July 10, the 26th day of the 22 Crore guaranteed Adda52 Online Poker Series (AOPS) was another action-packed day on Adda52. Several players became AOPS champions and padded their bankrolls with sizeable scores, while many of them made it through to the Finale of the 3 Crore GTD AOPS Main Event. The day saw 3137 entries and a whopping 83.5 Lac paid out across 8 tournaments. The biggest winner of the day was the anonymous online reg in ‘yud1006’ who shipped the 50 Lac AOPS Holdem Highroller for INR 12.11 Lac. Let’s take a look at what went down on Day 26 of the AOPS!
3 Crore GTD AOPS Main Event – Day 1D & 1E
The showstopper tourney of the series, the 3 Crore GTD AOPS Main Event played out its fourth and fifth flights last night. Day 1D drew a total of 141 entries out of which only 10 players survived, and bagging the chip lead was Rahul Jain aka ‘rahulpalawat’ who bagged 748k chips. Online regs ‘paare3’ (352k), ‘Siddle’ (217k), Sanat Mehrotra (176k) and ‘hellhell’ (152k) rounded out the top 5 stacks.
AOPS ME Day 1D Top 10 Chip Counts:
Day 1E of the INR 11,000 buy-in tourney did reasonably well as it drew in a field of 303 entries. Only 37 among them advanced through to the event’s Finale. Bagging the end of day chip lead was Ashish Garg aka ‘goodpoker68’ who will return for the event’s Finale with 469k in chips. Naresh Veeravalli (461k), ‘null_void’ (384K), ‘villan1122’ (250K) and ‘oled’ (192k) were next in line in the chips.
AOPS ME Day 1E Top 10 Chip Counts:
50 Lac GTD AOPS Holdem Highroller
Highroller lovers came out in full force to join the 50 Lac GTD AOPS Holdem Highroller, the biggest tourney to conclude last night. The marquee tourney wrapped up with a grand success, pulling in a total of 222 entries and generating a guarantee-crushing prizepool worth INR 55.50 Lac that was eventually shared by the top 24 players with a min-cashes starting at an impressive INR 47,175.
After several hours of intense battles, the field was whittled down to a winner. It was mystery user ‘yud1006’ who shipped it for INR 12.11 Lac in top prizemoney, following a heads-up deal with ‘SingleA’ who walked away with INR 12 Lac for his runner-up finish in the online tournament.
It was a star-studded field full of big name players. Devang Yadav (3rd for INR 6.66 Lac), Sriharsha Doddapaneni (4th for INR 4.77 Lac), Vikranth Varma (5th for INR 3.33 Lac), Vaibhav Sharma (6th for INR 2.35 Lac), Goonjan Mall (7th for INR 1.80 Lac), former Full House winner Chirag Sodha (8th for INR 1.38 Lac) and Sahil Agarwal (10th for INR 97,125) made deep finishes among those big name players.
Top 15 Payouts (INR):
| 1 | yud1006 | 1211031 |
| 2 | SingleA | 1200444 |
| 3 | spark123 | 666000 |
| 4 | Ivey2 | 477300 |
| 5 | borntrouble | 333000 |
| 6 | alienrobot | 235875 |
| 7 | gmtesting | 180375 |
| 8 | cs56 | 138750 |
| 9 | amarkhatri999 | 111000 |
| 10 | Bhaijiii | 97125 |
| 11 | orionn7 | 97125 |
| 12 | rocky3705 | 83250 |
| 13 | sa_jal | 83250 |
| 14 | cowboy12 | 69375 |
| 15 | anzzzzz | 69375 |
10 Lac GTD AOPS NLHE
The other major Friday attraction, the 10 Lac GTD AOPS NLHE also enjoyed an eventful run, drawing in a total of 547 entries and generating an 12.44 Lac that was shared by top 55 players with a min-cash starting at INR 5600. In the end, coming out on top of the field was online MTT reg Vinayak Bajaj who shipped it and banked INR 2,37,963 after a heads-up deal with ‘runrabbitrun’ (runner-up for INR 2,34,919). This victory was 2nd AOPS title for Bajaj at the ongoing series and 5th overall.
Other notables ending their run on the final table were Anuj Yadav (4th for INR 93,332), recent AOPS Super Game winner Ayaz Khan (5th for INR 62,221) and Srihari Bang who finished 7th for INR 31,111.
Top 10 Payouts (INR):
| 1 | bhai_on_mary_jane | 237963 |
| 2 | runrabbitrun | 234919 |
| 3 | saurabh21 | 118220 |
| 4 | anuj25395 | 93332 |
| 5 | khan1977 | 62221 |
| 6 | GigaaBet | 43555 |
| 7 | zombieballs | 31111 |
| 8 | Saurabhg321 | 24889 |
| 9 | Pegasus1505 | 18666 |
| 10 | rapunzel | 15555 |
5 Lac GTD AOPS Brunch
Featuring INR 1250 buy-in, the 5 Lac GTD AOPS Brunch drew a field of 358 entries and coming out on was online MTT specialist in Manish Lakhotia aka ‘newkidpoker’ who banked INR 1.25 Lac after defeating Vishal Maharaj aka ‘VishalMaharaj’ (runner-up for INR 75,750). Kunal Sharma (3rd for INR 55000), Ritam Bhattacharya (6th for INR 18750) and Pratibh Saluja (8th for INR 12.5K) were notable FT finishers. The high-value tournament paid out top 38 players with min-cashes starting at INR 3,000.
Top 10 Payouts (INR):
| 1 | newkidpoker | 125000 |
| 2 | VishalMaharaj | 75750 |
| 3 | cvc | 55000 |
| 4 | Solidpoker | 40000 |
| 5 | Mayankp0985 | 27000 |
| 6 | RitamB | 18750 |
| 7 | Tarun8325 | 15000 |
| 8 | MrGTO | 12500 |
| 9 | saahib | 10000 |
| 10 | zontory | 7500 |
3 Lac GTD AOPS Siesta
A total of 231 entries came in this tournament and topping them all was ‘S1mplyZeus’ who banked INR 82,350 after defeating Vishal Maharaj (runner-up for INR 48,000). It was a back-to-back runner-up finish of the day for Maharaj who also finished runner-up to Manish Lakhotia in AOPS Brunch.
Top 24 players were paid out, with Vikranth Varma (3rd for INR 36000), Kamal Naruka (4th for INR 25800), Ankit Kasat (5th for INR 18000) and Neeraj Kumar (10th for INR 5250) finishing deep.
Top 10 Payouts (INR):
| 1 | S1mplyZeus | 82350 |
| 2 | VishalMaharaj | 48000 |
| 3 | borntrouble | 36000 |
| 4 | ksn123 | 25800 |
| 5 | kasatankit | 18000 |
| 6 | AZ0 | 12750 |
| 7 | kmk1127 | 9750 |
| 8 | whitemagic | 7500 |
| 9 | Thunderbolt007 | 6000 |
| 10 | Kumartomar | 5250 |
3 Lac GTD AOPS Afterparty DST
The final tourney on the AOPS schedule yesterday, the AOPS Afterparty DST did reasonably well, drawing in a total of 431 entries and generating INR 3.44 Lac in prizepool that got paid to the top 43 players with a min-cash of INR 1,896. In the end, it was the well-respected poker pro and coach Abhishek Goindi aka ‘pomfret1989’ who came out on top to bank INR 69,242 for his win.
Top 10 Payouts (INR):
| 1 | pomfret1989 | 69242 |
| 2 | ShadyBluffer | 67988 |
| 3 | Sammy19 | 36204 |
| 4 | jahaan | 27584 |
| 5 | poking | 17930 |
| 6 | Pfeiffer | 12068 |
| 7 | abhi_1414 | 9482 |
| 8 | dhirajsharma2003 | 7758 |
| 9 | bob95 | 5517 |
| 10 | OIdSchooL | 4310 |
Other Winners On AOPS Day 26
There were several other players who won AOPS titles yesterday. Here are the results from the other events:
1.5 Lac GTD AOPS Wake-Up Call With 660 Buy-in
- Total Entries – 269
- Total Prizepool- 1.61 Lac
- Winner – ‘pawanjindal’ (won INR 41964)
- Runner-up – MURUGAR82 (won INR 25017)
1 Lac GTD AOPS Byte With 350 Buy-in
- Total Entries – 150
- Total Prizepool – 1.26 Lac
- Winner – mechchan01 (won INR 34190)
- Runner-up – manku1 (won INR 21527).
1 Lac GTD AOPS Punch With 550 Buy-in
- Total Entries – 233
- Total Prizepool – 1.16 Lac
- Winner – stockfull (won INR 31979)
- Runner-up – Dinesh Singh aka LOOSER_MM (won INR 18640).