Online Rankings: Gopal Bajaj & Aayush Arya Top the Weekly/ Monthly Leaderboards, Anuj Yadav Completes 34 Weeks as the 2022 POY Topper!

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As we enter the final week of October, Young Gun Anuj Yadav (annual winnings – ₹3.53 Crores) achieved what we have been waiting for – closing into Young Gun Gaurav Sood’s 34-week leaderboard topping streak of 2020! Yadav has officially completed 34 weeks as the 2022 topper and is likely to remain in charge over the coming few weeks. Yadav went incognito from our radar around a fortnight back, but we could track three of Yadav’s final table finishes that saw him rack at least ₹4.57 Lakhs over the week.

The three-time Millionaire champion deserves a toast to be raised for him since he has completed 34 weeks as the 2022 leaderboard topper. As Yadav enters Week #35 on the top, he is now at par with Young Gun Gaurav Sood’s record leaderboard-topping streak of 2020. Yadav enjoys a comfortable lead over the rest of the crowd, so we can safely assume that he will indeed breach Sood’s 34-week streak. But will he close 2022 as the year’s biggest scorer? With over two months to go, the annual POY race may still witness a significant upheaval!

Young Gun Sahil Chutani (annual winnings – ₹3.33 Crores) was MIA from the domestic action for another week. Chutani may still face a threat on the cashes front, but as far as profits go, he remains the undisputed leader with ₹2.30 Crores in annual profits.

Keeping to the #3 position was PokerGuru Ambassador Arjanveer Singh Chadha (annual winnings – ₹3.17 Crores), who lapped up ₹3.57 Lakhs across his weekly run.

Though Chadha is a considerable distance ahead of the #4 ranked player, fellow stablemate Ashish Ahuja (annual winnings – ₹3 Crores), the latter crossed the significant ₹3 Crore milestone in tracked online cashes this week.

Young Gun Aayush Arya (monthly winnings – ₹42.37 Lakhs) maintained rank as the October leaderboard topper, despite an average run where he could muster only about ₹1.60 Lakhs. Arya’s sublime form has grown his annual winnings to ₹2.88 Crores, making him the sixth-ranked player on the yearly charts.

In contrast, the second-ranked Tanmay Benara (monthly winnings – ₹41.17 Lakhs) fared better, adding ₹12.38 Lakhs this week. The DCS #65 High runner-up Gopal Bajaj (monthly winnings – ₹40.72 Lakhs), rounds out the top three scorers of the month.

Bajaj turned out to be the week’s biggest chartbuster. Not only did his runner-up score in the DCS #65 High Main Event fetch him a ₹19.76 Lakhs payday, Bajaj cashed the event one more time, collecting ₹22.18 Lakhs (1st & 112th). Bajaj reeled in another seven FT finishes, earning a massive ₹34.09 Lakhs in just a week’s time!

The DCS #65 – Main Event winner Young Gun Ujjwal Narwal (weekly winnings – ₹24.15 Lakhs) and Myron Pereira (weekly winnings – ₹23.26 Lakhs) round out the podium on the weekly leaderboards.

Weekly Online Rankings

1. Gopal Bajaj

Weekly Cashes – ₹34,08,641

Weekly Profit – ₹30,60,236

Weekly Leaderboard Points – 2,489

Upcoming poker star Gopal Bajaj had a firecracker start to the season of festivities as he rode to the top place on the weekly standings. Bajaj’s streak of runner-up finishes on Spartan poker helped him snatch the top spot. His top finishes this week include Spartan Poker’s DCS #65 High – Main Event, where he bagged ₹19.76 Lakhs in second place, lapping up a collective ₹22.18 Lakhs (1st & 112th) in the event. Bajaj also posted runners-up finishes in the site’s Thursday High Roller and Destiny.

Top Cashes This Week

– 2nd in Spartan Poker’s DCS #65 High – Main Event for ₹19.76 Lakhs on October 16

– 2nd in Spartan Poker’s Thursday High Roller (6-Max) for ₹4.22 Lakhs on October 20

– 2nd in Spartan Poker’s Destiny for ₹2.91 Lakhs on October 19

2. Ujjwal Narwal

Weekly Cashes – ₹24,15,412

Weekly Profit – ₹20,89,030

Weekly Leaderboard Points – 814

Young Gun Ujjwal Narwal cemented his place in the history books this week as he shipped the first-ever DCS Main Event, topping the 1,519-entry field to collect a whopping ₹22.44 Lakhs (1st & 112th). Narwal who has opted out of our tracking also placed fourth in the Adda52 Millions for ₹2.42 Lakhs, locking in at least ₹24.87 Lakhs in Sunday winnings.

As the week progressed, Narwal picked his second title on Friday, taking down PokerBaazi’s The Weekly HighRoller for ₹1.58 Lakhs. The online reg collected at least ₹26.44 Lakhs in weekly winnings, taking up the second spot on the weekly leaderboard!

Top Cashes This Week

– 1st in Spartan Poker’s DCS #65 High – Main Event for ₹22.18 Lakhs on October 16

– 3rd in PokerBaazi’s The Weekly HighRoller for ₹1.58 Lakhs on October 21

3. Myron Pereira

Weekly Cashes – ₹23,25,915

Weekly Profit – ₹6,83,301

Weekly Leaderboard Points – 1,481

The online reg from Goa, Myron Pereira ran well this week and rounded the top three places on the weekly leaderboard standings. Coincidentally, his podium-rounding finish on the leaderboard this week is courtesy of his third-place finish in Spartan Poker’s DCS #65 High – Main Event for ₹10.74 Lakhs. He also took down two other flagships Adda52’s Godfather for ₹6.12 Lakhs and Spartan Poker’s Ultron for ₹3.19 Lakhs.

Top Cashes This Week

– 3rd in Spartan Poker’s DCS #65 High – Main Event for ₹10.74 Lakhs on October 16

– 1st in Adda52’s Godfather for ₹6.12 Lakhs on October 20

– 1st in Spartan Poker’s Ultron for ₹3.19 Lakhs on October 20

Himanshu Arora (Weekly Cashes – ₹14.18 Lakhs), Anurag Srivastava (Weekly Cashes – ₹13.47 Lakhs), and Tanmay Benara (Weekly Cashes – ₹12.38 Lakhs) were the week`s other top scorers.

Monthly Online Rankings

1. Aayush Arya

Monthly Cashes – ₹42,37,154

Monthly Profit – ₹27,83,16

Monthly Leaderboard Points – 4,670

Entering the week on the back of a spectacular victory run in the DCS #40 High Roller that he took down for ₹12.12 Lakhs, last week’s top scorer Young Gun Aayush Arya, mustered approximately ₹1.60 Lakhs this week, boosting his October tally to ₹42.37 Lakhs.

Top Cashes This Month

– 1st in Spartan Poker’s DCS #40 High Roller (6-Max) for ₹12.12 Lakhs on October 13

– 1st in Spartan Poker’s Wednesday High Roller (6-Max) for ₹5.51 Lakhs on October 5

– 1st in Spartan Poker’s Tuesday High Roller (6-Max) for ₹4.01 Lakhs on October 4

2. Tanmay Benara

Monthly Cashes – ₹41,16,966

Monthly Profit – ₹29,69,891

Monthly Leaderboard Points – 3,805

Positioned second in the October charts till last week, the India Turbo Masters 2.0 Main Event champion Tanmay Benara racked up a whopping ₹12.38 Lakhs over the past seven days. Benara made a substantial headstart on Sunday when he captured the BSS HighRoller for ₹6.21 Lakhs. The next day, he captured the Night on Stars for ₹1.05 Lakhs. Benara also made another two FT finishes, improving his monthly tally to ₹41.17 Lakhs.

Top Cashes This Month

– 1st in Spartan Poker’s ITM #64 Main Event for ₹20.02 Lakhs on October 2

– 1st in PokerBaazi’s BSS HighRoller for ₹6.21 Lakhs on October 16

– 1st in PokerBaazi’s The Weekly HighRoller for ₹3.65 Lakhs on October 1

3. Gopal Bajaj

Monthly Cashes – ₹40,71,517

Monthly Profit – ₹31,50,700

Monthly Leaderboard Points – 3,788

Gopal Bajaj made a career-defining move on Sunday when he cruised into the DCS #65 High finale, eventually chopping the title with Ujjwal Narwal to collect a runner-up score of ₹19.76 Lakhs. He picked another cash in the tourney to collect a total of ₹22.18 Lakhs (1st & 112th).

Vaulting to the top ranks of the monthly leaderboard, Bajaj then posted seven more FT finishes, the most prominent of which were his runner-up scores in the Destiny 25.0 (₹2.91 Lakhs) and the Thursday High Roller. For the latter, he parlayed a ₹1,100 satellite ticket into a ₹4.22 Lakhs payday. Bajaj’s October scorecard reads ₹40.72 Lakhs already, and looking at his form, we’d say he poses a direct threat to both Aayush Arya and Tanmay Benara in the October rankings.

Top Cashes This Month

– 2nd in Spartan Poker’s DCS #65 High 1.5 Cr GTD – Main Event for ₹19.76 Lakhs on October 16

– 2nd in Spartan Poker’s Thursday High Roller (6-Max) for ₹4.22 Lakhs on October 20

– 2nd in Spartan Poker’s Destiny for ₹2.91 Lakhs on October 19

PokerGuru Ambassador Ashish Ahuja (Monthly Cashes – ₹40.51 Lakhs), Aditya Singh (Monthly Cashes – ₹35.54 Lakhs), and Navaneesha P (Monthly Cashes – ₹33.10 Lakhs) are the other top ranked players of October.

Yearly Online Rankings

1. Anuj Yadav

Yearly Cashes – ₹3,53,06,723

Yearly Profit – ₹1,66,39,736

Yearly Leaderboard Points – 43,824

Having opted out of our tracking again, we found it extremely challenging to track Young Gun Anuj Yadav’s scorecard of the week. Nevertheless, Yadav made three top finishes racking up at least ₹4.57 Lakhs across them. Take a look at his top scores this week:

> 3rd in Spartan Poker’s Tuesday High Roller (6-Max) for ₹1,85,640

> 5th in Spartan Poker’s DCS #63 High for ₹1,43,761

> 6th in PokerStars India’s Diwali Rush-05 Super Highroller [8-Max] for ₹1,27,131

The three-time Millionaire champion currently sits with ₹ in annual cashes, finally coming at par with Young Gun Gaurav Sood’s record leaderboard-topping streak of 2020.

Top Cashes This Year

– 2nd in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #28 – Blaze for ₹19.26 Lakhs on June 5

– 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

2. Sahil Chutani

Yearly Cashes – ₹3,32,55,853

Yearly Profit – ₹2,30,19,590

Yearly Leaderboard Points – 26,264

Young Gun Sahil Chutani kept away from the domestic online felts for the second week. For now, Chutani enjoys a considerable lead over the next-ranked Arjanveer Singh Chadha. Still, looking at Chadha’s form, it will be unsurprising if he displaces Chutani from the #2 rank over the coming few weeks.

That said, Chutani remains the unchallenged, most profitable player of the year.

Top Cashes This Year

– 1st in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #69 – Legends (6-Max) for ₹44.06 Lakhs on January 30

– 1st in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #79 – Legends (6-Max) for ₹38.36 Lakhs on June 12

– 1st in Spartan Poker’s IOPC #49 – High Roller (6-Max) for ₹23.20 Lakhs on January 11

3. Arjanveer Singh Chadha

Yearly Cashes – ₹3,16,76,495

Yearly Profit – ₹94,95,461

Yearly Leaderboard Points – 59,012

PokerGuru Ambassador Arjanveer Singh Chadha slowed down a bit this week, nonetheless adding a decent ₹3.57 Lakhs to his online wallet. Most of Chadha’s scores came on the past Sunday when he picked two FT finishes and cashed another three events.

He is firmly entrenched on the #3 rank, with ₹3.17 Crores in annual winnings.

Top Cashes This Year

– 1st in Adda52’s Big Game for ₹13.97 Lakhs on August 28

– 1st in Spartan Poker’s Sunday SuperStack for ₹7.72 Lakhs on August 21

– 2nd in PokerBaazi’s PBC#13 Weekly HighRoller for ₹7.81 Lakhs on August 5

PokerGuru Ambassador Ashish Ahuja (Yearly Cashes – ₹3 Crores), Young Gun Arsh Grover (Yearly Cashes – ₹2.93 Crores), and Young Gun Aayush Arya (Yearly Cashes – ₹2.88 Crores) are the other top-ranked players of the year.

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