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Sreekanth Narayanan is an Indian tournament poker player based in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
A consistent grinder on both domestic virtual felt and live Asian circuits, Narayanan emerged as an international threat through prominent scores across Cambodia and Vietnam.
His breakthrough arrived in the late summer of 2026, headlined by a career-best high-roller score at the U Series of Poker (USOP) in Vietnam for $73,362 and a top-four finish in the Quads Poker Championship (QPC) Autumn Main Event for $44,296.
Career Earnings & Biggest Result
According to The Hendon Mob, Sreekanth Narayanan has accumulated $180,350 across 24 recorded live tournament cashes, with over $130,000 generated during a prolific 2026 campaign.
His career-best live score came in September 2026 at the U Series of Poker (USOP) Vietnam in Quảng Ninh (Ha Long Bay).
Competing in the ₫77,000,000 buy-in High Roller Special Mega Boost, Narayanan secured a runner-up payout of ₫1,905,000,000 (~$73,362).
Biography & Background
Hailing from Bengaluru, Narayanan cut his teeth in the competitive Indian domestic poker scene, making his earliest recorded live cashes aboard the offshore casinos of Goa in 2019 at the India Poker Championship (IPC).
He steadily built a reputation across domestic high-roller fields, highlighted by a final-table finish in the 2022 Baazi Poker Tour (BPT) ₹100K High Roller.
Over recent seasons, Narayanan transitioned into an active circuit traveler across the Asia-Pacific corridor and North America.
After logging summer cashes at the Venetian DeepStack Championship and the WSOP in Las Vegas, he established an extensive footprint across Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, and the Philippines.
In autumn 2026, he followed up a multi-final-table swing in Vietnam with an appearance at the Taiwan Millions Tournament (TMTC / TMT Championship) at CTP Asia Poker Arena in Taipei, scoring a 4th-place finish in the High Roller Warm-Up.
Play Style & Strategy
Narayanan’s tournament approach relies on patient multi-flight stack preservation and sharp risk management around high-equity stages.
In deep-structured tournaments like the QPC Main Event and WPT Prime, he employs a disciplined pre-flop game, avoiding high-variance speculative pots in early blind levels.
Once past the money bubble, Narayanan leverages aggression against medium stacks looking to ladder up.
In high-roller fields with shallower late-stage structures—demonstrated by his deep runs in the USOP Mega Boost and WPT Cambodia High Roller—he applies precise card-removal principles and positional three-bets to dictate action on short-handed final tables.
