Wednesday Roundup: Suri, Todi, Desai, Chadha, Wadhawan claim big!

Mid-week is here, and we are slowly moving towards the weekend which means bigger guarantees, numerous tournaments, and bundles of cash prizes. In today’s roundup, we will be covering major tournaments on Spartan Poker, PokerBaazi, Adda52 and PokerStars India. And here is recap for you in case you have missed out on the winners of last night, keep reading…

Destiny

Wednesday night special on Spartan Poker, Destiny INR 30 Lakh GTD registered a field of 624 entries. The 5,500 buy-in tourney eventually collected a bigger prize pool of INR 31.20 Lakh, well-received by the top 60 players. Racing ahead of the rest to book his seat to SnG Finale was ‘icantwin’ who won the tournament and claimed the first prize. Last week’s ReCharge champ Raghav Madan aka ‘Maddytilt’ ended up in the second place while Anant Purohit aka ‘Pro’ followed next.

Total Entries – 624
Prize Pool – INR 31,20,000
Places Paid – 60
Min – Cash – INR 12,480

Mega Freeze

Spartan Poker hosted INR 4 Lakh GTD Mega Freeze drawing 131 entries last night. The top 17 players finished ITM securing INR 6.2K at least. Taking home the lion’s chunk of prize pool was Anish Suri aka ‘anishsuri’ who defeated ‘BlueWhale222’ in heads-up to seize the latest title!

Total Entries – 131
Prize Pool – INR 4,00,000
Places Paid – 17
Min – Cash – INR 6,280

The Pride

PokerBaazi’s marquee Wednesday Tourney, The Pride INR 10 Lakh GTD clocked 334 entries to generate a prize pool of INR 10.02 Lakh. The top 36 players secured a paycheck. Capturing the title was Suraj Todi aka ‘soorajtodi’ who ran past a host of regs to take down the flagship event. Todi knocked out Sagar Choudhury aka ‘sagarpupul’ in heads-up for INR 2.21 Lakh in top prize while the latter banked INR 1.55 Lakh. Rubin Labroo aka ‘kornkid’ finished 3^rd for INR 99,900.

Total Entries – 334
Prize Pool – INR 10,02,000
Places Paid – 36
Min – Cash – INR 6,813

6-Max Wednesday SuperStack

The INR 3 Lakh GTD Wednesday SuperStack attracted 142 entries on PokerBaazi. At 2:19 am, the last man standing was Shashank Desai aka ‘indianrat’ who traversed the field to win the top prize of INR 77,250 after defeating ‘TheShowdown’ in heads-up. The latter earned INR 54,090 for finishing in the second position.

Total Entries – 142
Prize Pool – INR 3,00,000
Places Paid – 18
Min – Cash – INR 3,930

AOPS Maverick

One of the main attractions on Adda52 last night was AOPS Maverick INR 15 Lakh GTD recording a field of 788 entries. Accumulating a prize pool of INR 17.92 Lakh, the top 82 players secured a min-cash. Arjanveer Chadha aka ‘arjan30’ ran past the field and bested Sumit Advani aka ‘runrabbitrun’ in heads-up to pocket a top prize worth INR 4.48 Lakh.

Total Entries – 788
Prize Pool – INR 17,92,703
Places Paid – 82
Min – Cash – INR 3,944

Night on Stars

Boasting INR 10 Lakh in prize pool, PokerStars India’s flagship tourney Night on Stars fetched 330 entries after each paid INR 2,750. Outlasting the field to take home the valuable title was Ankit Wadhawan aka ‘b00mtr00mp3r’ who eliminated ‘dangermouse84’ in heads-up for INR 1.85 Lakh in prize money while his opponent earned INR 1.36 Lakh. It was only last Wednesday that the champ won PokerBaazi’s The Pride for INR 2.39 Lakh.