Top 5 Indian Poker Players

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Top 5 Indian Poker Players
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Introduction

• The game of Poker is not yet totally understood
  and even accepted, in India. But there are people
  who have long back surpassed those reservations
  and realized the potential of online Poker and
  offline Poker to its full extent. Indian players
  have surely made their presence felt on the
  tables of casinos all over the World.

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Top 5 Indian Poker players, whove proved their
skill and expertise in online Poker and/or
offline Poker
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Vivek Rajkumar

• Best Live Cash 1,424,500
• Total Live Earnings 4,427,667
• Vivek Rajkumar is an Indian American Poker player
  from Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2008, he won the World
  Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open Main Event,
  securing a cash prize of 1,424,500. He defeated
  a final table that included tournament
  veterans Dan Heimiller and Mark Seif to win the
  title.
• Rajkumar has also had notable success at the LA
  Poker Classic tournaments. In 2008, he placed 1st
  out of 167 entrants in the 2,500 No Limit
  Holdem for a prize of 113,425. In the 2009 L.A.
  Poker Classic 9,900 Heads Up Championship No
  Limit Holdem, Rajkumar placed first from a field
  of 111 entrants for a prize of 350,000.

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Nipun Java

• Best Live Cash 270,509
• Total Live Earnings 1,796,525
• After being a software engineer for 10 years,
  Nipun Java turned into a full time professional
  Poker player in May 2014.
• On Feb. 24, Nipun had 331,485 in career live
  Poker tournament earnings, and had never recorded
  a six-figure score. The following day he finished
  second in the World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic
  Playboy 500,000 Guarantee for 114,955, and on
  Wednesday he won the World Series of Poker
  Circuit Bicycle Casino Main Event for 226,785,
  doubling his career tournament earnings in
  roughly three weeks.
• And now today hes second on this list. Yeah,
  that dramatic!

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Taha Maruf

• Best Live Cash 300,031
• Total Live Earnings 666,257
• Taha has been playing professional Poker games
  since 2008 and has earned over 300,000 in
  major Poker tournaments. He is currently ranked
  at 3653th position in Poker tournaments
  worldwide. 2016 has proved to be a very friendly
  year for Taha as most of his earnings have been
  gathered in this year only.

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Aditya Agarwal

• Best Live Cash 96,445
• Total Live Earnings 649,684
• Aditya started playing Poker in college, and till
  the time his college was done, he was already a
  Poker pro. Aditya has since had great success
  online, cashing more than four million dollars in
  the biggest PokerStars tournaments. Highlights
  include wins in the notoriously tough 100 Rebuy
  tourney, plus several other high-profile results.
  Hes also performed well in live tournaments,
  cashing in the World Series Main Event several
  times, including top 100 finishes in 2008 and
  2015. Other results include a deep run at EPT
  Barcelona in 2007 for 34,313, plus numerous wins
  and final table appearances in events across
  India.

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Rahul Byrraju

• Best Live Cash 80,885
• Total Live Earnings 294,765
• Rahul hails from an industrial family and his
  choice of making a career in Poker is a fine
  example of passion and love for the game. Byyraju
  came in the spotlight by notching up a
  career-best performance, winning his first big
  game, playing the HK30,000 NL Holdem-High
  Rollers Event at the Macau Poker Cup in June
  2011.
• 2013 was a great year for the pro, who went on a
  poker rampage at the Deepstacks games at Las
  Vegas just prior to the WSOP (World Series of
  Poker). He cranked up a 3rd, 7th, 16th and
  92nd finishes, all in a space of 25 days.
• I bet you didnt read all of those money figures
  Yeah I didnt, coz theyre so damn long!
  Exactly.

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