Online Rankings: Rohit Kumar Tops the Weekly & Monthly Charts, Anuj Yadav Enters Week #39 as the Annual Leaderboard Topper

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A rather slow week on the virtual felts was headlined by PokerStars India extending its Boosted Guarantee tournaments. It’s getting busy from Sunday again with Spartan Poker’s XXX Poker Series and PokerBaazi’s Baazi Turbo Series (BTS) coming up. Two weeks into November, Young Gun Anuj Yadav (annual winnings – ₹3.70 Crores) completes 38 weeks as the top-ranked player in the country. Though Yadav has opted out, making it difficult for us to track his scores, he pulled three standout scores, lapping a hefty ₹14.18 Lakhs. Yadav’s best run was in the Adda52 Big Millions. The event’s final table took place live in Goa on Saturday, and the young phenom placed fourth in the tourney, collecting a ₹11.75 Lakhs payday.

Rallying hot behind Yadav Ashish Ahuja (annual winnings – ₹3.57 Crores). Ahuja, a former lawyer, has been piling up scores. Carrying his form from last Friday when he lapped up a career-best 30.83 Lakhs by shipping the FTS #44 High Roller (6-Max), Ahuja pulled another two runner-up finishes, adding to ₹5.52 Lakhs in weekly cashes. Ahuja’s spectacular November show has vaulted him straight to the #2 rank on the annual leaderboard, and he poses a considerable and real threat to Anuj Yadav in the 2022 POY race.

Taking up the #3 rank is Arjanveer Singh Chadha (annual winnings – ₹3.43 Crores), who added ₹7.65 Lakhs to his scorecard this week on the back of five top-10 finishes, which include a title victory in Spartan Poker’s Mega Stack (₹3.10 Lakhs).

PokerBaazi’s ₹7 Crores GTD G.O.A.T lived up to the hype on Sunday, drawing a gigantic field of 7,233 entries to collect a whopping ₹7.20 Crores in prize money! Rohit Kumar (monthly winnings – ₹95.14 Lakhs), a 35-year-old data scientist at Walmart, walked away with bragging rights and a personal-best online score of ₹94.69 Lakhs. Kumar, who has been playing poker for over five years, struck a heads-up deal with Puneet Sachan (monthly winnings – ₹68.81 Lakhs). His singular victory has vaulted Kumar to the top of the November rankings.

Sachan, who collected ₹68.73 Lakhs as the G.O.A.T runner-up, takes up the #2 rank on the November leaderboard.

Following the duo on the November charts is the high-stakes crusher Sajal Gupta (monthly winnings – ₹40.33 Lakhs). On Sunday, as Kumar and Sachan were battling their way past the humungous field in the G.O.A.T, Gupta overcame a guarantee-crushing 646-player field in Spartan Poker’s ₹2 Crores GTD FTS #56 Main Event to pocket a personal-best ₹39.67 Lakhs.

With such huge scores, the trio of Rohit Kumar (weekly winnings – ₹94.69 Lakhs), Puneet Sachan (weekly winnings – ₹68.81 Lakhs), and Sajal Gupta (weekly winnings – ₹40.22 Lakhs) are the week’s top scorers as well.

Weekly Online Rankings (November 7 – 13)

Monthly Online Rankings (November 1 – 13)

Yearly Online Rankings (January 1 – November 13)

Weekly Online Rankings

1. Rohit Kumar

Weekly Cashes – ₹94,68,698

Weekly Profit – ₹94,36,986

Weekly Leaderboard Points – N/A

November began with a bang, with the country’s biggest-ever online poker tournament, the PokerBaazi-hosted ₹7 Crores GTD G.O.A.T making its much-awaited run. The event registered a mind-boggling 7,233 entries, and a relatively lesser-known player, Rohit Kumar, topped the massive competition. Kumar, a data scientist hailing from Patna, etched his name in history after he raced to the finish line, where he cut a heads-up deal to claim the title and a life-changing ₹94.69 Lakhs in prize money. As the first-ever G.O.A.T of Indian online poker, Kumar has swept away the weekly leaderboard while taking charge of the November rankings as well!

Top Cashes This Week

– 1st in PokerBaazi’s G.O.A.T for ₹94.69 Lakhs on November 6

2. Puneet Sachan

Weekly Cashes – ₹68,80,524

Weekly Profit – ₹67,77,618

Weekly Leaderboard Points – 158

Puneet Sachan will be remembered as the player who missed the G.O.A.T title by whiskers. While Sachan deftly maneuvered past the tough competition in the event, he agreed to eventually end it with a deal, taking up a runner-up finish worth ₹68.73 Lakhs. That’s no small feat, and Sachan takes up the second position among the top scorers this week while sprinting to the same spot on the November leaderboard.

Top Cashes This Week

– 2nd in PokerBaazi’s G.O.A.T for ₹68.73 Lakhs on November 6

3. Sajal Gupta

Weekly Cashes – ₹40,22,211

Weekly Profit – ₹38,70,034

Weekly Leaderboard Points – N/A

Sajal Gupta was another player who pulled a personal-best score this week, walking away as the FTS 5.0 Main Event champion. Gupta’s winnings in the event amounted to ₹39.67 Lakhs. The 28-year-old Computer Science grad from IIT Delhi ranks third in the weekly and monthly rankings.

Top Cashes This Week

– 1st in Spartan Poker’s FTS #56 – Main Event for ₹39.67 Lakhs on November 6

Raghav Bansal (Weekly Cashes – ₹33.68 Lakhs), Anmol Mehta (Weekly Cashes – ₹31.97 Lakhs), and Armaan Kochhar (Weekly Cashes – ₹27.57 Lakhs) were the other top scorers of the week.

Monthly Online Rankings

1. Rohit Kumar

Monthly Cashes – ₹95,13,987

Monthly Profit – ₹94,36,986

Monthly Leaderboard Points – 308

If winning the G.O.A.T was a dream for most poker players of India, Rohit Kumar translated his run into reality this past Sunday, shipping the ₹7 Crores GTD tourney for a whopping ₹94.69 Lakhs. With one stroke, the Bengaluru-based player pushed himself to the top of the November charts.

Top Cashes This Month

– 1st in PokerBaazi’s G.O.A.T for ₹94.69 Lakhs on November 6

2. Puneet Sachan

Monthly Cashes – ₹68,80,524

Monthly Profit – ₹67,77,618

Monthly Leaderboard Points – 158

No surprises here, the G.O.A.T collected a guarantee-crushing ₹7.20 Crores prize pool, and a runner-up score of ₹68.73 Lakhs makes Puneet Sachan the #2 ranked player of November.

Top Cashes This Month

– 2nd in PokerBaazi’s G.O.A.T for ₹68.73 Lakhs on November 6

3. Sajal Gupta

Monthly Cashes – ₹40,33,211

Monthly Profit – ₹37,58,567

Monthly Leaderboard Points – 548

Sajal Gupta hasn’t been playing much lately, but he made his efforts in the FTS #56 – Main Event count, winning his second FTS flagship for a career-best ₹39.67 Lakhs. Gupta’s November tally looks good, with winnings at ₹40.33 Lakhs and a profit of ₹37.59 Lakhs at that.

Top Cashes This Month

– 1st in Spartan Poker’s FTS #56 – Main Event for ₹39.67 Lakhs on November 6

Ashish Ahuja (Monthly Cashes – ₹39.96 Lakhs), Raghav Bansal (Monthly Cashes – ₹33.68 Lakhs), and Young Gun Anmol Mehta (Monthly Cashes – ₹36.08 Lakhs) were the other top scorers of November.

Yearly Online Rankings

1. Anuj Yadav

Yearly Cashes – ₹3,82,17,748

Yearly Profit – ₹1,93,81,782

Yearly Leaderboard Points – 43,824

The #1 ranked player of the year for 38 straight weeks, Young Gun Anuj Yadav had a rather slow start to the week with deep runs in Spartan Poker’s Mega Stack (4th for ₹1.34 Lakhs) and FTS #56 Main Event Day 2 (29th for ₹1.10 Lakhs). However, Yadav pulled out a biggie on Friday after placing fourth in Adda52’s Big Millions for ₹11.75 Lakhs and generated ₹14.18 Lakhs in weekly winnings to maintain his top spot on the annual leaderboard.

On a side note: these figures are not exhaustive since Yadav has opted out of our tracking.

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

– 4th in Spartan Poker’s FTS#44 – High Roller (6-Max) for ₹11.44 Lakhs on November 04

2. Ashish Ahuja

Yearly Cashes – ₹3,57,34,418

Yearly Profit – ₹1,42,07,243

Yearly Leaderboard Points – 56,734

The WSOP Online Circuit ring winner, Ashish Ahuja, can become an Achilles heel for Yadav. Ahuja stands ₹24.83 Lakhs away from the table topper, and considering how the lawyer turned poker pro is running, that figure can be closed in soon.

After rising to the second spot on the annual leaderboard, the FTS #44 High Roller champion had a comparatively subdued week as he posted only two runner-up finishes including Spartan Poker’s FTS – Master Table (2nd for ₹3 Lakhs) and The Rainmaker (2nd for ₹1.20 Lakhs) and bagged out ₹5.52 Lakhs overall from his weekly run.

Top Cashes This Year

– 1st in Spartan Poker’s FTS#44 – High Roller (6-Max) for ₹28.66 Lakhs on November 04

– 1st in PokerBaazi’s The MoneyMaker for ₹14.59 Lakhs on October 1

– 1st in Spartan Poker’s Millionaire Series #25 – Sunday Millionaire for ₹10.20 Lakhs on April 11

3. Arjanveer Singh Chadha

Yearly Cashes – ₹3,43,23,775

Yearly Profit – ₹1,01,24,648

Yearly Leaderboard Points – 62,908

Young Gun Arjanveer Singh Chadha notably made three FT finishes this week, including a title victory. Chadha’s notable scores this week include Spartan Poker’s Mega Stack (1st for ₹3.10 Lakhs), Thursday High Roller (6th for ₹1.50 Lakhs) and Wednesday High Roller (7th for ₹88,800), cumulatively adding ₹7.65 Lakhs across his weekly run. He stands ₹14.11 Lakhs apart from his good friend Ahuja who is on the #2 rank in the annual rankings.

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 Monthly HighRoller for ₹7.81 Lakhs on August 5

Young Gun Sahil Chutani (Yearly Cashes – ₹3.33 Crores), Young Gun Arsh Grover (Yearly Cashes –₹3.29 Crores), and Young Gun Aayush Arya (Yearly Cashes – ₹3.14 Crores) maintained rank as the #4, #5 and #6 ranked players of 2022, respectively.

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