The action at the WPT Online India (WPTOI) has now reached the pinnacle, with the 3 Crore GTD WPT India Main Event underway. The INR 16500 buy-in event has attracted 253 entries across two flights and a further 8 flights are left to play out before Day 2 scheduled for 10 PM on 29th August (Sunday).
A total of 27 trophy events were run and won in the first two weeks of the WPTOI. Week 3 of the series saw a further 9 trophy events coming to a close, headlined by the 1 Crore GTD WPT Quad 9 that crowned a champion in “xoredvoid” who took home INR 17 Lac and a WPT Trophy for the win. Online beast Vaibhav Sharma claimed the performance of the week as he won the WPT 3000 Trophy Event and also finished Runner-Up in the Quad 9 for a total of INR 15.6 Lac in winnings.
Raghav Siddalinga continues to top the highly-sought WPTOI Mega Leaderboard standings and is sitting on 1066 points after Day 23 of the WPTOI series, with Ashish Ahuja (WPT Gladiator & WPT 3000) and Ankit Wadhawan (WPT Wednesday Rush & WPT Friday Feature) who have won two trophy events, following him at the second and third places, with 981 and 946 points, respectively.
Talking about who sits on top after Week 3 of the WPTOI in terms of winnings, it is the WPT Super High Roller champion Gaurav Sood leading the charge with a total of INR 39.28 Lac in winnings. He is followed by the WPT India Highroller Champion Vishal Bajaj with INR 32.90 Lac in winnings and the WPT India Super Highroller third-place finisher Anant Purohit with INR 24.72 Lac in winnings.
#1.Gaurav “gauravarod” Sood – INR 39.28 Lac In Winnings
With three weeks in the books, it is the online poker phenom Gaurav “gauravarod” Sood sitting on top with INR 39.28 Lac in winnings. Sood has been a dominating presence at the series. While he has posted several deep finishes, his biggest score came on 12th August in the 1 Crore GTD WPT India Super Highroller where he trounced an 88-strong field to win a personal-best INR 32.60 Lac and the prestigious WPT Trophy. Some of his other notable scores from the ongoing series include:
– 2nd in the 7 Lac GTD WPT Table for 6 for INR 1,17,034 on 21st August
– 1st in 1 Crore GTD WPT India Super Highroller for INR 32.60 Lac on 12th August
– 2nd in 22.5 Lac GTD WPT Tuesday Feature 8 Max for INR 3,15,000 on 3rd August
– 11th in 60 Lac GTD WPT India Mini Highroller for INR 1,05,000 on 5th August
#2. Vishal ‘GigaaBet’ Bajaj – INR 32.90 Lac
The former Deeepstack Madness champion Vishal ‘GigaaBet’ Bajaj started the series on a good note. He finished runner-up in the WPT India Mini High Roller for INR 9.60 Lac in Week 1 but did not make much of an impact in Week 2 and was not even in the top five. However, his massive WPT India High Roller victory for INR 21.60 Lac in the third week of the series catapulted him to the second spot and took his winnings to over INR 32.90 Lac. Given below are some of his notable WPTOI scores:
– 1st in the 80 Lac GTD WPT High Roller India for INR 21.60 Lac on 20th August
– 5th in the 25 Lac GTD WPT Gladiator for INR 1,39,125 on 12th August
– 2nd in the 60 Lac GTD WPT India Mini High Roller for INR 9,60,000 on 5th August
#3. Anant “Pro_baba” Purohit – INR 24.72 Lac In Winnings
Holding the second spot in the second week, online MTT crusher Anant “Pro_baba” Purohit ranked third at the end of week 3 of the WPTOI with a total of INR 24.72 Lac in winnings, half of which came in the WPT India Super High Roller (12th August) where he finished third for INR 12.98 Lac. His most recent score from week 3 of the series was in the 1 Crore GTD WPT Quad 9 (22nd August) where he finished 11th for INR 95,000. Here is a look at some of his notable scores from the series so far:
– 11th in the 1 Crore GTD WPT Quad 9 Finale for INR 95,000 on 22nd August
– 3rd in 1 Crore GTD WPT Super High Roller for INR 12.98 Lac on 12th August
– 1st in 20 Lac GTD WPT Bounty Championship for INR 7.35 Lac on 8th August
– 2nd in 15 Lac GTD WPT Bounty Classic PKO for INR 2.47 Lac on 6th August
– 2nd in 15 Lac GTD WPT Saturday Special for INR 2.17 Lac on 14th August
The WPT India Mini High Roller champion Neel ‘neeljoshi23’ Joshi (INR 22.20 Lac in total winnings) and last Thursday’s WPT Gladiator champion Ankur ‘Aceleration’ Sehgal (INR 18.18 Lac in total winnings) ended Week 3 of the ongoing WPTOI in the fourth and fifth places, respectively.
Trophy Event Winnres So Far
A total of 36 trophy events have been run and won till the 3rd week of the ongoing WPT Online India series. Here is the complete list of trophy event winners from the last three weeks of the series!
Day 9 (Monday, 9th Aug)
Dhiraj “supernuts” Lakhotia
15 Lac GTD WPT Monday Feature 6 Max
Won INR INR 3.75 Lac
Day 10 (Tuesday,10th Aug)
Ritwik “ritwik27” Khanna
WPT Tuesday Feature 8 Max
Won INR 5.51 Lac
Day 11 (Wednesday,11th Aug)
Sajjan Barnwal aka ‘HaiToHai’
20 Lac GTD WPT Wednesday Rush
Won INR 5 Lac
15 Lac GTD WPT Single Shot
Aniket ‘anteman’ Waghmare
Won INR INR 4.05 Lac.
Day 12 (Thursday, 12th Aug)
Gaurav “gauravarod” Sood
1 Crore GTD WPT India Super High Roller
Won INR 3.62 Lac
25 Lac GTD WPT Gladiator
Shravan‘ sweatmyass13’ Chhabria
Won INR 6.82 Lac
Day 13 (Friday, 13th Aug)
Ankit ‘d00mtr00p3r’ Wadhawan
20 Lac GTD WPT Friday Feature
Won INR 5.77 Lac
10 Lac GTD WPT Mini PLO
Rachit ‘faujidhaba’ Rana
Won INR 1.71 Lac.
Day 14 (Saturday, 14th Aug)
15 Lac GTD WPT Saturday Special
Yash ‘Babyshark21’ Chitre
Won INR 3.82 Lac
Day 15 (Sunday, 15th Aug)
50 Lac GTD WPT Mini Main Event Finale
Nitin ‘Bigbluffs’ Arora
Won INR 7.38 Lac
30 Lac GTD WPT Independence Day Special
Karan “gogikaran” Malhotra
Won INR 5.65 Lac
15 Lac GTD WPT Mega Stack
Adithya N G aka ‘Rlox1’
Won INR 5.68 Lac
Day 16 (Monday, 16th Aug)
15 Lac GTD WPT Monday Feature 6 Max
Naresh Veeravalli aka “emperor457”
Won INR 3.72 Lac
Day 17 (Tuesday, 17th Aug)
22.50 Lac GTD WPT Tuesday Feature 8 Max
Laksh Pal Singh aka “BoomTilt23”
Won INR 5.40 Lac
Day 18 (Wednesday, 18th Aug)
20 Lac GTD WPT Wednesday Rush
‘Hiesenber07′
Won INR 3.62 Lac
17 Lac GTD WPT Deepstack
C Satish aka ‘Csat82’
Won INR 4.42 Lac
Day 19 (Thursday, 19th Aug)
30 Lac GTD WPT Gladiator
Ankur Sehgal aka ‘Aceleration’
Won INR 7.88 Lac
Day 20 (Friday, 20th Aug)
80 Lac GTD WPT India High Roller
Vishal ‘GigaaBet’ Bajaj
Won INR 21.60 Lac
Day 21 (Saturday, 21st Aug)
15 Lac GTD WPT Saturday Special
Siddharth “sid_inimical” Jain
Won INR 3.82 Lac
Day 22 (Sunday, 22nd Aug)
1 Crore GTD WPT Quad 9 Finale
‘xoredvoid’
Won INR 17 Lac
15 Lac GTD WPT 3000
Vaibhav ‘alienrobot’ Sharma
Won INR INR 3.44 Lac
A Glance At Some Interesting Statistics
Highest Number Of Mini Tourney Titles: Jimmy “milliondollerdream” Arora has won the highest number of mini tourney titles so far, winning an impressive 5 tournaments in the last 3 weeks.
Highest Number of Micro Tourney Titles: Amandeep Singh aka ‘amanpoker27’ has shipped the highest number of the micro tourney titles. He has won an incredible 31 micro tourneys in the last three weeks and is currently ranked #2 on the WPTOI Micro Leaderboard with a total of 3618 points.
Highest Number of Mega Tourney Titles: Interestingly, the WPT Mega Stack champion Adithya N G aka ‘Rlox1’ is the only player to have taken down 4 mega tourney titles from the series so far.
Highest Number of Entries In Single Event: 1119 (1Cr WPT Unreal Flight 6) on 6th August.
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