After a three year absence, globally renowned brand World Poker Tour has returned to Goa shores! Currently rockin’ onboard the Deltin Royale, WPT Prime India in partnership with India online site Adda52 commenced on April 12 and will run for seven days, closing on April 18. The weeklong series features 13 trophy events which includes the highly coveted first Prime Main Event title in the country. Day 1A is in progress with 181 entries. You can read up on the action via the WPT Live Updates.
As always, support for the brand has been tremendous. Players from India have been one of the largest forces at nearly every WPT event in Asia, and on homeland (or waters), players from all over the country have descended. Among the biggest names already seen were WSOP bracelet winners Abhinav Iyer and Aditya Sushant, 2022 WPT Prime Vietnam champion Zarvan Tumboli, top pro Aditya Agarwal, joined by Raju Jaruplavath, Muskan Sethi, Paawan Bansal, Lakshpal Singh, to mention a few.
In the coming days, players hope to see past WPT India Main Event champions in the field: Ashish Munot, Nikunj Jhunjhunwala, and Vikash Mantri.
The Main Event runs from April 13 to 17. A total of three Day 1 heats are scheduled – Day 1B is on Friday, April 14, and Day 1C on Saturday, April 15. Buy in is ₹65,000 (~US$ 800).
Today will also see the first two side event trophies awarded. The festival opener Superstack NLH drew 385 entries for a prize pool of ₹52.5 lac, and the 50K Freezeout pulled in 118 players for ₹53.7 lac.
For the full schedule, click the link —> WPT Prime India
Tricia David
Tricia David has long experience as a recreational poker player and has been covering poker events since 2010 for numerous outfits in Asia. She spent one year working part time with Poker Portal Asia then became editor and lead writer for all event coverage of the Philippine Poker Tour (PPT). Under the PPT, she overlooked content for their website, and produced live updates on all their events. In addition, she served as the live and online events website content writer for the Asian Poker Tour. Currently, she does live events reporting in Asia for online news site Somuchpoker and is also one of their news contributors.
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