---

Friday Roundup: Bansal, Garg, Mehta, Pereira, Wadhawani win big!

Poker players can look forward to an exciting weekend ahead with plenty of high-value tournaments to pick out from and here’s a glimpse of Friday night. Spartan Poker kicked off the new month with its fabulous Spartan Super Series (SSS) which will continue till 10 May. PokerBaazi hosted with The Ridge INR 10L GTD and PokerStars India’s Uppercut and Friday Euphoria also concluded successfully. Keep reading to find out the title winners of last night…

SSS #5 TGIF

Spartan Poker hosted two very popular Friday tourneys, one of them being SSS #5 TGIF INR 15 Lakhs GTD. With a buy-in of INR 1,650, a giant field of 1,339 runners entered the field to crush the guaranteed amount and create a bigger prize pool of INR 20.08 Lakhs. Powering through the field was ‘nbc345’ who banked the first-place prize money while his opponent Vinay Choudhry aka ‘Dhanraj Seth’ settled in the runner-up position.

• Total Entries – 1,339
• Prize Pool – INR 20,08,500
• Places Paid – 119
• Min – Cash – INR 4,519

SSS #6 The Elite

Another attraction on Spartan Poker last night was The Elite INR 50 Lakhs GTD which came with a buy-in of INR 11,000. The event pulled out a total of 526 entries creating a prize pool of INR 52.60 Lakhs. Topping the list was well-known circuit grinder Raghav Bansal aka ‘thatssosick’ who clinched to the winner’s title while his opponent Vivek Rughani aka ‘Pokerbatman27’ finished second.

• Total Entries – 526
• Prize Pool – INR 52.60,000
• Places Paid – 47
• Min – Cash – INR 29,982

The Ridge

PokerBaazi hosted The Ridge INR 10 Lakhs GTD last night garnering a total of 467 entries. The top 54 players locked at least INR 6K, a portion from the prize pool while the winner’s prize money of INR 2.82 Lakhs belonged to Prateek Garg aka ‘prats007’. The champ eliminated Chirag Sodha aka ‘miyagi’ in heads-up who eventually banked the second place pay out of INR 1.97 Lakhs.

• Total Entries – 467
• Prize Pool – INR 14,01,000
• Places Paid – 54
• Min – Cash – INR 6,444

Hexagram

At 10 pm last night Adda52 hosted Hexagram INR 3 Lakhs drawing a field of 150 entries after each paid INR 2,200. The top 15 finishers took home at least INR 4,500 and the one to grab the largest portion of the prize pool was circuit reg Anmol Mehta aka ‘anzzzzz’ who knocked out Bhavye Mittal aka ‘noobpro’ in heads-up for INR 84,750 in prize money. Mittal settled in the runner-up position for INR 55,500.

• Total Entries – 150
• Prize Pool – INR 3,00,000
• Places Paid – 15
• Min – Cash – INR 4,500

Uppercut

Myron Pereira aka ‘khAAbib’ rode past the field to take down PokerStars’ Uppercut INR 10 Lakhs GTD last night. The tournament attracted a total of 266 entries creating a prize pool of INR 11.65 Lakhs which was shared among the top 47 places. Ultimately, Pereira defeated Pranjal Gandhi in heads-up and clinched to the first-place prize money.

• Total Entries – 266
• Prize Pool – INR 11,65,000
• Places Paid – 47
• Min – Cash – INR 3,144

Friday Euphoria

PokerStars’ Friday Euphoria INR 5 Lakhs GTD kicked off at 9:30 pm attracting 197 entries for a buy-in of INR 2,750. The event concluded after the players struck a 3-day deal and Aditya Wadhwani aka ‘adiwankenobi86’ earned the winner’s prize money of INR 78,764 while his opponent Philip Jude aka ‘minisha_lamba’ ended up in second-place for INR 65,928 and Annkur Agarwal aka ‘Flopzila’ in third place for INR 70,330.

• Total Entries – 197
• Prize Pool – INR 5,00,000
• Places Paid – 35
• Min – Cash – INR 4,504

Keep reading GutshotMagazine.com for latest updates on online poker tournaments in the country and stay tuned!

---

---

More News

---