Aditya Agarwal: Indian Poker Pioneer and WSOP Bracelet Winner
POKER HALL OF FAME
Inducted 2014
Aditya Agarwal is an Indian poker professional known online as “intervention.” His tournament career includes a deep WSOP Main Event run, major runner-up finishes and a first WSOP bracelet in 2024.
The bracelet came long after his first WSOP cash in 2007. It added an outright championship to a record already containing substantial results in the United States and Asia.
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Building an Online Identity
PokerStars’s contemporary player biography describes Agarwal learning poker while studying engineering at Drexel University in the United States.
He developed a recognizable online identity as intervention and later represented Team PokerStars Pro. That historical role should not be treated as an assumption about his current sponsorship arrangements.
His career became part of the development of Indian professional poker, connecting an online background with regular participation in major international live events.
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Deep Runs in Major Main Events
Agarwal finished 71st in the 2015 WSOP Main Event for $96,445. Card Player’s results archive records the finish.
In 2018, he reached the final heads-up match of the APPT Macau Main Event against Lin Wu. The runner-up award was HK$1,900,000, reported at the time as approximately US$242,211.
PokerNews’s contemporary championship report records the tournament and payout. The original Hong Kong-dollar amount avoids confusing exchange-rate conversions with different prizes.
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A WSOP Runner-Up Finish in 2021
Agarwal finished second in the 2021 WSOP $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty event for a listed $286,705 finishing-position prize. The official event result records the award.
Romain Lewis won the bracelet. Agarwal’s result was therefore a major near-win rather than his first WSOP championship.
The fast-paced bounty event also differed from the longer Main Events in his earlier record. Its listed payout is not presented here as a complete accounting of any separate bounty collections.
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Winning the First Bracelet
Agarwal won the 2024 WSOP $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em event for $189,661. The official WSOP result records 1,424 entries.
He defeated Augusto Hagen heads-up. Card Player’s contemporary report identifies the victory as his first bracelet after a WSOP career that began with a cash in 2007.
The championship award was smaller than his 2021 runner-up payout, but it supplied the title that had previously eluded him. Prize size and championship significance are different measures of the result.
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Career Perspective
His official WSOP player record listed one bracelet when checked on October 20, 2026.
Agarwal’s record is best followed through that progression: an established online identity, deep international Main Event runs, a WSOP runner-up finish and finally a bracelet. Those verified milestones offer a firmer picture than unsupported estimates of personal wealth or results belonging to similarly named players.
