Online Rankings: Sodha Dominates the Weekly Rankings, Srivastava Retains Lead on the Yearly Leaderboard

In this feature, we will bring you to the top five weekly and monthly performers every Saturday. However, the rankings will only include players who are registered to our online ranking system, so if you haven’t signed up on PokerGuru yet, hurry up and register!

As we head into May that promises to be full to the brim with electrifying online action, the last week of April, too, was quite thrilling! Well-known online reg, Chirag Sodha cruised to the top of the weekly rankings after his stellar run in Adda52’s inaugural Full House ₹1 Crore GTD that saw him capture the title and a personal-best score of ₹25 Lakhs.

Meanwhile, Anurag Srivastava has held onto the ‘numero uno’ spot on the yearly leaderboards with nearly ₹97 Lakhs in profits.

Online Rankings From April 25 to May 1 (Weekly Rankings)

Online Rankings From January 1 to May 1 (Yearly Rankings)

Weekly Online Rankings

The standout performer of the week was Chirag Sodha, who championed the inaugural Full House ₹1 Crore GTD on Adda52, claiming the pole position on the weekly rankings. He is joined by Shardul Parthasarathi and Young Gun Gaurav Sood, who rounded out the top three spots on the weekly leaderboard.

Chirag Sodha

Weekly Cashes: ₹28,11,004

Weekly Profit: ₹25,61,703

Weekly Leaderboard Points: 1,029

Poker room operator and avid poker lover Chirag Sodha topped the weekly list after his trailblazing run in Adda52’s first-ever Full House ₹1 Crore GTD, banking a career-best score of ₹25 Lakhs. His present recorded online winnings now stand tall at ₹2.83 Crores.

Top Cashes This Week

– Won Adda52’s Full House ₹1 Crore GTD for ₹25 Lakhs on April 26

2. Shardul Parthasarathi

Weekly Cashes: ₹18,79,949

Weekly Profit: ₹14,96,598

Weekly Leaderboard Points: 2,084

An up-and-coming player, Shardul Parthasarathi made quite a few deep runs this past week, resulting in him securing the second spot on the weekly leaderboard.

Top Cashes This Week

– Won Adda52’s Godfather ₹25 Lakhs GTD for ₹8.14 Lakhs on April 30

– 3rd in Spartan Poker’s Sunday SuperStack ₹50 Lakhs GTD for ₹4.28 Lakhs on April 26

– 3rd in PokerBaazi’s BSS SuperStack ₹25 Lakhs GTD for ₹2.86 Lakhs on April 26

– 3rd in Adda52’s Big Slick ₹15 Lakhs GTD for ₹1.70 Lakhs on April 26

3. Gaurav Sood

Weekly Cashes: ₹14,20,279

Weekly Profit: ₹9,21,591

Weekly Leaderboard Points: 2,182

Young Gun Gaurav Sood has proved time and again his talent as one of the most promising players in the domestic circuit today. With recorded lifetime online earnings of ₹3.8 Crores of which he added ₹14 Lakhs this week, Sood booked the third spot on this week’s top 5 rankings.

Top Cashes This Week

– Runner-up in Adda52’s Godfather ₹25 Lakhs GTD for ₹4.69 Lakhs on April 30

– Won Adda52’s Maverick ₹10 Lakhs GTD for ₹3.56 Lakhs on April 29

4. Danny Desai

Weekly Cashes: ₹13,83,365

Weekly Profit: ₹12,09,169

Weekly Leaderboard Points: 978

Danny Desai became the latest in a long list of recreational poker players to ship a big-ticket event in recent months when he took down Spartan Poker’s UVS#48 Millionaire Lite ₹35 Lakhs GTD for ₹12.92 Lakhs on Sunday. The 44-year old businessman has ₹24.65 Lakhs in recorded online winnings to date.

Top Cashes This Week

– Won Spartan Poker’s UVS#48 Millionaire Lite ₹35 Lakhs GTD for ₹12.92 Lakhs on April 26

5. Dhaval Mudgal

Weekly Cashes: ₹13,64,245

Weekly Profit: ₹12,17,081

Weekly Leaderboard Points: 1,202

Musician-turned-poker pro Dhaval Mudgal is an old-timer and also a former WPT champion. Mudgal has about ₹4 Crores in live tournaments winnings and ₹1.28 Crores in recorded online cashes. With ₹13.64 Lakhs in online winnings this week, over half of which came from his runner-up finish in the Destiny on Spartan Poker last Wednesday, he rounds out the top five places on the weekly rankings.

Top Cashes This Week

– Runner-up in Spartan Poker’s Destiny ₹40 Lakhs GTD for ₹7 Lakhs on April 29

The other notable weekly scorers were Vinay Rajpal (Weekly Cashes: ₹12.65 Lakhs; Weekly Profit: ₹12.14 Lakhs), Vikranth Varma (Weekly Cashes: ₹9.49 Lakhs; Weekly Profit: ₹6.21 Lakhs) and Raghav Bansal (Weekly Cashes: ₹9.14 Lakhs; Weekly Profit: ₹7.35 Lakhs).

Yearly Online Rankings

Anurag Srivastava has held onto his seat at the top of the yearly leaderboard rankings, with Young Gun Gaurav Sood and Anant Purohit sitting in the second and third spots, respectively.

1. Anurag Srivastava

Yearly Cashes: ₹1,73,58,288

Yearly Profit: ₹96,97,818

Yearly Leaderboard Points: 24,328

Anurag Srivastava incredible run on February 9 that saw him bank a mind-boggling ₹69.26 Lakhs after shipping Spartan Poker’s IOPC Millionaire Main Event and the Adda52 Millions AF has placed him at the top of the yearly leaderboards. Even though Abhishek Maheshwari has taken over the distinction of banking the biggest online score from Srivastava, the latter`s consistent deep runs on the virtual felts has taken his overall recorded winnings to ₹3.45 Crores, almost 50% of them won in 2020.

Top Cashes This Year

– Won Spartan Poker’s IOPC #98 The Millionaire Main Event ₹3 Crores GTD for ₹60.34 Lakhs on February 9

– Won Spartan Poker’s Destiny 35 Lakhs GTD for ₹12.26 Lakhs on March 25

– Won Adda52’s AOPS Millions ₹30 Lakhs GTD for ₹8.92 Lakhs February 9

– Won Adda52’s Millions AF ₹20 Lakhs GTD for ₹5 Lakhs on January 26

– 3rd in Adda52’s AOPS Mega Suits ₹35 Lakhs GTD for ₹4.09 Lakhs on April 12

2. Gaurav Sood

Yearly Cashes: ₹1,63,34,488

Yearly Profit: ₹90,91,554

Yearly Leaderboard Points: 24,463

Young Gun Gaurav Sood has been doing exceptionally well over the past few years. An expert MTT player, Sood’s biggest online score this year came in PokerBaazi’s BPTO Day 2 Main Event ₹1 Crore GTD that he shipped for ₹18.61 Lakhs on January 1.

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

– Won Adda52’s AOPS Millions ₹35 Lakhs GTD for ₹8.75 Lakhs on March 8

– Won Spartan Poker’s IOPC #18 Sunday SuperStack ₹40 Lakhs GTD for ₹7.82 Lakhs on January 1

3. Anant Purohit

Yearly Cashes: ₹1,30,67,196

Yearly Profit: ₹53,12,267

Yearly Leaderboard Points: 26,308

The friendly yet fierce Anant Purohit is a rather regular fixture on our ‘Online Rankings’ feature. The MTT pro has had an excellent 2020 thus far, with his recorded online winnings steadily edging towards the ₹5 Crore-mark.

Top Cashes This Year

– 5th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #58 The Millionaire Legends ₹2 Crores GTD for ₹18.44 Lakhs on February 2

– Won Spartan Poker’s SSS#63 The Elite 6-Max ₹50 Lakhs GTD for ₹10.58 Lakhs on April 17

– Won Spartan Poker’s IOPC #73 Destiny ₹30 Lakhs GTD for ₹6.64 Lakhs on February 5

– Won Spartan Poker’s The Elite 6-Max ₹40 Lakhs GTD for ₹6.57 Lakhs on March 27

– Runner-up in Spartan Poker’s Sunday SuperStack ₹50 Lakhs GTD for ₹6.06 Lakhs on April 26

4. Srihari Bang

Yearly Cashes: ₹1,26,35,001

Yearly Profit: ₹48,70,027

Yearly Leaderboard Points: 27,687

Budding young talent, Srihari Bang made the headlines last year when he took down Spartan Poker’s IOPC Millionaire ₹2 Crores GTD in July. Bang had converted a ₹660 online satellite buy-in into a ₹48.56 Lakhs windfall and was the biggest online scorer of 2019. He seems to have continued his phenomenal run into 2020, and his recorded online winnings stand at an impressive ₹2.6 Crores.

Top Cashes This Year

– Runner-up in Adda52’s Holdem High Roller for ₹6.46 Lakhs on April 14

– Won Adda52’s AOPS Whale for ₹5.25 Lakhs on April 7

– Won Spartan Poker’s The Elite 6–Max ₹25 Lakhs GTD for ₹4.78 Lakhs on February 21

– Runner-up in PokerBaazi’s The Summit ₹15 Lakhs GTD for ₹3.95 Lakhs on April 30

– 3rd in Adda52’s Millions AF ₹20 Lakhs GTD for ₹3.54 Lakhs on April 19

5. Ashish Ahuja

Yearly Cashes: ₹1,25,55,746

Yearly Profit: ₹48,36,875

Yearly Leaderboard Points: 24,485

Another regular fixture on our ‘Online Rankings’ feature is the lawyer-turned-poker pro and PokerGuru Ambassador Ashish Ahuja. He, too, like Purohit, has been having a splendid time on the virtual felts and currently has recorded online cashes to the tune of ₹4.31 Crores.

Top Cashes This Year

– Won Spartan Poker’s IOPC #57 Sunday SuperStack ₹40 Lakhs GTD for ₹7.74 Lakhs on February 2

– Runner-up in Adda52’s AOPS Godfather ₹30 Lakhs GTD for ₹5.91 Lakhs on April 2

– Won Adda52’s AOPS Big Slick ₹20 Lakhs GTD for ₹5.47 Lakhs on April 5

– Runner-up in Spartan Poker’s The Elite ₹25 Lakhs GTD for ₹4.41 Lakhs on January 3

– Won Spartan Poker’s Mega Stack ₹20 Lakhs GTD for ₹4.14 Lakhs on February 18

Other notable yearly scorers include Sahil Agarwal (Yearly Cashes: ₹1.21 Crores; Yearly Profit: ₹85.05 Lakhs), Arsh Grover (Yearly Cashes: ₹1.21 Crores; Yearly Profit: ₹62.03 Lakhs) and Raghav Bansal (Yearly Cashes: ₹1.19 Crores; Yearly Profit: ₹56.95 Lakhs).

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