Baadshah Gaming Live Tournament: Aditya Sushant Wins Opening ₹10K Warm-Up Event For ₹3.89 Lakhs

After an eventful debut in December last year, the Baadshah Gaming Live Tournament Series is back for its second edition once again at the Baadshah Gaming Live Poker Room onboard the floating Casino Pride in Goa.

The five-day series features as many events and awarded its first title on Friday. Chennai`s Aditya Sushant (cover image) emerged atop a field of 139 entries to claim the ₹3.89 Lakhs top prize in the opening 10K Warm-Up event.

One of India`s most accomplished pros; Aditya Sushant holds the distinction of being the first Indian poker player to win a WSOP gold bracelet. He won the $1,000 Tag Team Event at WSOP 2017 last year for $150,637. His long list of results include numerous online cashes including a career-best $168,157 he won for chopping the PokerStars Sunday Million way back in June 2013.

Sushant, who had finished ninth in this very event last edition was among the top stacks for most of final day with Baadshah Gaming Team Pro Rajnish Kumar stealing the spotlight initially. Sushant entered the final table with a commanding chip lead and eliminated four players on the final table to win the title rather convincingly in the end.

The 139-entry strong field dwindled down to just 37 players on Thursday with Baadshah Gaming Team pro Rajnish Kumar bagging the overnight chip lead with 150,300 in chips. Sushant though a distant 99,700 in chips, had almost 25 BB`s when play resumed on Friday.

As the prize money was to be divided among the top 15 finishers, the first order of business on Friday was to reach the money. A number of known faces fell short in this pursuit including Zarvan Tumboli, Myron Pereira, Ratul Steves, Chirag Sodha and Rajeev Raut among others.

Picking up the money bubble tag was Saumil Krishnan who got his chips in good with but got unlucky when Raushan Kumar Singh`s rivered a straight on the board that sent him packing on the stone cold money bubble at 16^th place.

Other known faces who made it in the money include Harsh Dembla (10th for ₹34,750), Vivek Singh (12th for ₹16,680), & Siddarth Singhvi (15th for ₹16,680).

Final Table Chip Counts

1. Aditya Sushant – 646,500
2. Phachara Wongwichit – 424,000
3. Raushan Kumar Singh – 405,500
4. Jasven Saigal – 315,000
5. Ashish Naik – 299,000
6. Vishal Bajaj – 290,000
7. Jaydeep Dawer – 241,500
8. Rajnish Kumar – 181,500
9. Madhav Gupta – 77,500

Final Table Recap

The shortest stacked Madhav Gupta fell first when his shove ran into Jaydeep Dawer`s .

The start of day chip leader Rajnish Kumar followed him out shortly thereafter at eighth place with his failing to catch a miracle against the of Raushan Kumar Singh.

The ever-consistent Team PokerBaazi pro Jasven Saigal was the next one out with Raushan Singh claiming his second victim on the final table. Saigal was pushing his luck with against Singh`s but the board blanked out.

It was time for Aditya Sushant to shift gears now and he took down the next couple of eliminations in quick succession. His first elimination was the Thai-Australian Phachara Wongwichit, a noted pro with over $550K in live cashes including runner-up finishes both at the APPT and the Aussie Millions.

With Wongwichit gone in sixth place, Sushant set his sights on Vishal Bajaj`s stack with the latter going out in fifth place.

On a hattrick, Sushant then pulled out a coup with his cracking the of Jaydeep Dawer on the board and he took over a commanding chip lead going into three-handed play.

Ashish Naik was very short and though he got a double up from Singh, the mounting pressure of the increasing blinds was not easy to overcome. He went out holding against Sushant`s with the board supporting Sushant.

Heads-up saw Sushant starting off with an almost 3:1 chip lead over Raushan Kumar Singh and all it took were a few hands for the former to claim the title.

Singh took an early double up to climb up to 600K against the 900K of Sushant but it ended almost immediately thereafter. On the final hand of the event, Raushan Kumar Singh open shoved with and Aditya Sushant asked for a count. After getting the confirmation that he would have to put in 560,000, Sushant decided to call tabling . The poker gods were smiling on Sushant who hit a set on the board to claim the title. Singh finished runner-up and collected ₹2.50 Lakhs in prize money.

Final Table Results (₹)

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