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This Week in Poker: February 22 – 28

PG News February 28, 2017
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In the PokerGuru feature ‘This Week in Poker’ we bring to you the weekly roundup of the biggest online scores by Indian MTT players along with the top stories from both the live and online poker circuit.

Here are this week`s top stories:

The spotlight was all on the Deltin Poker Tournament (DPT) in Goa that ended this past week, but only after crowning several winners, some known names and some new. These included Jasven Saigal (10K Kickoff), Manoj Pentakota (60K High Roller), Imran Khan (35K Main Event), Banman Warr (15K Bounty) and Jagdeep Singh (15K 6-Max PLO).

Online action was not far behind with regulars burning the felts and claiming his first “PokerGuru Star of the Week” title for this year was Team PokerStars pro Aditya Agarwal for four scores making about $15K!

We have lots more, with news about things getting worse for casinos in Goa on the domestic front. On the international scene, there seems hope for poker in California with a new online bill proposed.

Then on the gaming front, PokerStars announced a new live tour – the PokerStars London Series with five stops for 2017. It was also time for accolades, with the American Poker Awards and Linda Johnson getting the first World Poker Tour (WPT) Honors Award.

Black Friday continues to haunt and in a recent report, Scott Tom, one of the accused pleaded ‘not guilty’ to charges. Brand tie-ups and business expansion continued with Unibet signing on three well-known pros and the Kindred Group acquiring Red32.

Tournament reports include an Indian, Raminder Singh winning the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit Palm Beach Kennel Club Main Event for $168,995. Live action was also registered with the LA Poker Classic Main Event, and Phil Hellmuth winning a side event.

Records were also made with Cord Garcia claiming his second Heartland Poker Tour (HPT) title, Darren Elias picking up his third WPT title and Maurice Hawkins collecting his ninth WSOP Circuit ring.

Online Railbird Report

Aditya ‘Adi Agarwal’ Agarwal continues his excellent run and this week he makes more than $15K from five cashes. These get him our “PokerGuru Star of the Week” title. His scores include $6,523.20 for second place in the PokerStars ‘Hot $109, $40K GTD’ and another runner-up finish for $3,453.33 in the PokerStars ‘Hot $162, $15K GTD’. Agarwal also made $1,073.54 for a sixth place in the PokerStars ‘$109 Saturday KO [Early Edition], $40K GTD’ and $4,395.32 for a ninth place in the PokerStars ‘$215 Sunday Warm-Up, $375K Gtd – Guarantee Boost!’

Aditya Agarwal

Last year, Aditya Agarwal bagged eight of our weekly titles and with so many other players giving it their best shot, the coming weeks promise to be a treat for railbirds.

Other notable scores include –

– ‘xmmukesh’ won $2,591.50 for 3rd place in the Party Poker ‘Heavyweight: Clubber – $25K GTD Turbo’ and made $2,417.23 for 1st place in the Party Poker ‘$10,000 GTD: Middleweight’ and won $1,169.50 for 3rd place in the Party Poker ‘$10,000 GTD – Progressive KO: Heavyweight’

– Armaan ‘armaan007’ Kochhar won $4,026.60 for 3rd place in the PokerStars ‘Hot $55, $35K GTD’ and won $1,388.29 for 2nd place in the PokerStars ‘$109 NLHE [Turbo], $4K GTD’

– Siddharth ‘siddhu’ Mundada won $3,764.48 for 2nd place in the PokerStars ‘Bounty Builder $162, $35K GTD’ and won $1,421.10 for 1st place in the PokerStars ‘$82 NLHE [Turbo], $4K GTD’

– Abhishek ‘AvenueA’ Shivhare won $4,222.27 for 17th place in the PokerStars ‘$215 SUNDAY MILLION, $1,000,000 GTD’

– Sriharsha ‘Indiandurr’ Doddapaneni won $1,856.40 for 1st place in the BlackChip ‘$7,500 GTD 8-Max’

– Gaurav ‘Ayya10258’ Ayya won $1,181.48 for 7th place in the PokerStars ‘Bounty Builder $33, $100K GTD’

– Dhaval ‘dhavalzoso’ Mudgal won $1,141.59 for 70th place in the PokerStars ‘$215 SUNDAY MILLION, $1,000,000 GTD’

– Sharad ‘keenyle’ Rao won $1,120.80 for 57th place in the PokerStars ‘$215 SUNDAY MILLION, $1,000,000 GTD’

– Anmol ‘anmols’ A Srivats won $1,030.65 for 106th place in the PokerStars ‘$215 SUNDAY MILLION, $1,000,000 GTD’

DPT February 2017

The DPT February edition was thronged by a large number of players, with practically all guarantees crushed.

Winners included old-hats, as well as first-timers. Of the latter, debutant Imran Khan took down the 35K Main Event for INR 28.30 lakhs after defeating a field of 303 entries.