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This Week in Poker: October 4 – 10

PG News October 11, 2017
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In the PokerGuru feature ‘This Week in Poker’ we bring to you the weekly round up of the biggest online scores by Indian MTT players along with the top stories from both the live and online poker circuit.

Here are this week`s top stories

It has been another hectic week with big news pouring in from both, the domestic and international arenas. After the world witnessed one of the most brutal attacks in Las Vegas earlier this month, volunteers and well-wishers came to the fore with the GoFundMe campaign already raising over $10.1 million for the victims and their family with a new goal of $15 million set for the fund.

In the aftermath of the incident in Las Vegas, crackdowns continued in Goa as the Goa congress asked for a security review for all the casinos operating in the state.

Social media was recently taken by storm after the sole PokerStars pro from the country Aditya ‘Adi Agarwal’ Agarwal was announced as the manager of Kolkata Creators by GPL India.

Poker buffs can also look forward to Raj & Shilpa Shetty Kundra and IFP promoted Match IPL, which is gearing up for its finale on November 17-18. The league that will take place between eight city-based teams will award ₹3 crores in prizes!

Meanwhile there was plenty on offer for online MTT grinders. One Indian who stood out among the rest this past week was ‘R4Rounder’, who won the inaugural Adda52 Mega Suits for ₹10 Lakhs and for this, he is our “PokerGuru Star of the Week”.

A few of our challengers clocked flier miles, as live action moved to the ongoing WPT DeepStacks Netherland. Adda52 pro Kunal Patni, Zarvan Tumboli and Jaydeep Dawer are in attendance and all three made it to Day 2 of the Warm-up event. Tumboli and Patni both extended their deep runs to cash in the event. Tumboli made it to the final table and finished seventh for €2,253 while Patni cashed €811 for his 13^th place finish. Notably, WPT and ELC Gaming are hosting their first poker and Esports event at the series.

In other happenings across the globe, partypoker added American pro Jason Koon to it pro team rooster, Phil Galfond launched his DFS site and The O Shaked Shares Trust sold all their stake in 888 holdings.

In tournament reports, we have highlights from 2017 PMU.fr WPT DeepStacks Marrakech Main Event, WPT Maryland Main Event and 2017 WSOP Circuit Seminole Hard Rock Main Event.

Online Railbird Report

The magic continued online, as we once again saw a slew of notable scores from our challengers. Topping the cashes list was ‘R4Rounder’ who took down the inaugural Mega Suits event of Adda52 banking a cool ₹10 Lakhs and is our “PokerGuru Star of the Week” title.

Other notable scores include –

‘Svensk’ won ₹5 lakhs for 1^st place in PokerBaazi ‘Baazi Super Sunday’

‘spark123’ won ₹2.84 Lakhs for 1^st place in Adda52 ‘Sunday Suits’

Akshay ‘sherlock52’ Nasa won ₹1.26 lakhs for 1^st place in PokerBaazi ‘Baazi Super Sunday (5 Lakhs GTD)’

Sriharsha ‘indiandurr’ Doddapaneni won $4,058.81 for 3rd place in the PokerStars ‘Bounty Builder $215, $50K GTD’ and won $1,298.26 for 26th place in the PokerStars ‘$215 Sunday Warm-Up, $250K GTD’

Sahil ‘$lim$hady19’ Chutani won $3,174.48 for 1st place in the PokerStars ‘Big $33, $15K GTD’ and won $1,130.84 for 4th place in the PokerStars ‘Bounty Builder $11, $50K GTD’

Vikram ‘thedead parrots’ Singh won $3,018.71 for 2^nd place in the PokerStars ‘Big $44, $20K GTD’

Armaan ‘armaan007’ Kocchar won $1,560.42 for 4th place in the PokerStars ‘Big $162, $12K GTD’

Shravan ‘shravanc13’ Chhabria won $1,340.14 for 3rd place in the PokerStars ‘Bounty Builder $44, $20K GTD’ and won $1,282.91 for 1st place in the PokerStars ‘$55 NLHE [Turbo, Deep Stacks], $4K GTD’

Siddarth ‘gunner9696’ Singhvi won $1,275.61 for 9th place in the PokerStars ‘Omania High Roller: $320 NLO8 [6-Max], $20K GTD’ and won $1,100.97 for 1st place in the PokerStars ‘$55 NLO8 [6-Max, Hyper-Turbo], $2K GTD’

Arjanveer ‘holdbaby30’ Singh Chadha won $1,251.16 for 8th place in the PokerStars ‘Bounty Builder $109, $100K GTD’

Sanjay ‘sanjaytaneja’ Taneja won $1,088.16 for 8th place in the PokerStars ‘Bounty Builder $215, $60K GTD’

Mega Suits On Adda52

This week, India’s largest poker site Adda52.com introduced their brand-new tournament ‘Mega Suits’ guaranteeing a hefty ₹30 Lakhs in prizes with ₹10 Lakhs GTD reserved for the winner. The event debuted on Sunday, October 8 and attracted 454 unique entries with an additional 255 re-entries to make for a total prize pool of ₹32.61 lakhs. The top 45 places were paid with ‘R4Rounder’ becoming a millionaire after he defeated ‘Dhawal24’ in the heads-up battle.