Yesterday being Thursday, it was yet again time for Adda52’s flagship online tournament – Godfather XI. The last tournament of its 11th series that guaranteed an impressive 20 Lac GTD prizepool along with a chance to win 7 Aussie Package logged in a total of 436 entries to comfortably crush its guarantee and take the prizepool to a hefty INR 21,80,000, which was shared by top 49 finishers.
In the end, coming out on top in last night’s Godfather XI was none other than the WSOP bracelet winner Aditya Sushant who took home an impressive INR 4,51,895 following a heads-up deal with Anmol Agast Srivats aka ‘bossman_anmol’ who settled for the runner-up prize of INR 3,98,305. In addition to the top prize, Sushant also earned entry into Godfather XI SnG Finale to be played on 24th November 2019, Sunday. The ultimate winner of the SnG on Adda52 will earn 7 Lac Aussie Poker Package, which includes 5 Lac towards tournament buy-ins + 2 Lac towards travel expenses.
On the way to his latest Godfather win, the talented pro Aditya Sushant overcame a tough final table that featured the likes of Rubin Labroo (3rd for INR 2,18,000), Avneesh Munjal (4th for INR 1,63,500), Ameya Gokhale (5th for INR 1,09,000) and the MTT specialist Manish Lakhotia (7th for INR 59,950).
Top 49 made it in the money and notables among them included Ujjwal Narwal (9th for INR 34,880), ‘homelite’ (12th for INR 21,800), Godfather X Winner Ayan Ray (15th for INR 21,800), ‘FireExit’ ( 23rd for INR 16,350), Pranjal Gandhi (26th for INR 14,170), Sagar Choudhury (28th for INR 14,170), Ashish Ahuja (29th for INR 14,170), Sajal Gupta (33rd for INR 14,170), Siddharth Karia (34th for INR 14,170), Adda52 Team Pro Kunal Patni (36th for INR 11,990) and Sahil Mahboobani (39th for INR 11,990).
The Chennai Pro Sushant is one of the most consistent players in the country, both on live as well as the online felts. From shipping prestigious online and live tournament titles to winning the WSOP bracelet for India, Sushant has achieved a lot in his poker career so far. He has won plenty of online tournaments on Adda52. He is also one of the few players to have shipped Adda52 Millions 4 times. He has already shipped two Godfather tournaments and last nigh he added yet another win to his impressive resume by shipping his third Godfather. Some of his other major scores include his win in Hitman, Judwaa (twice), Godfather (thrice), Mega Suits (twice) and a few runner-up finish in Beast, Godfather 5.0, Whale, Roar, Blaze, Godfather 7.0, Mega Suits and several other popular events.
Patience, hard work and focus always pay off in poker and Sushant is a fine example of this. Anyone who meets the pro gets impressed with his helpful nature and knowledge of the game. We caught up with him via an online chat to know about to know about his last night’s Godfather win and he said, “It feels great to ship it. It would be nice to win the SnG next as I intend on travelling to Australia.”
Talking about the field, he said, “As usual, It was a mixed field. I was deep in other tournaments too, so wasn’t paying too much attention. I kinda coasted till FT and started paying more attention then”.
Top 10 Payouts (INR):
| 1 | A_Sushant | 451895 |
| 2 | bossman_anmol | 398305 |
| 3 | kornkif | 218000 |
| 4 | IamAM | 163500 |
| 5 | Volcy | 109000 |
| 6 | TRAP_ | 76300 |
| 7 | newkidpoker | 59950 |
| 8 | KRSMRK01 | 49050 |
| 9 | fourteenk | 34880 |
| 10 | R9CKY | 27250 |