Online Rankings: Abhinav Iyer’s MoneyMaker Victory Makes Him the Weekly Topper, Anuj Yadav Completes 10 Weeks as the Winningest Player of the Year

In this feature, we bring you to the top three weekly, monthly, and yearly performers every Sunday. These rankings are based on cumulative winnings (cashes). However, the rankings only include players registered to our online ranking system, so hurry up and register if you haven’t signed up on PokerGuru yet!

In March 2020, when we canvassed Anuj Yadav`s poker journey, identifying him as one of Young Gun’s, the 26-year-old engineer turned poker pro had come out as someone who preferred “mentally stimulating things.” Indeed, Yadav, who talked at length about experiencing flow state and focussing on only playing poker in a blog on Flow State last year, seems to have mastered the skill of balancing the math and the strategy part of the game. And like Young Gun Gaurav Sood over the previous two years, Yadav has dominated the annual charts for ten straight weeks, emerging as the frontrunner to win the 2022 POY title.

This week, Yadav added close to ₹8 Lakhs to his name, touching ₹1.96 Crores in annual winnings. The three-time The Millionaire champion is just a stone’s throw away from becoming the first player to cross ₹2 Crore in tracked annual winnings!

Young Gun Arsh Grover and PokerGuru Ambassador Ashish Ahuja retain their #2 and #3 positions in the annual rankings, and they both had a spectacular run this week. Grover lapped up over ₹10.91 Lakhs – most of it from winning Spartan Poker`s SCS #20 – High – Sunday Celebration. Ahuja did just as well, adding over ₹10.27 Lakhs on the back of his impressive runs in the SCS #47- PLO High Roller and The Ballers.

The two-time POY title holder Young Gun Gaurav Sood returned to his favorite virtual battleground after an almost 10-day-long break post his marriage last month. He sits at #4 in the annual charts, and a good run in any of the flagship stops over the next few weeks could bring him back in the POY race.

Headlining the weekly charts is none other than the country’s first solo WSOP bracelet winner Abhinav Iyer, who won PokerBaazi`s #BB6 MoneyMaker for ₹17.50 Lakhs (his third-best career finish) last Sunday. In doing so, Iyer became the 19th MoneyMaker and cumulatively added ₹19.37 Lakhs throughout the week.

Hot on Iyer’s trails is the former APT India Online Main Event champion, Subhayan Das, who won the SCS #23 – High – Mega Celebration for a personal-best ₹18.61 Lakhs.

The former IOPC – The Millionaire Main Event champion Anurag Srivastava was another trailblazer who went on a scorching run this week!. Last Sunday, he won the BSS SuperStack and the Sunday Highroller and went on to take down his third title on Wednesday in SCS #45 – High – Wednesday Celebration. With ₹17.26 Lakhs in collective winnings, Srivastava comes in at #3 in the weekly rankings.

Note: Since we are in the first week of May, the weekly and monthly leaderboard standings are identical, and hence we have not canvassed them separately.

Weekly Online Rankings (May 1 – 7)

Yearly Online Rankings (January 1 – May 7)

Weekly Online Rankings

1. Abhinav Iyer

Weekly Cashes – ₹19,37,066

Weekly Profit – ₹16,99,203

Weekly Leaderboard Points – 1,024

Romping his way to the top of the weekly leaderboard is the 19th MoneyMaker champion, Young Gun Abhinav Iyer. On Sunday, Iyer toppled the 872-player field in PokerBaazi’s #BB6 MoneyMaker to walk away with the title and the ₹17.50 Lakhs up top. The same day, he also placed fifth in Adda52’s Mega Suits for ₹1.35 Lakhs!

The bracelet winner added ₹19.37 Lakhs throughout the week, crossing ₹6 Crore in tracked online winnings.

Top Cashes This Week

– 1st in PokerBaazi’s #BB6 MoneyMaker for ₹17.50 Lakhs on May 1

– 5th in Adda52’s Mega Suits for ₹1.35 Lakhs on May 1

2. Subhayan Das

Weekly Cashes – ₹18,71,495

Weekly Profit – ₹18,20,580

Weekly Leaderboard Points – 444

The first-ever APT India Online Main Event champion, Subhayan Das, gave his online poker bankroll a significant boost on Sunday! The doctor-turned poker pro won Spartan Poker`s SCS #23 – High – Mega Celebration for a career-best ₹18.61 Lakhs, enough to take the #2 position in the weekly leaderboard standings.

Top Cashes This Week

– 1st in Spartan Poker’s SCS #23 – High – Mega Celebration for ₹18.61 Lakhs on May 1

3. Anurag Srivastava

Weekly Cashes – ₹17,26,217

Weekly Profit – ₹13,46,235

Weekly Leaderboard Points – 2,111

The IOPC Jan 2020 – The Millionaire Main Event winner Anurag Srivastava was another trailblazer. He won an incredible three flagship tournaments, netting ₹17.26 Lakhs in weekly winnings, good for the #3 position in the weekly charts!

Srivastava didn`t take his feet off the pedal the entire week. He got off to an electrifying start by winning PokerStars India`s Sunday Highroller and PokerBaazi`s BSS SuperStack on Sunday. He topped it by shipping Spartan Poker`s SCS #45 – High – Wednesday Celebration three days later and almost went back-to-back by chopping PokerBaazi`s The Summit the next day with Rubin Labroo.

Top Cashes This Week

– 1st in Spartan Poker’s SCS #45 – High – Wednesday Celebration for ₹5.73 Lakhs on May 4

– 2nd in PokerBaazi’s The Summit for ₹4.12 Lakhs on May 5

– 1st in PokerBaazi’s BSS SuperStack for ₹3.30 Lakhs on May 1

Saransh Garg (Weekly Cashes – ₹16.16 Lakhs), Sumit Sapra (Weekly Cashes – ₹14.94 Lakhs), and PokerGuru Ambassador Deepankur Gupta (Weekly Cashes – ₹14.73 Lakhs) were the week`s other top winners!

Yearly Online Rankings

1. Anuj Yadav

Yearly Cashes – ₹1,95,88,339

Yearly Profit – ₹1,13,38,594

Yearly Leaderboard Points – 25,064

Young Gun Anuj Yadav had a relatively modest Sunday compared to his closest two competitors on the annual charts, but he kept his scorecard ticking.

His biggest score this week was a fourth-place finish in Spartan Poker’s SCS #55 – High Roller for ₹4.47 Lakhs which helped him clock in ₹7.97 Lakhs cumulatively (weekly winnings).

Today he completes his 10th consecutive week on top of the annual charts, and with ₹1.96 Crores in annual winnings, he is almost guaranteed to break the ₹2 Crore benchmark before our next ‘Online Rankings’ update.

Top Cashes This Year

– 3rd in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #49 – High Roller (6-Max) for ₹12.30 Lakhs on January 27

– 6th in Spartan Poker’s FTS#41 – Main Event for ₹9.99 Lakhs on March 13

– 5th in PokerBaazi’s PBC#15 Game Changer for ₹9.18 Lakhs on January 9

2. Arsh Grover

Yearly Cashes – ₹1,68,55,318

Yearly Profit – ₹80,78,901

Yearly Leaderboard Points – 23,142

The #2 ranked player of 2020, Young Gun Arsh Grover, will not settle for the same spot this year, at least not without a fight, and he’s made that very clear!

The poker prodigy raked in seven-figure winnings to the tune of ₹10.91 Lakhs this past week, and his exploits started with a blockbuster Sunday run in Spartan Poker’s SCS #20 – High – Sunday Celebration.

Top Cashes This Year

– 1st in Spartan Poker’s FTS #41 – Main Event (6-Max) for ₹40.24 Lakhs on March 13

– 2nd in Spartan Poker’s FTS #24 – Big Game for ₹10.75 Lakhs on March 9

– 2nd in Spartan Poker’s IOPC#16 – Saturday Prime for ₹4.81 Lakhs on January 22

3. Ashish Ahuja

Yearly Cashes – ₹1,54,95,214

Yearly Profit – ₹69,91,212

Yearly Leaderboard Points – 25,184

PokerGuru Ambassador Ashish Ahuja is another MTT beast who`s been among the top POY title contenders ever since we started tracking the rankings over two years ago!

The PokerGuru Staking stalwart had another blockbuster week, pulling in over ₹10.27 Lakhs and two titles on his glittering poker resume. On Wednesday, he converted a ₹1,100 satellite buy-in into a ₹3.91 Lakhs payday in Spartan Poker`s SCS #47- PLO High Roller and took down Adda52`s The Ballers two days later.

Top Cashes This Year

– 1st in Spartan Poker’s Millionaire Series #25 -Sunday Millionaire for ₹10.20 Lakhs on April 10

– 1st in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #49 – High Roller (6-Max) for ₹9.90 Lakhs on January 27

– 2nd in Spartan Poker’s Sunday SuperStack for ₹6.72 Lakhs on February 27

Young Gun Gaurav Sood (Yearly Cashes – ₹1.30 Crores), Mohammad Azhar (Yearly Cashes – ₹1.25 Crores), and Rising Star Ritwik Khanna (Yearly Cashes – ₹1.24 Crores) are the other top-ranked players of the year.

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