Prize pool guarantees continue to be crushed at the 13.5 Crore GTD WPT Online India (WPTOI) that played out its 6th day on Adda52 yesterday. Needless to say, the WPTOI dominated the Tuesday action, with as many as 9 tourneys on the day`s schedule including one WPT trophy tournament.
An impressive 2,826 entries came in for the day, crushing the day’s INR 39.70 Lac guarantee and generating a whopping INR 44,73,600 in prizemoney. While some of the biggest names from across the country took to the felt, stealing the spotlight was the lawyer-turned poker pro Ashish Ahuja who banked the biggest score of the day after taking down the WPT trophy tourney – the 15 Lac GTD WPT Tuesday Feature, winning his first WPT online title, INR 3,62,938 and a beautiful WPT trophy.
Let us see who got their hands on WPT titles and bankroll-boosting sums on Day 6 of the WPTOI!
15 Lac GTD WPT Tuesday Feature With INR 3850 Buy-In
The biggest tourney of the day, the 15 Lac GTD WPT Tuesday Feature, did reasonably well pulling in 525 entries to comfortably surpass its guarantee and create a hefty INR 18.37 Lac in prizepool.
While top 55 players finished ITM, walking away with the lion’s share of the prizepool was former DPT Bounty event champion in Ashish Ahuja aka “rocky3705” who banked INR 3,62,938, following a heads-up deal with Mohit Mittal aka “tinda2706” who pocketed INR 3,35,312 for his runner-up finish.
The final spot on the podium went to Adda52 Team Pro Tarun Goyal aka “aggtarun” (3rd for INR 1.74 Lac). Arpan “distroyer” Majhi (4th for INR 1,37,813), Rahul “rahulpalawat” Jain (5th for INR 91,875), Neeraj “kumartomar” Kumar (6th for INR 64,313), and Manash “Ravenclaws” Kalita (7th for INR 45,938) were the other notable players who ended their at the final table of the marquee tourney.
The Chandigarh-based pro, Ahuja, happens to be among the top winners this year and has touched a whopping INR 5.95 Crores in lifetime earnings. His journey on Adda52 has been highly rewarding as the poker phenom has already taken down several tourneys including AOPS Big Slick, AOPS Mini PLO, AOPS Falcon, several Hexagram tournaments, AOPS Big Stack Tubo, AOPS Inception, APF Eclipse, etc.
8 Lac GTD WPT Mini 6-Max With INR 2200 Buy-In
The second biggest tourney on yesterday’s WPT Online India schedule, the 8 Lac GTD WPT Mini 6-Max also wrapped up with a grand success, clocking in a total of 428 entries to comfortably crush its specified guarantee and result in a prizepool of INR 8.56 Lac which was shared by the top 43 players.
Walking away with a lion’s share was Naresh Veeravalli aka “emperor457” who banked INR 1,89,280 after outlasting mystery user “realkidsanju” (runner-up for INR 1,51,408) in the heads-up for the title.
Also at the FT was well-known pro Sumit Sapra aka “hammer_head” who finished 6th for INR 29,960.
Veeravalli has been a dominating presence on the virtual felts and has already won several tournaments this year on Adda52.com, including Adda52’s Millions AF, several Hexagram tourneys, AOPS Godfather, Maverick & Holdem High to name a few. He booked an impressive two tourney title victories last night, with his biggest score coming for his win in the WPT Mini 6-Max on Adda52.com.
5 Lac GTD WPT Classic With INR 1500 Buy-In
Coming out on top of the 330-entry field in the WPT Classic was mystery user “Agrekapetha” who pocketed INR 1,01,531, following a heads-up deal with “LuvAA” (runner-up for INR 99,219).
Results From Other WPTOI Tourneys On Day 6:
1.70 Lac GTD WPT Hustle
Total Entries – 270
Prizepool – INR 1,70,000
Places Paid – 27
Winner – “gauravgoru” (won INR 37,916)
Runner-up – “BenjaminSisko” (won INR 32,634)
2 Lac GTD WPT Alpha
Total Entries – 260
Prizepool – INR 2.34 Lac
Places Paid – 27
Winner – “Beatthefish66” (won INR 60,840)
Runner-up – Neeraj Kumar aka “Kumartomar” (won INR 36,270)
3 Lac GTD WPT Multiplier
Total Entries – 292
Prizepool – INR 3.32 Lac
Places Paid – 30
Winner – Gadadhar Behera aka “gd1921” (won INR 84,993″
Runner-up – “Beatthefish66” (won INR 50,631)
1 Lac GTD Battlefield
Total Entries – 199
Prizepool – INR 1.09 Lac
Places Paid – 21
Winner – “Kunotaguero” (won INR 27,800)
Runner-up -“jasonroyce81” (won INR 16,250)
1.5 Lac GTD WPT Novemberfest
Total Entries – 245
Prizepool – INR 1.67 Lac
Places Paid – 27
Winner – “Babyshark21” (won INR 43,443)
Runner-up – Pratibh “MrGTO” Saluja (won INR 25899)
2.5 Lac GTD WPT Late Night PLO
Total Entries – 277
Prizepool – 2.77 Lac
Places Paid – 30
Winner – “kutkut69A” (won INR 57,039)
Runner-up – “abhishekreddy88” (won INR 48,848)
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