On Indian poker scene, things are changing fast and the credit goes to India’s largest poker sites such as Adda52, which always keep taking fruitful initiatives to promote poker in the country. Recently as a part of its College Ambassador Programme, Adda52 conducted a special physical poker tourney called Sudarshan’16 for the students at Institute of Business Studies (IBS), Hyderabad. The live poker event proved a huge success with 93 participants, who battled it out at the poker felts for big prizes and rewards. The tournament paid out 10 participants out of the 93 runners. The winner Kunal Sarohi took home 7000 Real Cash Bonus on Adda52 account along with 3000 Amazon Vouchers, T-shirt, Card Deck and Certificate, while Prashanth Jain won 5000 Real Cash Bonus on Adda52 account and 2000 Amazon Vouchers with T-shirt, Card Deck and Certificate for his efforts.
As a part of its awareness and branding strategy, India’s largest live poker website Adda52live brings up interesting poker events for students at the prestigious graduate and post graduate colleges, giving them memorable poker nights while playing multi-player games and tournaments. Since September 2015, the poker site has organized tourneys over 16 reputed colleges and got an overwhelming response. Actually, the College Ambassador Programme is a drive to engage and aware college students about live poker, a game of skill growing in popularity across India.
The key objective of the College Ambassador Programme is to find out a representative from every college who will be representing at his or her college and carry out promotional and gaming activities across various events that the poker site keeps organizing from time to time. In return for these activities, participants get awards like fabulous gifts and merchandise, which no one else gets in colleges. Since 2015, the poker site has conducted various tourneys across India in several reputed colleges, including IIM Lucknow, IIT Delhi, BITS Pilani, NIT Krukshetra,Symbiosis Pune, Mithibai College Mumbai, Delhi Technological University, BIT Ranchi, etc.
On 20th November 2016 this month, a free-roll tourney called Sudarshan’16 was conducted at the Institute of Business Studies (IBS), Hyderabad. The tournament kicked off at 10AM and concluded at 3PM. It attracted a total of 93 participants and finally it was Kunal Sarohi who emerged victorious after defeating a field of 93 runners. In heads-up, he defeated his fellow Prashanth Jain and claimed 7000 Real Cash Bonus on Adda52 account along with interesting gifts, which included 3000 Amazon Vouchers, T-shirt, Card Deck and Certificate, while Prashanth Jain, who finished as runner-up, won 5000 Real Cash Bonus on account and 2000 Amazon Vouchers along with a T-shirt, Card Deck and a Certificate in recognition for his performance.
As mentioned above, the Sudarshan’16 poker tourney paid out to 10 participants out of 93 runners, including the winner Kunal Sarohi and runner-up Prashanth Jain along with the rest of 8 other participants, namely Tushar Kote,Sankiet Dongare, Akshay Kadamb,Sudhanshu Verma, Arbaz Khan,Piyush Chawla,Piyush Chitwala and Utsabh Tagral, who finished it up in the 10th place. They all walked away with the exciting prizes and rewards, which are mentioned in the table below:
| Winners at Sudarshan’16 | Prize/ Rewards |
| Kunal Sarohi | 7000 Real Cash Bonus on Adda52 account + 3000 Amazon Vouchers + T-shirt+Card Deck+ Certificate |
| Prashanth Jain | 5000 Real Cash Bonus on Adda52 account+ 2000 Amazon Vouchers + T-shirt+Card Deck + Certificate |
| Tushar Kote | 4500 Real Cash Bonus on Adda52 account+ 1000 Amazon Vouchers + T-shirt+Card Deck + Certificate |
| Sankiet Dongare | 4000 Real Cash Bonus on Adda52 account+ 1000 Amazon Vouchers + T-shirt+Card Deck + Certificate |
| Akshay Kadamb | 3500 Real Cash Bonus on Adda52 account+ 1000 Amazon Vouchers + T-shirt+Card Deck + Certificate |
| Sudhanshu Verma | 3000 Real Cash Bonus on Adda52 account + Cap + Card Deck |
| Arbaz Khan | 2500 Real Cash Bonus on Adda52 account + Cap + Card Deck |
| Piyush Chawla | 2000 Real Cash Bonus on Adda52 account + Cap + Card Deck |
| Piyush Chitwala | 1500 Real Cash Bonus on Adda52 account + Cap + Card Deck |
| Utsabh Tagral | 1000 Real Cash Bonus on Adda52 account + Cap + Card Deck |