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| On Updated : Dec 4, 2019 12:55 PM IST

Tuesday Majors: Akash gupta and Shashank Shekhar among winners

By Saina Fatima

Beginning the week with quite a slow Monday, India poker players emerged to bag the titles in various events on Tuesday. Newcomers were also seen highlighting in the different events. Let’s have a look at Tuesday night’s majors!

Mega Stack

Spartan Poker’s Mega Stack INR 20 Lakhs GTD recorded an impressive entry of 743 players. The buy-in was INR 3,300 which generated a bigger prize pool of INR 22.29 Lakhs. This surpassed the previous guarantee. The top 71 players received the minimum payout of INR 8,470. Akash ‘Akash0510’ Gupta pocketed the title to his name defeating Anmol ‘bemyfriend’ Srivats who won as a runner-up and won INR 2.72 Lakhs in heads-up.

The Endeavour

A 7-hour long brainstorming session at The Endeavour INR 15 Lakhs GTD was hosted by PokerBaazi. Recording an impressive 468 entries with a buy-in of INR 3,850, the prize pool reached to INR 16.38 Lakhs. The top 54 players were guaranteed a fixed payment of INR 7,534. Anonymous player ‘gandukepille’  emerged victoriously beating  Chirag ‘miyagi’ Sodha who settled as a runner-up by winning INR 2.3 Lakhs in heads-up.

Hitman

Hitman INR 7.5 Lakhs GTD was hosted by Adda52 as a bounty tournament. 223 players registered themselves with a buy-in of INR 4,500. A prize pool of INR 7,50,000 was created in this event. The top 24 players received a fixed cash prize of INR 6,375. Shashank Shekhar aka ‘Goldfish03’ won the title and took INR 2,05,875  home. He defeated Abhishek Garg aka ‘thegrinder’ who settled with a runner-up prize of INR 1,20,000 in heads-up.

Sixth Sense

Sixth Sense INR 7.5 Lakhs GTD kicked off at 7.30 PM on Tuesday. This event was hosted by PokerStars where 309 entries were made. The buy-in was INR 2,750 and made an impressive prize money of INR 2,750. Tournament regular ‘GutshotHaiBro’ bagged the title and won INR 1.38 Lakhs. He defeated ‘rivered547’ in heads-up where the latter won INR 97k.

StackUp

9stacks held StackUp INR 2.5 Lakhs GTD which commenced at 7:59 on Tuesday night. Only 125 entries where the top 20 players received guaranteed payout of INR 2,550. Akshay Pathak aka ‘Once’ won the title for INR 66,300. Akshay defeated ‘AK19’ in heads-up.

Saina Fatima