AOPS Day 5: Vidwath Shetty, Ankit Modi & Sandy Lamba Score Wins!

Once again, it was an eventful day for the poker fanatics registering themselves in the 7 + Crore GTD Adda52 Online Poker Series (AOPS). All six tournaments on the AOPS schedule yesterday wrapped up with a grand success, crushing their respective guarantees. Players earned quite well for their efforts and managed to take home big prizes. The biggest tournament on the Monday schedule was the 12.5 Lac GTD AOPS Inception that crowned a winner in seasoned pro Vidwath Shetty who walked away with INR 3.29 Lac for his win. Here is a quick summary of the AOPS Day 5:

12.5 Lac GTD AOPS Inception

The biggest tourney on the AOPS Day 5 schedule was the AOPS Inception that drew 598 entries and generated a prize pool of INR 19.13 Lac, which was shared by top 63 finishers. Eventually, the well-known pro Vidwath ‘phoenix66990’ Shetty emerged victorious to walk away with INR 3.29 Lac, after a 3-way deal with Rubin Labroo ( 2^nd for INR 3 Lac) and Mihir Thakkar (3rd for INR 2.56 Lac).

Other notables who finished deep in the event were Sandeep Singh (4^th for INR 1.33 Lac), Vinay Rajpal (8^th for INR 38272), Srihari Bang (9^th for INR 28704), Chirag Bhardwaj (10^th for INR 21050), Anuj Yadav (11^th for INR 21050), Uday Moola (14^th for INR 17222), Anmol Mehta (19th for INR 15309), etc.

Top 10 Payouts (INR):

1	phoenix66990	329334
2	kornkif	300127
3	gameofdeath	256536
4	pokesand	133952
5	sumit1989	95680
6	rabbithunter	66976
7	himanshurajsingh	52624
8	vinay0902	38272
9	zombieballs	28704
10	mahikk	21050

5 Lac GTD AOPS Falcon

Another key event on the AOPS schedule yesterday was the AOPS Falcon that attracted 242 entries. In the end, it was Ankit Modi aka ‘ankitmodi’ who took down the event for INR 1.37 Lac in top prize. He eventually clashed with Archit Dhadwal aka ‘Aarchit’ who finished runner-up for INR 80K prize.

The last night’s Falcon paid out top 24 finishers. Some well-known regs to finish deep in the event included the likes of Nagendra Singh Tomar (3^rd for INR 60K), the previous AOPS Main Event winner Faiz Alam (9^th for INR 10K), Naren Purohit (11^th for INR 8750), and Dhaval Doshi (16^th for INR 6250).

Top 10 Payouts (INR):

1	ankitmodi	137250
2	Aarchit	80000
3	gameank123	60000
4	Blue_basilisk	43000
5	nitkat	30000
6	AB1455	21250
7	mannu425	16250
8	BLACKJAWS	12500
9	TheInternetKid	10000
10	abhi42798	8750

5 GTD AOPS Holdem 6-Max

Adda52’s AOPS Hold-em 6-Max logged in a total of 266 entries, resulting in INR 6.65 Lac prize pool, which eventually got distributed among the top 27. It was Sandy ‘Narcos’ Lamba who eventually outlasted ‘chirandh’ (runner-up for INR 1.03 Lac) to bank a winner’s payday of INR 1.72 Lac.

Others who ran deep in the event were Vinay B (4^th for INR 56,525), Aditya Kulkarni (6^th for INR 28,263), Anurag Srivastava( 7^th for INR 21,613), and Kunal Patni (8^th for INR 16625) to name a few.

Top 10 Payouts (INR):

1	Narcos	172900
2	chirandh	103075
3	Vamos96	77473
4	ContemporisT	56525
5	nahush	38238
6	Adit11	28263
7	NormanBates	21613
8	KunalPatni	16625
9	buntai	13300
10	rachubaba	9975

Other Winners From AOPS Day 5

The AOPS Day 5 kicked off with the 3 Lac GTD AOPS Warm-up that saw a field of 376 and generated INR 4.27 Lac in prizepool, which was distributed among the 38 players. Taking the lion’s share was ‘att1992’ who eventually defeated ‘balls86’ (2^nd for INR 64,825) to walk away with INR 1.06 Lac.

Another event to conclude was the 1.5 Lac GTD AOPS Siesta that clocked in a total of 227 entries to crush its guarantee and generate INR 2.04 Lac prize shared by top 24 finishers. In the end, it was ‘mdrayeesuddin’ who won the event for INR 56,080, after defeating ‘NewbieA’ (INR 32,688) in HU.

The AOPS Day 5 concluded with the 1.5 Lac AOPS 11^th HR PLO, which crowned a winner in ‘jacks24’ who defeated ‘villan1122’ (runner-up for INR 34,224) in heads-up to walk away wit INR 59,174. A total of 276 entries came in and this resulted in INR 2.20 Lac prizepool shared by top 30 finishers.