Tuesday Roundup: Dhingra, Das, Naruka, Kumar Claim Big!

We are slowly entering the mid-week and one can notice the rise in guarantees and buy-ins in comparison to slow-paced Monday. Tuesday tourneys pulled out hundreds of poker enthusiasts across the country. Here is a recap of all that went down across the major online platforms.

Mega Stack

The Tuesday marquee tourney at Spartan Poker was the Mega Stack INR 18 Lakhs GTD. The INR 3,300 buy-in event attracted 567 entries and the top 55 players earned a slice from the final prize pool. The heads-up play took place between ‘D. Carwin1’ and Rohan Soman aka ‘Redington’. Finally, the mystery player ‘D. Carwin1’ came out on top to win the first prize. Soman was followed by Michael Keishing aka ‘folditnoob’ in the 3rd place.

Total Entries – 567
Prize Pool – INR 18,00,000
Places Paid – 55
Min – Cash – INR 8,820

The Endeavour

The INR 3,850 buy-in The Endeavour INR 15 Lakhs GTD kicked off at 8 pm on PokerBaazi. The event clocked in 401 entries out of which the top 45 players ended up earning a min-cash worth INR 8,400. Akshay Dhingra aka ‘fsociety’ championed this marquee tourney to win INR 3.15 Lakhs after defeating ‘md20’ in heads-up who banked INR 2.21 Lakhs.

Total Entries – 401
Prize Pool – INR 15,00,000
Places Paid – 45
Min – Cash – INR 8,400

Tuesday MonsterStack

Another major attraction on PokerBaazi last night was Tuesday MonsterStack INR 3 Lakh GTD which pulled in 204 runners hoping to capture the winner’s title. At 1:47 am, it was Deepanjan Das aka ‘Bluffstar’ to add INR 98,530 to his wallet. Das knocked out Sameer Tavanandi aka ‘Killersam’ in heads-up who secured INR 69,070. Kuldeep Jorwal ended up in the 3rd place for INR 44,390, Vivekk Dube aka ‘Vivek25’ followed next for INR 32,880.

Total Entries – 204
Prize Pool – INR 4,08,000
Places Paid – 24
Min – Cash – INR 3,916

The Mint

Online grinder Kamal Naruka who goes by the username ‘ksn123’ took down Adda52’s The Mint INR 15 Lakhs GTD. Naruka boosted his bankroll by adding INR 3.72 Lakhs in prize money. The champion outlasted ‘pokraj’ in heads-up who settled in the runner-up position for INR 2.25 Lakhs. Vaibhav Sharma aka ‘alienrobot’ finished 3rd for INR 1.57 Lakhs, Ranjeet Negi aka ‘rj147’ in the 4th place for INR 1.20 Lakhs, Anuj Laddhad aka ‘anuj1610’ earned INR 78,000 for 5th place.

Prize Pool – INR 15,00,000
Places Paid – 43
Min – Cash – INR 8,250

Super Tuesday

PokerStars India’s signature tourney Super Tuesday INR 5 Lakhs GTD garnered 166 entries. Ultimately, the biggest chunk belonged to Dhinesh Kumar aka ‘you3betl4bet’ pocketing the first place prize money after knocking out online reg ‘savvyinthehouse’ in heads-up. The champion earned INR 59,087 in top prize while the latter secured INR 44,087 for his efforts. On Sunday, Kumar took down INR 1 Crore GTD Full House Finale for a whopping INR 25 Lakhs in cash prize.