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Guru Kumar emerges as champion of WPT India 20K Kickoff

The Indian poker industry seems to be booming currently with all the major Indian brands having a poker room in Goa, while the global leader World Poker Tour (WPT) returned to India for its third series which began a couple of days back. The series began with the 20k Kickoff Event and yesterday, we played down till a winner was announced.

It was the popular face of Vikram ‘Lungi’ Kumar who began Day 2 of the tournament with a massive chip stack, nearly double the next best as he led the final 11 players. In fact, he was doing well yesterday too, even entering the final three as the chip leader. However, he was unfortunate to lose that chip lead and then bust in third place for INR 3+ Lakh in prize money.

He shoved from the button with Qd Th and got a call from Ayush Garg who showed pocket Threes. Garg went on to complete a set as the board rolled out Ac Td Js 3s 7h. Heads-up then began between Garg and Guru Kumar, with the latter holding 1.5 million chips as compared to Garg’s 1.11 million.

There would’ve been many people hoping Garg could get across the finish line as winner because he recently finished second in the IPC Main Event last month too, losing to Raj Talwar. However, it wasn’t his day as he lost in heads-up once again, finishing second from the original field of 161 entries.

 

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