PPL Spring 2018: Series Closes With a Bang With Manoj Pentakota Winning Main Event For ₹28.23 Lakhs; Aditya Sushant Ships High Roller For ₹11 Lakhs

PPL Spring 2018
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  • PG News February 21, 2018
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PokerBaazi closed out another successful edition of its flagship series as the highly anticipated PokerBaazi Premier League (PPL) kick started this year’s online festivities with its Spring’18 edition. PPL events are known to be diverse as they provide opportunities to players of all strata to participate and take their shot at minting some thick money in what has become one of the richest online poker tournaments in the country.

The weeklong series commenced on February 12 and ran through till February 18 featuring a hefty prize guarantee of ₹4.1 crores across 42 events.

Headlining the series was the finale ₹1 crore GTD Main Event. Visakhapatnam-based Manoj ’killbill’ Pentakota took down the event banking a whopping ₹28.23 lakhs in prize money. The event tallied 471 entries and an additional 253 re-entries resulting in a total 724 entries that took a shot at the monstrous ₹1 Crore guaranteed prize money. Notably, Pentakota who had just returned from MPC 2018 in Macau also made it to the final table in the Big 15 event on February 12 pocketing ₹26,450 for his ninth-place finish.

 

Other Featured Winners

 

1 Crore GTD Main Event

The Main Event boasted of a guaranteed prize pool of ₹1 Crore and 471 unique entries along with an additional 253 re-entries brought the total entrant count to 724. Eight and a half hours of play is what it took for the event to crown a champion and taking top honors was Manoj ‘killbill’ Pentakota. He defeated Siddharth ‘schemer’ Karia heads up to win the first-place prize.

Manoj Pentakota
Manoj Pentakota

 

Final Table Results (INR)

1. Manoj ‘killbill’ Pentakota – ₹28,23,600

2. Siddharth ‘schemer’ Karia – ₹16,01,850

3. Kris8in – ₹11,40,300

4. Praveen ‘007prince’ Kumar – ₹8,14,500

5. Rubin ‘kornkid’ Labroo – ₹5,97,300

6. Siddharth ‘sidddhu’ Mundada – ₹4,01,820

7. Vivek ‘vivek_jain’ Jain – ₹2,98,650

8. Sameer ‘Killersam’ Tavanandi – ₹2,44,350

9. Arun ‘Darinda’ Poply – ₹1,90,050

 

15 Lakhs GTD Main Event Warm-Up

The featured event of Day 6 roped in 148 unique entrants along with 111 re-entries rallying up the total entry count to 259. Exactly 7 hours later, it was Pranay ‘murderer90’ Kapoor and Sunit ‘Sunit’ Warraich who were left battling it out heads-up and eventually, Kapoor took down the event for ₹3.15 lakhs.

Pranay Kapoor
Pranay Kapoor

 

Final Table Results (INR)

1. Pranay ‘murderer90’ Kapoor – ₹3,15,000

2. Sunit ‘Sunit’ Warraich – ₹2,32,500

3. Deepak ‘Definate’ Choudhary – ₹1,76,250

 

50 Lakhs GTD 6-max High Roller

Day 5 featured the ₹50 lakhs guaranteed 6-max High Roller event which attracted a field of 167 entrants (118 unique entries + 49 re-entries). WSOP bracelet winner Aditya ‘gangajal’ Sushant shipped the event defeating ‘Sara24’ heads-up for the title and netted ₹11 lakhs.

Aditya Sushant
Aditya Sushant

 

Final Table Results (INR)

1. Aditya ‘gangajal’ Sushant – ₹11,00,000

2. Sara24 – ₹8,25,000

3. Nishaanth ‘shanni’ Shanmughasundaram – ₹6,00,000

4. AbhishekJ – ₹4,50,000

5. Sandy ‘ziigmund’ Lamba – ₹3,37,500

6. Abhishek ‘abhi3333’ Garg – ₹2,50,000

7. acesup – ₹1,87,500

8. Sameer ‘Killersam’ Tavanandi – ₹1,50,000

9. Rohit ‘Allin47’ Mittal – ₹1,25,000

 

The Summit 30 Lakh Deepstack

The ₹30 lakhs guaranteed Deepstack event was the featured event on Day 4. The event featured a buy-in of ₹11,000 and once the last hand was dealt, it was ‘Sara24’ who topped the field of 219 players to emerge victorious and pocketed the ₹5.92 lakhs top prize.

Final Table Results (INR)

1. Sara24 – ₹5,92,800

2. Praful ‘praf11’ Gupta – ₹4,40,800

3. Ujjwal ‘Mr_Robot’ Narwal – ₹3,26,800

4. Abhishek ‘abhishekpanda’ Panda – ₹2,43,200

5. flopd8shit – ₹1,74,800

6. Sahil ‘cairyhunt’ Agarwal – ₹1,29,200

7. Madhur ‘fishfry’ Khosla – ₹98,800

8. pagla – ₹76,000

9. believe – ₹53,200

 

The Big 12 Freeze-out

The event offered ₹12 lakhs in guaranteed prize money. Heads-up play saw Kunal ‘pinguv’ Vaswani and ‘TiltDaddy’ battling it out, with the latter coming out victorious for a payday of ₹2.43 lakhs.

Final Table Results (INR)

1. TiltDaddy – ₹2,43,000

2. Kunal ‘pinguv’ Vaswani – ₹1,83,000

3. Deepak ‘Definate’ Choudhary – ₹1,38,000

4. Vinayak ‘salmanbhai’ Bajaj – ₹1,02,000

5. Chandan ‘darkfish’ Arora – ₹78,000

6. Ashish ‘omg_spew’ Munot – ₹60,000

7. virjain – ₹45,000

8. slowroller – ₹33,000

9. Abhinav ‘griezmann’ Iyer – ₹27,000

 

The Endeavour 25 Lakhs GTD

An entry fee of ₹6,050 for the event provided players a shot at the monstrous ₹25 lakhs prize pool, which eventually swelled up to ₹26.75 lakhs owing to 535 entries (332 unique entries + 203 re-entries).

After about 7 hours of play, the tournament crowned its winner in ‘raghu2017’ who defeated Banmanlang ‘bml2012’ Lyndem heads-up for the title and collected the ₹4.94 lakhs first place purse.

Final Table Results (INR)

1. raghu2017 – ₹4,94,875

2. Banmanlang ‘bml2012’ Lyndem – ₹3,67,812

3. sanrock005 – ₹2,67,500

4. Vikranth ‘borntrouble’ Verma – ₹2,00,625

5. Vikram ‘vikramkumar’ Kumar – ₹1,47,125

6. Mohak ‘flippp’ Kapoor – ₹1,07,000

7. Kartik ‘TheInternetKid’ Ved – ₹80,250

8. audy – ₹60,187

9. tippingdwarf – ₹40,125

 

The Big 15 (15 Lakhs GTD)

The highlight event of the very first day of the series offered ₹15 lakhs in guaranteed prizes. The tournament attracted a field of 302 players (183 unique players + 119 re-entries) generating a total prize pool of ₹15.10 lakhs.

Abhishek ‘abhishek081190’ Jaiswal defeated Rohit ‘pokerjoker’ Mittal heads up to win the title and the first-place prize of ₹3.02 lakhs.

Abhishek Jaiswal
Abhishek Jaiswal

 

Final Table Results (INR)

1. Abhishek ‘abhishek081190’ Jaiswal – ₹3,02,000

2. Rohit ‘pokerjoker’ Mittal – ₹2,22,725

3. Rubin ’kornkid’ Labroo – ₹1,66,100

4. likeaboss85 – ₹1,20,800

5. Gautam ‘Jbaat’ Mankani – ₹90,600

6. Jasven ‘JasvenSaigal’ Saigal – ₹67,950

7. Nishat177 – ₹49,075

8. Sid ‘CornerPocket’ Khanna – ₹37,750

9. Manoj ‘killbill’ Pentakota – ₹26,425

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