Prasit Chowdhury Captures World Poker Tour Prime India Main Event Title

Prasit Chowdhury – Photo Credit: WPT

Prasit Chowdhury won the World Poker Tour Prime India main event to the tune of $105,089, which includes a $10,400 seat in the WPT World Championship that will be hosted at Wynn Las Vegas this December. Chowdhury certainly made his first recorded cash a good one, as he also claimed the WPT Prime trophy.

This is the fourth time that a WPT-branded event has been held at the Deltin Royale Casino in Goa, India. The unique venue sits in the middle of the Mondavi River in western India.

The $1,508 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament attracted a field of 857 entries during three starting flights, and that made for a total prize pool of $618,832 with the top 107 players taking home at least $1,344 in prize money.

Day 2 lasted more than 12 hours, with the 107 players in the money returning. By the end of the night, the final nine players were remaining. There were not that many chips left on the table after that long penultimate day since even Chowdhury held 41 big blinds as the chip leader.

However, the final-table action dictated that it would take nine hours of play to crown a champion after 190 hands. Chowdhury got low in chips before finding a double up after he woke up with pockets aces against the A-Q of Abhinav Iyer during seven-handed play to surge back into the chip lead.

Chowdhury was cruising among the chip leaders after that before he won the most important hand of the tournament during three-handed play with a bit of luck on his side. Chowdhury reraised all in preflop with K3 in the hole, and Kiran Bondu called after opening the pot with AK. The board ran out A8337, and that gave Chowdhury the commanding chip lead he rode to the title.

Chowdhury held a nearly 2:1 chip advantage at the start of heads-up play, but Amit Tejura was able to score a double and bring their chip stacks to the difference of just one big blind at one point in the final. Chowdhury ultimately never lost control of the lead between the final two despite that close call.

On the final hand, Tajura got his A6 all-in preflop good against the KQ of Chowdhury. But it proved to be Chowdhury’s day once again as the final board ran out 8524K. Tejura took home $70,560 in prize money as the runner-up, which gives him more than double-digit cashes in tournaments hosted in India and Australia.

Here is a look at the payouts awarded at the final table:

The next WPT Prime event will take place take the tour to Slovakia from May 11-15 for a €1,100 buy-in main event hosted by the Card Casino in Bratislava. The full tournament series will run from May 3-15, and you can find the schedule for the series right here.

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