Online Rankings: Vaswani & Patni Top the Weekly Leaderboard, Sood Dominates the Yearly Charts For 8th Straight Week

In this feature, we bring you to the top three weekly, monthly, and yearly performers every Saturday. These rankings are based on cumulative winnings (cashes). However, the rankings only include players registered to our online ranking system, so if you haven’t signed up on PokerGuru yet, hurry up and register!

June ended on a high note with several big-ticket tourneys awarding massive prizes. For two weeks in a row now, relatively lesser-known players have dominated the weekly leaderboard. If it was Anurag Sangahi the week before, this week, Rohit Vaswani occupies the #1 rank on the weekly leaderboard. We only know his Adda52 moniker ‘rohitvaswani’ and still don’t have a picture for the player, but Vaswani was the talk of the poker town last Sunday after winning the ₹1 Crore GTD AOPS Full House for a whopping ₹21 Lakhs.

Finishing runner-up to Vaswani was the former Adda52 Team Pro Kunal Patni, and he is ranked second on this week`s leaderboard. Another well-known reg Sriharsha Doddapaneni occupies the third spot in the rankings.

Young Gun Gaurav Sood has featured on the cover of our “Online Rankings” report for seven weeks straight, and this week, he makes its eight times. The biggest online winner across domestic platforms in the country, Sood, is sitting with ₹2.44 Crores in annual winnings, ₹13.07 Lakhs of which he won this week!

Former IOPC Millionaire champion Anurag Srivastava retains his #2 rank on the leaderboard. At the same time, Srihari Bang displaced by PokerGuru Ambassador Arjanveer Singh Chadha and Sanat Mehrotra to the #5 spot last week, has regained his status at #3 this week.

Online Rankings From June 28 – July 3 (Weekly Rankings)

Online Rankings From January 1 – July 3 (Yearly Rankings)

Weekly Online Rankings

1. Rohit Vaswani

Weekly Cashes: ₹21,93,001

Weekly Profit: ₹21,35,692

Weekly Leaderboard Points: 249

A regular on Adda52, Rohit Vaswani had sattied his way into the ₹1 Crore GTD Full House Finale last Sunday, turning that small investment into a sizable windfall. Outlasting a star-studded field of 1,972 entries, Vaswani beat seasoned pro Kunal Patni heads-up to win the title and a career-best ₹21 Lakhs.

While the win alone catapulted Vaswani to the top of the week’s leaderboard, he also final tabled the AOPS Cowboys to add a sixth-place score worth ₹87,500. Overall, Vaswani’s weekly tally reads ₹21.35 Lakhs making this the best week of his poker career so far.

Top Cashes This Week

– Won Adda52’s AOPS Full House Finale ₹1 Crore GTD for ₹21 Lakhs on June 28.

2. Kunal Patni

Weekly Cashes: ₹20,35,418

Weekly Profit: – ₹16,26,676

Weekly Leaderboard Points: 2,262

Banker-turned-poker-pro Kunal Patni was in a winning frenzy this week, and final tabled an incredible nine tourneys. His most outstanding run was in the Full House Finale, where he finished runner-up for ₹12.63 Lakhs. Patni raked in another ₹2.11 Lakhs for his runner-up finish in the ₹15 Lakhs GTD The Endeavour on PokerBaazi. With over ₹20.35 Lakhs in winnings this week, Patni sits in second place on the weekly leaderboard.

Top Cashes This Week

– Runner-up in Adda52’s AOPS Fullhouse Finale ₹1 Crore GTD for ₹12.63 Lakhs on June 28

– Runner-up in PokerBaazi’s The Endeavour ₹15 Lakhs GTD for ₹2.11 Lakhs on June 30

3. Sriharsha Doddapaneni

Weekly Cashes: ₹19,20,443

Weekly Profit: ₹18,09,889

Weekly Leaderboard Points: 1,305

The weekly leaderboard has a new face this week, and something tells us we are going to be seeing a lot of him in future editions of this column. One of the most respected MTT pros in the country, Sriharsha Doddapaneni, chopped Spartan Poker’s ₹1 Crore GTD The Millionaire last Sunday with ‘McFly’ for ₹14.79 Lakhs. Just four days later, he was back on the podium after winning the ₹15 Lakhs GTD Highroller on PokerStars India for ₹3.06 Lakhs. In all, Doddapaneni pocketed ₹19.20 Lakhs this week, profiting ₹18.09 Lakhs.

Top Cashes This Week

– Runner-up in Spartan Poker’s The Millionaire ₹1 Crore GTD for ₹14.79 Lakhs on June 28

– Won PokerStars India’s Highroller ₹15 Lakhs GTD for ₹3.06 Lakhs on July 2

Young Gun Gaurav Sood (Weekly Cashes: ₹13.07 Lakhs), Armaan Kochhar (Weekly Cashes: ₹12.40 Lakhs), and Alok Birewar (Weekly Cashes: ₹11.19 Lakhs) were the other notable weekly scorers.

Yearly Online Rankings

1. Gaurav Sood

Yearly Cashes: ₹2,44,90,921

Yearly Profit: ₹1,28,75,954

Yearly Leaderboard Points: 36,700

Though nowhere among the top performers last week, Young Gun Gaurav Sood was still sitting comfortably on top of the yearly leaderboard. Sood continues his domination, and this is his eighth consecutive week on top. He pulled up further ahead this week, and his standout performance came in Spartan Poker’s ₹30 Lakhs GTD Destiny, where he finished runner-up for ₹6.03 Lakhs.

Sood final tabled four more events, his second big score coming in the ₹30 Lakhs GTD The Elite last night, where he finished fifth for ₹2.49 Lakhs. Currently placed fourth on the week’s tally of online rankings, Sood’s winnings in 2020 have swelled to ₹2.44 Crores.

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. Anurag Srivastava

Yearly Cashes: ₹1,94,18,751

Yearly Profit: ₹91,47,388

Yearly Leaderboard Points: 30,281

Anurag Srivastava turned heads in February when he captured the IOPC The Millionaire Main Event title for a life-changing ₹60.34 Lakhs. The last few weeks have been rather uneventful for Srivastava, but that blistering February run alongside other past victories in the Destiny and AOPS Millions have kept him on the #2 rank on the yearly online leaderboard for the most part. Srivastava is very close to becoming the second player after Sood to cross the ₹2 Crore-mark in winnings in 2020 and is currently sitting with ₹1.94 Crores.

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

3. Srihari Bang

Yearly Cashes: ₹1,88,19,346

Yearly Profit: ₹73,59,124

Yearly Leaderboard Points: 36,121

Srihari Bang had climbed up in the rankings after winning ₹25 Lakhs in Adda52’s ₹1 Crore GTD Full House Finale on May 24. It was a relatively quiet last week for him, and this allowed Sanat Mehrotra and PokerGuru Ambassador Arjanveer Singh Chadha to overtake him, relegating him to the #5 spot. He bounced back with a vengeance this week, winning top honors in AOPS Millions for ₹5.99 Lakhs to storm into the top 3.

Winning ₹8.32 Lakhs this week, he is placed ninth on the weekly leaderboard. His 2020 tally stands at an impressive ₹1.88 Crores!

Top Cashes This Year

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

– Runner-up in Adda52’s Holdem Highroller ₹30 Lakhs GTD GTD for ₹6.77 Lakhs on February 14

– Won Adda52’s AOPS Millions ₹20 Lakhs GTD for ₹5.99 Lakhs on June 28

Other notable yearly scorers include Sanat Mehrotra (Yearly Cashes: ₹1.84 Crores; Yearly Profit: ₹78.08 Lakhs), Anant Purohit (Yearly Cashes: ₹1.83 Crores; Yearly Profit: ₹63.09 Lakhs) and PokerGuru Ambassador Ashish Ahuja (Yearly Cashes: ₹1.83 Crores; Yearly Profit: ₹65.98 Lakhs).

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