Sunday Online Railbird Report: Nitish ‘Somnath’ Gupta Headlines Sunday Scores By Taking Down The MoneyMaker ₹1 Crore GTD at PokerBaazi’s PPL Winter’18 Edition

After a busy 11 months, we are just two Sundays away from the next year rolling in. Online tournament action at the domestic poker sites has been power-packed nonetheless, and December 16 turned out to be one of the biggest Sundays of the year in terms of massive online wins.

The past week was all about the winter edition of the PokerBaazi Premier League (PPL), the signature series of India’s premier site PokerBaazi. At various editions played out earlier this year, the PPL has consistently created benchmarks for the high value and winning opportunities offered to online players and the PPL Winter ’18 edition was no different. Off to an energetic start on December 10, the series saw six days of hectic online action that rewarded online players with crores in prize money!

The most anticipated tournament of the PPL Winter’18 was The MoneyMaker ₹1 Crore GTD that attracted a gigantic field of 1,332 entries (742 unique and 590 re-entries), collecting a whopping ₹1.33 Crore prizepool. Overriding the tough competition, Nitish ‘Somnath’ Gupta, our first Young Gun ever emerged as the MoneyMaker champion and banked a massive ₹32.63 Lakhs. Gupta defeated online regular Chiraag ‘Versutus’ Patel heads-up to lock up the title. Patel pocketed a career-best score of ₹17.98 Lakhs.

The PPL Winter’ 18 has culminated, with Sameer ‘Killersam’ Tavanandi being declared the series’ Leaderboard winner. Tavanandi missed winning the PPL Overall Yearly Leaderboard where he was pushed to runner-up place by Ramlakhan ‘Hitler’ Meena. Meena will be rewarded with a brand new Harley Davidson bike for his consistency at the PPL this year.

Taking down the various others events these past few days at the PPL Winter ’18 edition were Avish ‘thehorse7’ Sharma, Sreekanth ‘n0thing’ Narayan, Sumit ‘boronyx’ Sapra, and Akash ‘akash_durr’ Gupta, among others.

A well-known name of the domestic circuit, Haresh ‘Narcos’ Kukreja was another star performer this Sunday. Kukreja bagged two titles across different sites and his exploits started with him winning The Value Town ₹15 Lakhs GTD at the PPL Winter’18 under moniker ‘Narcos’ (₹3.15 Lakhs). He went on to win the weekend special Sunday Stacks on 9stacks as ‘Dietchips’ (₹3.82 Lakhs).

With the PPL series now in the rear-view mirror there is still much to look forward to with The Winter Series ₹1.65 Crores GTD (December 16-24) that is currently underway at PokerStars India. Topping the list of winners at the site was Young Gun Sharad ‘sordykrd’ Rao. Rao, who had already punched his ticket to the PokerStars Players NLHE Championship (PSPC), Bahamas in early November. He reached a heads-up deal with Arsh ‘BiggggTymeR’ Grover (₹2.20 Lakhs) to win the Sunday Special Progressive KO ₹6,600 NLHE ₹20 Lakhs GTD for ₹4.14 Lakhs. Other big winners at PokerStars India were ‘iamhobadshah’, Sriharsha ‘DonkeyCommitted’ Boneni, ‘anandsankar’, ‘imhobadshah’ and ‘Virshallsee’.

The Sunday- special Nations Cup Qualifier on PokerRaj saw Abhishek ‘Pro123’ Lowanshi winning his way to the finale, slated to be held on January 13, 2019 along with ₹33,000 in prize money.

The big winners at fast growing online poker site MadOverPoker featured Neeraj ‘Silentkiller’ Dureja (Night Crawler for ₹17,500), Mahesh ‘mahikalra’ Shyamsundar (Grenade for ₹20,250) and Uday ‘u2day’ Mondal (Dynamite for₹27,765).

PPL#31 The MoneyMaker ₹1Crore GTD

Buy-in – ₹11,000

Entries – 742

Re-entries – 590

Total Prize Pool – ₹1.33 Crores

Paid Places – 82

Nitish ‘Somnath’ Gupta secured the top spot at PPL#31 The MoneyMaker ₹1 Crore GTD for ₹32.63 Lakhs.

Final Table Results

1. Nitish ‘Somnath’ Gupta – ₹32,63,400
2. Chiraag ‘Versutus’ Patel – ₹17,98,200
3. misshimanchal – ₹12,32,100
4. Ragnarok – ₹8,99,100
5. Gaurav ‘gaug17’ Sood – ₹5,99,400
6. Prodigy_poker – ₹4,26,240
7. mychaddi – ₹3,33,000
8. Guruprasad ‘fish_calling’ Gupta – ₹2,66,400
9. Kunal ‘Incognito’ Bhatia – ₹1,99,800

PPL#32 BBS SuperStack ₹20 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹5,500

Entries – 307

Re-entries – 205

Total Prize Pool – ₹25.60 Lakhs

Paid Places – 53

Sreekanth ‘n0thing’ Narayan won the PPL #32 BBS SuperStack ₹20 Lakhs GTD for ₹4.80 Lakhs.

Final Table Results

1. Sreekanth ‘n0thing’ Narayan – ₹4,80,000
2. Vinay ‘vinay09’ Rajpal – ₹3,52,000
3. dilbaghsingh – ₹2,56,000
4. Akshay ‘darulerofall’ Gupta – ₹1,92,000
5. goacartel – ₹1,40,800
6. Vikranth ‘borntrouble’ Varma – ₹1,02,400
7. Avadh ‘Sting240’ Shah – ₹76,800
8. Highness – ₹57,600
9. Deepak ‘definate’ Choudhary – ₹38,400

Sunday Special Progressive KO ₹6,600 NLHE ₹20 Lakhs GTD – PokerStars India

Entries – 159

Re-entries – 91

Total Prize Pool – ₹20,00,000

Regular Prize Pool – ₹12,50,000

Bounty Prize Pool – ₹7,50,000

Places Paid – 41

The Sunday Special Progressive KO ₹6,600 NLHE ₹20 Lakhs GTD at PokerStars India registered 159 entries and outlasting them all was Sharad ‘sordykrd’ Rao, who banked a first-place payday of ₹2.15 Lakhs after a heads-up deal with ‘BiggggTymeR’ who finished second for ₹2.01 Lakhs.

Final Table Results

1. Sharad ‘sordykrd’ Rao – ₹4,14,294*
2. BiggggTymeR – ₹2,20,028*
3. Bunty ‘hiteshbhai999’ Batra – ₹1,56,514
4. Mickyn34 – ₹1,33,330
5. Sajjan ‘Sajjan007’ Barnwal – ₹1,03,843
6. Devang ‘trappyfish93’ Yadav – ₹72,537
7. kgjadoo – ₹43,095
8. sneakysani – ₹52,548
9. GudThimma – ₹40,074
10. Sagar ‘serendipity789’ Choudhury – ₹5,497

*denotes heads-up deal

Sunday Stacks – ₹15 Lakhs GTD – 9stacks

Entries – 138

Rebuys – 63

Prize Pool – ₹15,00,000

Places Paid – 25

Circuit regular Kavish (Haresh) ‘Dietchips’ Kukreja put in another standout performance this past Sunday with two title wins. He took down the biggest event of the week on 9stacks i.e. Sunday Stacks ₹15 Lakhs GTD for ₹3.82 Lakhs.

Final Table Results

1. Haresh ‘Dietchips’ Kukreja – ₹3,82,500
2. Avnit ‘Bubbles_14’ Bagri – – ₹2,62,000
3. Anuj Singh ‘Ninza’ Rawat – – ₹1,68,750
4. Rubin ‘kornkid’ Labroo – – ₹1,35,000
5. Rajat ‘OshoSwami’ Sharma – – ₹96,000
6. Banmanland Warr ‘bml2012’ Lyndem – ₹63,750
7. Renu ‘babadada’ Arora – ₹48,750
8. Hiren ‘Hiren’ Sanghvi – ₹41,250
9. Dinesh ‘FI$H’ Singh – ₹33,750
10. Ankur Kr ‘FLOPZILA’ Agarwal – ₹26,250

PPL#23 The Value Town ₹15 Lakhs GTD

Entries – 802

Re-entries – 435

Prize Pool – ₹18,55,000

Places Paid – 125

Kavish (Haresh) ‘Narcos’ Kukreja continued his winning streak and shipped the PPL#23 The Value Town on PokerBaazi.

Final Table Results

1. Haresh ‘Narcos’ Kukreja – ₹3,15,435
2. Pinki ‘looseplayer’ Pandey – ₹2,29,154
3. Aniket ‘Anteman’ Waghmare – ₹1,66,995
4. Amit ‘walker90’ Jaiswal – ₹1,20,607
5. madmax1428 – ₹83,497
6. Viren ‘VirShallSee’ Gandhi – ₹64,942
7. Sahil ‘ImHighIshove’ Mahboobani – ₹46,387
8. ctrl_all – ₹32,471
9. Kamal ‘Bk108’ Jhangyani – ₹23,193

PPL#30 BSS PLO ₹5 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹2,750

Entries – 151

Re-entries – 145

Total Prize Pool – ₹7.40 Lakhs

Paid Places – 23

Rudraksh ‘GABBARisBACK’ Rudy outlasted a field of 151 runners at the PPL#30 BSS PLO ₹5 Lakhs GTD to win ₹1.55 Lakhs.

Final Table Results

1. Rudraksh ‘GABBARisBACK’ Rudy – ₹1,55,400
2. Yogi Raj ‘Yogiraj’ Singh – ₹1,14,700
3. Varun ‘VnutsG’ Gupta – ₹86,950
4. madmax1428 – ₹66,600
5. Sameer ‘Killersam’ Tavanandi – ₹49,950
6. Ramlakhan ‘Hitler’ Meena – ₹37,000
7. kilpauk – ₹27,750
8. Kamal ‘Identity’ Naruka – ₹22,200
9. Aditya ‘gangajal’ Sushant – ₹16,650

PPL#33 BSS MegaStack ₹5 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹2,750

Entries – 172

Re-entries – 109

Total Prize Pool – ₹7.02 Lakhs

Paid Places – 27

Sajjan ‘TheTeacher’ Barnwal topped 172 entries to take down the PPL#33 BSS MegaStack ₹5 Lakhs GTD and banked ₹1,40,500 for his finish.

Final Table Results

1. Sajjan ‘TheTeacher’ Barnwal – ₹1,40,500
2. Adithiyya ‘Bezerk1’ SB – ₹1,05,375
3. Vidwath ‘Qweasdzxc’ Shetty – ₹80,787
4. Sridhar ‘PlayEasy565’ Ramineni – ₹59,712
5. Sameer ‘Killersam’ Tavanandi – ₹45,662
6. Valuetown – ₹33,368
7. Rohit ‘Executioner00’ Jinwal – ₹24,587
8. Abhishek ‘AbhishekRathod’ Rathod – ₹19,318
9. Bhavesh ‘jhonnymeranaam’ Mandalia – ₹14,050

PPL#29 ₹2 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹550

Entries – 220

Re-entries – 231

Total Prize Pool – ₹2.35 Lakhs

Places Paid – 39

Yet another PPL Winter’18 edition event reached culmination, with Sridhar ‘PlayEasy565’ Ramineni topping a 220-strong field to win the PPL#29 ₹2 Lakhs GTD for ₹45,333.

Final Table Results

1. Sridhar ‘PlayEasy565’ Ramineni – ₹45,333
2. underlord – ₹33,558
3. Rahul ‘Chuzzpaa’ Sharma – ₹24,727
4. Buzzgaurav – ₹18,251
5. Neeraj ‘SelfClaimedPro’ Kumar – ₹13,541
6. al3g8r – ₹10,008
7. Amar ‘kidpoker0109’ Mehta – ₹7,653
8. monster111 – ₹5,887
9. Griboshin ‘grib’ Vellanthrov – ₹4,121

Winter Series – Bigstack Turbo ₹1,650 NLHE ₹2 Lakh GTD – PokerStars India

Entries – 82

Re-entries – 24

Prize Pool – ₹2,00,000

Places Paid – 17

‘imhobadshah’ took down the Bigstack Turbo ₹1,650 NLHE ₹2 Lakh GTD at PokerStars India for ₹44,746. The event attracted 82 entries and the top 17 spots made the money.

Final Table Results

1. imhobadshah – ₹44,746
2. baapdada – ₹33,844
3. kibolche – ₹25,598
4. theViperArena – ₹19,361
5. GoGetters1 – ₹14,644
6. papakancha00 – ₹11,076
7. kaarrty20 – ₹8,377
8. seshuarun – ₹6,336
9. adikumar – ₹4,792

Winter Series – Winter Warm Up ₹1,100 NLHE ₹2 Lakhs GTD– PokerStars India

Entries – 128

Re-entries – 58

Prize Pool – ₹2,00,000

Places Paid – 31

‘Virshallsee’ reached a heads-up deal with ‘pkpok13’ to win the top prize of ₹35,543 at the Winter Warm Up ₹1,100 NLHE ₹2 Lakhs GTD on PokerStars India.

Final Table Results

1. Virshallsee – ₹35,543*
2. Pranav ‘pkpok13’ Khandalkar – ₹33,659*
3. NISHKY – ₹21,810
4. bhasm@sur1 – ₹16,154
5. 5.sinvino – ₹11,965
6. 500 FOX – ₹8,862
7. RateDocter – ₹6,564
8. GONDOR2468 – ₹4,862
9. GoGetters1 – ₹3,601

Nations Cup Qualifier – PokerRaj

Entries – 53

Re-entries –21

Prize Pool – ₹1,00,000

Places Paid – 9

Nations Cup Qualifiers continue at India’s latest site PokerRaj, offering players a chance to represent Team India at the 2019 IFMP Nation’s Cup. This past Sunday, the tournament saw 53 entries, and it was Abhishek ‘Pro123’ Lowanshi who took down the event and won ₹33,000.

Final Table Results

1. Abhishek ‘Pro123’ Lowanshi – ₹33,000
2. ThugsOfPoker – 17,000
3. Outtaufo – ₹13,000
4. 09jasi – ₹10,000
5. Alibaba6chor – ₹8,000
6. Rohan64 – ₹6,000
7. allinle – ₹5,000
8. Anthony ‘Lucifer’ Lalchhandama – ₹4,500
9. trapper – ₹3,500

Winter Series – Sunday Supersonic – ₹1,100 NLHE ₹1.5 Lakh GTD – PokerStars India

Entries – 92

Re-entries – 50

Prize Pool – ₹1,50,000

Places Paid – 23

The Sunday Supersonic ₹1,100 NLHE ₹1.5 Lakh GTD at PokerStars India attracted a total of 92 entries and topping them all was ‘anandsankar’ who bagged ₹31,249 for his finish.

Final Table Results

1. anandsankar – ₹31,249
2. NNomadas – ₹23,492
3. infinitesuns – ₹17,660
4. Siddharth ‘WaaaduHek’ Mundada – ₹13,276
5. Sandeep ‘effuno007’ Varma RS – ₹9,980
6. Argha ‘imslowdeath’ Sen – ₹7,503
7. Amit ‘Stu Ungar 7694’ Kaushik – ₹5,640
8. vinaash – ₹4,240
9. nanoString – ₹3,187
10. Sogani22 – ₹2,790

Winter Series – Winter Storm₹275 NLHE (6-Max) ₹2 Lakhs GTD – PokerStars India

Entries – 198

Rebuys – 332

Add-ons – 63

Prize Pool – ₹2,00,000

Places Paid – 35

Sriharsha ‘DonkeyCommitted’ Boneni claimed the top seat at PokerStars’ India Winter Storm Winter Storm ₹275 NLHE (6-Max) ₹2 Lakhs GTD after a three-way deal with ‘rahul.roy1423’ who finished runner-up for ₹26,589 and ‘500 FOX’ who finished third for ₹30,761.

Final Table Results

1. Sriharsha ‘DonkeyCommitted’ Boneni – ₹31,009*
2. rahul.roy1423 – ₹26,589*
3. 500 FOX – ₹30,761*
4. nousername666 – ₹14,949
5. Yash ‘hasyY@$#116’ Shrivastava – ₹10,834
6. tanukohli96 – ₹7,851
7. Vorono [a] – ₹6,356
8. butterrchicken – ₹5,145
9. Anuj ‘brockLesnar95’ Yadav – ₹5,145
10. R@r!nG – ₹4,165

*denotes 3-way deal

Winter Series – Deep Hyper Progressive KO ₹1.25 Lakhs GTD – PokerStars India

Entries – 111

Re-entries – 39

Total Prize Pool – ₹1,25,000

Regular Prize Pool – ₹65,000

Bounty Prize Pool – ₹60,000

Places Paid – 18

Deep Hyper Progressive KO ₹1.25 Lakhs GTD at PokerStars India pulled in 111 entries. Outlasting the field, ‘iamhobadshah’ took down the event and bagged ₹28,181.

Final Table Results

1. imhobadshah – ₹28,181
2. Ashish ‘evergeek’ Singh – ₹16,873
3. Utsav ‘rannyOO6’ Taneja – ₹12,929
4. Jennison ‘kidp0ker316’ Paul – ₹9,990
5. bhasm@sur1 – ₹5,586
6. suyoggaikwad – ₹6,065
7. WhiteRabbit87 – ₹2,673
8. modi chai wala – ₹2,505
9. Pratik ‘Gr33n Appl3s’ Taank – ₹2,803
10. sho dab – ₹664

Dynamite – MadOverPoker

Entries – 86

Prize Pool – ₹1,50,000

Places Paid – 9

The Dynamite at MadOverPoker saw Uday ‘u2day’ Mondal topping the 86-strong field to grab winner’s payday of ₹27,765.

Final Table Results

1. Uday ‘u2day’ Mondal – ₹27,765
2. Rudhra ‘honeysingh’ Kumare – ₹27,080
3. Akash ‘Suppressor ‘ Mondal – ₹25,685

Grenade – MadOverPoker

Entries – 70

Prize Pool – ₹1,00,000

Places Paid – 8

Mahesh ‘mahikalra’ Shyamsundar took down the Grenade at MadOverPoker amid 69 other entries to win the top prize of ₹20,250.

Final Table Results

1. Mahesh ‘mahikalra’ Shyamsundar – ₹20,250
2. Amarjeet ‘ninjakar’ Moirangthem – ₹19,890
3. Deepika ‘Xena’ Patil – ₹19,845

PPL#34 Time Bomb ₹1 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹1,100

Entries – 125

Total Prize Pool – ₹1.25 Lakhs

Places Paid – 14

The PPL#34 Time Bomb ₹1 Lakhs GTD attracted 125 entries and topping the field was Sameer ‘Killersam’ Tavanandi who captured the event for ₹19,025.

Final Table Results

1. Sameer ‘Killersam’ Tavanandi – ₹19,025
2. Matador – ₹16,175
3. Avinash ‘spacecadet’ Tauro – ₹13,187
4. Naveen ‘Naveen00’ Prajapati – ₹13,000
5. Vivekk ‘Vivek25’ Dube – ₹12,025
6. Sandeep ‘effuno’ Varma R S – ₹10,362
7. Sandy ‘Ziigmund’ Lamba – ₹8,962
8. Rachit ‘rachubaba’ Arora – ₹7,737
9. Jeetendra ‘mandiya31’Meena- ₹7,100

Night Crawler – MadOverPoker

Entries – 34

Prize Pool – ₹50,000

Places Paid – 6

Night Crawler at MadOverPoker attracted a total of 34 players and topping the field was Neeraj ‘Silentkiller’ Dureja who took top honors and ₹17,500 in prize money.

Final Table Results

1. NeerajDureja – ₹17,500
2. Mahesh ‘mahikalra’ Shyamsundar – ₹11,250
3. Gour ‘POKER EXPRESS – Ruidas – ₹7,750

That’s it for this week’s Sunday Online Railbird Report. We will be back next week with a roundup of all the major Sunday scores.