GTD 7-Max SPRINT for ₹28,060) and ‘Swap972’ (Won ₹1 Lakh GTD PLO-6 Boost Monster for ₹22,740) won the other PokerBaazi marquees.
Spartan Poker
Ultron – ₹15 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹6,600
Entries – 130
Re-entries – 36
Re-buys – 101
Prize Pool – ₹16,02,000
Places Paid – 23
The satellite fiend Apoorv ‘d@@kud@ddy’ Rajore came close to hitting a new career-high on Thursday. One of 267 entrants (130 unique) in Spartan Poker’s ₹15 Lakhs GTD Ultron, Rajore entered the Thursday flagship through a ₹660 satellite and shipped it in under eight hours for ₹3.73 Lakhs (his second-best online score).
Rajore, who last won The CashMaker – Triple Chance on February 27, also satellited his way into PokerBaazi’s NPS#86 Deepstack Championship, parlaying an ₹815 investment into a ₹34,740 payday (31st place). Yesterday, Rajore bagged away ₹4.07 Lakhs in total earnings from ₹1,485 in satellite buy-ins – scoring an insane ROI!!
Apoorv Rajore’s online stats (excluding PokerStars India): Lifetime Winnings: ₹66.20 Lakhs Titles Won in 2023: #2
The Ultron final table was stacked with regs, to say the least, with top names like Sunday’s ITM #110 Triple Chance Turbo winner Satyam ‘GTOonTilt’ Verma (2nd for ₹2.52 Lakhs), Wednesday’s Destiny 26.0 third-place finisher Manish ‘khatidragon’ Jangid (3rd for ₹1.68 Lakhs), NPS#86 Deepstack Championship finalist Amit ‘en el vacio’ Kaushik (4th for ₹1.38 Lakhs), Abhimanyu ‘foul child’ Mittal (5th for ₹1.11 Lakhs), Young Gun Neel ‘Worm33’ Joshi (6th for ₹85,707) and Rising Star Ritwik ‘Fisherman1997’ Khanna (8th for ₹46,618) in contention.
The 8 PM flagship generated a ₹16.02 Lakhs prize pool. The top 23 runners crossed the money line.
Final Table Results
Daily Turbo (6-Max) – ₹3 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹1,650
Entries – 106
Re-entries – 40
Re-buys – 99
Prize Pool – ₹3,67,500
Places Paid – 20
Anshul ‘bluefloyd’ Garg closed out an over-year-long title slump yesterday by dominating the 245-player field (106 unique) in Spartan Poker’s ₹3 Lakhs GTD Daily Turbo, winning the 9:30 PM tournament for ₹75,778. He struck a heads-up deal with ‘Yogic210813’ (2nd for ₹72,324).
Anshul Garg’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹50.5 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #1
This week’s Wednesday High Roller runner-up finisher, Gopal ‘Mamacita’ Bajaj (5th for ₹26,203), also FT-ed the 9:30 PM Daily Turbo.
The ₹1,650 entry buy-in tournament dished out ₹3.68 Lakhs in prize money to the top 20 finishers.
Final Table Results
*denotes a heads-up deal
‘LOOSE CaNNoN’ (Won ₹2 Lakhs GTD Monster Stack for ₹48,000), Devasish ‘KABIR13’ Jain (Won ₹1.50 Lakhs GTD Night Rider for ₹45,888), ‘rajatkumar12’ (Won ₹1 Lakh GTD Sun Downer for ₹23,250), Sneha ‘sneval’ Moondra Heda (Won ₹1 Lakh GTD Chip Up- Triple Chance for ₹16,263), Mohit ‘OfcourseOfcourse’ Savargaonkar (Won ₹1 Lakh GTD Hold’em PKO for ₹11,310) and ‘flushspecialist’ (Won ₹50K GTD Centurion for ₹10,025) won the other Spartan Poker marquees.
Pocket52
Pocket Magnets – ₹5 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹1,650
Entries – 131
Re-buys – 110
Prize Pool – ₹5,00,000
Places Paid – 38
Monster Poker Community streamer Animesh ‘animeshth20’ Thakur hit it big in Pocket52 Action Packed April Thursday attraction, ₹5 Lakhs GTD Pocket Magnets, obliterating the 241-player field to win ₹92,500 (his first top finish after two weeks).
The user ‘708RATHOR708’ scored ₹65,000 as the runner-up.
Final Table Results
‘sagarmaheshwari’ (Won ₹1.50 Lakhs GTD Pocket Brunch for ₹31,125), ‘531152_buEaQajYag’ (Won ₹1 Lakh GTD Pocket Soda for ₹26,250), Pratik ‘GorillaGlue’ Manjrekar (Won ₹1 Lakh GTD Pocket Snacks for ₹21,000), and ‘visual_stunfisk104_20857010’ (Won the ₹75K GTD Pocket Squares for ₹16,500) won the other Pocket52 marquees.
PokerSaint
Opal – ₹4 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹1,500
Entries – 75
Re-entries – 98
Prize Pool – ₹4,00,000
Places Paid – 29
PokerSaint user ‘Omprakash82’ outclassed a soft 173-player field in the site`s ₹4 Lakhs GTD Opal, shipping the Thursday tournament for ₹76,815. ‘TheTrader’ finished runner-up for ₹56,749.
Final Table Results
PokerDangal
PLO 5 Thursday – ₹50K GTD
Buy-in – ₹550
Entries – 49
Re-buys – 17
Prize Pool – ₹50,000
Places Paid – 11
PokerDangal reg ‘flashsurya’ stacked a 66-player field (49 unique) in the ₹50K GTD PLO 5 Thursday, taking down the 8 PM marquee for ₹12,500, just as ‘Sahil09malik’ busted in second place for ₹9,500.
Final Table Results
IndiaPlays
Texas Bounty – ₹100K GTD
Buy-in – ₹770
Entries – 96
Re-buys – 21
Prize Pool – ₹1,00,000
Places Paid – 18
IndiaPlays user ‘Durr17’ was the last player standing in the IBC Thursday marquee, ₹100K GTD Texas Bounty, taking it down for ₹25,900 (₹2,100 in bounties), beating ‘acejpoker’ (2nd for ₹15,500) heads-up.
Final Table Results (Excluding Bounties)
‘sicbluffer’ (Won ₹25K GTD Texas Bounty for ₹6,800), ‘Bishu33’ (Won ₹10K GTD Texas Bounty for ₹3,100), ‘SmokingAces’ (Won ₹10K GTD PLO6 Bounty for ₹2,700) and ‘stackbank’ (Won ₹5K GTD PLO6 Bounty for ₹1,425) won the other IndiaPlays Bounty Championship tournaments.
PokerStars India
The Colosseum [6-Max] – ₹12 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in- ₹11,000
Entries – 45
Re-entries – 47
Prize Pool – ₹13,70,000
Places Paid – 11
It`s been an awesome April for the IOPC 13.0 The Crown and Super High Roller champion Saurabh ‘saurabh21’ Rohila. With over half the month left, the online crusher has already picked up ten FT scores, including two title wins, and added half a dozen six-figure payouts. He has also won an NPS gold and silver medal this month!
The third time was the charm for Rohila, who fired three bullets in PokerStars India’s ₹12 Lakhs GTD The Colosseum [6-Max] before storming past a reg-laden 92-player field to collect the winner’s due worth ₹2.44 Lakhs.
Saurabh Rohila bagged away over ₹2.93 Lakh from four deep runs (including a title victory) last night, and his top finishes include:
> 1st in PokerStars India’s The Colosseum [6-Max] for ₹2,43,906
> 10th in PokerBaazi’s NPS#87 SPRINT for ₹23,800
> 14th in Spartan Poker’s Ultron for ₹20,169
The two-time POY and winningest player on our database, Young Gun Gaurav ‘3betPanda’ Sood, fell one place short of winning the Thursday flagship for the third time in five months, boosting his bankroll by ₹1.86 Lakhs.
Amit ‘Stu Ungar 7694’ Kaushik fired up a thunderous Thursday session, FT-ing three big-ticket tournaments and earning a lofty ₹3.37 Lakhs from four deep runs. He finished sixth in The Colosseum for ₹62,642.
Vishnu ‘violator2018’ Khandelwal (3rd for ₹1,41,606), Ratul ‘MuscariAs’ Steves (5th for ₹82,213), and the 2022 POY, Young Gun Anuj ‘brockLesnar95’ Yadav (7th for ₹47,731) were other big shots on The Colosseum final table.
The ₹11,000 entry buy-in tournament registered a glaring ₹2.80 Lakhs in overlays, and the top 11 finishers got a share of the prize pool.
Final Table Results
Clinton ‘Clinton Tavares’ Tavares (Won ₹1.50 Lakhs GTD Super Stack 8-Max for ₹44,274), Manish ‘manish jangid’ Jangid (Won ₹1 Lakh GTD Ultrasonic for ₹26,131) and ‘honey mhr 143’ (Won ₹50K GTD Bounty Adrenaline for ₹12,012) won the other PokerStars India marquees.
Adda52
Godfather – ₹20 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹5,500
Entries – 215
Re-entries – 199
Prize Pool – ₹20,70,000
Places Paid – 43
Adda52 user ‘sahilaggarwal92’ posted their first tournament victory on the site last night and chose the perfect event to stage the coup. The mystery player outplayed a formidable field of 215 unique players (414 total entries) in the ₹20 Lakhs GTD Godfather, taking down the Thursday flagship for a top prize of ₹5.13 Lakhs. The Top Liners 2.0 champion Prem ‘chutny’ Madderla scored the runner-up payday of ₹3.11 Lakhs.
Prem Madderla’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹92.70 Lakhs | Lifetime Profits: ₹4.43 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #4
The recently appointed Adda52 Game Ambassador Ram ‘mowgumotu’ Kakkar (opted out of tracking) packed in ₹1.47 Lakhs from three known Thursday scores, which include:
> 5th in Adda52’s Godfather for ₹1,07,640
> 43rd in PokerBaazi’s NPS#86 Deepstack Championship for ₹28,950
> 29th in in PokerBaazi’s NPS#8 (PLO-5) for ₹10,530
Young Gun Karan ‘Reg_Slayer’ Radia (opted out of tracking) accumulated ₹90,560 from two known finishes, which include:
> 6th in Adda52’s Godfather for ₹72,450
> 14th in PokerBaazi’s NPS#8 (PLO-5) for ₹18,110
Monday’s The CashMaker – Triple Chance champion Siddharth ‘gabandheer’ Pandey finished fifth in Godfather last week. The sports entrepreneur collected ₹46,575 from an eighth-place finish in the Thursday flagship, collectively banking ₹1.99 Lakhs across four deep runs.
His top Thursday finishes include:
> 7th in PokerBaazi’s NPS#86 Deepstack Championship for ₹1,47,645
> 8th in Adda52’s Godfather for ₹46,575
Siddharth Pandey’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹5.57 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹41.85 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #8
Siddharth ‘CARDashian66’ Kadel (7th for ₹56,925) was another known player on the Godfather final table.
The ₹5,500 entry buy-in tournament hit its advertised guarantee, with 43 players getting a share from the ₹20.70 Lakhs prize pool.
Final Table Results
Monster Turbo – ₹5 Lakhs GTD
Buy-in – ₹2,500
Entries – 110
Re-entries – 78
Prize Pool – ₹5,00,000
Places Paid – 20
One of the surprise revelations of the year, Hardik ‘hardiknair1999’ Nair has made a name for himself with his impressive consistency. His results had stagnated recently, but the promising talent busted the two-week dry spell with a victory march in Adda52’s ₹5 Lakhs GTD Monster Turbo. He outplayed the 188-player field (110 unique) in the 9:30 PM Thursday marquee to win ₹1.12 Lakhs, striking a heads-up deal.
Nair made another deep run in PokerBaazi`s Daily Night SPRINT (33rd for ₹1,734) for a Thursday take-home worth ₹1.14 Lakhs. His online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹71.15 Lakhs | Lifetime Profits: ₹31.30 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #15
Tuesday`s NPS#75 SPRINT gold medallist Samyak ‘stonedurr’ Sethi bagged away ₹76,488 from two Thursday scores, which include:
> 3rd in Adda52’s Monster Turbo for ₹63,750
> 103rd in PokerBaazi’s NPS#86 Deepstack Championship for ₹12,738
Samyak Sethi’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹1.58 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹38.79 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2023: #8
The ₹2,500 entry buy-in tournament registered an overlay shortfall of ₹77,000, with 20 players making the payouts list.
Final Table Results
*denotes a heads-up deal
‘Battlefury’ (Won ₹1.20 Lakhs GTD Afternoon Adda for ₹33,360), ‘Ashish32112’(Won ₹2 Lakhs GTD Godfather Lite for ₹26,595), Md ‘t9ace’ Nazim (Won ₹30K GTD Freeze Out for ₹11,618), ‘amanpoker27’ (Won ₹60K GTD Bounty Adda for ₹10,651), ‘Saiupp1987’ (Won ₹40K GTD Sundown Adda for ₹10,214), and ‘Acequeeen’ (Won ₹20K GTD Daily Adda for ₹4,370) won the other Adda52 marquees.
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