PGT Season 2 kicked off with the INR 5K Freeze-out tournament onboard the floating Casino Royale in Panjim (Goa). An impressive 70 players swarmed the Royale card room to get a piece of the action along with a shot at some points towards the INR 12 Lacs, PGT  Season 2 - Player of the Year (POY) leaderboard prize. 

Notables in attendance included Team PokerGuru Mentors Aditya 'Intervention' Agarwal, Rohit Bhalla and Ramandeep Singh Gujral alongside Team Pros Amit Varma and Pulkit Kalia. Tournament Regulars came out in good numbers though quite a few were missing and are expected to join the series over the weekend for the INR 25K Main Event on Saturday i.e. 11th February. 70 registrations ensured that the prizepool guarantees were easily crushed with the following payouts:

1st place - 120,000 INR + PokerGuru Silver trophy.

2nd place - 75,000 INR

3rd place  - 55,000 INR

4th place - 40,000 INR

5th place - 30,000 INR

6th place - 20,000 INR

7th place - 10,000 INR.

Goa regular Prabhat Mukherjea was one of the early chipleaders but got taken over by Hussain Lakdawala and Mitul Mehta, and trailing them closely was Intervention.  With 11 players left Naresh Virawali, Intervention and Shawn Chatterton were leading the pack towards the money bubble.

Final Table Chipcounts

1. Naresh Veeravalli - 91,400 chips

2. Aditya Intervention Agarwal - 57,300 chips

3. Shawn Chatterton - 39,600 chips

4. Laveena Belani - 36,500 chips

5. Husain Lakdawala - 36,400 chips

6. Uday Patil - 33,000 chips

7. Alexey Chipushtanov - 31,600 chips

8. Parveem Kazi - 13,900 chips

9. Yogesh Thakur - 10,300 chips

The money bubble of the event was Parveem Kazi, finishing in 8^th place where 7 got paid. The next one to be eliminated was Uday Patil who got unlucky with  against Alexey`s . Shawn Chatterton from Kolkata was the next casualty on the final table when his  failed to improve against Naresh`s  on the board of .Laveena the last lady remaining in the tournament had a swingy final table herself when she won a monster pot in a 3 way showdown with , eliminating Alexey to take the chip lead but hit the rails soon afterwards. With the short stacked Husain gone it was heads-up between Aditya ‘Intervention’ Agarwal and Naresh Veeravalli for the title.

             Aditya 'Intervention' Agarwal

After a swingy heads-up duel which saw both Intervention and Naresh exchange chip lead every hand, we finally had a Champion. In the final hand of the tournament, Intervention moved allin from the button with 110,000 chips and saw Naresh making the call instantly.

Intervention  

Naresh  

The board went off      and with that we had our 1st PGT Season 2 Champion -Naresh Veeravalli!

          PGT Season 2 INR 5K Freezeout Champion - Naresh Veeravalli with friends

The Final Payouts of the event were:

1st place - Naresh Veeravalli (INR 1,20,000)

2nd place - Aditya ‘intervention’ Agarwal (INR 75,000)

3rd place  - Husain Lakdawala (INR 55,000)

4th place - Laveena Belani (INR 40,000)

5th place - Alexey Chipushtanav (INR 30,000)

6th place - Shawn Chatterton (INR 20,000)

7th place - Uday Patil (INR 10,000)

Congratulations to all players who made it in the money. Read the complete live coverage of this event in the live coverage section.

For details and registration to upcoming events of PokerGuru Tour click here. 

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