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This Week in Poker: May 23 – 29

PG News May 31, 2018
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In the PokerGuru feature ‘This Week in Poker’ we bring to you the weekly round-up of the biggest online scores by Indian MTT players along with the top stories from both the live and online poker circuit.

Here are this week`s top stories

The temperatures seemed hotter than ever as the world’s biggest poker jamboree i.e. World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2018 has arrived in style with all the hullabaloo deserved by an event of such magnitude. This year will see the largest-ever Indian turnout at the series and while many have reached or are in transit, several others will join in at a later date. The next few weeks promise to be very interesting and PokerGuru will bring you highlights of all the action as it unfolds.

Leading up to the WSOP was the 2018 Super High Roller Bowl at the ARIA Resort & Casino Las Vegas that was taken down by USA’s Justin Bonomo for $5 Million with poker superstar Daniel Negreanu missing out at second place.

The party was simultaneously going at the APL Road Series Vol. 2 at Pro Poker Club in Vietnam where a huge Indian contingent is busy making waves with two side event titles already in the bag. Young Gun Devesh Thapar won the KO Bounty event while Adarsh Jayappa shipped the Super Deepstack Turbo event.

The aforementioned festivities didn’t seem to fade the online action as Indian pros came out all guns blazing on the virtual felts. The week’s biggest online success story was Shashank ‘Westworld’ Jain who won the PokerBaazi BSS ₹15 Lakhs GTD event to collect the ₹3.15 Lakhs top prize and is our “PokerGuru Star of the Week”.

In domestic affairs, a big delight came from PokerLion.com, which announced its new weekly raffle prize where one winner will get their hands on the Hero Maestro Scooter each week in June. Meanwhile, debacles in Goa continued as Corporation of City of Panaji finally intervened in the Maharaja Casino footpath barricade row this week.

In another huge news, Portugal has joined France and Spain in the PokerStars shared player pool, Poker Central and Twitch TV joined hands to live stream WSOP 2018 events, WSOP released its U.S. Circuit schedule for 2018-2019, Phil Galfond’s Run It Once poker site announced two features – auto seating and fixed buy-ins and Paddy Power Betfair acquired DFS site FanDuel.

We also have three important updates from world’s biggest poker site PokerStars. The online giant first stopped its real money games in Hong Kong, then came the announcement of a new game called Showtime Hold’em that is currently running on a trial basis on the international client followed by news of Team PokerStars pros hosting unique tournaments to give away PSPC Platinum Passes.

Besides the above, we also have tournament reports from Oriental Poker Championship, WPT Tournament of Champions Season XVI, WPT Bellagio Elite Poker Championship $25K High Roller, ARIA WPT Bobby Baldwin Classic, and WSOP Circuit Harrah’s New Orleans Main Event.

Online Railbird Report

The recent spate of upcoming players making BIG scores online continues, emphasizing the growing popularity of the sport. This week was no different as a bunch of well known pros mixed with new names came out shining with numerous big scores. The biggest one was from Shashank ‘Westworld’ Jain, who shipped the PokerBaazi ‘Baazi Super Sunday ₹15 Lakhs GTD (SuperStack)’ for ₹3.15 Lakhs and claims our “PokerGuru Star of the Week” title.

Other notable scores of the week include –

‘OMGZ_ITS_RB’ won ₹2.40 Lakhs for 1^st place in the PokerStars India ‘Sunday Special – ₹5,000 NLHE, ₹12 Lakhs GTD’

Sumit ‘boronyx’ Sapra won ₹1.23 Lakhs for 1^st place in the PokerBaazi ‘Baazi Super Sunday (₹5 Lakhs GTD) (MonsterStack Hyper-Turbo)’

Vishal ‘spartacus’ Tulsyan won ₹97,480 for 1^st place in the MadOverPoker ‘Hysteria’

Deepak ‘Peacelover’ Singh won ₹38,000 for 1^st place in the PokerBaazi ‘Baazi Super Sunday (₹1 Lakh GTD) (Turbo Freezeout)’

Pratik ‘Lazybones’ Kumar won ₹35,000 for 1^st place in the 9stacks ‘Sunday Stacks’

PokerLion.com Launches Weekly Raffle Prize Of Hero Maestro Scooter For June

India’s newest site PokerLion.com unveiled its June offer this week featuring a weekly Raffle prize of Hero Maestro scooter from June 4 to June 24. Players can earn a maximum three raffle tickets per day by playing MTT’s, minimum 50 hands in cash games and five Fish Party SNGs.