The much-awaited tournament – National Poker Championship (NPC) has finally kicked off on India’s No. 1 Poker Site – Adda52. Scheduled between 4th to 7th April, the inaugural tournament saw its first starting flight – Day 1A end yesterday. The biggest online event ever hosted with INR 1 Crore GTD at just INR 2,500 buy-in saw a good turnout of 1,353 entries, including 569 re-entries on the day.
Day 1A of the NPC started at 8 pm yesterday evening. With a total of 1353 entries, the prizepool has already reached INR 30,44,253. With 2 more starting flights to go, the tournament may easily smash its INR 1 Crore guarantee, as we expect the bigger fields across the next two flights.
Following 29 levels of play, the field of 1,353 eventually came down to 136 players progressing to final day of the tournament, scheduled on 7th April. Dwiti Rahule aka ‘dstar’ emerged as the chip leader of the first starting flight with a stack of 730,233 and was the only player to cross the 7 lac-mark in chips. Following him in the 2nd place is Arjanveer Chadha ak ‘arjan30’ with 698,170.
As expected, Adda52’s NPC attracted top talents from across the country on Day 1A. Some of them to qualify for the Final Day with big stacks include Rajat Sharma aka ‘Oshoswami’ (3rd- 440,765), Viany B aka ‘ContemporisT’ (4th – 363,043),’rajeshkhanna’ ( 5th – 335,800), Jaydeep Dawer aka ‘Armageddon’ (6th – 333,086), Deepak Bothra aka ‘bothras’ (7th – 305,854), Prateek pandey aka ‘ishuv’ (8th – 302,866) and Ashish Munot aka ‘ragspoker’ (9th – 301,750) to name a few.
Some notables to qualify from Day 1A were Anuj Kumar Kodam (18th- 257,056), Ashish Ahuja (23rd – 230,893), ‘King0fMerge’ (45th – 167,892 ), Apratim Sharma (50th – 153,543 ), Manesh Rathod (57th – 143,105 ), 2018 DPT Colossus SHR winner Sriharsha Doddapaneni (58th – 140,617 ), Rubin Labroo (68th – 123,543 ), Kavish Kukreja (71st – 121,451), 2018 WPT India ME runner-up Sahil Mahboobani (72nd -117,966 ), 2019 APT Kickoff Vietnam ME winner Abhinav Iyer (85th -105,017 ), Chiraag Patel (86th – 103,839 ), Sajal Gupta (89th – 96,374 ), Sumit Sapra (91st – 92,986 ), Willson Yomso (92nd -92,089), Abhishek Garg (110th – 60,244 ), 2018 WSOP ME best Indian finisher Nishant Sharma (117th -52,817 ) and PSL Co-Founder Pranav Bagai (134th – 26,675).
The second starting flight of the event – Day 1B will begin today at 8 pm on Adda52 and again a huge field with top pros, regs and recreational players is expected. Players who have already qualified from Day 1A can also join Day 1B and Day 1C in a bid to take forward a better stack for Final Day.
Top 20 Stacks At Day 1A End:
1. dstar – 730,233
2. arjan30 – 698,170
3. Oshoswami – 440,765
4. ContemporisT – 363,043
5. rajeshkhanna – 335,800
6. Armageddon – 333,086
7. bothras – 305,854
8. ishuv – 302,866
9. ragspoker – 301,750
10. Kapoorchandra – 298,836
11. mercury5 – 298,461
12. alwaysnutz – 295,400
13. lazyman – 278,608
14. cheetah929 – 278,471,
15. shshggrwl123 – 273,756
16. f2013471 – 270,018,
17. perk13 – 258,373
18. thekinganuj – 257,056
19. lucky__fish – 251,443
20. mass333 – 249,364
Stay tuned in for upcoming updates from the tournament and general news from the poker world!
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