Akshay “sherlock52” Nasa fired three bullets but still missed his chance at a profit. Down to 16 bb, he shoved it from the big blind with 9♥ 7♥, sb Srihari “bangbang999” Bang looked him up with a dominating K♥ 10♥. The board ran Q♥ 8♦ 4♣ J♠ 6♥. Bang climbed several notches up to 20th rank.
Last hand for Kritagya “Kritagya_17” Sharma who sent his stack in on the small blind with K♠ J♠ only to run into big stacked bb Sahil “bluffme19” Chutani A♠ J♥. The board ran clean Q♦ 7♣ Q♥ 3♣ 9♥. Chutani is currently running second in chips.
Players are dropping like flies with 20 out of the running since reg closed. Among them were WSOP bracelet winner Abhinav “griezmann” Iyer who doubled up twice but came up blank on his third showdown, WSOPC ring winner Aniket “Anteman” Waghmare, Harsh “100crdream” Dembla, and recent winner Nishaant “shanni” Shanmughasundaram.
One of the chip leaders, Armaan “armaan007” Kochhar added more to his stack after dusting Naren “imunagi” Purohit with A♣ J♠ full house over A♣ 10♠ two pair on a board 2♠ A♦ J♥ K♣ J♦.
The Championship Event is the tour’s featured 6-Max tournament. Among the players in the field are chip leader Armaan “armaan007” Kochhar, WSOP bracelet winner Kartik “theinternetkid” Ved, Gaurav “gaug17” Sood, Raghav “thatssosick” Bansal, earlier PLO-5 champion Punya “madhumangal” Prabha, Abhishek “singhsaab” Goindi, Sumit “boronyx” Sapra, and stuggling with less than one bb is WSOP bracelet winner Abhinav “griezmann” Iyer.
After 4 hours and 24 minutes, the doors are now closed for the Championship Event! From here on, it is a race to the money and to the throne. The event drew 157 players plus 128 re-entries for 285 total entries. This boosted the 50L guarantee to a much sweeter IN₹ 57,00,000 prize pool. The top 36 places will get paid with the eventual champion scooping up the IN₹ 12,59,000 first prize, the APT Trophy, and APT Championship Ring. Good luck to all! 90 players remain, here are the top ten in chips:
Cards are flying at the featured APT Championship Event 50L guaranteed! At this time, 30 players are already battling out with, among them are WSOP bracelet winner Abhinav “Griezmann” Iyer, Kunal “VasooliChacha” Patni, Manish “thekid” Lakhotia, recent winners Arsh “Button_Hai_Bro” Grover, Karan “Apocalypto” Radia, Anurag “13anurag” Srivastava, and Adarsh “Lazygamer007” Subham.
Registration closes at 23:25 India time. Buy in is IN₹ 22,000. This is the first event where the eventual champion will take home both the APT Trophy and APT Championship Ring! Good luck to all!
Live updates begin once registration closes.
Stay tuned for the Championship Event 50L GTD! This is the first event where you can win both the APT Trophy and APT Championship Ring! Registration is now open. Cards start flying at 7pm India. Buy in is IN₹ 22,000 (~US$ 295). For late-comers, registration closes at 1124pm.
Live updates will begin once registration closes.