kanishka samanth became the winner of IPC April, Goa

In a clash of Mumbai v. Delhi, it was the previous that served up the freshest IPC Main Event champion as Kanishka Samant who brought down the title at the greatest ever Main Event found in the nation! The 20-something player from Mumbai defeated a field of 236 incorporating Pranav Bagai in headsup to take the trophy and ahead of everyone else prize of  INR 11,50,000.

Back in January was the first IPC release which had ever crossed the 200 player mark, with another Mumbai local Sumit Asrani besting the 212 player field. Asrani demonstrated that his win was no insignificant blip on a few people's radar with yet another profound run this Main Event. However the fantasy of consecutive wins wasn't to be and he in the long run completed in a praiseworthy 18th spot. This 2 day occasion started at 8:30pm on a Saturday evening with 236 runners and just 42 would get by after 14 levels of play. Driving those survivors was chipleader Robert Askarav who stowed 177,000 chips toward the day's end.

The next night saw 42 players bring to the felt with an eye immovably on the prize of INR 15,00,000 to be recompensed to top spot. Amongst the notables were shielding champion Asrani (73,000), Sabyasachi Chakraborty (136,000), Dushyant Shekhawat (111,500), Jaideep Sajwan (121,000), Vikram Verma (39,500) and Abhishek Goindi (41,000). However, these players fell by the wayside leaving the accompanying members and their chip stacks at the last table of the greatest Main Event competition in Indian poker history drove by Samant:-

1. Kanishka Samant – 8,62,000
2. Saami Shahbazkar – 5,08,000
3. Anup Palod – 4,40,000
4. Sameer Chaturvedi – 4,04,000
5. Pranav Bagai – 3,30,000
6. Shashank Desai – 2,26,000
7. Ankur Dewani – 2,18,000
8. Rajeev Kanjani – 2,15,000
9. Jaydeep Dawer – 1,77,000
10. Paras Chakravarti – 1,61,000