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PSL Season 5 Auction: All You Need To Know

The online qualifiers for Pocket52’s Poker Sports League (PSL) are officially over, with 34 players making it through the qualifiers. These players will now be auctioned via a formal auction ceremony, wherein six franchises will bid for them.

The qualifiers for PSL Season 5 took place between the 4th May to 25th of June 2023 on PSL’s official platform partner Pocket52. After battling it across various stages of the qualifiers for over one and a half months, a total of 34 qualifiers have made it.

PSL Season 5 Teams

The Pocket52 PSL Season 5 Auction ceremony will take place on Saturday, 8th July 2023 at 4 PM. The following six PSL teams will participate in the auction and the upcoming season PSL:

1. Deccan Aces
2. Delhi Czars
3. Goan Nuts
4. Gujarat Falcons
5. Lucknow Kings
6. Mumbai Anchors

PSL Season 5 Qualified Players

The following 34 players have made it through the qualifiers:

Sr no.	Name
1	Shivakumar Koudishetra
2	Saransh Garg
3	Avinash Royan Tauro
4	Satyam Verma
5	Akshay Kapoor
6	Ashish Shukla
7	Adwait Dinesh Pol
8	Anand Mandloi
9	Rahul Gahlot
10	Ananda Dhibhar
11	Jaykant Kumar Sahni
12	Sachin Barha
13	Akhil Rajeshkumar Choudhary
14	Souman Pal
15	Nikaas Masani
16	Kashish Durgiya
17	Mohsin Shaikh
18	Bhairab Ghosh
19	Ankush Narang
20	Nitin Gulati
21	Ram Ratan Jangid
22	Arjun Singh Bhadauriya
23	Mustakim Sekh
24	Sanjay Sethi
25	Madhab Pal
26	Vikash Masani
27	Suneeth Vinod Kalmady
28	Ankit Jain
29	Ashutosh Kr Yadav
30	Dhirendra Kumar
31	Kapeesh Chaubey
32	Penumacha Srinivas Raju
33	Samyak Sethi
34	Koushik Ghosh

Apart from these 34 qualifiers, three female poker pros have also made it through the women’s qualifiers and formed the woman draft. These three female pros are:

• Simran Malhotra
• Milena Mezhuieva
• Priya Agarwal

Pocket52 Poker Sports League Season 5 Breaks Records

PSL Season 5 Pro Draft

Apart from the qualifiers the following 15 pros will also be auctioned at the ceremony. These pros have been selected based on the following two criteria:

• Players on the PokerGuru annual profit leaderboard
• Indian players from Hendon Mob All Time Money list 

SR. NO.	NAME
1	Paawan Bansal
2	Nishant Sharma
3	Ashish Ahuja
4	Siddhant Kriplani
5	Abhishek Goindi
6	Sreekanth Narayan
7	Arjanveer Singh
8	Aayush Arya
9	Ankit Wadhawan
10	Himanshu Arora
11	Zarvan Tumboli
12	Sahil Mahboobani
13	Kanishka Samant
14	Jasven Saigal
15	Aditya Sushant

PSL Season 5 Wildcard Players

1. Deccan Aces – Kunal Patni
2. Delhi Czars – Ankit Jajodia
3. Goan Nuts – Vishal Bajaj
4. Gujarat Falcons – Kanchan Sharma
5. Lucknow Kings – Ujjwal Narwal
6. Mumbai Anchors – Alok Birewar

PSL Season 5 Captains

1. Deccan Aces – Vaibhav Sharma
2. Delhi Czars – Shardul Parthasarathi
3. Goan Nuts – Dhaval Mudgal
4. Gujarat Falcons – Romit Advani
5. Lucknow Kings –  Gaurav Sood
6. Mumbai Anchors – Laksh Pal Singh

PSL Season 5 Retained Players

Deccan Aces

• Mithun Mahesh (Pro)
• Ishita Arora (Woman Player)

Delhi Czars

• Radhika Shankar (Woman Player)

Goan Nuts

• Siddharth Karia (Qualifier)

Gujarat Falcons

• Shuchi Chamaria (Woman Player)

Mumbai Anchors

• Akshay Nasa (Pro)
• Honey Bijlani (Qualifier)

Where to watch PSL Season 5 Auction?

PSL Season 5 Auction will be live-streamed on the official streaming partner, JioCinema. Players can tune in to JioCinema on 8th July 2023 at 4 PM.

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