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Poker Player Leaves WSOP Main Event Stack for $1/$2 Cash Games & Movies
Level 9
: Blinds 1,000/1,500, 1,500 ante
One poker player has been doing the 2026 World Series of Poker Main Event a little differently than everyone else.
Recreational player Amit Agarwal has become one of Poker Twitter's unexpected stars over the last few days, documenting a Main Event run that's featured more trips to the movie theater than hours at the poker table.
Rather than grinding every level of poker's world championship, Agarwal has repeatedly left with chips still in play to watch Obsession — a film he'd already seen several times — jump into low-stakes cash games, hit the gym, grab dinner and document it all on X. Somehow, despite repeatedly cutting his days short, he's managed to turn his 60,000-chip starting stack into more than 200,000.