Casino News: Indian Poker Player Ranked Third

Three months were more than sufficient for Mumbai based player Pranav Bathija to be an expert in the game of Texas Hold‘em Poker. He ranked an admirable 3rd place at the India’s first professional poker tournament - Asian Poker Classic.

After wining, Pranav Bathija commented,” This win will do great things for poker in Asia… If I can learn poker in just four months and place third in an international poker tournament, then I’ve proven that it is very possible to be a successful poker player in India”.

Online poker website MaharajahClub.net was the place where he learned the game by playing for free. The website soon identified his talent and decided to sponsor him for the tournament.

Bathija won $1 million (44,490,085 Indian Rupees) in this tournament. He played with 143 contestants around the world. The tournament was held at the Intercontinental Grand Resort in Goa.

Pranav also said,” This is a serious tournament. I’m so happy to prove myself and to prove that Indians can compete in this sport on an international level”.

MaharajahClub.net sponsored 12 Indian players in the Asian Poker Classic. Three of them ranked amongst top 20. Shiv Puri, another Indian player won APC Event 1.

Sachin Pawa, CEO of MaharajahClub.net commented,” We are proud to support Indian poker players by giving them the opportunity to compete in a live poker tournament in their home country. So often Indian poker players have to travel to half way around the world to compete in a live poker tournament, bringing this great sport to India has given many more Indian poker players a chance to compete and win in a professional poker tournament that competes in prize money with the best tournaments in Las Vegas or Monte Carlo”.

Carl Hostrup (Denmark) was ranked 1st, Samual Lehtonen (Sweden) & Pranav Bathija (India) were second & third respectively.