Online Rankings: Aman Parakh Dominates the Weekly Charts With a Remarkable Winning Streak & Ashish Munot Maintains His Lead in POY Race For Ninth Consecutive Weeks

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PokerBaazi led the show this week with the first of its ‘The Fantastic Five’ editions of The MoneyMaker headlining the tournament offerings. The budget players had the IMPS Gold Edition to keep them busy.

The top two names in the Player of the Year race remained unchanged, with Ashish Munot (annual winnings – ₹2.45 Crores) holding his top spot for the ninth consecutive week, despite a quiet week.

Young Gun Gaurav Sood (annual winnings – ₹2.25 Crores) had a busy week, earning ₹5.21 Lakhs, closing the gap on Munot in his pursuit of a record third POY title.

Ankit Wadhawan (annual winnings – ₹1.93 Crores) had been waiting in the wings behind Arsh Grover in the yearly rankings for some time now and finally staged the coup of Thursday, displacing him at #3.

Rising Star Aman Parakh (weekly winnings – ₹19.12 Lakhs) had a breakout week, securing four flagship titles and three other top finishes, landing the top spot on the weekly charts. The 2022 Player of the Year, Young Gun Anuj Yadav (weekly winnings – ₹17.23 Lakhs), and the 32nd The MoneyMaker champion Gautam Bharadwaj (weekly winnings – ₹12.37 Lakhs), took the #2 and #3 spots in the weekly rankings.

Weekly Online Rankings (April 30 – May 6)

Yearly Online Rankings (January 1 – May 6)

Weekly Online Rankings

1. Aman Parakh

Weekly Cashes – ₹19,11,862

Weekly Profit – ₹12,70,864

Weekly Leaderboard Points – 2,873

Rising Star Aman Parakh went into beast mode this past week, winning not one or two but four big-ticket tournaments in a row. With another three podium finishes, the poker pro accumulated a leaderboard topping ₹19.12 Lakhs – ₹20.20 Lakhs if we count his victory run in Pocket52’s Pocket Rockets, and Parakh’s exceptional display of skills was a pleasure to cover.

Top Cashes This Week

– 1st in PokerBaazi’s The Summit for ₹3.76 Lakhs on May 4

– 2nd in Adda52’s Godfather for ₹3.62 Lakhs on May 4

– 2nd in PokerBaazi’s BSS SuperStack for ₹2.99 Lakhs April 30

– 3rd in Spartan Poker’s The Elite for ₹2.62 Lakhs April 5

– 1st in PokerBaazi’s (7-Max) SPRINT for ₹2.07 Lakhs April 3

2. Anuj Yadav

Weekly Cashes ~ ₹17,22,575

Weekly Profit ~ ₹13,78,060

Weekly Leaderboard Points – N/A

The notorious online crusher Young Gun Anuj Yadav (opted out of our tracking) went about business as usual, winning Spartan Poker’s Wednesday High Roller and PokerStars India’s The Big Bash PKO and making an FT finish in two other headliners.

Based on our manual calculations, Yadav raked in at least ₹17.23 Lakhs during the week (with an estimated profit of ₹13.78 Lakhs), securing the #2 spot on the weekly charts.

Top Cashes This Week

– 1st in Spartan Poker’s Wednesday High Roller for ₹6.39 Lakhs on May 3

– 2nd in Spartan Poker’s Sunday Superstack for ₹5.06 Lakhs on April 30

– 1st in PokerStars India’s The Big Bash PKO for ₹2.08 Lakhs on May 5

– 5th in Spartan Poker’s Thursday High Roller for ₹1.89 Lakhs on May.

3. Gautam Bharadwaj

Weekly Cashes – ₹12,36,928

Weekly Profit – ₹12,14,929

Weekly Leaderboard Points – N/A

Gautam Bharadwaj, a lesser-known player, made headlines on Monday by winning the first of ‘The Fantastic Five’ editions of The MoneyMaker on PokerBaazi. Bharadwaj’s outstanding performance earned him the title of the 32nd The MoneyMaker champion and a top prize of ₹12.37 Lakhs (₹12.15 Lakhs in profits), securing him the #3 rank on the weekly charts.

Top Cashes This Week

– 1st in PokerBaazi’s The MoneyMaker for ₹12.37 Lakhs on April 30

Nitin Rawat (Weekly Cashes – ₹12.19 Lakhs), Young Gun Shardul Parthasarathi (Weekly Cashes – ₹9.98 Lakhs), and Sreekanth Narayan (Weekly Cashes – ₹9.73 Lakhs) were the week’s other top scorers.

Yearly Online Rankings

1. Ashish Munot

Yearly Cashes – ₹2,45,13,856

Yearly Profit – ₹1,52,45,322

Yearly Leaderboard Points – 13,053

The ‘showstopper killer’ Ashish Munot has been on a break from the busy grind for some time already. Despite a quieter performance recently, he still managed to amass a respectable ₹1.18 Lakhs during the week. Munot’s impressive earnings from earlier in the year keep him a safe ₹20.31 Lakhs ahead of the #2 ranked Gaurav Sood, extending his reign as the top-ranked player of the year for an uninterrupted nine weeks.

Top Cashes This Year

– 1st in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #141 The Crown for ₹57.73 Lakhs on February 5

– 1st in Spartan Poker’s Sunday High Roller for ₹13.75 Lakhs on February 26

– 1st in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #69 Friday Prime for ₹12.97 Lakhs on January 27

– 6th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #62 Super High Roller for ₹7.37 Lakhs on January 26

2. Gaurav Sood

Yearly Cashes – ₹2,24,82,823

Yearly Profit – ₹1,03,03,989

Yearly Leaderboard Points – 29,289

The winningest player on our tracked database, Young Gun Gaurav Sood, was back on the grind after a bricking the last week of April. He resumed his typical winning ways this week, racking up nearly ₹5.21 Lakhs through numerous top finishes. His crowning achievement was a second-place finish worth ₹3.98 Lakhs in Adda52 Millions last Sunday.

Sood continues to make calculated strides towards securing an unprecedented third POY title, as his yearly earnings stand at ₹2.24 Crores (with ₹1.03 Crores in profits).

Top Cashes This Year

– 1st in Spartan Poker’s The Millionaire for ₹14.82 Lakhs on February 26

– 1st in PokerBaazi’s 1000X#32 Main Event for ₹7.89 Lakhs on January 8

– 1st in Adda52 Millions for ₹6.18 Lakhs on January 29

– 1st in Adda52’s The Ballers for ₹5.76 Lakhs on January 6

3. Ankit Wadhawan

Yearly Cashes – ₹1,92,96,987

Yearly Profit – ₹56,36,977

Yearly Leaderboard Points – 21,399

Ankit Wadhawan, the FTS G.O.D (Game Of Diamonds) second-place finisher, made a well-timed entrance to the POY podium on Thursday, amassing over ₹8.53 Lakhs in the first week of May. This achievement pushed Young Gun Arsh Grover to the #4 spot on the annual leaderboard, though fierce competition remains.

With nearly ₹1.93 Crores in annual earnings (₹56.37 Lakhs in yearly profits), Wadhawan is quickly closing in on the ₹2 Crores milestone.

Top Cashes This Year

– 2nd in Spartan Poker’s FTS #58 G.O.D (Game Of Diamonds) for ₹27.79 Lakhs on March 12

– 2nd in Adda52’s MHW Colossus for ₹22.43 Lakhs on April 9

– 1st in Adda52’s Roller Coaster for ₹7.02 Lakhs on January 1

– 1st in Adda52’s Godfather for ₹6.13 Lakhs on March 16

Young Gun Arsh Grover (Yearly Cashes – ₹1.91 Crores), Laksh Pal Singh (Yearly Cashes – ₹1.87 Crores), and Abhinav Iyer (Yearly Cashes – ₹1.60 Crores) are the other top-ranked players of the year.

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