Poker Tournament at IIM (L) College Fest Draws a Full House

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      Arpit Jain
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      [FLOAT-LEFT][/FLOAT-LEFT]An inter-college fest at the campus of IIM Lucknow included a poker tournament this year which garnered participants well over the maximum entries permissible and had to be restricted to 120 seats. Organised by PokerGuru, the event named ‘Texas Hold’em’ witnessed students from various IIMs and colleges queued up in scores to register for the tournament on October 7. The prizes included a 4-day, 4-star accommodation at Goa and a 5K PokerGuru Tour voucher for the winner. The runners-up received a 5K PokerGuru Tour voucher. All finalists received PokerGuru merchandise.

      The event started at 1 am and went over the wee hours to end at mid-day around 11 am. It was a round-based format in the tournament, where nine people started on a table out of which the top three qualified for the second round. Each player started with 1000 chips and the blinds increased every 15 minutes. Out of the 40 players who qualified for the second round, the top two from each table qualified for the next round of five tables of eight qualifiers. The final table after that consisted of two top finishers from each of the five tables.

      After more than eight hours of No-Limit Texas Holdem, the final table saw six players from IIM (Lucknow), two from IIM (Ranchi) and one player from FMS, Delhi, qualify. But it was Karthikeya of IIM (L) who bagged the first prize when he came up trumps against his fellow college mate Vivekanand Pula, who had dominated the tournament till then. In a major exchange of lead during heads-up play, Vivek’s 3s full of 4s was not good enough for Karthikeya’s 4s full of 3s. The final hand saw both the players going all in and Karthikeya clinching the title on a K high card against Vivek’s J high.


      Final Results:

      1. Karthikeya

      IIM-L

      2. Vivekanand Pula

      IIM-L

      3. Dheeraj Arora

      IIM-L

      4. Vivek

      IIM-Ranchi

      5. Yash Agarwal

      IIM- Ranchi

      6. Neeraj Gupta

      IIM-L

      7. Aditya

      IIM-L

      8. Shardul Verma

      FMS, Delhi

      9. Ashish Krishna

      IIM- L

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