Online Rankings: PokerBaazi Classics Game Changer Champion Sonu Shejpal Tops the Weekly Charts, Anuj Yadav Takes Early Lead in the Monthly-Annual Rankings

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Even though no other MTT pro could come close to disrupting Young Gun Gaurav Sood’s dominating run in the last two years, another one of our Young Gun`s Anuj Yadav looks determined to give him competition this year! Yadav has stuck to his winning ways after topping the charts in the last two months of 2021, working up an early lead in the January (and 2022) leaderboard standings!

The 25-year-old reclusive pro, Anuj Yadav, has been on a trailblazing run these last two weeks, notching up several significant scores, most notably placing fifth in PokerBaazi’s ₹2 Crores GTD PBC#15 Game Changer for ₹9.18 Lakhs. His monthly tally reflects an impressive ₹26.04 Lakhs, and the Noida-based player sits on a hefty ₹19.34 Lakhs in profits!

It’s been an electrifying start to the New Year for poker players with the inaugural PokerBaazi Classics and now PokerStars India`s Winter Series running their course! Wait, there`s more with the 12th edition of the IOPC due to start next week, setting the stage for some BIG winners early in the year!

Tallying the weekly scores, Sonu Shejpal topped the weekly charts! The relatively lesser-known player makes his debut in this weekly column on the back of his winning run in the PokerBaazi Classics Finale, the PBC#15 Game Changer. Shejpal decimated the 3,807-player field in the ₹2 Crores GTD Game Changer, eventually striking a four-way deal to collect a career-defining ₹25.45 Lakhs! Shejpal’s thundering victory not only put him on top of the weekly charts but also put him to #2 in the monthly standings.

Young Gun Siddhanth Kripalani rounds out the top three names on the monthly charts.

The weekly leaderboard was a close race this time around, and following Shejpal and Anuj Yadav is the Game Changer third-place finisher, Avish Sharma.

Weekly Online Rankings (January 9 – 15)

Monthly Online Rankings (January 1 – 15)

Weekly Online Rankings

1. Sonu Shejpal

Weekly Cashes – ₹25,50,643

Weekly Profit – ₹25,29,577

Weekly Leaderboard Points – N/A

The inaugural PokerBaazi Classics set the stage for a blockbuster Sunday, and Sonu Shejpal undoubtedly made the most of the opportunity! He ran past a stacked 3,807-strong field in the ₹2 Crores GTD PBC #15 Game Changer to collect a jaw-dropping ₹25.45 Lakhs!

In the event’s final moments, he struck a four-way deal with Akshay Joshi, Avish Sharma, and Shivam Khandelwal, becoming the fifth player in Indian poker history to win the prestigious tournament.

The Game Changer score pushed Shejpal`s weekly and monthly tally to ₹25.51 Lakhs, putting him on top of the weekly charts and at #2 in the monthly rankings.

Top Cashes This Week

– 1st in PokerBaazi’s PBC#15 Game Changer for ₹25.45 Lakhs on January 9

2. Anuj Yadav

Weekly Cashes – ₹21,73,899

Weekly Profit – ₹12,07,481

Weekly Leaderboard Points – 1,390

Young Gun Anuj Yadav didn’t win a single title this week, but that is not to say the 25-year-old did not enjoy an extremely profitable week!

This past week, Yadav added a whopping ₹21.74 Lakhs to his name, taking up the second spot on the weekly rankings. With over ₹26.04 Lakhs in total winnings in January so far, Yadav holds an early lead in the monthly (and annual) leaderboard standings!

Top Cashes This Week

– 5th in PokerBaazi’s PBC#15 Game Changer ₹2 Crores GTD for ₹9.18 Lakhs on January 9

– 2nd in PokerBaazi’s The Weekly HighRoller for ₹4.51 Lakhs on January 14

– 4th in PokerStars India’s Winter Series-26 [SUPER HIGHROLLER] for ₹2.18 Lakhs on January 14

3. Avish Sharma

Weekly Cashes – ₹19,66,459

Weekly Profit – ₹18,89,459

Weekly Leaderboard Points – 142

The PBC#15 Game Changer third-place finisher, Avish Sharma, sits at #3 on the weekly charts. Sharma added an impressive ₹19.40 Lakhs in the multi-flight flagship, courtesy of a four-way deal that handed Sonu Shejpal the title.

Top Cashes This Week

– 3rd in PokerBaazi’s PBC#15 Game Changer for ₹19.40 Lakhs on January 9

Monthly Online Rankings

1. Anuj Yadav

Monthly Cashes – ₹26,03,812

Monthly Profit – ₹19,34,350

Monthly Leaderboard Points – 3,433

Young Gun Anuj Yadav has been in breakout form for almost three months now, pitching himself as an early frontrunner in the annual leaderboard race. The poker pro who advocates using Flow State to harness optimum focus has already worked up 10 final table finishes and a title victory this month, cumulatively adding ₹26.04 Lakhs to his January tally!

Top Cashes This Month

– 5th in PokerBaazi’s PBC#15 Game Changer for ₹9.18 Lakhs on January 9

– 2nd in PokerBaazi’s The Weekly HighRoller for ₹4.51 Lakhs on January 14

– 1st in PokerStars India’s Super Highroller for ₹2.83 Lakhs on January 7

– 4th in PokerStars India’s Winter Series-26 [SUPER HIGHROLLER] for ₹2.18 Lakhs on January 14

2. Sonu Shejpal

Monthly Cashes – ₹25,50,643

Monthly Profit – ₹25,17,202

Monthly Leaderboard Points – 207

The PBC #15 Game Changer champion Sonu Shejpal might be leading Anuj Yadav on the weekly charts but sits at #2 behind him in the monthly rankings.

Top Cashes This Month

– 1st in PokerBaazi’s PBC#15 Game Changer for ₹25.45 Lakhs on January 9

3. Siddhanth Kripalani

Monthly Cashes – ₹21,69,458

Monthly Profit – ₹14,80,121

Monthly Leaderboard Points – 2,543

The Game Changer 3.0 champion Siddhanth Kripalani was in the reckoning to win his second Game Changer title with a deep run in the PBC#15 Game Changer, eventually placing seventh for ₹5.42 Lakhs. The Mumbai-based player followed this up with a breakout Thursday – posting three deep runs that included winning Spartan Poker`s Trending Thursday for ₹4.93 Lakhs and his first title of the year.

Kripalani boasts of ₹21.69 Lakhs in recorded winnings this month and currently ranks #3 in the monthly standings.

Top Cashes This Month

– 7th in PokerBaazi’s PBC#15 Game Changer for ₹5.42 Lakhs on January 9

– 1st in Spartan Poker’s Trending Thursday for ₹4.89 Lakhs on January 13

– 2nd in Adda52’s Mega Suits for ₹4 Lakhs on January 9

Akshay Joshi (Monthly Cashes – ₹20.40 Lakhs), Shashank Mehrotra (Monthly Cashes – ₹20.13 Lakhs), and Siddharth Gangwar (Monthly Cashes – ₹18.48 Lakhs) are the other top-ranked players of the month.

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