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This Week in Poker: December 20 – 26
In the PokerGuru feature ‘This Week in Poker’ we bring to you the weekly round up 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
2017 has undoubtedly been one of the most happening years for Indian poker and though the curtains fall for the year this week, the poker excitement continues unabated with the coming year promising a barrage of international and domestic tournaments.
This time is usually one, which witnesses fewer large live tournaments taking place. However, the online traffic rises in equal proportion and to the delight of players, PokerStars put up a spectacular banquet of events with their Winter Series! Players from across the world were in the fray, but this week, Indians were primed to take their rightful share of the pie.
It was truly an early New Year celebration for Raghav ‘Rossoneri23’ Bansal as he shipped the PokerStars ‘Winter Series 02 – Medium $55 NLHE’ for $20,290 and collected an additional $10,179 in bounties. With this score, Bansal takes our “PokerGuru Star of the Week” title.
Live action will continue non-stop right from the start of 2018 as one of the biggest and best tournament brands in the world i.e. PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) kicks off on January 6 and will conclude after nine days of grueling poker on January 14. Two of our challengers namely Aditya Kumar and Vaibhav Sharma will be in attendance at the series thanks to a package they won on PokerStars.
Other big events that will get underway in January 2018 include Aussie Millions Poker Championship (January 17 – 5) and the World Series of Poker Circuit Morocco (January 19 – 28).
Our last report of the year also includes several big announcements and developments both domestically and internationally. In a major blow to poker lovers in Gujarat, online giant PokerStars, Baadshah Gaming, PokerBaazi and Adda52 have all withdrawn service from the state.
Adda52 raised the bar this week with the announcement of ₹1 Crore GTD BIG MILLIONS which is scheduled for February 25, 2018.
Goa was back in the news as the government plans to shift all offshore casinos operating from the River Mandovi to land within four years. In another newsworthy development, Golden Globe Hotels Private Limited leased Casino Maharaja out for 1 year.
Besides the above, in this report we also have the news of new online poker site 9HighPoker, partypoker announcing $20M GTD MILLIONS Online and Powerfest $15 Million GTD series, Poker.com domain coming up for sale for $20 Million, online gambling giant GVC looking to acquire Ladbrokes and APT releasing a revamped schedule for 2018 with several big changes.
Tournament reports this week come from first-ever WSOP China and Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Winter Poker Open Main Event.
Online Railbird Report
In our last online railbird report of 2017, a few regulars continued their routine online and it was the merriest Christmas for Raghav ‘Rossoneri23’ Bansal. Bansal won $20,290 with an additional $10,179 in bounties for 1st place in the PokerStars ‘Winter Series 02 – Medium $55 NLHE [6-Max, Turbo, Progressive KO], $100K GTD’. He also won $1,188.32 for 18th place in the PokerStars ‘No Limit Hold’em’ and claims our “PokerGuru Star of the Week” title.
Raghav Bansal
Other notable scores of the week include –
‘dhirenrupani’ won ₹4.50 lakhs for 1st place in the ‘Adda52 Millions’
Abhisek ‘AbhisekPanda’ Panda won ₹4.20 lakhs for 1st place in the PokerBaazi ‘Baazi Player of the Year Series ₹20 Lakhs GTD’
‘pagla’ won ₹2.40 lakhs for 1st place in the PokerBaazi ‘Baazi Player of the Year Series ₹10 Lakhs GTD’
Vikram ‘thedead parrots’ Singh won $3,905.72 for 3rd place in the PokerStars ‘Big $109, $30K GTD’
Anil ‘BigBlufferAY’ Yadav won $1,552.58 for 5th place in the PokerStars ‘No Limit Hold’em’
PokerStars, Baadshah Gaming, PokerBaazi & Adda52 Exit Gujarat Market
Poker players in Gujarat were delivered a major blow this past week as online giant PokerStars, Baadshah Gaming, PokerBaazi and Adda52, all announced their exit from the Gujarat market following the negative judgment by the Gujarat High Court last week.
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Adda52 Announces ₹1 Crore GTD BIG MILLIONS
India’s largest online poker site – Adda52 announced a new marquee poker tournament aptly named BIG MILLIONS. The event features a guaranteed prize pool of ₹1 crore and is slated to kick off on February 25, 2018 with a buy-in of ₹11,000.
The winner of this exuberant event will win a shining trophy, and will be inducted into the Poker ‘Hall of Fame’. The eventual champion will also get a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go on an exclusive dinner date with a Bollywood celebrity.
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Online Poker Site 9HighPoker Joins Fledgling Indian Market
The latest to join the growing breed of platforms in the country is 9HighPoker backed by poker player Rajat Sharma and tech expert Yogesh Bhalerao. 9HighPoker boasts of many unique features including a ‘responsible gaming’ feature, hand visualizer and an auto set bet slider. The site has also announced several introductory offers at launch.
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partypoker Announces Record-Breaking $20M Gtd. MILLIONS Online
The 2017 ‘Poker operator of the year’ award winner partypoker announced a historic second edition of its MILLIONS Online event to be hosted next year between December 1 – 4, 2018. The series boasts of a guaranteed prize pool of a whopping $20 million and will be the biggest guaranteed event in online poker history.
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First partypoker Powerfest of 2018 Announced With $15 Million Guaranteed
partypoker has also announced its first Powerfest series of the New Year that boasts of a whopping $15 million in guaranteed prizes. The series is scheduled to kick off on January 21 and will run till February 4 featuring 147 exciting events in its line-up.
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Goa Casino`s May Shift to Land in 4 Years
Goa Casinos continue to make news as according to a recent Times of India report; the state government plans to shift all offshore casinos operating from the River Mandovi to land within four years. Casinos are likely to be shifted to Mopa, once the international airport is commissioned, according a top government official.
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Casino Maharaja Leased Out By Golden Globe Hotels Private Limited
In another exciting development in Goa, Gopal Kanda’s Golden Globe Hotels Private Limited (GGHPL) has signed an agreement with fellow state politician Subhash Chandra’s Essel Group to take over Casino Maharaja (MV San Domino vessel) on lease for a year to start casino operations.
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Poker.com Domain Name Up For Sale For $20 Million
Recently, iGamingBusiness reported that Poker.com, is up for sale for a price tag pegged at a whopping $20 million. Poker.com was considered to be one of the most prized domains, but the website off late has been a static one. If the domain name is not acquired on the open market, it will be sold during the NamesCon live auction on January 30 next year.
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Rhode Island to Consider Online Casino Gambling
Recently, Rhode Island Senate Finance Chairman William Conley stated that he thinks there is a good chance the US Supreme Court could rule in favor to allow online gambling. If that happens, Rhode Island will become the fifth state to legalize online casino gambling.
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GVC to Acquire Ladbrokes For $5.35 Billion
Online gambling giant GVC has agreed to buy rival company and Britain’s largest bookmaker Ladbrokes Coral for as much as $5.35 billion. GVC, the owner of the Sportingbet, Bwin and Foxy Bingo stated that they would pay 32.7 pence in cash and 0.141 new GVC shares for each Ladbrokes share.
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Boyd Gaming Acquires Pennsylvania’s Valley Forge Casino Resort
Las Vegas based Boyd Gaming Corporation has announced that it will acquire Pennsylvania’s Valley Forge Casino Resort. Boyd will acquire its first asset in Pennsylvania which is located 20 miles west of downtown Philadelphia for a total cash consideration of $280.5 million.
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APT Releases Revamped Schedule For 2018 Stops
The Asian Poker Tour (APT) this week revealed their preliminary schedule for 2018, which includes seven stops with a few more stops to be added soon. APT also introduced major changes in the schedule, including replacing APT Player of the Year system by Player of the Series (POS) program. The APT has also revised its payout structures and now one player among every six entrants will make it in the money.
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Zhou Yun Peng Wins WSOP China
The inaugural World Series of Poker (WSOP) Chinaseries recently concluded after seven days of grueling poker action and the man who outlasted the strong field was Zhou Yun Peng. Peng claimed the first WSOP gold bracelet ever awarded in Asia, lifted the Champions Cup and pocketed the top prize of CNY 2,414,000 (approx. $367,000) for his splendid run.
Zhou Yun Peng
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Farid Jattin Wins Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Winter Poker Open Main Event
The Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Winter Poker Open’s $1,650 Main Event got in the books this week and drew a total of 670 runners with the top 63 places making it in the money. At the end of the play, a winner emerged in 28-year-old Colombia based Farid Jattin. Jattin pocketed $241,651 in prize money along with the unique guitar shaped trophy.
Farid Jattin
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That’s it for this week, folks. We will return same time next week with all the important news from the poker world.
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4. Poker Players in Gujarat in Trouble With Poker Sites Withdrawing Services From The State
This Week in Poker: August 9 – 15
In the PokerGuru feature ‘This Week in Poker’ we bring to you the weekly round up 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 thrills of playing poker notwithstanding, this past week’s events were full of surprises and some blasting online scores from our Indian players.
Taking the spotlight was one of the most consistent performers on the tables recently –Akash ‘proFISHnal’ Malik banked an impressive $24,288.40 after finishing 3rd in PokerStars ‘$215 Sunday Warm-Up, $275K GTD’ and gets the distinction of being crowned the ‘PokerGuru Star of the Week’.
India’s sole 2-time WSOP bracelet winner Nipun Java was in thick of action this week too as he ran deep in the ongoing SHRPO 2017 Main Event finishing 34th for over $19K payday.
Live action will soon take center stage in the gambling hub of the east – Macau with the commencement of Macau Poker Cup 27 at PokerStars Live Macau in ten days. A strong Indian contingent including Team PokerStars pro Aditya Agarwal, Team PokerMet pro Shuchi Chamaria Agarwal & Dhaval Mudgal, Team Adda52 pro Kunal Patni along with Raghav Bansal, Sumit Sapra, Manoj Pentakota, Alok Birewar, Bobbe Suri, Nishant Sharma, Sahil Chutani, Zarvan Tumboli, Shawn Chatterton and Abhishek Paul are confirmed to be in attendance at the series.
Announcement of new Spin & Go Max on PokerStars, third edition of DOPT on Adda52, one of a kind Match IPL for poker in India, banning of online poker in Australia, PCA’s return announcement along with Poker After Dark and Tom Dwan making a comeback and POTUS Donald Trump, all made news this week.
News roundup this week also includes tournament reports from 2017 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open, APT Korea 2017, Global Casino Championship, World Poker Tour Choctaw and partypokerLIVE German Poker Championship. Read on to catch up all the action that shook poker world this past week.
Online Railbird Report
Nothing like unmitigated action to keep the poker-blood flowing! Akash ‘proFISHnal’ Malik seems to be on a heater of a lifetime as he was the headline player of the week. He finished 3rd in the PokerStars ‘$215 Sunday Warm-Up, $275K GTD’ netting $24,288.40 for his efforts and is our “PokerGuru Star of the Week”.
Akash Malik
Other notable scores include –
‘philrounder’ won $5,524.08 for 5th place in the PokerStars ‘Big $215, $75K GTD’.
‘dynamicnag’ won $3,564.44 for 2nd place in the PokerStars ‘$109 Monday 6-Max [Early Edition], $20K GTD’
Vikram ‘thedead parrots’ Singh won $1,926.99 in for 1st place in the PokerStars ‘Big $27, $8K GTD’. Singh also made notable scores in PokerStars ‘Big $33” tournament finishing 1st and 4th in two events.
Rubin ‘poopalert123’ Labroo won $1,873.88 for 4th place in the PokerStars ‘Bounty Builder $109 [Saturday Special], $85K GTD’
Anil ‘BigBlufferAY’ Yadav won $1,675.28 for 3rd place in the PokerStars ‘Hot $82, $8K GTD’
Akshat ‘akshat03’ won $1,670.73 for 1st place in the PokerStars ‘$16.50 NLHE [6-Max, Hyper-Turbo], $6K GTD’ and also made $1,174.16 for 3rd place in the PokerStars ‘$82 NLHE [6-Max, Hyper-Turbo], $8K GTD’. He also won $1,412.36 for 1st place in the PokerStars ‘$22 NLHE [6-Max, Hyper-Turbo], $6K GTD’
PokerStars Launches Industry First Spin & Go Max
The online giant PokerStars launched a new version of its popular Spin & Go format named i.e. Spin & Go Max with chance to win up to 10,000x the buy-in. The new format features five new elements namely Player Spinner, Triple Prize Spinner, Hand Countdown, Automatic All-In finale and Risk/Reward Option.
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Deltin Online Poker Tournament (DOPT) Returns With Bigger Prize Pool of ₹2 Crore on Adda52
After two successful editions, Deltin Online Poker Tournament (DOPT) will be back on India’s largest poker site – Adda52 with ₹2 Crore+ in guaranteed prizes. The 10-day online extravaganza will run from August 18th till August 27th.
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Raj Kundra’s Co. and IFP Announce Match IPL With ₹3 Crore in Prizes
Raj Kundra and Shilpa Shetty Kundra’s Viaan Industries Limited and the International Federation of Poker (IFP) announced one of a kind Match IPL for poker this week in a launch party in Mumbai. Players will prove their skills by playing against the A.I. bot Albi and the 8 city based teams (team members to be announced) will compete in October for prizes worth ₹3 Crore.
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Australian Senate Passes Law to Ban Online Poker
In a shocking development, the Australian Senate on August 9 passed a legislation that goes into effect in 30 days prohibiting online poker sites from doing business in the country unless licensed. The bill named Interactive Gambling Amendment Bill also bans betting on sports or matches in progress.
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New Jersey Senator Plans Bill to Boost Online Poker
New Jersey Senator Ray Lesniak is drafting a new bill to allow certain online gamblers located outside of NJ to place bets on sites. The planned bill would remove the rule that online gaming servers set up to run online games for those physically within New Jersey must be located within Atlantic City.
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PokerStars Caribbean AdventureSet to Return in January 2018
One of the most historic events in poker world i.e. PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) is making its comeback in January 2018. The return of the popular series is due to the feedback the company received and is expected to run from January 6-14 at Atlantis Resort, Bahamas.
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Popular Show ‘Poker After Dark’ Makes a Comeback, Tom Dwan Returns
Immensely popular television program Poker After Dark made a comeback on August 14 on PokerGo. The season is extra special as one of the biggest names on the circuit Tom ‘durrr’ Dwan will return to action joining other big names like Daniel Negreanu, Doyle Brunson alongside many others.
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PokerStars’ Poker Revenue Falls in Second Quarter
Poker revenue on world’s biggest poker site PokerStars, saw a decline of 5.9% year-over-year as they released their financial results from the second quarter ending June 30. Stars group, formerly known as Amaya Gaming completed its name change on August 1 and moved its headquarters to Toronto.
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Donald Trump’s DTTM Operations LLC Company Applies for Casino Trademark in Macau
According to reports, Donald Trump’s firm that manages his brand DTTM Operations LLC has applied for four new trademarks in the world’s top gambling hub – Macau, including one for casino. The firm has successfully registered 22 other trademarks over the past 11 years in Macau.
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2017 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open
The ongoing 2017 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open hosted in Florida, FL has been a resounding success. Popular poker commentator, Nick Schulman came out on top of the 19-player field of the $50,000 Super High Roller event and banked $440,000 in prize money.
Nick Schulman
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Meanwhile, the $5,250 buy-in Main Event attracted a massive field of 887 runners. The field is now trimmed down to 30 players and India’s only 2-time WSOP bracelet winner Nipun Java managed to run deep in the event finishing 34th for $19,531. Team PokerStars pro Aditya Agarwal fell 20 places shy of the money.
Nipun Java
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Tyler Tan & Iori Yogo Win Side Events at APT Korea 2017
The inaugural APT Korea Incheon 2017 is currently being hosted at the Paradise City Incheon in South Korea. The series commenced on August 12th and will run till August 20th and has already crowned two champions. Singapore’s Tyler Tan won the Ante Up for Charity banking ₩2,640,000 and reigning APT Player of the Year champion Iori Yogo won the Welcome Event for ₩7,604,000 ($6,600 approx.).
Iori Yogo
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Sean Yu Wins Global Casino Championship Claiming the Final Domestic WSOP Bracelet of 2017
Two-time World Series of Poker Circuit ring winner Sean Yu outlasted the 124-entry field at this year’s Global Casino Championship (GCC) hosted at Harrah’s Cherokee, North Carolina. Yu claimed the last domestic WSOP bracelet of the year along with $296,341 in prize money.
Sean Yu
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Jay Lee Wins World Poker Tour Choctaw Main Event
The WPT Choctaw $3,700 Main Event attracted a total of 924 runners and outlasting them all was 27-year-old Jay Lee who banked his largest cash so far pocketing $593,173 in prize money.
Jay Lee
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Jack Sinclair Wins 2017 partypokerLIVE German Poker Championship Super High Roller
The 2017 partypokerLIVE German Poker Championship’s €25,000 Super High Roller attracted a total of 28 runners and besting them all was Jack Sinclair who defeated Tony G in the heads-up battle after the two agreed on a deal. Tony walked away with €300,000, while the champion Sinclair won €250,000.
Jack Sinclair
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And that is all for this edition of our weekly report. We will return same time next week with all the latest from poker world, so tune in at the same time.
Related Articles:
2. Deltin Online Poker Tournament (DOPT) Returns With Bigger Prize Pool of ₹2 Crore on Adda52
3. Popular Show ‘Poker After Dark’ Makes a Comeback, Tom Dwan Returns
4. PCA Set to Return in January 2018
5. One of a Kind Match IPL Announced; Grand Finale on Oct 15 With ₹3 Crore in Prizes
This Week in Poker: July 19 – 25
In the PokerGuru feature ‘This Week in Poker’ we bring to you the weekly round up 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
This week has been all about the WSOP Main Event as the biggest story this past week was undoubtedly Scott Blumstein who is now better referred to as the 2017 World Champion. The 25-year old online grinder from New Jersey took down the 2017 WSOP Main Event for a life-changing $8.15 million payday!
The Indian contingent that flew to be a part of this magnanimous event is back to the pavilion with its closure and didn’t waste any time to unwind from the hectic schedule and flew straight to Goa.
Things certainly weren’t too dull back home with Goa playing host to the domestic poker extravaganza Deltin Poker Tournament with a deluge of outstation players flying in for the tournaments, we definitely saw some high-octane action this past weekend. While, Rajnish Kumar won the 75K High Roller Event for ₹32.47 Lakhs, Nitin Gupta claimed the 35K Main Event Title for ₹28.06 Lakhs.
After ages it seems, we saw an action-packed week online with regulars coming out in full force to make multiple scores and topping them all was Young Gun Sahil Chutani. Chutani or ‘$lim$hady19’ as his online moniker goes by, who won over $13K for his runner up finish place in the PokerStars ‘$22 Double Deuce [Turbo], $100K GTD’ and takes our ‘PokerGuru Star of The Week’ title.
In Goa, the political dilemma on the Casino issues continued with several developments taking place. Starting with the sixth casino vessel that may leave for repairs soon, NCP MLA Churchill Alemao alleged that casinos are fixed and demanded high entry fees for locals while Goa High Court restrained government from issuing new casino licenses.
Domestic online poker sites have recently launched some very attractive promotions, promising exciting action in the days to come. While PokerBaazi’s Grinder Series concluded this week, the site announced the dates for its largest-ever PPL tournament series. Khelo365 is currently hosting massive daily and weekly freerolls promising Lakhs every month. India`s largest online poker site Adda52 also revealed the schedule for its premier Adda52 Millions series which is returning later this week and offers a humongous ₹1 crore prize pool. That’s not all; the much-awaited PokerMet’s War of Zehn weekly tournament series is also set to kick off on August 2.
In international news, 2017 Poker Hall of Fame inductees were announced with poker superstars Phil Ivey & David Ulliott joining the elite club. Online giant PokerStars added two more online streamers to their rooster namely Fintan Hand & Benjamin Spragg.
PokerStars MicroMillions continues to headline the online micro-stakes MTT action while 888poker’s ChampionChips series is set to begin on July 27 guaranteeing at least $150,000 in prizes across four days.
Meanwhile, APT Philippines 2017 also crowned its Main Event champion in Aik Chuan who achieved the feat back-to-back pocketing PHP 1,001,000 (approx. $19,750) for first prize and collected his second APT Championship Ring.
Up next is the PokerStars Festival Manila series that is slated to run from July 28 – August 7.
Rounding up the recap are tournament reports from the first ever PokerStars Festival series hosted in Korea!
Online Railbird Report
It was finally a decent week of business for the online grinders and we have some big scores to report from the virtual felt. The one that takes the precedence above all others comes from Young Gun Sahil ‘$lim$hady19’ Chutani who banked $13,250.04 for his 2nd place finish in the PokerStars ‘$22 Double Deuce [Turbo], $100K GTD’.
Sahil Chutani
Other notable scores include –
Anmol ‘anmols’ A Srivats won $2,389.03 for 3rd place in the PokerStars ‘Bounty Builder $44, $50K GTD’ and won $1,238.39 for 3rd place in the PokerStars ‘Big $82, $7.5K GTD’. He also won $1,578.42 for 1st place in the PokerStars ‘Hot $27, $6K GTD’ and won $1,121.87 for 2nd place in the Party Poker ‘Heavyweight: $5K GTD PKO Freezeout’. Srivats recently made won $1,008.61 for 2nd place in the PokerStars ‘$82 NLO8 [6-Max, Hyper-Turbo], $3K GTD’.
Anil ‘BigBlufferAY’ Yadav won $2,318.99 for 1st place in the PokerStars ‘Hot $82, $8K GTD’
Sriharsha ‘índiandurr’ Doddapaneni won $2,175.20 for 14th place in the PokerStars ‘$1,050 Thursday Thrill [Progressive KO], $325K GTD’
Vinay ‘vinaycdy’ Choudhry won $1,363.47 for 6th place in the PokerStars $27 Saturday Eliminator [Progressive KO], $80K GTD’
Vineet ‘vineetpoker’ Kumar won $1,348.75 for 1st place in the 888 Poker ‘The $4,000 Typhoon’
Karan ‘Karan Radia’ Radia won $1,075.00 for 1st place in the 888 Poker ‘The $5,000 Turbo Swordfish’
Khelo365 Announces Impressive Prizes Through Leaderboards
The go-to Indian online poker portal Khelo365 recently announced irresistible, fun & challenging leaderboards catering to all kinds of players. Prizes include free entry to Khelo365 Colombo Millions, free passes to their New Year VIP Party, gold iPhones and chance to meet your favorite star!
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Adda52 Millions Gets Bigger With a Colossal ₹1 Crore Prize Pool
India`s largest poker site – Adda52 is set to host another edition of its popular Adda52 Millions Series from July 26 – 31 offering a mammoth ₹1 crore guaranteed prize pool across 44 events.
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Poker Met’ War of Zehn Starts Next Week
After the grand launch of India-facing online poker site PokerMet in June, the team has announced its biggest promotion till date i.e. War of Zehn which guarantees a massive ₹50 Lakhs in prizes over 10 weekly tournaments and is slated to begin from August 2.
PokerBaazi Announces Biggest-Ever Premier League Special Edition
India’s most trusted poker site PokerBaazi is hosting the biggest online Poker league in India with their PokerBaazi Premier League Special Edition. The seven-day Poker marathon will be held from Aug 28 to September 3 and will have 31 tournaments with a whopping prize guarantee of ₹2.4 Crore!
WSOP 2017
The final table of the most prestigious poker tournament on the planet is done and dusted with online grinder from New Jersey – Scott Blumstein crowned as the new world champion. Blumstein was on a heater of a lifetime and continued his dream run on all three days of the final table to claim the title and the most coveted bracelet in poker world. The 25-year old truly dominated the event throughout and finally went the distance to claim a life changing $8,150,000 (~INR 52.47 crores)! Fellow countryman Dan Ott made a runner-up finish banking $4,700,000 (~INR 30.26 crores) while Frenchman Benjamin Pollak took third place for $3,500,000 (~INR 22.53 crores).
Scott Blumstein
Final Table Results
1. Scott Blumstein – $8,150,000
2. Dan Ott – $4,700,000
3. Benjamin Pollak – $3,500,000
4. John Hesp – $2,600,000
5. Antoine Saout – $2,000,000
6. Bryan Piccioli – $1,675,000
7. Damian Salas – $1,425,000
8. Jack Sinclair – $1,200,000
9. Ben Lamb – $1,000,000
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DPT July 2017
The domestic action-packed poker extravaganza Deltin Poker Tournament’s (DPT) July Edition kept the players busy in Goa and the series was a resounding success with large turnouts in all events.
Vishal Tulsyan outlasted the 243-entry field of the ₹15K Kickoff event for ₹9,74,300 and Adda52 Team Pro Kunal Patni took down the 7K Warm Up online event banking ₹3 Lakhs.
Vishal Tulsyan
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The costliest event of the series i.e. 75K High Roller attracted a strong 162 runner field and topping them all was Rajnish Kumar who collected a cool ₹32.47 Lakhs for his finish.
Rajnish Kumar
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The highlight of the series was the 35K Main Event which saw a massive 300 player field and the Main Event champion title was claimed by a new face in the circuit – Nitin Gupta who won ₹28,06,600 for first place purse.
Nitin Gupta
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The series concluded after its final leg of side events got in the books and the last of winners in this edition were Gagandeep Malik, Sunita Sundar & PokerBaazi Team pro Jasven Saigal. Malik won the Bounty event for ₹6,58,000, Sundar took down the ₹10K Ladies event for ₹70,000 while Saigal claimed the ₹15K PLO event title banking ₹4,44,000.
Jasven Saigal
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Goa Debacles
Churchill Alemao Demands High Entry Fee for Locals Entering Casinos
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLA Churchill Alemao raised concerns over locals entering the casinos demanding that there should be an entry fee of at least ₹5,000 if they want to enter casinos. He also asked the CM Manohar Parrikar to look at the payout ratio and how the roulette tables are ‘fixed’ in casinos.
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Sixth Offshore Vessel May Move Out For Repairs & HC Restrains Govt From Issuing New Casino Licenses
The sixth offshore casino vessel MV Lucky Seven will most likely be taken out of Goa to a dry dock to assess the damage occurred after it got stuck at a sandbar in Aguada Bay. In another major blow, high court of Bombay in Goa temporarily restrained the State Government from issuing any new casino licenses without its permission.
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Goa Government Keen to Move Offshore Casinos
Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar again expressed his reservations about operations of casinos in the state saying that they are keen to remove casinos out of River Mandovi and will soon release orders. He although stated that there was no co-relation between the casino industry and the state’s crime rate.
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Phil Ivey and David Ulliott Inducted Into Poker Hall of Fame
The 2017 Poker Hall of Fame inductees were recently announced during the WSOP Main Event with Poker Superstars Phil Ivey and David ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott becoming the 53rd and 54th individuals to be inducted.
David Ulliott & Phil Ivey
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Online Streamers Fintan Hand & Benjamin Spragg Join Team PokerStars Online
The online giant PokerStars’ continued to add popular streamers to its pro team as Irishman Fintan ‘EasyWithAces’ Hand and English poker player Benjamin ‘Spraggy’ Spragg join the growing list of Team PokerStars Online pros.
Fintan Hand & Benjamin Spragg
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PokerStars Festival Korea
Asia’s first-ever PokerStars Festival Korea hosted at Paradise City, Incheon is now in the books and was a huge success with over 1,800 players from 25 countries in attendance.
The ₩4,350,000 High Roller event drew a total of 62 entries (34 unique players) and outlasting them all was Boyuan Qu who pocketed his career best ₩72,160,000 (approx. $64,000) for his finish.
Boyuan Qu
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The highlight event of the series i.e. PokerStars Festival Main Event attracted a strong 285-player field and besting them all was Korea-born Taewoon Han who banked ₩83,130,000 (nearly $75,000) for his finish.
Taewoon Han
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And that is all for this edition of our weekly report. We will return same time next week with all the latest from poker world, so tune in at the same time.
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This Week in Poker: July 12 – 18
In the PokerGuru feature ‘This Week in Poker’ we bring to you the weekly round up 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
It’s that time of the week again, for our regular weekly roundup. Like a hurricane the 2017 WSOP swept all the world of poker into its enticing vortex and finally the much-anticipated $10,000 Main Event is on its last leg. The event temporarily shuts down till July 20 when the play resumes with the final nine battling it out for the most prestigious title in poker. The coming week will also mark the first instance of us reporting about a WSOP Main Event champion in July itself.
The Indian brigade put in their best efforts at the Main Event with four of our challengers making in the money namely Rahul Byrraju (102nd for $53,247), Paawan Bansal (124th for $53,247), Kavin Shah (446th for $27,743) and Sumit Asrani (739th for $18,693).
WSOP may be coming to a close, but another exciting tournament is looming on the domestic horizon – Deltin Poker Tournament (DPT) which is slated to run between July 20-24 guaranteeing ₹2 crores in prizes.
After a hectic time on the western coast of America, the energies will also shift to PokerStars Festival Manila which is slated to run from July 28 – Aug 7.
The action will also now surge on Indian poker sites with new promotions flowing in for the online poker enthusiasts. Khelo365 is hosting massive daily freerolls guaranteeing ₹50 Lakhs per month, while PokerBaazi recently announced the next edition of Baazi Grinder Series with ₹15 Lakhs in guaranteed prizes along with a chance to be mentored by PokerBaazi pro Abhishek Rathod.
Anmol ‘anmols’ A Srivats takes our “PokerGuru Star of the Week” after he shipped two events online the past week, banking over $5,300.
Besides this, there are many happening events stirring online especially at the micro stakes with the PokerStars MicroMillions series (July 16-31) which returned for its 13th edition guaranteeing millions in prizes and the 888poker ChampionChips series, which will run from July 27-30 guaranteeing at least $150,000 in prizes.
Numerous developments occurred in Goa, to start with Senior BJP leader Vijai Sardesai expressed reservation against the offshore casinos saying that they are polluting the river and should be moved to land. Meanwhile, the sixth off shore casino vessel MV Lucky Seven got stuck in the Aguada sandbar and the Indian Coast Guard had to rescue four crew members through a helicopter operation.
Internationally, PokerStars made headlines again as they added popular online streamer Jeff Gross to its growing rooster of ambassadors.
To wrap this week’s report, we have tournament reports from the ongoing PokerStars Festival Korea and the Triton Super High Roller Series Montenegro.
Online Railbird Report
The WSOP was a memorable experience for players and railbirds alike, but as they say, all good things come to an end and with most of our top pros in Las Vegas for WSOP, the virtual felts have been rather quiet and these past few weeks have seen only a consistent few making good scores. The dull scene at the virtual felts continued this week as well, with only a few scores and the one that takes the precedence above others, is Anmol ‘anmols’ A Srivats who made two notable scores. First, he shipped the PokerStars ‘Omania $109 PLO [6-Max, Saturday Special], $15K GTD’ pocketing $4,111.74 and went on to ship the PokerStars ‘Big $33, $5K GTD’ for $1,265.66. With the combined score of over $5,300 Srivats takes our “PokerGuru Star of the Week” title!
Anmol A Srivats
Other notable scores include –
Anil ‘BigBlufferAY’ Yadav won $1,976.28 for 2nd place in the PokerStars ‘Hot $82, $8K GTD’
‘Ash227win’ won $1,635.41 for 2nd place in the PokerStars ‘Big $16.50, $10K GTD’ and won $1,132.50 for 1st place in the PokerStars ‘$27 NLHE [6-Max, Hyper-Turbo], $4K GTD’
Vineet ‘vineetpoker’ Kumar won $1,348.75 for 1st place in the 888 Poker ‘The $4,000 Typhoon’
‘mvrkmvrkmvrk’ won $955.12 for 1st place finish after a heads-up deal was agreed upon in the PokerStars ‘Micro Millions Event 15 – $1.10 NLHE’
PokerStars MicroMillions 13
In a cheer for online poker enthusiasts, world’s most popular low-stakes tournament series Micro Millions is back for its 13th edition on PokerStars and will play out across 16 days i.e. July 16-31 with over 100 events on the schedule guaranteeing millions in prizes.
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Khelo365 Hosts Daily Freerolls Guaranteeing INR 50 Every Month
The go-to Indian online poker portal – Khelo365 starting from July 17 is offering ₹50 Lakhs is massive freerolls every month! That’s not all as Khelo365 is hosting an exclusive freeroll leaderboard race with the top spot getting an all-expenses paid trip to Khelo365’s New Year Party 2018 in Colombo!
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PokerBaazi Announces Grinders Series with Prizes Worth 15 Lakhs & Chance to be Mentored by Abhishek Rathod
PokerBaazi recently announced the Baazi Grinder Series which is slated to run from July 21 – 23. Comprising of 18 tournaments, the series guarantees ₹15 Lakhs and in addition, there are ₹1.5 Lakhs in Leaderboard prizes. The top five players on the leaderboard will also be mentored by PokerBaazi Team Pro Abhishek Rathod.
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PokerMet Announces ‘War of Zehn’ Series Offering Free Tickets to All Events With Just ₹300 Deposit
PokerMet has announced an exciting new “War of Zehn” tournament series that guarantees a massive ₹50 Lakhs in prizes over 10 weekly tournaments. Just deposit a minimum ₹300 using the code ZEHN to get a free ticket to all the 10 tournaments!
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WSOP 2017
WSOP 2017 had the entire world of poker glued on the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino. The biggest poker tournament in the world, the $10,000 Main Event was not without its share of twists and turns.
Almost the entire Indian contingent participated in the Main Event but only four managed to make it in the money namely Rahul Byrraju (102nd for $53,247), Paawan Bansal (124th for $53,247), Kavin Shah (446thfor $27,743) and Sumit Asrani (739th for $18,693).
In all, record 7,221 runners signed up for the Main Event, leading to a prize pool of nearly $68 million with the lion’s share of $8,150,000 to be claimed by the eventual winner on July 22. This year will also mark the first time that we report about the new world champion crowning in July itself.
The event saw Team India’s Rahul Byrraju, Rohan Dhawan, Yudhishter Jaswal, Akshit Madan, Sumit Asrani, Nikita Luther, Aditya Agarwal, Paawan Bansal, Samay Parikh, Satchit Kapur and Jagdeep Singh making it to Day 3 but unfortunately out of the 30-odd Indian players who had entered the Main Event, only four players managed to make it in the money. These include Rahul Byyraju (102nd place for $53,247), Paawan Bansal (124th place for $53,247, Kavin Shah (446th place for $27,743) and Sumit Asrani (739th place for $18,693).
Rahul Byyraju
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The field has now been whittled down to the final nine and leading the pack is Scott Blumstein who will return on July 20 with 27% of the chips in play. Fan favorite John Hesp is second in chips and will resume play with 85,700,000, or 24% of the total chips in play.
Scott Blumstein
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Meanwhile, the last event on the schedule i.e. The Little One for One Drop played out alongside the Main Event and outlasting the 4,391-player field was Adrian Moreno who claimed his first bracelet along with a cool $528,316 in prize money. India’s Akash Malik exited the event on Day 3 at 77th place and cashed $5,500.
Akash Malik
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Indian Challengers at WSOP Main Event –
Goa Debacles
Goa Minister Vijai Sardesai Wants Offshore Casinos to be Moved to Land
Senior leader in the BJP-led ruling coalition in Goa Vijai Sardesai expressed reservation against the offshore casinos operating from River Mandovi saying that they are polluting the river and that he would prefer that the casinos to be moved on to land.
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Sixth Offshore Casino Vessel Got Stuck in a Aguada Sandbaroff the Miramar Coast
Things continued to be stressful in Goa with another terrible incident as the sixth off shore casino i.e. MV Lucky Seven got stuck in the Aguada sandbar off the Miramar coast on July 16. The Indian Coast Guard rescued four crew members (1 injured) through a helicopter operation from the vessel.
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Jeff Gross Joins PokerStars Pro Team
Online giant, PokerStars made headlines again after it added popular streamer Jeff Gross to its rooster of ambassadors. Gross is a popular video streamer who regularly shares the highs and lows of high-stakes professional poker on his YouTube and Twitch channels.
Jeff Gross
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WSOP International Circuit 2017-18 Schedule Announced
WSOP has come out with the schedule of its next year’s line up of stops in its international circuit schedule featuring at least 13 confirmed stops. The events will kick off from August 2-8 and will continue every month till its conclusion in May 2018.
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FanDuel & DraftKings Merger Plans Scrapped
The merger plans of two of the biggest companies in daily fantasy sports (DFS) world i.e. DraftKings and FanDuel was recently scrapped. The decision came after a legal challenge by U.S. antitrust enforcers.
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PokerStars Festival Korea
PokerStars Festival finally arrived in Asia with its inaugural series in Korea that runs between July 14 – July 24. The opening event of the series i.e. PokerStars Open attracted 442 runners and besting the field was Biao Zhuxing who won KRW 19,607,000 ($17,456).
Biao Zhuxing
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Fedor Holz Wins Triton Super High Roller Series Montenegro
German poker sensation Fedor Holz claimed the Triton Super High Roller Series Montenegro title. The event saw a total of 41 entries and Holz walked away with a cool HK$3,472,200 ($444,893) taking his live tournament earnings to $23.3 million. He is just $501,150 away from Ivey`s record career cashes.
Fedor Holz
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And that is all for this edition of our weekly report. We will return same time next week with all the latest from poker world, so tune in at the same time.
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