Online Rankings: Sharma Headlines Weekly & Monthly Rankings; Sood Completes 19 Weeks on Top of the Yearly Leaderboard

The second edition of Spartan Poker’s Grand Poker Series (GPS) dominated the online circuit’s attention this past week. The showstopper of the series, the first-ever ₹2 Crores GTD GPS Main Event, logged in 1,950 entries through four starting flights. The ₹11,000 buy-in tourney ultimately crowned a champion in Apratim Sharma, awarding him a mouth-watering winner’s cheque worth ₹34.24 Lakhs! This fantastic victory made Sharma our “PokerGuru Star of the Week” while also propelling him to the top of the weekly and monthly rankings!

On the yearly leaderboard, Young Gun Gaurav Sood has now held on to his pole position for 19 weeks and shows no sign of letting go!

Online Rankings From September 13 – September 19 (Weekly Rankings

Online Rankings From September 1 – September 19 (Monthly Rankings

Online Rankings From January 1 – September 19 (Yearly Rankings)

Weekly Online Rankings

1. Apratim Sharma

Weekly Cashes – ₹34,67,700

Weekly Profit – ₹34,10,143

Weekly Leaderboard Points – 635

Battling through a 1,950-strong entry field in Spartan Poker’s ₹2 Crores GTD GPS Main Event, semi poker pro Apratim Sharma topped the field to claim a career-best ₹34.24 Lakhs. Sharma now has ₹1.6 Crores in recorded online winnings.

Top Cashes This Week

– Won Spartan Poker’s GPS #56 – Main Event Day 2 ₹2 Crores GTD for ₹34.51 Lakhs on September 13

2. Kartik Ved

Weekly Cashes – ₹24,66,554

Weekly Profit – ₹21,27,190

Weekly Leaderboard Points – 1,557

PokerGuru Ambassador Kartik Ved has been in breakout form these last few months and features #2 on this week’s winners list. The Mumbai-based pro posted four final table finishes this wee, with his biggest score coming in Spartan Poker’s first-ever GPS Main Event, where he finished runner-up (for ₹19.08 Lakhs) and eighth (for ₹3.32 Lakhs), collecting ₹22.40 Lakhs in the tourney!

Ved presently has ₹4.95 Crores in lifetime earnings and is steadily inching closer to the coveted ₹5 Crores-mark.

Top Cashes This Week

– Runner-up in Spartan Poker’s GPS #56 – Main Event Day 2 ₹2 Crores GTD for ₹22.40 Lakhs on September 13

– 3rd in PokerStars India’s INCOOP-146 – Night on Stars ₹15 Lakhs GTD for ₹1.10 Lakhs on September 16

3. Sonu Rathore

Weekly Cashes – ₹22,08,400

Weekly Profit – ₹21,66,952

Weekly Leaderboard Points – 134

On Sunday, up-and-coming player Sonu Rathore grabbed the third spot on the weekly rankings following his incredible victory in Adda52’s ₹1 Crore GTD Full House Finale. Playing under the moniker ‘capricorn_3,’ Rathore decimated the 1,779 strong player pool to collect a jackpot ₹22 Lakhs. He currently has ₹24.76 Lakhs in recorded online winnings.

Top Cashes This Week

– Won Adda52’s AOPS Full House Finale ₹1 Crore GTD for ₹22 Lakhs on August 13

Pranay Chawla (Weekly Cashes – ₹14.27 Lakhs), Pulkit Goyal (Weekly Cashes – ₹14.05 Lakhs), and Manish Lakhotia (Weekly Cashes – ₹12.99 Lakhs) were the other toppers on the weekly online leaderboard.

Monthly Online Rankings

1. Apratim Sharma

Monthly Cashes – ₹35,33,700

Monthly Profit – ₹33,40,451

Monthly Leaderboard Points – 810

Having topped the weekly rankings with his remarkable victory in Spartan Poker GPS Main Event, Apratim Sharma claimed the pole position in the monthly leaderboard as well. Sharma’s monthly winnings reached ₹35.33 Lakhs, with a net profit of ₹33.40 Lakhs.

Top Cashes This Month

– Won Spartan Poker’s GPS #56 – Main Event Day 2 ₹2 Crores GTD for ₹34.51 Lakhs on September 13

2. Kartik Ved

Monthly Cashes – ₹31,41,604

Monthly Profit – ₹24,59,467

Monthly Leaderboard Points – 2,236

Like Sharma, PokerGuru Ambassador Kartik Ved captured the second seat in the monthly rankings after placing runner-up in Spartan Poker’s GPS Main Event for ₹19.08 Lakhs. He also placed 8th in the tourney for ₹3.32 Lakhs, collecting ₹22.40 Lakhs on Sunday!

Since the start of September, Ved has collected five final table finishes, taking his monthly earnings to ₹31.41 Lakhs, with a profit of ₹24.59 Lakhs.

Top Cashes This Month

– Runner-up in Spartan Poker’s GPS #56 – Main Event Day 2 ₹2 Crores GTD for ₹22.40 Lakhs on September 13

– 4th in Spartan Poker’s GPS – Grand Destiny ₹35 Lakhs GTD for ₹2.27 Lakhs on September 9

– 3rd in PokerStars India’s INCOOP-146 – Night on Stars ₹15 Lakhs GTD for ₹1.10 Lakhs on September 16

3. Arsh Grover

Monthly Cashes – ₹25,30,275

Monthly Profit – ₹9,66,817

Monthly Leaderboard Points – 3,932

Young Gun Arsh Grover dropped down a spot this week in the monthly leaderboard. Grover picked up 13 final table scores this month, taking his monthly earnings to ₹25.30 Lakhs, and a profit of ₹9.66 Lakhs.

Top Cashes This Month

– Won PokerStars India’s INCOOP-81 – Highroller ₹30 Lakhs GTD for ₹6.06 Lakhs on September 10

– Won PokeBaazi’s The Summit ₹20 Lakhs GTD for ₹5.10 Lakhs on September 3

– Won PokeBaazi’s The Ridge ₹10 Lakhs GTD for ₹2.20 Lakhs on September 4

– 7th in Adda52’s Full House Finale ₹1 Crore GTD for ₹2.20 Lakhs on September 13

– Won Spartan Poker’s Recharge ₹10 Lakhs GTD for ₹2 Lakhs on September 14

– 5th in PokeBaazi’s BSS SuperStack ₹25 Lakhs GTD for ₹1.25 Lakhs on September 6

Manish Lakhotia (Monthly Cashes – ₹24.48 Lakhs), PokerGuru Ambassador Laksh Pal Singh (Monthly Cashes – ₹23.82 Lakhs), and Sonu Rathore (Monthly Cashes – ₹22.28 Lakhs) are the other notable scorers of September.

Yearly Online Rankings

1. Gaurav Sood

Yearly Cashes – ₹3,23,74,770

Yearly Profit – ₹1,57,76,506

Yearly Leaderboard Points – 50,856

Young Gun Gaurav Sood has been at the top of the yearly leaderboards for 19 consecutive weeks now. There isn’t anything new to say about this tremendously talented poker pro that we haven’t already said before.

This past week saw Sood maintain a relatively low profile. His biggest score of the week came in Adda52’s ₹1 Crore GTD Full House Finale on Sunday, where he placed 11th for ₹80,000. He raked in ₹2.51 Lakhs through the week. His present overall winnings stand tall at ₹5.41 Crores.

Top Cashes This Year

– Won PokerBaazi’s BPTO Day 2 Main Event ₹1 Crore GTD for ₹18.61 Lakhs on January 1

– Won Spartan Poker’s IOPC #91 PLO HighRoller ₹30 Lakhs GTD for ₹11.03 Lakhs on February 8

– Won Spartan Poker’s SSS#75 Sunday SuperStack ₹50 Lakhs GTD for ₹10.83 Lakhs on April 19

2. Arsh Grover

Yearly Cashes – ₹2,83,79,344

Yearly Profit – ₹1,03,45,562

Yearly Leaderboard Points – 45,586

For the third week in a row, Young Gun Arsh Grover retained his second position on the yearly leaderboard. He posted six final table finishes this past week, including shipping Spartan Poker’s ₹10 Lakhs GTD ReCharge for ₹2 Lakhs on Monday. He also final tabled Adda52’s ₹1 Crore GTD Full House Finale, finishing seventh for another ₹2 Lakhs on Sunday.

Grover currently has ₹5.23 Crores in recorded online earnings, of which ₹2.83 Crores was banked this year.

Top Cashes This Year

– 3rd in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #58 The Millionaire Legends ₹2 Crores GTD for ₹27.94 Lakhs on February 2

– Won Spartan Poker’s SSS#48 High Roller ₹60 Lakhs GTD for ₹15.11 Lakhs on May 7

– Runner-up in Spartan Poker’s The Millionaire United ₹1 Crore GTD for ₹11.41 Lakhs on May 17

– Won PokerStars India’s INSCOOP-52 Highroller ₹30 Lakhs GTD for ₹6.29 Lakhs on May 14

3. Srihari Bang

Yearly Cashes – ₹2,74,88,915

Yearly Profit – ₹1,15,64,089

Yearly Leaderboard Points – 45,607

Similar to Grover, Srihari Bang, too, had retained his third place on the yearly leaderboard. The young pro booked two final table finishes this week in Adda52’s ₹30 Lakhs GTD Godfather (runner-up for ₹4.11 Lakhs) on September 17 and PokerStars India’s ₹5 Lakhs GTD INCOOP-148 Deepstack (3rd for ₹55,052) on September 16.

Bang has ₹6.16 Lakhs in weekly earnings, with a profit of ₹2.87 Lakhs.

Top Cashes this Year

– Won Adda52’s Full House Finale ₹1 Crore GTD for ₹25 Lakhs on May 24

– Runner-up in Adda52’s AOPS ME Finale ₹2.5 Crores GTD for ₹27.50 Lakhs on August 16

– Won Spartan Poker’s Sunday SuperStack ₹50 Lakhs GTD for ₹8.33 Lakhs on August 2

Anant Purohit (Yearly Cashes: ₹2.58 Crores), Sriharsha Doddapaneni (Yearly Cashes: ₹2.50 Crores), Sumit Sapra (Yearly Cashes: ₹2.46 Crores) are the other notable yearly scorers.

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