It has been a power-packed week on India’s no. 1 poker site – adda52.com recording a massive surge of players. Two days ago, the site launched third edition of the flagship Adda52 Online Poker Series (AOPS), which boasts a staggering INR 7 Crore GTD in prizepools and 15 Lac in leaderboard prizes. Yesterday was Day 2 of the this edition that saw massive turnouts with all six tournaments on the schedule crushing their respective guarantees. The biggest guarantee tournament to crown a winner was the 25 Lac GTD AOPS Whale, which was eventually taken down by ‘wormhole’ who banked INR 9.05 Lac in top prizemoney. The well-known pro Meherzad ‘sailaway’ Munsaf came very close to winning the tourney but ultimately finished runner-up for INR 5.27 Lac prizemoney.
The event registered a total of 565 entries, generating INR 38.53 Lac prizepool. Top 63 shared the prizepool and some notables making deep finishes included the likes of Ujjwal Narwal (4th for INR 269731), Gagandeep Malik (5th for INR 192665), Arsh Grover (7th for INR 105966), Shravan Chhabria (9th for INR 57800), Abhishek Gubba (10th for INR 42386), Gokul Raj (11th for INR 42386), Ashish Ahuja (14th for INR 34680), Sandeep Rajora (16th for INR 30826), and Danish Shaikh (18th for INR 30826).
AOPS Whale Top 10 Payouts (INR):
| 1 | wormhole | 905526 |
| 2 | sailaway | 527902 |
| 3 | Vikas267 | 350650 |
| 4 | fourteenk | 269731 |
| 5 | gaganhyd | 192665 |
| 6 | Vamos96 | 134866 |
| 7 | BigggTymeR | 105966 |
| 8 | kudos0505 | 77066 |
| 9 | sweatmyass13 | 57800 |
| 10 | messi010010 | 42386 |
60 Lac AOPS Mega Suits Day 1A
Another flagship tourney on yesterday’s AOPS schedule was 60 Lac GTD Mega Suits. The first of its three starting flights – Day 1A logged in 401 entries and only 48 among them could progress to Day 2. Ending the day as chip leader was a notable online regular Goonjan ‘gmtesting’ Mall (362,186). Others who bagged big stacks included the like of ‘vatsal20’ (290,301) and ‘pooltime741’ (202,021), Vikram’ swingtrader’ Ved Batra (197,736), and Laksh ‘BoomTilt23’ Pal Singh (186,533).
Top 10 Chip Counts From Day 1A:
- Gmtesting – 362,186
- vatsal20 – 290,301
- pooltime741 – 202,021
- Swingtrader – 197,736
- BoomTilt23 – 186,533
- pokerface_k – 175,104
- Crymeariver – 172,070
- priyaranjan2k12 – 166,824
- Rungooserun – 159,817
- Phanthomn – 155,086
6 Lac GTD AOPS Mini PLO
The second biggest AOPS event to crown a winner yesterday was the 6 Lac GTD AOPS Mini PLO featuring INR 3300 buy-in. Kicking off at 9:30 PM, this PLO tourney drew an impressive 213 entries to comfortably crush its specified guarantee and take the prizepool to INR 6.39 Lac, which was shared by the top 21 finishers. Coming out on top of the field was ‘BLACKJAWS’ who eventually defeated ‘fitzmagic’ (runner-up for INR 1.07 Lac) in heads-up to walk away with INR 1.24 Lac prize.
Top 10 Payouts (INR):
| BLACKJAWS | 124528 |
| fitzmagic | 107235 |
| harshb_95 | 95037 |
| doshidhaval72 | 91107 |
| Eiwe | 39938 |
| vivekkotharivk | 27477 |
| DangerDaddy | 22685 |
| zombieballs | 17573 |
| gauravarod | 14378 |
| mowgumotu | 11822 |
5 Lac GTD AOPS Falcon
Another big event on the AOPS schedule was the 5 Lac GTD AOPS Falcon sporting INR 2700 buy-in. The tournament crowned a winner in Aditya ‘Adit11’ Kulkarni who outlasted a field of 242 entries, including last night’s AOPS Mini PLO winner ‘BLACKJAWS’ in heads-up to earn the top prize of INR 1.37 Lac.
‘BLACKJAWS’settled for INR 80k for his runner-up finish. Top 24 players were paid from INR 6.21 Lac prizepool and among them Sriharsha Doddapaneni (7th) and Amit Sur (12th) made deep finishes.
Top 10 Payouts (INR):
| 1 | Adit11 | 137250 |
| 2 | BLACKJAWS | 80000 |
| 3 | cosh | 60000 |
| 4 | shakthidon | 43000 |
| 5 | ChennaiNo1 | 30000 |
| 6 | rishlangda | 21250 |
| 7 | Ivey2 | 16250 |
| 8 | rahulvar | 12500 |
| 9 | Lemonade | 10000 |
| 10 | xoredvoid | 8750 |
Other Winners From Day 2
Day 2 of the AOPS kicked off with a 3 Lac GTD Warm-Up that logged in 401 entries to generate INR 4.56 Lac prizepoool. In the end, it was a notable reg in Chirag Bhardwaj aka ‘mahikk’ who came out on top of the field to bank INR 1.13Lac prize, after outlasting ‘BHRIGU23’ (runner-up for INR 68K).
Day 2 of the ongoing AOPS series concluded with the AOPS 11th HR DST 1.5 Lac GTD, which saw a total field of 204 unique entries. Taking the top honors was ‘ganu12’ who eventually locked horns with ‘kunalsunny’ (runner-up for INR 40,602) and eventually won it for INR 67000 in the top prize.