Monday Roundup: Lakhotia, Agrawal, Lamba Seize The Day!

On the heels of a rollercoaster Sunday, Monday always pales in comparison. Spartan Poker’s Grand Poker Series is underway promising INR 5+ Crore GTD within a span of 7-days. Other marquee events on PokerBaazi, Adda52 and PokerStars India also performed well! So, without further ado, let’s take a quick recap of what went down yesterday!

GPS #3 ReCharge

Spartan Poker’s Monday signature tourney GPS #3 ReCharge boasted INR 14 Lakhs GTD that logged in 796 entries easily surpassing the posted guarantee with a prize pool collection of INR 15.92 Lakhs. Topping the field was the IOPC Millionaire United champ Manish Lakhotia aka ‘thekid’ defeated his opponent ‘Jhumroo’ in heads-up to walk away with the title and the top prize.

Total Entries – 796
Prize Pool – INR 15,92,000
Places Paid – 71
Min – Cash – INR 6,094

GPS #4 The Flash

Event #4 on Spartan Poker was The Flash INR 6.5 Lakhs GTD that garnered a field of 661 entries last night. Slightly surpassing the advertised guarantee to generate INR 6.61 Lakhs prize pool, money reached the top 71 places. The last man standing was Arjunn Agrawal aka ‘Arjunn Ag’ who fired three bullets and clinched to the first prize. Agrawal knocked out ‘Azhor Ahai’ in heads-up who bagged the runner-up payout.

Total Entries – 661
Prize Pool – INR 6,61,000
Places Paid – 71
Min – Cash – INR 2,511

The Bout

PokerBaazi’s The Bout INR 10 Lakhs GTD had a reasonably successful run on Monday. Registering 417 entrants. The event produced INR 10.43 Lakhs that was assured to the top 54 places. Powering through the field was online regular Sandy Lamba aka ‘Ziigmund’ who railed out Suraj Rathi aka ‘SurajRathi’ in heads-up to claim the top prize of INR 2.1 Lakhs. Rathi settled in the second place earning INR 1.47 Lakhs.

Total Entries – 417
Prize Pool – INR 10,43,000
Places Paid – 54
Min – Cash – INR 4,795

Inception

Monday on Adda52 is reserved for Inception INR 10 Lakhs GTD and last night logged in 299 entries. The tournament crowned a champion in anonymous player ‘Solidpoker’ who secured INR 2.08 Lakhs in prize money after eliminating ‘grovahova’ in heads-up battle who captured INR 1.99 Lakhs for settling in the runner-up position. The top 30 players walked out with min-cash INR 8,000.

Total Entries – 299
Prize Pool – INR 10,00,000
Places Paid – 30
Min – Cash – INR 8,000

Battle Royale

PokerStars India hosted Battle Royale INR 7 Lakhs GTD last night. The INR 2,750 buy-in tournament pulled in 252 entries collecting INR 3.15 Lakhs in bounty prize pool. The top 39 finishers walked away with INR 3K as min-cash. Eliminating ‘Magadh.Express’ in heads-up was ‘theoldestkid’ who received a paycheck of INR 74,279 while his opponent ended up in the runner-up position for INR 54,901.