Since we kicked off our live updates, Armaan “Armaan007” Kochhar has been one of the top five players in the count. With the money now intact, Kochhar is still the man to catch up to with 8.49L. One of his recent pots was in a hand against Raghav “thatssosick” Bansal. Kochhar bet the river board, Bansal called, Kochhar won with his set. Bansal’s cards weren’t shown.
The final 36 players are now in the money. The minimum cash is IN₹ 38,760 but what they will all be hunting down is the IN₹ 12,59,000 up top, the APT Trophy, and APT Championship Ring. Good luck to all!
After 6.5 hours of action, the players have now reached the money. Just before the bubble burst, Sahil “bluffme19” Chutani booted “jacktheripper27” and Gautam “M8a7” Rohilla did the same to Manish “thekid” Lakhotia, to bring the field down to 37 players. It took several hands before an all in showdown took place. Mishun “thepokeraja” Mahesh was all in on with 7♥ 7♦ that was dominated by Ujjwal “Mr_Robot” Nalwal’s 9♣ 9♦.
Myron “priyankAAchoprAA” Pereira found an opportune moment to land a much needed double up. He shoved with 9♣ 9♠ that improved to a set against Ujjwal “Mr_Robot” Nalwal’s A♠ 6♠.
Yesterday, Ritwik “Ritwikkhanna” Khanna took down the Superstack event and hoped to match that up with a back to back victory here. That dream was crushed by Mithun “thepokeraja” Mahesh. Khanna was nearly all in with his short stack then put the rest on the flop. His pocket eights however were no good against Mahesh’s set of kings.
End of the line for the ailing Arsh “Button_Hai_Bro” Grover. With 6 bb left, he hoped to double up with K♣ 5♥ on a board A♥ K♥ 6♣ 3♥ 3♠ but Anmol “anzzzzz” Mehta had better A♣ Q♠ to take the pot and send him packing without any pay.
Abhishek “singhsaab” Goindi turned up aces on the river to send a player packing and drive his stack to nearly double. He is into the top 20 with 2.15L.
Top ten in chips at the break: