Reply To: PokerGuru Tour October Edition (25-28th October) at Casino Royale, Goa

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Arpit Jain
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[FLOAT-LEFT][/FLOAT-LEFT] The October edition of the PokerGuru Tour kicked off with a massive attendance, smashing the turnout record at Casino Royale, Goa. The 5K Re-Entry event garnered a pool of 164 buy-ins on Wednesday, with at least 110 individual entries. The earlier record for a single tournament registration stood at 158 registrations for the 50K event during the Asian Poker Tour in December 2011 in Goa. The total tournament prizepool stood at a whopping INR 8,20,000.

PokerGuru pro Sangeeth ‘Samoh’ Mohan took up the role of the emcee for a change and announced the numbers. “This is the biggest tournament ever in India, in terms of entries,” he said.

The tournament started at 9 pm and went on till early in the morning. After 6 hours of play, the final table of 10 was decided with Ishan Panjwani in the chip lead.

Pune`s Ishan Panjwani won the tournament cashing in a record INR 2,71,000 for the first prize for a 5K event in India. He beat the massive field to come heads up with Dubai`s Rishad Badami, in the first tournament of this edition. Badami bagged the INR 1,40,000 second prize.

Final Results of the PGT 5K Re-entry event:

1st: Ishan Panjwani – Rs 2,71,000

2nd: Rishad Badami – Rs 1,40,000

3rd: Kanishka Samant – Rs 1,05,000

4th: Nikhil Maheshwari – Rs 80,000

5th: Aditya Birla – Rs 60,000

6th: Anto Periera – Rs 45,000

7th: Adarsh Gautam – Rs 35,000

8th: Karan Mehta – Rs 27,000

9th: Sachin Sinha – Rs 20,000

10th: Marga G – Rs 15,000

11th: Karan Verma – Rs 12,000

12th: Sridhar – Rs 10,000

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