Welcome to Day 1b of the 2022 WPT Prime India Main Event

The iconic Deltin Royale

At 1pm local time, poker enthusiasts from all over India will return to the iconic Deltin Royale ship and take a ferry to the boat in order to take their chances in the largest offshore casino in the region. For the fourth time since 2017, the World Poker Tour returns to the same venue and the fifth edition of the new WPT Prime mid-stakes tour is taking place.

In the three prior stops aboard the ship, it was held as WPTDeepstacks Main Event and Vikash Martri defeated a field of 527 entries. Nikunj Jhunjhunwala followed in his footsteps back in 2018 when the field size increased to 697 entries. Last but not least, Ashish Munot earned the trophy in 2019 after he collected all the chips among 630 entries. Munot was among the Day 1a contestants but failed to advance.

He is certain to take another shot and will likely be joined by other big names of the Indian poker community such as Kunal Patni, Abhinav Iyer, Muskan Sethi, Kartik Ved, Raghav Bansal, Siddhanth Kripalani, and Raju Jaruplavath may all use the two remaining starting days to run up a stack for Day 2.

The second of three flights for the 2023 WPT Prime India ₹65,000 Main Event awaits as of 1pm local time and as has been the case for Day 1a, all players receive 30,000 in chips. With a level duration of 40 minutes each and a break every three levels, it will be a long night on board for everyone hoping to make it through. Only approximately 12.5% of the entries are guaranteed a seat for Day 2 and portion of the prize pool as one in eight entries will cash.

Those unhappy with their already locked up stack sizes can take another shot and will carry over the bigger chip stack for Day 2 while also locking up another min cash for the efforts. For reference, Day 1a wrapped up with 32 minutes left in level 17 with blinds of 5,000-10,000 and a big blind ante of 10,000.

Action in level one features blinds of 100-200 / 200 BBA to give all contestants right out of the gates 150 big blinds.

As usual, the WPT live reporting team will be on the floor to cover all the action from start to finish.