Online Rankings: Sood Becomes First Player to Cross ₹3 Crores in Winnings This Year, Monthly Topper Bang Jumps to #2 in the Yearly Rankings

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It was another phenomenal week on the virtual felts with ‘amarkhatri999’ coming out as the week’s topper. The player trounced the competition in Adda52’s AOPS Main Event Finale to win a personal-best ₹43.80 Lakhs. Since the player has requested anonymity, we’re withholding their name. That said, this was a long-overdue victory for the player who had gone through a three-month-long dry spell!

The other headliner this week was Vijayawada-based Srihari Bang. The 21-year-old poker prodigy finished runner-up to ‘amarkhatri999’ in the AOPS Main Event Finale for ₹27.40 Lakhs – enough to place him second to ‘amarkhatri999’ on the weekly charts, with Vikranth Varma rounding out the top three places on the weekly leaderboard.

Bang’s runner-up finish in the AOPS Main Event may have been impressive, but his consistency is even more laudable. Over just three weeks, he has added a whopping ₹44.35 Lakhs to his winnings scorecard, emerging as the biggest scorer of the month. Here again, Bang shares the top ranks with ‘amarkhatri999,’ who, with ₹44.29 Lakhs in monthly winnings, falls second to Bang. Last week’s topper, Guneet Kwatra, sits at #3 on the monthly charts.

24-year-old poker phenom Gaurav Sood continues to rule supreme over the yearly rankings for yet another week – his 14th consecutive week at the top! Sood was, for the longest time, the only player in the ₹2 Crore-club of 2020. He had a relatively modest run last month but has really picked up the pace in August, adding almost ₹36.13 Lakhs to his tally in August. Not only has Sood consolidated his lead on the annual charts, but he is also now the first player in the country to touch ₹3 Crores in recorded winnings this year!

Bang features in the top 3 of the annual leaderboard for the third time and is placed second to Sood this week. Anant Purohit stays put at the #3 spot for the second consecutive week.

Online Rankings From August 16 – 22 (Weekly Rankings)

Online Rankings From August 1 – 22 (Monthly Rankings)

Online Rankings From January 1 – August 22 (Yearly Rankings)

Weekly Online Rankings

1. “amarkhatri999”

Weekly Cashes – ₹43,79,000

Weekly Profit – ₹43,79,000

Weekly Leaderboard Points – 61

He’s a well-known reg but has requested anonymity. Sunday turned out to be a blockbuster one for ‘amarkhatri999,’ who traversed a field of 2,063 entries to capture the AOPS Main Event Finale title. The player not only pocketed a career-best ₹43.80 Lakhs but broke a three-month-long dry spell with the win.

Top Cashes This Week

– Won Adda52’s AOPS ME Finale ₹2.5 Crores GTD for ₹43.79 Lakhs on August 16

2. Srihari Bang

Weekly Cashes – ₹29,78,714

Weekly Profit – ₹25,66,692

Weekly Leaderboard Points – 876

Vijayawada-based player Srihari Bang has been in breakout form since the start of the month, but he further upped the ante this week. The former Millionaire champion gave ‘amarkhatri999’ a run for his money in the AOPS Main Event Finale.

Bang, who had won this tourney once before in May, eventually placed runner-up for ₹27.50 Lakhs, taking his weekly tally to ₹29.78 Lakhs (₹25.66 Lakhs in profit), and deservedly occupies the #2 rank on the weekly charts.

Top Cashes This Week

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

3. Vikranth Varma

Weekly Cashes – ₹26,41,658

Weekly Profit – ₹24,03,816

Weekly Leaderboard Points – 1,468

MTT specialist Vikranth Varma had a massive Sunday, and pulled in three impressive scores to earn no less than ₹23.90 Lakhs!

Varma’s biggest score came in PokerBaazi’s PPL#59 The MoneyMaker, where he finished runner-up for ₹14.61 Lakhs. Varma topped that with two other final table finishes, namely, in Adda52’s AOPS Main Event Finale (6th for ₹7.40 Lakhs) and Spartan Poker’s UVS#34 The Millionaire Lite (4th for ₹1.89 Lakhs).

Overall, Varma padded his bankroll by ₹26.41 Lakhs this week and takes the #3 position on the weekly leaderboard.

Top Cashes This Week

– Runner-up in PokerBaazi’s PPL#59 The MoneyMaker ₹1 Crore GTD for ₹14.61 Lakhs on August 16

– 6th in Adda52’s AOPS ME Finale ₹2.5 Crores GTD for ₹7.40 Lakhs on August 16

– 4th in Spartan Poker’s UVS #34 – The Millionaire Lite – Day 2 ₹35 lakhs GTD for ₹1.89 Lakhs on August 16

– Runner-up in PokerBaazi’s PPL#56 7-Max MegaStack ₹10 Lakhs GTD for ₹1.55 Lakhs on August 15

Jai Saha (Weekly Cashes – ₹20.84 Lakhs), PokerGuru Ambassador Rony Chowdhury (Weekly Cashes – ₹20,57,142) and Binit Saraf (Weekly Cashes – ₹14,79,471) were the other prominent toppers this week.

Monthly Online Rankings

1. Srihari Bang

Monthly Cashes – ₹44,35,067

Monthly Profit – ₹31,67,499

Monthly Leaderboard Points – 1,612

Srihari Bang was one of the top online scorers last year, and he has established that those massive scores were no fluke. His blistering run this past week – most prominently his runner-up finish in the AOPS ME Finale last Sunday for ₹27.50 Lakhs – has helped him displace Guneet Kwatra from the top of the monthly rankings.

Bang has raked in ₹44.35 Lakhs in August already and is second only to “amarkhatri999” on the profit charts with ₹31.67 Lakhs in profits for the month.

Top Cashes This Month

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

– 7th in Adda52’s AOPS MINI ME Finale ₹1 Crore GTD for ₹2 Lakhs on August 9

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

2. “amarkhatri999”

Monthly Cashes – ₹44,29,572

Monthly Profit – ₹43,50,374

Monthly Leaderboard Points – 110

This week’s AOPS Main Event Finale champion “amarkhatri999” may have topped the weekly leaderboard but sits behind Bang at #2 on the monthly charts.

The AOPS Main Event win was the player’s singular biggest score this month, and the player, who has requested anonymity, now boasts of lifetime recorded winnings of ₹81.5 Lakhs.

Top Cashes This Month

– Won Adda52’s AOPS ME Finale ₹2.5 Crores GTD for ₹43.79 Lakhs on August 16

3. Guneet Kwatra

Monthly Cashes – ₹37,55,161

Monthly Profit – ₹24,00,452

Monthly Leaderboard Points – 2,778

Last week’s monthly topper Guneet Kwatra has been pushed to #3 on the monthly rankings. Kwatra’s annual tally stands at ₹1.61 Crores presently. He had a relatively average week on the virtual felts, and his most prominent score was the ₹1.72 Lakhs that he banked for finishing sixth in The Elite.

Nonetheless, with ₹37.55 Lakhs in earnings in August, Kwatra is still ahead of the other big monthly scorers like Gaurav Sood and Vikranth Varma.

Top Cashes This Month

– Won Adda52’s AOPS Mini Main Event Finale ₹1 Crore GTD for ₹25 Lakhs on August 9

– 4th in Adda52’s AOPS AOPS Big Game ₹25 Lakhs GTD for ₹2.25 Lakhs on August 6

– 6th in PokerBaazi’s The Elite (6- Max) ₹35 Lakhs GTD for ₹1.72 Lakhs on August 14

Gaurav Sood (Monthly Cashes – ₹36.13 Lakhs), Vikranth Varma (Monthly Cashes – ₹35.21 Lakhs), and Jai Saha (Monthly Cashes – ₹30.79 Lakhs) were the other notable toppers on the monthly leaderboard.

Yearly Online Rankings

1. Gaurav Sood

Yearly Cashes – ₹3,00,24,777

Yearly Profit – ₹1,50,75,918

Yearly Leaderboard Points – 46,275

The 24-year-old poker prodigy Gaurav Sood has been crushing the online MTT scene for the better part this year. His dominance on the annual leaderboard has earned him the #1 rank on the charts for an incredible 14 consecutive weeks. He is also ranked #1 in profits for the year with over ₹1.50 Crores in net winnings.

Sood had a strong start to the month, raking in ₹28.84 Lakhs in the first fortnight of August. Over the past week, he earned ₹6.83 Lakhs, of which ₹4.24 Lakhs he won in the AOPS Big Bounty last Saturday.

It would be an understatement to call Sood’s consistency impressive. If he was the first Indian player to storm into the ₹2 Crore-club this year, this week, he became the first player to cross the ₹3 Crore-mark in annual winnings across the major domestic sites!

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. Srihari Bang

Yearly Cashes – ₹2,55,72,512

Yearly Profit – ₹1,11,25,405

Yearly Leaderboard Points – 46,624

Youngsters are ruling the charts as ranked #2 on the annual leaderboard is the 21-year-old Srihari Bang. He came to prominence last July when he sattied his way into the IOPC Millionaire and went on to take it down for a career-best ₹48.56 Lakhs.

Bang has been featured among the top earners of the year for a long time, and till last Friday, he was fifth on the annual leaderboard with ₹2.20 Crores in yearly earnings.

Most of Bang’s massive scores have come on Adda52. In May, he won the AOPS Full House Finale for ₹25 Lakhs. The MTT crusher came close to repeating the feat for a second time last Sunday, eventually finishing second for ₹27.50 Lakhs. The massive payday helped propel him to the top of the monthly leaderboard while giving him a significant boost in the more competitive annual rankings.

Add that to Bang’s victory in Spartan Poker’s Sunday Superstack earlier this month, and this Vijayawada-based player sits on top of the monthly leaderboard with ₹44.35 Lakhs in winnings.

Top Cashes this Year

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

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

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

August 16

3. Anant Purohit

Yearly Cashes – ₹2,48,22,665

Yearly Profit – ₹93,29,060

Yearly Leaderboard Points – 47,461

Like Sood, Anant Purohit has been a long-standing fixture on our Online Rankings, taking turns between the #2 and #3 positions on the annual leaderboard these last few weeks.

Apart from his runner-up finish in Spartan Poker’s The Elite on August 14 for ₹5.87 Lakhs, Purohit had a relatively slow week. His annual tranche of online winnings stands at ₹2.48 Crores, placing him at #3 on the yearly leaderboard.

Top Cashes This Year

– 5th in Spartan Poker’s IOPC GTD for ₹18.44 Lakhs on February 2

– Won Spartan Poker’s IOPC #112 – PLO High Roller ₹45 Lakhs GTD for ₹11.54 Lakhs on July 25

– Won Spartan Poker’s SSS for ₹10 Lakhs on April 17

Young Gun Arsh Grover (Yearly Cashes – ₹2.46 Crores), Sriharsha Doddapaneni (Yearly Cashes – ₹2.40 Crores), and PokerGuru Ambassador Ashish Ahuja (Yearly Cashes – ₹2.28 Crores) were the other notable players headlining the annual leaderboard.

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