As we near the weekend, the action on the virtual felts picked up the pace. MPL Poker’s India Poker Festival (IPF) kicked off yesterday, and the ₹30 Lakhs GTD IPF#1 was the biggest guaranteed event of the day. Pavan ‘Ramesses’ Bellamkonda shipped the event, banking the single most giant paycheque of the day worth ₹5.85 Lakhs.

With PokerBaazi’s 1100 Texas Hold’em Championship (May 31), Spartan Poker’s IOPC (June 2 and PokerStars India’s Summer Series (June 3) are set to commence soon, the coming weeks are going to be jam-packed with action on the virtual felts.

Coming back to yesterday’s tourneys, Aayush Arya took down two major flagship titles, walking away with an impressive ₹8.92 Lakhs in collective winnings. He shipped Spartan Poker’s ₹20 Lakhs GTD Trending Thursday (IOPC Bubble) for ₹4.23 Lakhs and PokerBaazi’s ₹15 Lakhs GTD The Summit for ₹4.63 Lakhs.

Vaibhav Sharma was the last player standing in Adda52’s BTH Gangster and took home ₹4.99 Lakhs payday. PokerGuru Ambassador Ratul Steves came in second for ₹3.83 Lakhs.

Sunday’s BTH Monster winner, Mohammad Azhar, shipped the BTH PLO Bounty for ₹3.51 Lakhs, outlasting Deepak Singh (2nd for ₹1.16 Lakhs) heads-up.

Goonjan Mall won PokerStars India’s Highroller (On-time Rake Refund) for ₹2.30 Lakhs, while Dhinesh Kumar finished runner-up for ₹1.77 Lakhs.

Kaleem Pasha, Nandkishor Meena, Nitin Rawat, Randeep Lather, Noel Pais, Rajneesh Thakur, Harshit Arora, Md Nazim, Ajay Singh Dasila, Vinod Malviya, and Aniruddha Joshi won the other Thursday marquees.

Here are the Thursday highlights!

 

MPL Poker

Pavan ‘Ramesses’ Bellamkonda took down the inaugural ₹30 Lakhs GTD IPF#1 for a payday worth ₹5.85 Lakhs, besting Jafar ‘Arif Ali’ Ali heads-up. The latter netted ₹3.75 Lakhs for their runner-up finish. The ₹4,400 buy-in event attracted a total of 657 entrants to leave an overlay of ₹3.72 Lakhs (over 10% deficit).

 

Spartan Poker

Thursday High Roller (6-Max) – ₹25 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹22,000

Entries – 76

Re-entries – 24

Rebuys – 35

Prize Pool – ₹27,00,000

Places Paid – 15

The ₹25 Lakhs GTD Thursday High Roller (6-Max) registered 135 entries, generating a ₹27 Lakhs prize pool. The user ‘sariyaa’ championed the tourney for ₹6.89 Lakhs, while Anurag ‘CultOfPersonality’ Srivastava came in second for ₹4.75 Lakhs.

‘sariyaa’s Spartan Poker stats: Site Winnings: ₹36.36 Lakhs | Site Profit: ₹14.40 Lakhs

Anurag Srivastava banked ₹5.40 Lakhs in Thursday winnings on the back of four deep runs that include:

> 2nd in Spartan Poker’s Thursday High Roller for ₹4,75,200

> 8th in PokerStars India’s Highroller (On-time Rake Refund) for ₹36,435

> 31st in Spartan Poker’s Trending Thursday for ₹17,600

> 11th in PokerBaazi’s (7-Max) SPRINT for ₹10,854

 

Final Table Results

1. sariyaa – ₹6,89,850
2. Anurag ‘CultOfPersonality’ Srivastava – ₹4,75,200
3. Punya ‘madhumangal’ Behera – ₹3,11,850
4. Sreekanth ‘GL1DE’ Narayan – ₹2,52,450
5. Dhinesh ‘kendralust’ Kumar – ₹2,03,850
6. MysticRiver – ₹1,59,300

 

Trending Thursday (IOPC Bubble) – ₹20 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹5,500

Entries – 193

Re-entries – 53

Rebuys – 153

Prize Pool – ₹20,00,000

Places Paid – 39

Aayush ‘Eureka226’ Arya was in stellar form last night as he took down Spartan Poker’s ₹20 Lakhs GTD Trending Thursday (IOPC Bubble) for ₹4.23 Lakhs and PokerBaazi’s ₹15 Lakhs GTD The Summit for ₹4.63 Lakhs, banking ₹8.91 Lakhs cumulatively. His 10th title win of 2022 pushed his tracked online winnings closer to the ₹2 Crores-mark (₹1.74 Crores).

‘Charo’ finished runner-up for ₹2.84 Lakhs, and Ankit ‘ON_MY_MAC’ Bajaj came in third for ₹2.84 Lakhs.

The event garnered 399 entries, falling just one entry short of the break-even mark.

 

Final Table Results

1. Aayush ‘Eureka226’ Arya – ₹4,23,000
2. Charo – ₹2,84,800
3. Ankit ‘ON_MY_MAC’ Bajaj – ₹2,00,800
4. Nitin ‘NITINABD’ Rawat – ₹1,62,800
5. Tanmay ‘PlusEv’ Benara – ₹1,28,800
6. Gopal ‘TheRealG’ Bajaj – ₹97,800
7. Aniket ‘TakingSouls’ Waghmare – ₹71,400
8. Uttam ‘chinunew’ Kumar Sinha – ₹52,200

 

Deepstack (IOPC FT) – ₹4.50 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹1,100

Entries – 184

Re-entries – 82

Rebuys – TBA

Prize Pool – TBA

Places Paid – 39

The user ‘sanapalbhar’ took down the ₹4.50 Lakhs GTD Deepstack (IOPC FT) for ₹89,551.

‘sanapalbhar’s Spartan Poker stats: Site Winnings: ₹30.11 Lakhs | Title Wins: 5 | Final Table Finishes: 38

The top three finishers received a free ticket to the IOPC#1 Launch Party that will take place at 1 PM on June 2.

Final Table Results

1. sanapalbhar – ₹89,551
2. UNKNOWN – ₹59,985
3. Johny1087 – ₹43,201
4. AAnogood – ₹35,415
5. arthas – ₹27,765
6. Amit ‘Kavipri’ Gehani – ₹21,015
7. Areyann ‘VerbalDiarrhea’ Gurbaxani – ₹15,435
8. manage_level – ₹10,666

 

Noel ‘noelpais1’ Pais (Won Sundowner ₹2.50 Lakhs GTD for ₹62,900), ‘pinkflyod’ (Won Monster Stack ₹2 Lakhs GTD for ₹47,244), ‘pin2chem’ (Won Night Rider – DeepStack ₹1.75 Lakhs GTD for ₹36,239), ‘VantagePoint’ (Won Chip Up ₹1 Lakh GTD for ₹17,391), ‘saggiboi338’ (Won Centurion ₹50K GTD for ₹10,025), and ‘levelupJC91’ (Won Striker ₹18K GTD for ₹4,725) won the other Spartan Poker marquees yesterday.

 

PokerBaazi

The Summit – ₹15 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹8,250

Entries – 136

Re-entries – 144

Prize Pool – ₹21,00,000

Places Paid – 36

The former The Elite winner Aayush ‘Learnnwin’ Arya outran the 280-entry field in PokerBaazi’s ₹15 Lakhs GTD The Summit to walk away with a payday worth ₹4.64 Lakhs. Lakshman ‘Lakshman9192’ Gowda placed runner-up for ₹3.25 Lakhs.

Aayush Arya topped the Thursday charts as he also took down Spartan Poker’s ₹20 Lakhs GTD Trending Thursday for ₹4.23 Lakhs. He ITM-ed one more event, netting ₹8.92 Lakhs collectively. His Thursday scores include:

> Won PokerBaazi’s The Summit for ₹4.64 Lakhs

> Won Spartan Poker’s Trending Thursday for ₹4.23 Lakhs

> 24th in PokerBaazi’s Daily SPRINT for ₹5,016

Aayush Arya’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹1.74 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹65.56 Lakhs | Annual Winnings: ₹89.91 Lakhs |Titles Won in 2022: #10

The ₹8,250 buy-in MTT generated a prize pool worth ₹21 Lakhs, and the top 36 places crossed the money line.

 

Final Table Results

1. Aayush ‘Learnnwin’ Arya – ₹4,63,890
2. Lakshman ‘Lakshman9192’ Gowda – ₹3,25,500
3. Vaibhav ‘paisalootega’ Manral – ₹2,09,370
4. Anirudh ‘flash1’ Reddy – ₹1,54,980
5. Siddhanth ‘ender’ Kripalani – ₹1,16,340
6. Vishal ‘Vishzz’ Bajaj – ₹93,030
7. Guruprasad ‘fish_calling’ Gupta – ₹77,280
8. borntrouble – ₹61,950

 

SPRINT (7 Max) – ₹5 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹1,650

Entries – 271

Re-entries – 235

Prize Pool – ₹7,59,000

Places Paid – 63

The former Daily Boost winner Nandkishor ‘royalpunter’ Meena banked a career-best ₹1.47 Lakhs after championing PokerBaazi’s ₹5 Lakhs GTD SPRINT (7 Max). The former Young Gun Karan ‘Apocalypto’ Radia secured a runner-up payday worth ₹1.03 Lakhs.

Nandkishor Meena’s PokerBaazi stats: Site Winnings: ₹10.47 Lakhs | No of Titles: #34

The ₹1,650 buy-in MTT collected ₹7.59 Lakhs in the prize pool on the back of 506 entries and paid the top 63 places.

 

Final Table Results

1. Nandkishor ‘royalpunter’ Meena – ₹1,47,474
2. Karan ‘Apocalypto’ Radia – ₹1,03,376
3. gogababa302 – ₹66,488
4. Anmol ‘anzzzzz’ Mehta – ₹49,183
5. upswing4eva – ₹36,887
6. Kara ‘piratebun’ Sousa – ₹29,601
7. Pratik ‘zpAAced’ Manjrekar – ₹24,668

 

Daily SPRINT (7-Max) – ₹5 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹2,200

Entries – 151

Re-entries – 134

Prize Pool – ₹5,70,000

Places Paid – 36

The two-time FTS title winner Nitin ‘Gambler42’ Rawat crossed the finish line in the ₹5 Lakhs GTD Daily SPRINT (7-Max) to collect ₹1.26 Lakhs. Siddharth ‘GangnamGangi’ Gangwar collected ₹88,350 in second place.

The poker streamer Nitin Rawat ran deep in four more events, making away with over ₹3.13 Lakhs. His Thursday scores were:

> 4th in Spartan Poker’s Trending Thursday for ₹1.63 Lakhs

> Won PokerBaazi’s Daily SPRINT for ₹1.26 Lakhs

> 19th in Adda52’s BTH Freeze Finale for ₹17,333

> 27th in PokerBaazi’s SPRINT for ₹5,237

> 39th in PokerBaazi’s Holdem BOOST for ₹1,954

Nitin Rawat’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹95.65 Lakhs| Lifetime Profits: ₹41.29 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2022: #12

 

Final Table Results

1. Nitin ‘Gambler42’ Rawat – ₹1,25,913
2. Siddharth ‘GangnamGangi’ Gangwar – ₹88,350
3. Amit ‘churu’ J – ₹56,829
4. Rajneesh ‘msdhoni’ Thakur – ₹42,066
5. Dorendro771 – ₹31,578
6. Vivekk ‘Vivek25’ Dube – ₹25,251
7. Harsh ‘harsh1327’ Bubna – ₹20,976

 

Randeep ‘randysingh’ Lather (Won Holden BOOST ₹3 Lakh GTD for ₹73,290), ‘golupanda’ (Won Hyper Sprint ₹2 Lakh GTD for ₹46,461), Rajneesh ‘msdhoni’ Thakur (Won Daily Night SPRINT ₹1.50 Lakhs GTD for ₹46,282), ‘Nikhilaneja’ (Won SPRINT 1 AM ₹1 Lakh GTD for ₹33,784), Vinod ‘Strokerzzzz’ Malviya (Won PLO BOOST ₹1 Lakh GTD for ₹27,398), ‘tushhaalm’ (Won Daily Afternoon SPRINT ₹1 Lakh GTD for ₹23,697), and ‘bluebilive’ (Won 5-Max Daily ₹50K GTD for ₹10,396) won the other PokerBaazi marquees.

 

PokerStars India

Highroller (On-time Rake Refund) – ₹10 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹7,700

Entries – 71

Re-entries – 43

Prize Pool – ₹10,00,000

Places Paid – 13

Seasoned MTT pro Goonjan ‘gmtesting.ind’ Mall picked up his fourth MTT title of the year last night after taking down PokerStars India’s flagship ₹10 Lakhs GTD Highroller (On-time Rake Refund) for ₹2.30 Lakhs.

Mall lapped up over ₹4.13 Lakhs in cashes last night after two more deep runs, including another final table finish. His other deep runs included:

> 5th in Adda52’s BTH Gangster for ₹1.30 Lakhs

> 12th in Spartan Poker’s Thursday High Roller for ₹52,650

Goonjan Mall`s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹8.43 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹3.44 Crores | Titles Won in 2022: #4

Dhinesh ‘you3betl4bet’ Kumar came in second and netted ₹1.77 Lakhs in cash prize. Kumar also ran deep in two more events to collectively add ₹3.90 Lakhs in Thursday cashes. His other ITM finishes included:

 

> 5th in Spartan Poker’s Thursday High Roller for ₹1.94 Lakhs

> 22nd in PokerBaazi’s The Summit for ₹18,480

Dhinesh Kumar`s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹4.59 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹1.80 Crores | Titles Won in 2022: #4

The ₹7,700 buy-in MTT faced an overlay deficit of ₹2.02 Lakhs (over 20% deficit) after gathering a player pool of 114 participants, and the top 13 places boarded the money bus.

 

Final Table Results

1. Goonjan ‘gmtesting.ind’ Mall – ₹2,30,435
2. Dhinesh ‘you3betl4bet’ Kumar – ₹1,77,058
3. JC1870 – ₹1,36,045
4. Sahil ‘you3bi4b’ Nair – ₹1,04,532
5. Sreekanth ‘LaganaHiToHai’ Narayan – ₹80,319
6. Vinayak ‘koi.toh.rok.lo’ Bajaj – ₹61,714
7. Ankit ‘magnum736’ Saurabh – ₹47,419
8. Anurag ‘GutshotHaiBro’ Srivastava – ₹36,435
9. Nitin ‘Mickyn34’ Gupta – ₹30,702

 

Deepstack– ₹1.50 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹1,375

Entries – 84

Re-entries – 45

Regular Prize Pool – ₹80,625

Bounty Prize Pool – ₹80,625

Total Prize Pool – ₹1,61,250

Places Paid –15

Harshit ‘arora17’ Arora was the last player standing in the ₹1.50 Lakhs GTD Deepstack on PokerStars India, and took home ₹41,178 up top, with ‘ps pro vegas’ placing runner-up for ₹20,857.

The ₹1,375 buy-in MTT managed to generate a guarantee crushing ₹1.61 Lakhs prize pool on the back of 129 participants, and the top 15 places finished ITM.

Final Table Results (Including Bounties)

1. Harshit ‘arora17’ Arora – ₹41,178
2. ps pro vegas – ₹20,857
3. Bluff_masters8 – ₹12,421
4. Niraj2401 – ₹11,299
5. Tanay ‘tanayp’ Parekh – ₹9,169
6. Piyush ‘Zeta Sagittarii’ Kumar – ₹5,397
7. rkcravi – ₹9,552
8. Gopal ‘MrBigSlick139’ Bajaj – ₹4,233
9. Pranav ‘PranV’ Agrawal – ₹4,051

 

‘TBPKillspree’ (Won Afternoon on Stars ₹50K GTD for ₹16,880), ‘whitebill9352’ (Won Deepstack ₹50K GTD for ₹12,730), and Aniruddha ‘pocketacesaj69’ Joshi (Won Primetime Grind 50K GTD for ₹11,411) won the other PokerStars India marquees.

 

Adda52

BTH Gangster ₹25 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹5,500

Entries – 238

Re-entries – 192

Prize Pool – ₹25,00,000

Places Paid – 43

The former SSS The Millionaire winner Vaibhav ‘alienrobot’ Sharma grabbed his sixth title of 2022 in the early hours today. Among the 430 players who entered the ₹25 Lakhs GTD BTH Gangster, Sharma took it down to claim the top prize of ₹4.99 Lakhs after beating PokerGuru Ambassador Ratul ‘riverking021’ Steves (2nd for ₹3.83 Lakhs) in the heads-up showdown.

Vaibhav Sharma’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹7.47 Crore | Lifetime Profits: ₹3.03 Crores | Titles Won in 2022: 6

Runner-up Ratul Steves cashed another two events to collectively bank ₹4.23 Lakhs in Thursday winnings. With ₹4.98 Crores in tracked lifetime winnings, Steves is now whiskers close to crossing the ₹5 Crore marker.

 

His Thursday finishes include:

>2nd in Adda52’s BTH Gangster for ₹3.83 Lakhs

> 14th in Spartan Poker’s Trending Thursday for ₹29,600

> 18th in Adda52’s BTH PLO Bounty for ₹10,313

The ₹5,500 buy-in event filled in a substantial ₹3.50 Lakhs in overlay shortfall, and the top 43 finishers earned a share of the prize money.

 

Final Table Results

1. Vaibhav ‘alienrobot’ Sharma – ₹4,98,553
2. Ratul ‘riverking021’ Steves – ₹3,82,835
3. Vaibhav ‘Vaibhi18’ Arora – ₹3,76,112
4. filmyjuwari – ₹2,00,000
5. gmtesting’ Mall – ₹1,30,000
6. Amrit ‘amrit1111’ Mishra – ₹87,500
7. chunu79 – ₹68,750
8. hhaishwary – ₹56,250

 

BTH Freeze Finale ₹12.50 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹5,500

Entries – 281

Prize Pool – ₹14,05,000

Places Paid – 31

The ₹12.50 Lakhs GTD BTH Freeze was scheduled to run four starting flights but Day 1B of the tourney got cancelled. With 281 players coming in from Days 1A, 1C and 1D, the tournament recorded a guarantee-crushing ₹14.05 Lakhs prize pool. Day 2 Finale ran from 7 PM to 11.22 PM yesterday, with 39 qualifiers from a starting field of 236 taking their seats. One of the top stacks from Day 1D, Kaleem ‘fishwithnuts’ Pasha, proved the eventual champion and grabbed the ₹2.79 Lakhs up top following a heads-up deal with ‘suddspoker’ (2nd for ₹2.07 Lakhs).

Kaleem Pasha’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹38.25 Lakhs | Lifetime Profits: ₹13.19 Lakhs

 

Final Table Results

1. Kaleem ‘fishwithnuts’ Pasha – ₹2,79,289*
2. suddspoker – ₹2,06,864*
3. Sameer ‘Sameer5437’ Ranpise – ₹1,53,220
4. Ryan ‘plassma’ Cardoso – ₹1,13,487
5. Rahul ‘qwerty3293’ Singhroha – ₹84,057
6. Amit ‘ragingbull’ Kaushik – ₹62,259
7. Kunal ‘Kunotaguero’ Yadav – ₹46,114
8. Avinash ‘avinkon’ Koneru – ₹34,156

*denotes heads-up deal

 

BTH PLO Bounty ₹10 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹7,500

Entries – 96

Re-entries – 74

Prize Pool – ₹11,59,400

Places Paid – 17

The first-ever NPS Main Event champion and last week’s Leaderboard topper Mohammad ‘blankspace’ Azhar was back at the forefront on Thursday. The 24-year-old player, who is currently ranked #4 on the 2022 POY leaderboard rankings and had shipped the BTH Monster last Sunday, came out trumps over the 170-strong player field to capture the ₹10 Lakhs GTD BTH PLO Bounty. Along with ₹1.94 Lakhs in bounties, Azhar lapped up ₹3.51 Lakhs in the event. Deepak ‘peacelover’ Singh finished runner-up in the event for ₹1.16 Lakhs (includes ₹17,460 in bounties).

Azhar cashed another two events to add almost ₹3.85 Lakhs in Thursday winnings. His online stats are: Lifetime Winnings: ₹4.68 Crore | Lifetime Profits: ₹2.15 Crore | Titles Won in 2022: 12 | Annual Winnings: ₹1.64 Crore | Ranked #4 in 2022 Leaderboard Standings (Total Cashes)

 

Final Table Results (Includes Bounties)

1. Mohammad ‘blankspace’ Azhar – ₹3,50,867
2. Deepak ‘peacelover’ Singh – ₹1,16,009
3. Abhishek ‘dx23’ Rathod – ₹85,588
4. akshat_jay – ₹77,703
5. chaty – ₹64,326
6. Rajput451 – ₹53,786
7. Himanshu ‘pirateking7’ Arora – ₹54,083
8. Abhishek ‘thegrinder’ Garg – ₹58,174

 

‘gamitt12’ (Won BTH Ice Cube ₹2.50 Lakhs GTD for ₹48,740), ‘Darksider12’ (Won BTH KnockOut ₹2 Lakhs GTD for ₹47,550), Md ‘t9ace’ Nazim (Won BTH Deep Stack Turbo ₹2 Lakhs GTD for ₹35,982), and Ajay Singh ‘juar1’ Dasila (Won BTH Chiller ₹1.50 Lakhs GTD for ₹27,507) were others who won titles on Adda52.

 

Khelo365

Khelo365 user ‘ANGLE99’ overcame 41 players to clinch the ₹30K GTD Hitman PLO title for ₹11,100. Wednesday’s Sun Downer champion, ‘tirangaWave’ came second for ₹7,500.

Site regular Alexcy ‘JonGregor’ Newmai posted a fifth-place score of ₹3,300.

 

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