Noticing this rising popularity of online poker in India, Adda52.com unveiled a team of poker pros that now represents India at various poker tournaments happening across the world. This well-founded and well-thought of team has been titled ‘Team Spades’, and consists of poker players who are competitive, innovative and love numbers. The members of this team have long and illustrious poker resume, and have been consistent performers in both live and online tournaments.
Adda52.com sponsored Team Spades is an ultimate combination of experienced upperclassmen and talented youth. This special team features a quartet of Aditya Sushant, Amit Jain, Kunal Patni and Muskan Sethiwho work hand-in-hand with Adda52.com to transform and promote poker as a sports in India.
Now, let’s have a glimpse of the dynamic, inventive and exuberant Team Spades:
Aditya Sushant: Male, 24. India’s best online pro with over $1 million in online poker earnings who also became the first Indian Poker Champion by winning IPC Main Event in Goa in 2010. His ingenious gameplay and consistent performances have paid him magnificent rewards including two money-finishes at 2014 WSOP and one in 2015 WSOP .
Event | Position | Prize |
Adda52 Team Spades SNG with Jonathan Little | 1 | INR 125000 |
Adda52 Team Spades SNG with Greg Raymer | 1 | INR 125000 |
IPC Jan 10k Event | 2 | INR 3,04,500 |
TILT Feb 6K | INR 42000 | |
TILT Feb Main Event | 4 | INR 130000 |
THOS Mar ME | 3 | INR 320000 |
Event 69: NLH Deepstack Extravaganza 3 | 12 | $38,358 |
Amit Jain: Male, 30. A well-known and accomplished poker player with the best all round poker performance in both online as well as offline games. A businessman by day and poker player by night, this daredevil has made $1 million (total cashes) in online poker. Amit is surely the perfect mix of the best offline player and a versatile online pro.
Event | Position | Prize |
TILT Feb Main Event | 3 | INR 181000 |
$440 NLH Event 8 APT Philippines | 1 | $13,980 |
OFC Pineapple Event 7 APT Philippines | 5 | |
$550 NLH Event 11 APT Philippines | 7 | $2,330 |
Kunal Patni: Male, 36. A financial wiz turned Poker pro Kunal is a fresh face in Indian poker. This small town (Nagaland) lad seized his biggest ever career win in the inaugural event ($2,500 NLHE – Rebuy) of the 2014 Asian Championship of Poker (ACOP), Macau to become the first ever Indian to win a coveted Spadie.
Event | Position | Prize |
MPC Red Dragon ME | 41 | HKD 39,000 |
MPC HKD 5K NLHE Event | 2 | HKD 175,200 |
APT Philippines Head Hunter Bounty | 18 | 8 bounties & $930 cash |
APT Philippines Monster Stack NLH | 14 | |
WSOP Event #30 NLH | 142 | $2,168 |
Muskan Sethi: Female, 26. This poker diva of New Delhi rose to the top of the game in the male dominant poker arena in India in just 3 years of poker career. An adept representative of female power in Indian poker, Muskan has achieved some fabulous success including 55th place finish in WSOP event last year.
Event | Position | Prize |
Adda52 Team Spades SNG with Jim Collopy | 1 | INR 125000 |