Day 1B chip leader Armaan “Armaan007” Kochhar came out strong today. He was seen hogging the top spot for some time however, his title chase was cut short in 19th place on a failed bluff. His final hand was against Rajat “happyfish” Mahajan in a battle of the blinds. Preflop Mahajan limped, Kochhar checked, the flop came 7♠ K♠ 7♣. Both checked, the turn came K♦, Mahajan check-called 87.6K, and the river was 3♦. Mahajan checked, Kochhar jammed 929,013, Mahajan called.
Kochhar Q♥ 8♠ bluff
Mahajan K♥ 2♦ full house
iceofspades is currently chip leader with 22 players remaining. The hand that helped get iceofspades there was against player sidkid. iceofspades opened with an 80K raise, sidkid and bb boatfish called. On the flop 5♥ 10♠ 4♠, iceofspades c-bet 100K, only sidkid continued. On the turn A♦ iceofspades checked, sidkid fired 150K, was called. On the river 5♦, both checked it. iceofspades showed K♥ K♠, sidkid mucked. iceofspades is chip leader with 26L.
TheMathematician jumped several ranks to 2nd position after getting lucky on Hitesh “hitshbhai” Batra. Both were all in preflop, TheMathematician A♦ 8♠, Batra A♠ K♥, the board came A♣ 8♥ J♦ Q♥ 6♦ for a winning two pair to TheMathematician. Batra took 23rd place.
Returning from the break, player “mittpop” sent short stacked JaiKiran “testify” Kumar to the rail in 28th place. It was all in preflop with mittpop 10♦ 5♣ and Kumar J♣ 9♥. The board dropped a ten on the flop.
It isn’t all wins for brokenpocker. He just paid a double up to short stacked Mohak “Tiltin” Kapoor with X? J♥ spiking a jack on the turn to outdraw A♦ 10♦. brokenpocker dipped to 21.3L, Kapoor at 2.57L.
28 players remaining
Average stack: 9.97L
Event winner Karan “bozo” Kapur was sent packing up in 31st place by player “iceofspades”. It was all in preflop with iceofspades J♠ J♥ and Kapur 8♦ 8♣. The board favored the dominant hand running 3♣ 9♦ 2♥ A♦ J♣ for a winning set to iceofspades.