Tim West moves all in before the flop for his last 275,000 and Kunal Patel re-ships all in over the top. The rest of the table folds and the hands are tabled with West's tournament life at risk. West: Patel: West retains his lead throughout a run out of and scores the double. Tim West - 570,000 (35 BBs) Kunal Patel - 235,000 (14 BBs).
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Kunal Patel has won 0 bracelets and 0 rings for total earnings of $209,601. See all events where they placed in-the-money. Abhishek Goindi, Kunal Patni, Aditya Sushant, and Ritwik Khanna were the other big winners last night. Here is a complete recap of what went down yesterday! The second edition of the Freezeout Master Series (FMS) came to a thundering close on Spartan Poker last night. The showstopper of the series, the ₹50 Lakhs GTD FMS Main. Kunal's Poker Journey. Kunal began his poker journey out of passion and love for the game. In the initial stages, he was a successful banker who worked with Birla, HSBC, IIFL, and many more over 13 years who played poker in his free time. Soon he realized when done right poker can be a full-fledged career.
Since the last 10 days, Indian players have been continuously making good runs and scoring big at the Asia-Pacific Poker Tour's (APPT) current series in Manila. The Indian contingent also brought home a title, with Chiraag Patel winning the NLH Turbo Event for ~INR 4.54 lakh.
Apart from that, Akshay Nasa narrowly missed out on the APPT National title, Sahil Agarwal struck a deal and finished 2nd in the High Roller tournament, and there were 8 Indians who cashed out in the Main Event, making it one of India's best outings at an APPT series.
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The final day saw yet another Indian doing well in Manila and that was none other than Kunal Patni, who has had a good year in live poker thus far. He cashed a huge amount for finishing second in the WPT Berlin Main Event, cashed out in Las Vegas too, and now missed out on a title in Manila, finishing 2nd to Taiwan's Tzu Chieh Lo.
It was Event #21: 6-Handed Shot Clock of the APPT Manila series and this 1-day event had a buy-in of PHP 25,000 (~INR 32,500). The tournament saw a total of 262 entries registering, thus creating a prize pool of PHP 5,718,150 (~INR 74.52 lakh). The top 29 players were paid out a min-cash of PHP 54,000 and apart from Patni, two other Indians also cashed out.
Kavin Shah, captain of GPL India team Mumbai Jetsetters, finished 20th for PHP 62,000 (~INR 80,800) while Varun Gupta was also a part of the final table with Patni, finishing 5th for PHP 300,000 (~INR 3.91 lakh). Patni went out to make a brilliant run, finishing 2nd and adding PHP 960,000 (~INR 12.51 lakh) to his poker bankroll.
Tim West moves all in before the flop for his last 275,000 and Kunal Patel re-ships all in over the top. The rest of the table folds and the hands are tabled with West's tournament life at risk. West: Patel: West retains his lead throughout a run out of and scores the double. Tim West - 570,000 (35 BBs) Kunal Patel - 235,000 (14 BBs).
Kunal Patel Group Dayton Ohio
Kunal Patel has won 0 bracelets and 0 rings for total earnings of $209,601. See all events where they placed in-the-money. Abhishek Goindi, Kunal Patni, Aditya Sushant, and Ritwik Khanna were the other big winners last night. Here is a complete recap of what went down yesterday! The second edition of the Freezeout Master Series (FMS) came to a thundering close on Spartan Poker last night. The showstopper of the series, the ₹50 Lakhs GTD FMS Main. Kunal's Poker Journey. Kunal began his poker journey out of passion and love for the game. In the initial stages, he was a successful banker who worked with Birla, HSBC, IIFL, and many more over 13 years who played poker in his free time. Soon he realized when done right poker can be a full-fledged career.
Since the last 10 days, Indian players have been continuously making good runs and scoring big at the Asia-Pacific Poker Tour's (APPT) current series in Manila. The Indian contingent also brought home a title, with Chiraag Patel winning the NLH Turbo Event for ~INR 4.54 lakh.
Apart from that, Akshay Nasa narrowly missed out on the APPT National title, Sahil Agarwal struck a deal and finished 2nd in the High Roller tournament, and there were 8 Indians who cashed out in the Main Event, making it one of India's best outings at an APPT series.
Kunal Patel Poker Player
The final day saw yet another Indian doing well in Manila and that was none other than Kunal Patni, who has had a good year in live poker thus far. He cashed a huge amount for finishing second in the WPT Berlin Main Event, cashed out in Las Vegas too, and now missed out on a title in Manila, finishing 2nd to Taiwan's Tzu Chieh Lo.
It was Event #21: 6-Handed Shot Clock of the APPT Manila series and this 1-day event had a buy-in of PHP 25,000 (~INR 32,500). The tournament saw a total of 262 entries registering, thus creating a prize pool of PHP 5,718,150 (~INR 74.52 lakh). The top 29 players were paid out a min-cash of PHP 54,000 and apart from Patni, two other Indians also cashed out.
Kavin Shah, captain of GPL India team Mumbai Jetsetters, finished 20th for PHP 62,000 (~INR 80,800) while Varun Gupta was also a part of the final table with Patni, finishing 5th for PHP 300,000 (~INR 3.91 lakh). Patni went out to make a brilliant run, finishing 2nd and adding PHP 960,000 (~INR 12.51 lakh) to his poker bankroll.
Big wins are not something new for Patni, who now has over $400k in live poker cashes. He lost to Lo, a popular player in the Asian circuit and someone who has won titles in Manila in the past. This was the penultimate tournament of this year's APPT Manila and the final tournament also saw an Indian cashing out, with Sam Srinivas Polishetty finishing 6th for a prize of PHP 91,200 (~INR 1.18 lakh).
Final table results:
- Tzu Chieh Lo – PHP 1,460,000
- Kunal Patni – PHP 960,000
- Martijn Johannes Gerrits – PHP 572,000
- Masatoshi Tanaka – PHP 423,150
- Varun Gupta – PHP 300,000
- Thananat Therdtskoonrat – PHP 215,000
Keep reading GutshotMagazine.com for more updates on Indian poker players doing well in tournaments around the world.
Kunal Patel was in the cutoff, and he called a preflop raise of 230,000 from Anthony Maio. After a flop of , Maio bet 180,000. Patel made the call, and the two saw a arrive on the turn. Maio checked, and Patel bet 400,000. Maio raised to 1,075,000, and Patel pushed all in.
Maio snap-called, tabling for a turned set.
'Sick,' Patel said softly, holding his limply. Maio gave a muted mini-celebration, as if he was afraid of overdoing it in case the river broke his heart.
When the dealer burned and turned the , Maio let loose with a fully audible yell and clap before offering a handshake to an exiting Patel.
