The first ten minutes of final table action saw both short stacks – Akshay “sherlock52” Nasa and Dhaval “Rehab77” Mudgal – double up however not so fortunate for Aditya “eatingseeds” Degala. Degala’s A♦ K♥ missed the board against Nasa’s 4♣ 4♠ to finish in 6th place.
Final table players by chip rank
Manish “thekid” Lakhotia
Shardul “duuurrrr” Parthasarathi
Akshay “powershell” Asawa
Aditya “eatingseeds” Degala
Akshay “sherlock52” Nasa
Dhaval “Rehab77” Mudgal
Armaan “Armaan007” Kochhar missed the final table when his A♦ K♦ failed to improve against Shardul “duuurrrr” Parthasarathi’s J♥ J♣.
We are down to the final table with six remaining.
Rachit “baba_ramdev” Soni was the next player to meet Manish “thekid” Lakhotia’s mighty axe. Lakhotia shoved preflop, Soni called for all his chips. Soni had 9♦ 9♠ that dominated Lakhotia’s 2♣ 2♠ however the when the board ran 10♣ K♥ 6♦ 2♥ K♦ it was a full house to Lakhotia to burn Soni in 8th place.
Battle of the blinds led to the downfall of Pranay “setmeup” Chawla. Manish “thekid” Lakhotia limped from the small blind, Chawla checked it to see the flop 4♣ 7♠ 6♥. Lakhotia checked, Chawla fired 26,911, Lakhotia raised to 67,822, Chawla shoved for 366,229, Lakhotia called it to put Chawla at risk.
Chawla 7♥ 8♣ top pair
Lakhotia 3♥ 5♥ straight
The turn 6♦ and river 2♣ sealed the win for Lakhotia and 9th place for Chawla.
Another short stack booted. Nadeem “SpadeHunter” Basha fell in 10th place with Shardul “duuurrrr” Parthasarathi collecting.
Akshay “sherlock52” Nasa added another player’s stack to his pile after sending short stacked Rahul “pokerjoker” Mittal out in 11th place. It was all in preflop with Mittal holding 7♣ 3♦ to Nasa’s A♥ 2♥ that saw a board 3♣ A♠ 5♣ 10♥ 2♣.
Manish Lakhotia denied yet another player, this time it was Ankur “Stonecold” Sehgal biting the bullet. Action saw Lakhotia open to 32K, Sehgal defended on the big blind. At the flop K♥ 4♣ 9♣, Sehgal check-called 28K. On the 7♦ turn, same action with Sehgal check-calling 56K. Then on the river 5♦, Sehgal checked, Lakhotia jammed, Sehgal risked it all.
Lakhotia A♦ K♠ top pair
Sehgal Q♦ 9♦ second pair
In another all in preflop showdown, Akshay “sherlock52” Nasa’s Q♥ Q♣ dominated Harsh Kumar “100crdream” Dembla’s 10♥ 9♥ throughout to ship it and bring the field down to the final two tables.