Sunday Majors: Sanket Jain, Anant Purohit & Mohammed Arshaq Crush Sunday Marquees

It was a bumper Sunday for the Indian poker players, both on live and virtual felts. While Kartik Ved shined on the live felts at the WSOP 2022 in Las Vegas, finishing third in Event #66: $1,000 Mini-Main No-Limit Hold’em for a career-best $275,593 and registering the best Indian finish at this year’s WSOP, there were so many winners crowned back home on the domestic online felts. Topping the list of winners on India’s largest poker site – Adda52.com was Sanket ‘cowboy12′ Jain who topped a reg-infested field of 244 entrants in the 25 Lac GTD Adda52 Millions, winning INR 6.86 Lac to top the Sunday charts on the site. Online reg Jaikiran “jeditriv” Kumar placed second and banked INR 4 Lac. 

  • Total Entries: 244
  • Prizepool: 25 Lac 
  • Places Paid:  24

Jain topped a strong FT featuring the likes of Ratul ‘riverking021’ Steves  (3rd for INR 3,00,000), Anurag ‘NormanBates’ Srivastava (4th for INR 2,15,000), and Goonjan ‘gmtesting’ Mall (5th for INR 1,50,000).

25 Lac GTD Mega Suits

Another 25 Lac GTD gracing the Adda52 felts on Sunday was the 25 Lac GTD Mega Suits that fared better than the Adda52 Millions, drawing in an impressive 551 entrants and generating INR 27.55 Lac in prize pool. Walking away with the lion’s share of the prize pool was none other than the DPT April 2022 15 Lac GTD Freeroll champion Anant “pro_baba” Purohit, who eventually defeated Myron “zzzzz369” Pereira (runner-up for INR 3,85,700) in the heads-up to claim top prize of INR 6.61 Lac.

  • Total Entries: 551 
  • Prizepool: 27.55 Lac
  • Places Paid: 55

Ashish ‘xznny112’ Nailwal (3rd for INR 2,61,725), Rishab ‘rish1994’ Malik (4th for INR 2,06,625), Abhishek ‘degen88’ Kumar (5th for INR 1,37,750),Ashit ‘nexus010’ Sharma (7th for INR 68,875), and Haider ‘donktown22’ Madraswala (8th for INR 55,100) were the other notable names on the FT.

10 Lac GTD Sunday Showdown

Mohammed “AshMD” Arshaq was the last player standing in Adda52’s 10 Lac guaranteed Sunday Showdown. He overcame a field of 428 entrants to win INR 1.91 Lac. Mahesh “mahikalra” S (2nd for INR 1,40,998) and Ashit “nexus010” Sharma (3rd  for INR 1,03,994) rounded out the podium finishes.

Featuring among the other prominent Sunday winners on Adda52.com yesterday were the users “rounderAA” (Won 2.50 Lac GTD Holdem Bash for INR 61,249), “Jat777” (Won 1.5 Lac GTD Ultimate DST for INR 31,209), and “playhereforsure13” (Won 1.25 Lac GTD Sunday Bounty for INR 16,381).