The Millionaire Series 4.0 has reached its business end, with just two days to go for the flagship series to end. The guarantee-crushing series churned out two more Millionaire`s on Friday in IIT Kanpur alumni Ayush Garg and Punya Behera.

Ayush Garg shipped the day`s headline event, ₹50 Lakhs GTD Millionaire Series #19 – The Elite (6-Max), for ₹11.92 Lakhs, becoming a two-time The Millionaire champion. He raked in ₹11.97 Lakhs cumulatively, storming into the top 20 of the annual leaderboard rankings.

Punya Behera received ₹11.42 Lakhs for his second-place finish in the Millionaire Series #19 – The Elite, courtesy of a heads-up deal. He ended Friday night with ₹12.03 Lakhs in total winnings.

The two-time The Millionaire champion Manish Lakhotia (Won Millionaire Series #18 for ₹2.12 Lakhs) and Ajay Jain (Won Millionaire Series #20 for ₹1.79 Lakhs) won the other Millionaire Series titles on Friday.

PokerGuru Ambassador Ashish Ahuja was another mover and shaker and took down PokerBaazi’s The Weekly Highroller for ₹6.09 Lakhs. He is now ranked #4 on the annual leaderboard.

The seasoned MTT pro Rajat Sharma walked away with the title and top prize of ₹2.64 Lakhs in PokerStars India’s Super Highroller (On-time Rake Refund). The #1 ranked player of the year, Young Gun Anuj Yadav, came second for ₹2.03 Lakhs.

Areyann Gurbaxani, Janish Jain, Yash Jaiswal, Sameer Sharma, Imdad Ahmed, Abhishek Sonu, Alok Kumar, Guruprasad Gupta, NPS Golden Rush champion Sankesh Jain, Sanjay Mohan, Dayanand Prass, Karan Lochab, and Piyush Nanda were the other Friday winners.

Here are the Friday highlights!

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Spartan Poker

Millionaire Series #19 – The Elite (6-Max)- ₹50 Lakhs GTD (1st Place ₹15 Lakhs GTD)

Buy-in – ₹11,000

Entries – 254

Re-entries – 120

Rebuys – 182

Prize Pool – ₹55,60,000

Places Paid – 50

The IIT Kanpur alumni Ayush ‘Tabono’ Garg is now a two-time The Millionaire champion! He won Spartan Poker’s ₹50 Lakhs GTD Millionaire Series #19 – The Elite (6-Max) for ₹11.92 Lakhs and chopped the title heads-up with Punya ‘madhumangal’ Behera (2^nd for a career-best ₹11.42 Lakhs).

Ayush Garg banked ₹11.97 Lakhs in Friday winnings on the back of three ITM finishes that include:

> 1st in Spartan Poker’s Millionaire Series #19 -Elite Millionaire for ₹11,92,368

> 28th in PokerBaazi’s (7-Max) Daily SPRINT for ₹3,971

> 84th in Adda52’s Friday Bounty for ₹900

Ayush Garg’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹5.69 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹2.32 Crores | Titles Won in 2022: #6 | Annual Winnings: ₹85.88 Lakhs | Moves into the Top 20 of the 2022 Leaderboard Standings (Total Cashes)

Punya Behera raked in ₹12.03 Lakhs in Friday earnings. Besides finishing runner-up in the Millionaire Series #19 – The Elite, he also placed ninth in PokerBaazi’s The Weekly HighRoller for ₹60,865.

The ₹11,000 buy-in event clocked in 556 entries, leading to a prize pool collection of ₹55.60 Lakhs. The top 50 finishers received payouts.

Final Table Results

1. Ayush ‘Tabono’ Garg – ₹11,92,368*
2. Punya ‘madhumangal’ Behera – ₹11,42,832*
3. Vikranth ‘borntrouble’ Varma – ₹5,14,300
4. Deepankur ‘AngryPitbull’ Gupta – ₹3,66,960
5. nirmal512 – ₹2,33,520
6. Romit ’tilt_83′ Advani – ₹1,94,600

*denotes a heads-up deal

Millionaire Series #18 – ₹10 Lakhs GTD (Multi-Entry)

Buy-in – ₹990

Entries – 735 (453)

Rebuys – 516

Prize Pool – ₹11,24,100

Places Paid – 103

The MTT pro from Siliguri, part of a select group of players to have won The Millionaire twice, Manish ‘thekid’ Lakhotia, took down the ₹10 Lakhs GTD Millionaire Series #18 for ₹2.12 Lakhs. The win saw Lakhotia jump to #6 in the annual rankings.

Suraj ‘MichaelScarn’ Arora placed second for ₹1.30 Lakhs.

Manish Lakhotia’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹10.91 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹3.50 Crores | Titles Won in 2022: #8 | Annual Winnings: ₹1.13 Crores | Moves to #6 in the 2022 Leaderboard Rankings (Total Cashes) | Finished #2 in the 2021 Leaderboard Standings

The event dragged in 1,079 entries, creating a ₹11.24 Lakhs prize pool, and paid out 103 places.

Final Table Results

1. Manish ‘thekid’ Lakhotia – ₹2,12,905
2. Suraj ‘MichaelScarn’ Arora – ₹1,30,283
3. Abhijeet ‘TheSupremeOne’ Kumar – ₹93,075
4. ZindagiJuaHai – ₹70,481
5. jamir9 – ₹55,093
6. Amit ‘deshominisation’ Kaushik – ₹43,053
7. UNKNOWN – ₹31,138
8. Paras ‘Jhukega nahi $ala’ Jain – ₹21,245

Millionaire Series #20 – ₹8 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹1,100

Entries – 453

Re-entries – 167

Rebuys – 316

Prize Pool – ₹9,36,000

Places Paid – 87

The ₹8 Lakhs GTD Millionaire Series #20 registered 936 entries, posting a ₹9.36 Lakhs prize pool. It took nearly nine hours for Ajay ‘Jain28’ Jain to take down the event for ₹1.79 Lakhs, while the user ‘Subscribe – A is B Streams’ finished runner-up for ₹1.11 Lakhs.

Ajay Jain’s Spartan Poker stats: Site Winnings: ₹3.61 Lakhs | Title Wins: #1 | Final Table Finishes: #2

Final Table Results

1. Ajay ‘Jain28’ Jain – ₹1,79,244
2. Subscribe – A is B Streams – ₹1,11,571
3. cobainkurt – ₹79,841
4. Rishab ‘NoChanc3’ Malik – ₹61,776
5. Ankit ‘magnum736’ Saurabh – ₹48,672
6. BULL0666 – ₹38,095
7. Seshadri ‘Baba_Tilteshwar’ Iyer – ₹28,174
8. nspa5 – ₹19,375

Millionaire Series – The Millionaire Main Event ₹1.50 Crores GTD – Day 1B

Buy-in – ₹11,000

Entries – 165

Re-entries – 32

Rebuys – 99

Survivors – 45

The Millionaire Series is heading towards a thrilling finale, and all eyes are on the ₹1.50 Crores GTD Millionaire Series – The Millionaire Main Event. The multi-flight Main Event pulled in 296 participants on Day 1B yesterday, and after the stipulated levels of play, only 45 players made the cut for Day 2.

Spartan Poker Team pro Nikita ‘Nikita Luther’ Luther (316,522) topped the advancing field while Akshay ‘powershell’ Asawa (171,450), Neel ‘Worm33’ Joshi (158,266), Shriram ‘MasterBet10’ Varma (154,843), and Sahil ‘Captain Falcon’ Mahboobani (127,674) bagged the other top stacks of the day!

Adding the 334 entrants that joined the fray on Day 1, the event’s tally stands at 630 entrants, and it needs a total of 1,500 entries to break even, with three more starting flights left to run!

Top 10 Chip Counts at the End of Day 1B

1. Nikita ‘Nikita Luther’ Luther – 316,522
2. Akshay ‘powershell’ Asawa – 171,450
3. Neel ‘Worm33’ Joshi – 158,266
4. Shriram ‘MasterBet10’ Varma – 154,843
5. Sahil ‘Captain Falcon’ Mahboobani – 127,674
6. Vidwath ‘QU@NTUM’ Shetty – 118,564
7. Amit ‘deshominisation’ Kaushik – 110,883
8. Vinay ‘BeepBeepImaJeep’ Rajpal – 110,034
9. Myron ‘mehhhhh’ Pereira – 107,591
10. Amarjeet ‘Thodi Mariada Rakhiye’ Singh – 101,408

With Day 6 of the Millionaire Series 4.0 in the books, Mohit ‘thejoker’ Mehta (2,975 points) has jumped into the lead in the ₹20 Lakhs-added leaderboard race. After last night`s win, Manish ‘thekid’ Lakhotia (2,883 points) has moved into the #2 position. Jaikiran ‘GOLI SODA’ Kumar (2,645 points) has dropped two spots to #3 in the series’ leaderboard standings.

The Millionaire Series 4.0 Leaderboard Standings After Day 6

Yash ‘gambler11’ Jaiswal (Won Night Rider – Monster Stack ₹1.75 Lakhs GTD for ₹53,317), Sameer ‘Hakuna matata’ Sharma (Won Monsterstack ₹2 Lakhs GTD for ₹49,960), ‘Go muck urself’ (Won Ultimate 6 Card PLO ₹1 Lakh GTD for ₹31,500), ‘sungun1’ (Won Epic – 6 Card PLO Monster Stack ₹22K GTD for ₹9,570), and ‘aceskings12’ (Won Epic Multi-Entry ₹35K GTD for ₹7,261) shipped the other Friday marquees on Spartan Poker.

PokerBaazi

The Weekly Highroller – ₹12 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹11,000

Entries – 136

Re-entries – 123

Prize Pool – ₹25,90,000

Places Paid – 27

The former IOPC – The Elite winner PokerGuru Ambassador Ashish ‘rocky3705’ Ahuja outlasted a reg laden 259-entry field in PokerBaazi’s ₹12 Lakhs GTD The Weekly Highroller to clinch his eighth title of the year and ₹6.09 Lakhs in prize money. ‘Srini2021’ placed runner-up for ₹4.28 Lakhs.

The win helped him jump three places to the #4 in the 2022 leaderboard rankings His online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹10.75 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹4.12 Crores | Titles Won in 2022: #8 | Annual Winnings: ₹1.16 Crores | Moves to #4 in the 2022 Leaderboard Rankings (Total Cashes)

Ahuja`s PokerGuru Staking stable-mate Ashutosh ‘senojwod’ Balodhi posted two deep runs for a collective ₹2.45 Lakhs. His Friday finishes include:

> 8^th in Spartan Poker’s Millionaire Series #19 – Elite Millionaire for ₹1.22 Lakhs

> 6th in PokerBaazi’s The Weekly Highroller for ₹1.22 Lakhs

Ashutosh Balodhi’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹3.72 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹91.65 Lakhs

The ₹11,000 buy-in tourney ran from 8 PM to 4.14 AM, and the top 27 finishers got paid from the ₹25.90 Lakhs prize pool (2.15X times its advertised guarantee).

Final Table Results

1. Ashish ‘rocky3705’ Ahuja – ₹6,09,427
2. Srini2021 – ₹4,27,609
3. Vaibhav ‘WakhraSwagNi’ Sharma – ₹2,75,058
4. Rajneesh ‘msdhoni’ Thakur – ₹2,03,574
5. Arun ‘vazharmorghulis’ Sriram – ₹1,52,810
6. Ashutosh ‘senojwod’ Balodhi – ₹1,22,248

Daily SPRINT (7-Max) – ₹5 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹2,200

Entries – 167

Re-entries – 125

Prize Pool – ₹5,84,000

Places Paid – 36

Upcoming poker streamer Areyann ‘kreishhAA’ Gurbaxani was the last player standing in PokerBaazi’s ₹5 Lakhs GTD Daily SPRINT and banking ₹1.21 Lakhs following a heads-up deal with ‘Crazynuts’ (2^nd for ₹98,939).

Areyann Gurbaxani ITM-ed two more events for a collective ₹1.80 Lakhs. His ITM finishes include:

> 1^st in PokerBaazi’s Daily SPRINT for ₹1.21 Lakhs

> 15^th in Spartan Poker’s Millionaire Series #19 – Elite Millionaire for ₹55,600

> 54^th in Spartan Poker’s Millionaire Series #18 for ₹2,572

Areyann Gurbaxani’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹1.03 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹29.79 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2022: #9 | Annual Winnings: ₹54.03 Lakhs

Abhimanyu ‘AbhimanyuMittal’ Mittal ITM-ed three events, banking ₹1.05 Lakhs altogether. His ITM scores include:

> 3^rd in PokerBaazi’s Daily SPRINT for ₹58,225

> 4^th in Adda52’s Friday Bounty for ₹42,977

> 44^th in PokerBaazi’s SPRINT for ₹4,150

Abhimanyu Mittal’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹1.70 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹72.78 Lakhs | Annual Winnings: ₹17.45 Lakhs

Final Table Results

1. Areyann ‘kreishhAA’ Gurbaxani – ₹1,20,586*
2. Crazynuts – ₹98,939*
3. Abhimanyu ‘AbhimanyuMittal’ Mittal – ₹58,225
4. Gas000020 – ₹43,099
5. Anish ‘PapaNegreanu’ Arora – ₹32,354
6. 9stacksplayer – ₹25,871
7. addie – ₹21,491

*denotes a heads-up deal

SPRINT (7-Max) – ₹5 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹1,650

Entries – 284

Re-entries – 248

Prize Pool – ₹7,98,000

Places Paid – 63

PokerBaazi’s 9 PM attraction, ₹5 Lakhs GTD SPRINT, logged in 532 entries last night, generating a guarantee-crushing ₹7.98 Lakhs prize pool.

It took the former The Big Show winner Janish ‘janish1998’ Jain under seven hours to take down the event, and he bagged his first title of the year and a ₹1.02 Lakhs cash prize. Before taking down the title, Jain agreed to a four-way deal with Suraj ‘SurajRathi’ Rathi (2^nd for ₹1.02 Lakhs), Dhaval ‘dhavhe’ Heda (3^rd for ₹91,895), and Mohak ‘Tiltin’ Kapoor (4^th for ₹89,375).

Janish Jain’s online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹43.14 Lakhs | Lifetime Profits: ₹14.75 Lakhs | Titles Won in 2022: #1

Final Table Results

1. Janish ‘janish1998’ Jain – ₹1,02,278*
2. Suraj ‘SurajRathi’ Rathi – ₹1,01,805*
3. Dhaval ‘dhavhe’ Heda – ₹91,895*
4. Mohak ‘Tiltin’ Kapoor – ₹89,375*
5. Kashish ‘kashish007’ Gupta – ₹38,783
6. Vengeance.jd – ₹31,122
7. Realfc – ₹25,935

*denotes a four-way deal

Imdad ‘rahuljohn1983’ Ahmed (Won Daily BOOST ₹2.50 Lakhs GTD for ₹64,503), ‘Kidwithin’ (Won Daily Night SPRINT ₹1.50 Lakhs GTD for ₹51,602), ‘mechchan01’ (Won Hyper SPRINT ₹2 Lakh GTD for ₹50,825), Abhishek ‘chipndchair’ Sonu (Won Daily Afternoon SPRINT ₹1 Lakh GTD for ₹39,992), Alok ‘chhavi013’ Kumar (Won SPRINT 1 PM ₹1 Lakh GTD for ₹37,918), Guruprasad ‘fish_calling’ Gupta (Won Holdem BOOST ₹1.50 Lakh GTD for ₹34,953), Sankesh ‘Sanky92’ Jain (Won SPRINT 1 AM ₹1 Lakh GTD for ₹33,253), Sanjay ‘smr1g10’ Mohan (Won Evening SPRINT ₹1 Lakh GTD for ₹31,930), Dayanand ‘dayanandprass’ Prass (Won Daily 5-Max ₹50K GTD for ₹15,542), and ‘shades92’ (Won PLO Daily 40K GTD for ₹11,063) won the other PokerBaazi marquees.

PokerStars India

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

Buy-in – ₹12,500

Entries – 55

Re-entries – 46

Prize Pool – ₹11,47,764

Places Paid – 13

Seasoned pro Rajat ‘sharabikebabi’ Sharma championed PokerStars India’s Super Highroller (On-time Rake Refund) for the second time in three weeks and walked away with the ₹2.64 Lakhs up-top! The #1 ranked player of the year, Anuj ‘brockLesnar95’ Yadav padded his burgeoning bankroll by ₹2.03 Lakhs in second place.

The PSPC Platinum Pass winner, Rajat Sharma, lapped up over ₹2.96 Lakhs yesterday as he also placed 17^th in PokerBaazi`s The Weekly HighRoller for ₹31,080. His online stats: Lifetime Winnings: ₹9.32 Crores | Lifetime Profits: ₹3.70 Crores | Titles Won in 2022: #3 | Annual Winnings: ₹63.50 Lakhs

PokerStars India refunded the ₹1,136 rake to all the players who had registered for the event before its start time.

Final Table Results

1. Rajat ‘sharabikebabi’ Sharma – ₹264,485
2. Anuj ‘brockLesnar95’ Yadav – ₹203,131
3. Vishal ‘Vishalb22’ Bajaj – ₹156,010
4. Aditya ‘serendipity789’ Sushant – ₹119,819
5. Sahil ‘inaboobham’ Mahboobani – ₹92,024
6. Aditya ‘ukid767’ Singh – ₹70,677
7. Deepesh ‘deep12322’ Raka – ₹54,282
8. Arjanveer ‘ballistik310’ Singh Chadha – ₹41,690
9. ThatsItAllin – ₹32,019

Uppercut Mini – ₹1.75 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹1,375

Entries – 100

Re-entries – 73

Regular Prize Pool – ₹1,08,125

Bounty Prize Pool – ₹1,08,125

Total Prize Pool – ₹2,16,250

Places Paid – 19

A mystery user going by the moniker ‘revenger_CB’ was the last player standing in PokerStars India`s ₹1.75 Lakhs GTD Uppercut Mini and won ₹45,411, with site regular Siddharth ‘gangnam gangi’ Gangwar pocketing ₹27,501 in second place.

Final Table Results

1. revenger_CB – ₹45,411
2. Siddharth ‘gangnam gangi’ Gangwar – ₹27,501
3. julian_king1310 – ₹15,182
4. sarthakssinghal – ₹16,076
5. Sanchit ‘devilsanchit’ Anand – ₹12,218
6. Gopal ‘MrBigSlick139’ Bajaj – ₹11,120
7. Raghav ‘scambrahm’ Ananth – ₹7,217

‘susheelprem’ (Won Ultrasonic ₹1 Lakh GTD for ₹32,166), ‘anandh.2018’ (Won Afternoon on Stars ₹50K GTD for ₹12,619), ‘trueper’ (Won Deepstack ₹50K GTD for ₹12,493), and ‘sarthakssinghal’ (Won Primetime Grind ₹50K GTD for ₹11,948) won the other PokerStars India marquees.

Adda52

Big Millions Day 1B – ₹2 Crore GTD

Buy-in – ₹11,000

Entries – 214

Re-entries – 100

Survivors – 35

Day 1B of Adda52’s mega weekend attraction, the ₹2 Crore GTD Big Millions, brought in 314 runners, and only 35 of them could bag stacks for Day 2. Leading the pack was Young Gun Kanchan ‘thandicoke’ Sharma (322,600), with Naresh ‘NareshNow’ Kumar (297,894) and Sahil ‘bluffme19’ Chutani (286,616) bagging the top three stacks of the day!

Along with 343 Day 1A entries, a total of 657 players have joined the action till now. The tournament will run four more starting flights before all qualifying stacks converge for Day 2 on Sunday, April 10 (10 PM).

Top 10 Chip Counts at the End of Day 1B

1. Kanchan ‘thandicoke’ Sharma – 322,600
2. Naresh ‘NareshNow’ Kumar – 297,894
3. Sahil ‘bluffme19’ Chutani – 286,616
4. nutz – 204,088
5. umang006 – 201,134
6. Ayush ‘lazyman’ Garg – 197,745
7. Shawn ‘spanktastic’ Chatterton – 191,475
8. Ashish ‘rocky3705’ Ahuja – 178,630
9. Harshad ‘Laiibhari’ Barve – 170,526
10. Aniket ‘WhiteRabbit’ Sharma – 164,518

Friday Bounty PKO – ₹4 Lakhs GTD

Buy-in – ₹2,700

Entries – 158

Re-entries – 133

Prize Pool – ₹7,12,950

Places Paid – 30

The mystery player ‘boosterx’ trounced a field of 291 hopefuls in Adda52’s Friday Bounty to win ₹1.20 Lakhs (includes ₹27,920 in bounties). Circuit regular Myron ‘zzzzz369’ Pereira finished runner-up for ₹67,461 (includes ₹11,989 in bounties).

‘boosterx’s`s Adda52 stats: Site Winnings: ₹15.24 Lakhs | Site Profits: ₹4.05 Lakhs

Myron Pereira cashed another two events for a total take-home worth ₹83,878, growing his tracked online winnings to ₹5.82 Crore.

The tournament ran from 9.30 PM to 2.51 AM, and the top 30 finishers earned a share of the ₹7.13 Lakhs prize pool.

Final Table Results (Including Bounties)

1. boosterx – ₹1,20,429
2. Myron ‘zzzzz369’ Pereira – ₹67,461
3. goofy25 – ₹58,252
4. Abhimanyu ‘PsychoDrama’ Mittal – ₹42,977
5. Kanishka ‘kanishka27’ Samant – ₹24,348
6. zoti679 – ₹17,475
7. Jitesh ‘shooter19’ Kumar – ₹28,844
8. Bujo – ₹12,919

Karan ‘karan880’ Lochab (Won Afternoon Adda ₹1.50 Lakhs GTD for ₹32,940), ‘siva2’ (Won Nighttide DST Adda ₹1.50 Lakhs GTD for ₹32,759), Piyush ‘NoName30’ Nanda (Won Bounty Adda ₹60K GTD for ₹11,782) and ‘Padma37’ (Won Evening Adda ₹50K GTD for ₹9,939) won the other Adda52 marquees.

Khelo365

Khelo365’s monthly bonanza, ₹5 Lakhs GTD Refuel, engaged 104 players and paid out 15 places. The user ‘Aauss’ was the last player standing and won the juicy ₹1.40 Lakhs up-top. ‘Ranjankr’ settled for a runner-up payout worth ₹85,000.

MPL Poker

MPL Poker user ‘Ooo m’ ran past a 259-player field in the site`s ₹1.50 Lakhs GTD Friday Supreme to collect ₹36,000.

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