Sangeeth Mohan Wins APT Asian Series Goa Main Event
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November 15, 2011 – Sangeeth "Samohh" Mohan has made history as the winner of the INR 50,000 APT Asian Series Goa Main Event. Mohan picked up INR 2,346,400 in prize money after topping a field of 158 entries – the most ever seen in a Main Event tournament in India.
It was actually the second title the Indian player claimed during the week at APT Asian Series Goa after scooping the entire prize pool in Saturday’s INR 15,000 Greed side event for INR 526,000. Mohan entered last night’s Main Event final table with an average chip stack of 262,000, but had a rocky ride when he found himself fighting for his tournament life on just 80,000 in chips |
He then got his stack back up to 500,000 with yet another double up before going on to knock out Agarwalla and Jasven Saigal in 4th and 3rd place respectively. Mohan entered heads up play with Sameer Rattonsey holding 1,805,000 in chips against Rattonsey’s 540,000 and proceeded to use his big stack to pick up the blinds and antes.
Argarwal Wins Event 3 at APT Asian Series Goa
November 11, 2011 – As the race for APT Asian Series Goa glory intensifies, two more events in India's first international poker series at Casino Royale has crowned two more champions.
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Event #3 INR 10,000 No Limit Hold’em
In yesterday’s Event 3 of the schedule, Aditya “Mastermind” Argarwal’s took home his APT Asian Series trophy after besting a field of 78 runners. Argarwal pocketed INR 238,700 in the process and was able to get the perfect boost in confidence leading up to the APT Asian Series Goa Main Event.
Despite heading into the final table with the chip lead, Argarwal wasn’t having much luck in busting out his opponents. That job was left to the eventual runner-up, Kristian Faering who couldn’t seem to put a foot wrong in his all-in situations, coming from behind on a number of occasions to rail his opponents.
In yesterday’s Event 3 of the schedule, Aditya “Mastermind” Argarwal’s took home his APT Asian Series trophy after besting a field of 78 runners. Argarwal pocketed INR 238,700 in the process and was able to get the perfect boost in confidence leading up to the APT Asian Series Goa Main Event.
Despite heading into the final table with the chip lead, Argarwal wasn’t having much luck in busting out his opponents. That job was left to the eventual runner-up, Kristian Faering who couldn’t seem to put a foot wrong in his all-in situations, coming from behind on a number of occasions to rail his opponents.
Amit Varma Wins APT Asian Series Goa Head Hunter
November 10, 2011 – The second day of action at Casino Royale for APT Asian Series Goa saw well-known Indian player Amit Varma take out the INR 15,000 Head Hunter event and pocket INR 293,500 in prize money plus an APT Philippines Main Event package worth USD $3000. A field of 75 runners sat down for the event, giving a total prize pool of INR 1,012,500 that included bounties of INR 2000 on each player’s head.
There were also eight special INR 5000 bounties given to notable players attending the event. These were made up of APT Asian Series Goa Event #1 winner Phil Sanders, two-time WSOP bracelet winner Mel Judah, US poker pro Nam Thien Le, China’s Yun Xiang Gao, the APT’s Jeff Mann and Tom Hall plus local lads Amit Sur and Mihir Mehta. |
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While Jeff Mann collected four scalps on his way to being knocked out in 14th place, Mihir Mehta was the only one of the special bounty players to make the money in the event, coming in 5th place for INR 58,700. Mehta’s path was an unusual one, however. With 9 players left after Munir Khan became the unfortunate bubble boy, Mehta had to leave the table to take an important phone call (rules don’t permit use of phones while playing). His absence lasted two rounds of hands and while he was away a further two players were knocked out of the tournament.
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Mehta finally returns to the table with just 9000 remaining in his stack, which is barely enough to cover the 3000/6000 blinds and 500 ante. Now in the big blind, Mehta sees a three-way all in before him that includes big stack Nitesh Maheswari. Despite pot odds screaming at Mehta to call, he to elects to fold, leaving him with just 2000 in chips.
However, it proved to be the right move when Maheswari provided the double knockout with K-9 against Prabhat Mukherjea’s 10-8 and Amit Jain’s unlucky Q-Q . Maheswari paired his king on the board and Mehta was then able to move up two pay spots, finally exiting after his 10-4 failed to catch against the classic under-the-gun limp of eventual winner Amit Varma with A-A.
Varma then went on to eliminate his three remaining opponents with preflop power shoves. First up was Puneet Dua who lost a race with Q-J against Varma’s 6-6 . Then it was Maheswari’s turn after Varma went all in from the button with Q-Q to have his opponent in the big blind with J-10 completely dominated and failing to catch up on the board. In the final hand of the night, Varma shoved with Q-5 and Paras Chakravarthy called with K-10 , but the board gave Varma a flopped two-pair which he never looked back from.
However, it proved to be the right move when Maheswari provided the double knockout with K-9 against Prabhat Mukherjea’s 10-8 and Amit Jain’s unlucky Q-Q . Maheswari paired his king on the board and Mehta was then able to move up two pay spots, finally exiting after his 10-4 failed to catch against the classic under-the-gun limp of eventual winner Amit Varma with A-A.
Varma then went on to eliminate his three remaining opponents with preflop power shoves. First up was Puneet Dua who lost a race with Q-J against Varma’s 6-6 . Then it was Maheswari’s turn after Varma went all in from the button with Q-Q to have his opponent in the big blind with J-10 completely dominated and failing to catch up on the board. In the final hand of the night, Varma shoved with Q-5 and Paras Chakravarthy called with K-10 , but the board gave Varma a flopped two-pair which he never looked back from.
