Adda52’s National Poker Championship (NPC) saw its second starting flight – Day 1B begin yesterday at 8 pm last night and this flight drew a total of 1,261 entries (including 638 re-entries), creating INR 28,37,264 prizepool. With 1,353 entries from Day 1A and 1,261 entries from Day 1B, the total field of the NPC has now reached 2,614 entries. The total prizepool collected from the first two flights now stands at INR 58,81,517. Day 1C is yet to play out and the prizepool is likely to reach 1 Crore-mark.
Following 29 levels of play, Day 1B ended with the field of 1,261 coming down to just 109 players progressing to final day of the NPC, scheduled on 7th April. The player to emerge as the chip leader after a grind of more than 4 hours was ‘tuomez’ with 783,592 chips. Trailing behind him are ‘sateeshaken’ (2nd – 519,836), ‘jpoker’ (3rd – 487,536) and ‘biswadeepsa…’ (4th -387,691). Other big stacks include Kunal Chaudhary (5th – 362,455 chips) and Sankesh92 – (6th – 362,205 chips).
With 136 survivors from the first flight and 109 from the second flight, a total of 245 players have qualified for the final day. Leading them all is ‘tuomez’ with 783,592 chips. Trailing behind him is the Day 1A chip leader Dwiti Rahule aka ‘dstar’ with 730,233 chips. Arjanveer Chadha aka ‘arjan30’, who qualified from Day 1A of the NPC, sits at the 3rd place with a stack of 698,170 chips.
Day 1B of the NPC drew many top pros and regs from across the country. Some of them to progress to the final day include Kunal Vohra (16th – 266,966), Akshay Nasa (18th – 259,305), Avadh Shah (22nd – 244,693), Goonjan Mall (23rd -244,571), Tarun Goyal (44th – 170,212), Naren Purohit (45th -169,817),Himanshu Sehgal (52nd – 156,894),Chandan Arora (55th -154,208),Romit Advani (57th – 152,235), Eka Vedantham (63rd – 131,388), Aceleration (73rd – 115,998), Deepak Singh (75th – 115,150), smallboy (84th – 92,500), Sahil Chutani aka bluffme19 (86th – 86,406), etc.
Top 10 Stacks At Day 1B End:
- tuomez – 783,592
- sateeshaken – 519,836
- jpoker – 487,536
- biswadeepsa… – 387,691
- Vampire2706 – 362,455
- Sankesh92 – 362,205
- mercury5 – 360,816
- akb786 – 359,336
- som22asopa – 344,274
- Vicky0809 – 332,921
The National Poker Championship will see its last starting flight – Day 1C that begins tonight at 8 pm. The survivors from all the three starting flights will return for the NPC Final Day tomorrow at 5 pm.