Of late, the virtual felts in India have been blazing with action and last week was no exception. The action was literally teeming with several big guaranteed online tournaments gracing the online poker felts. While we saw several big winners throughout the week, the most massive online scores came on Sunday with Meet Jariwala emerging as the top scorer.
Playing the Natural8 India’s Bounty Hunters Forty Stack 44, Jariwala navigated through a large field of 8,300 entries, eventually finishing runner-up for a massive INR 17.31 Lakhs and topping the weekly charts. This was his career-best score, nearly 2.5X his previous online best score.
Vishal Maharaj Wins 1 Crore GTD WPTO#4 Milestone for INR 15 Lakhs
Over to PokerBaazi, the opening day of the highly-anticipated WPT India Online kicked off with a bang, crowning several big winners on Day 1. Vishal Maharaj, a former WPT Online India Mini 6-Max champion, turned an INR 690 satellite into the 1 Crore GTD WPTO#4 Milestone victory, claiming career-best INR 15 Lakhs and his second WPT online title. He also finished 82nd in the WPTO#2 (5-Max) Hyper Turbo for INR 8,000, bringing his total winnings for the day to INR 15.08 Lakhs. Tharun Darapu placed runner-up, banking INR 9.78 Lakhs – his personal best score.
With another runner-up finish in Junglee Poker’s Blockbuster Highroller for INR 2.12 Lakhs, Darapu collected an impressive INR 11.18 Lakhs in total Sunday winnings, showcasing an upward trajectory in his poker journey.
1 Crore GTD WPTO#4 Milestone Final Table Results (INR)
1. Vishal ‘VishalMaharaj’ Maharaj – 15,00,000
2. Tharun ‘Whodahellru’ Darapu – 9,78,000
3. Tiltplay – 7,00,000
4. Yohan ‘AllinMaestro’ Patel – 5,61,000
5. Uttam ‘brokenpocker’ Gope – 4,44,000
6. Rajneesh ‘msdhoni’ Thakur – 3,48,000
7. Adwait ‘SSHOTT’ Pol – 2,60,000
8. Arya ‘Merlion’ Dutta – 1,87,000
Rahul Kharbanda & Dhaval Mudgal Among Prominent Scorers
Among the prominent scorers of the week were Rahul Kharbanda & Dhaval Mudgal. Kharbanda stole the show by topping the Thursday charts with a remarkable comeback on Natural8 India. Returning after two months, Kharbanda made a splash in Natural8 India’s Bounty Hunters Mystery Paradise 54 where he fought his way through a massive field, eventually finishing in fifth place and claiming INR 8.88 Lakhs – his best score on the platform. With the latest score, his total winnings stand over INR 26 Lakhs.
Talking about Dhaval Mudgal, the live poker legend overcame a large field of 1,020 entries to take down Adda52`s 50 Lakh GTD Big Whale for a massive INR 8.83 Lakhs. Mudgal, who had won the Poker Dream 10 Vietnam Mini Main Event and the USOP Da Nang Mystery Rush Bounty earlier this year, also made his mark in the Adda52 Millions, placing fourth for INR 1.98 Lakhs, bringing his total for the day to INR 10.81 Lakhs.
The final duel took place between Mudgal and another poker veteran, Kapil Arora. The latter put up a strong fight but could not go all the way, eventually finishing runner-up for INR 6.41 Lakhs – his best score of 2024.
Big Whale Final Table Results (INR)
1. Dhaval ‘dirtyzoso’ Mudgal – 8,83,142
2. Kapil ‘selffish’ Arora – 6,40,896
3. Snehil ‘simranspartan’ Aggarwal – 4,65,098
4. Shrey ‘kingsb30’ Baj – 3,37,521
5. Aditya ‘Beware67’ Kesharwani – 2,44,939
6. Myron ‘zzzzz369’ Pereira – 1,77,752
7. Ankit ‘d00mtr00p3r’ Wadhawan – 1,28,995
8. Sahil ‘cashout69’ Aggarwal – 93,612
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