DPT Jan’16 Day 4: Raghav Bansal Takes Down the Main Event; Shravan Chhabria Wins the 10K Hangover

Sunday, 24th January saw some high octane poker action in the on-going Deltin Poker Tournament presented by Adda52. Raghav Bansal won the DPT 100K Main Event for the top prize of Rs 3,060,000. Running alongside the Day 2 of Main Event was the 10K Hangover tournament which Shravan Chhabria triumphed taking home Rs 330,000.raghav-shravan-dpt

100K Main Event

The DPT 100K Main Event resumed for the Day 2 action with 33 survivors from the Day 1 and it took 13 more levels to crown the champion. Abhneet Jain, Shushant, Sarad Rao and Akshay Limaye were among the early eliminations on Day 2. The field was down to 15 players in Level 17 and Niraj Yadav became the unlucky bubble of the tournament. Once all 12 players were assured of money, the battle to reach the final table begin in which Aman Dhamija (12th), Anirban Das (11th) and Sumit Asrani (10th) fell.

It was start-studded final table of 9 players with several pros of the industry. Here are the final table players and their chip counts:

  1. Dhaval Mudgal – 626,000
  2. Raghav Bansal – 623,000
  3. Akash Malik – 469,000
  4. Madan Kumar – 355,000
  5. Rishabh Jhunjhunwala – 336,000
  6. Romit Advani – 266,000
  7. Abhay Bakodia – 134,000
  8. Jaideep Sajwan – 127,000
  9. Ujjwal Rana – 126,000

Jaideep Sajwan was the first player to get eliminated from the final table when his Ace-King could improve against Raghav’s Pocket Deuces. The final table lasted for 5.5 hours and in the end it was Raghav Bansal clinching the win. Raghav eliminated 6 player on the Final table to go heads up with Akasah Malik.

In the final hand, Raghav bet 80k preflop to which Akash Malik shoves his entire stack. Raghav makes the call to showdown:

Akash: c1h4

Raghav: hkhq

Community d6sks4h3h8 gave both the players a pair but Raghav won the pot as well as the tournament with King-pair.

Final table payouts:

  1. Raghav Bansal – 3,060,000
  2. Akash Malik – 1,887,000
  3. Dhaval Mudgal – 1,326,000
  4. Rishabh Jhunjhunwala – 1,020,000
  5. Abhay Bokadia – 714,000
  6. Madan Kumar – 561,000
  7. Romit Advani – 408,000
  8. Ujjwal Rana – 306,000
  9. Jaideep Sajwan – 255,000

10K Hangover

The 10K Hangover event of DPT Jan’16 drew 110 runners who ponied up Rs 10,000 creating a prize pool of Rs 110,000. Shravan Chhabria triumphed the field winning the event trophy with Rs 330,000 in the top prize. Shravan beat Vinayak heads up to win the tournament.

The organizers announced to pay 12 places in the tournament keeping the minimum cash prize at Rs 22,000. Jayant Yewale bubbled the tournament and after 3 more eliminations – Sumit Sapra (12th), Deepanshu (11th) and Sujith S (10th), the final table was formed. Here are the final table players:

Seat 1 – Prasanna J – 212,000

Seat 2 – Shravan Chhabria – 67,000

Seat 3 – Guru Prasad – 127,000

Seat 4 – Akshay Limaye – 98,000

Seat 5 – Shalini Bhadari – 65,000

Seat 6 – Vinayak Malani – 223,000

Seat 7 – Abhishek Kumar – 81,000

Seat 8 – Vaibhav Jain – 148,000

Seat 9 – Adarsh J – 72,000

The organizers had announced the last lady standing prize of Rs 10,000 which Shalini Bhandari won and she also reached the final table. The final table battle ran approximately for 2.5 hrs and Shravan beat Vinayak to take down the event title. In the last hand, Shravan went all-in with hkh7 and Vinayak called with s1d6. Community s10cjc2skc3 gave a pair of King to Shravan and he won the torunament.

Final table payouts:

  1. Shravan Chhabria – 330,000
  2. Vinayak Malani – 203,500
  3. Akshay Limaye – 143,000
  4. Vaibhav Jain – 110,000
  5. Guru Prasad – 77,000
  6. Prasanna J – 60,500
  7. Shalini Bhandari – 44,000
  8. Abhishek Kumar – 33,000
  9. Adarsh J – 27,500