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As this is the only poker forum on the interweb that does not have a one drop  thread - this is it:

The important bit http://www.onedrop.org/en/default.aspx (http://www.onedrop.org/en/default.aspx)

48 runners cap is sold out. Ivey, DN, Durrrr, SBRugby, Einhorn are in. JJunanda not.

Brits  = Trickett & Roland.

$25k sat now - Moorman, Lewis, Romanello, JP in this along with their friends bonomo and hastings.

Suprised Hellmuth isn't even playing the sat, any reason for him fading it ?

Surprised Roland is in this.  I assumed he was busto as you dont hear much about him anymore.

There is only one place for rhe 25k sat winner, but it looks like it will produce enough for 2 seats, does that mean a 49 runner cap?

There is a DTD regular in it, too, I wrote an article about him a few weeks ago, his name is Paul Newey. Nice chap, from my brief acquaintance with him.

Obviously there is some very rich guys in there, but where the hell do half these guys get their money?

http://www.birminghampost.net/birmingham-business/richlist/richlist09/2009/01/19/28-21-paul-newey-250m-240m-65233-22729307/

I guess this is him?

Regards

M

Regards is correct.

Regards.

T

I'm rooting for Phil Galfond/Sam Trickett to win this, both exceptional players...

The final table will be a great one to watch, the pressure of the initial investment and astronomical first prize may sway some hands... Hopefully everyone will be vying for first place instead of laddering...

GL to all the British players...

Seems he's playing the other sat that's going on at MGM

balla's gonna ballla

Hellmuth won MGM satty according to twitter. WAL

Bonamo was chip leader with 16 left....

Then got crippled AA<A8.

Such a shame.

Good luck to them but forgetting the 11% charity donation isn't this pretty much an ego boosting "look how much money I can gamble with" event. You could have a ten million dollar tourney and the billionaires and pros would be falling over themselves to play it - it's the swagger and the "look how rich I am" tournament. If you can afford to throw $1m at a poker tourney then you can't be that fussed if you lose...any sat winners get my support.

$25,300 One Drop Mega Satellite

Gus Hansen Wins His Way Into The Big One for One Drop ($1,000,000)

Shaun Deeb runner up for $1,000,000

Jason Somerville 3rd for $400,000

Will Failla bubbles


Gus Hansen has done it, he's found his way into the $1,000,000 Big One for One Drop that kicks off on Sunday at 1:11 PM PST here in Las Vegas. The world's largest poker tournament in the history of the game will now have another one of the world's largest players in Hansen.

When the $25,300 One Drop Mega Satellite began, big names were everywhere in the field. At the end of the registration/re-entry period, 96 entries were tallied and a prize pool of $2.4 million was created. The first two spots would be awarded seats and third place was set to get $400,000.

On the way to the final table, Phil Ivey, Jason Mercier, David Benyamine, David "Doc" Sands, Scott Seiver, Hasan Habib, Viktor Blom and Luke Schwartz were all eliminated. When action got down to the final table, there were a few well known faces and some amateurs who made it as well, but only the top three would be paid.

Steve Meling was hoping to turn a $65 satellite into a $1 million entry, but he fell short, as did another amateur Hani Awad. On the bubble, Will Failla, Jason Somerville, Gus Hansen and Shaun Deeb were trying to find the last person to go home empty handed. That player happened to be Failla when he fell in fourth place. Somerville went out next in third and earned $400,000, while Hansen was left to fight with Deeb.

After a short, unscheduled break, Deeb quickly lost the heads-up match to Hansen. Deeb earned a seat himself for finishing in second place, but he was put on the alternate list as only one seat was guaranteed to the event. Hansen won his way in, while Deeb will have to wait and see if he gets in tomorrow. The consensus seems to be that Deeb won't get into the event, and in that case, he'll be awarded the cash.

Hansen joins the likes of Eugene Katchalov, Ben Lamb, Erik Seidel, Daniel Negreanu and Dan Shak in tomorrow's One Drop event, which will kick off in the early afternoon.

In late-breaking news, closing out the registration list in the event will be Phil Hellmuth, who acquired the seat from the MGM Resorts International VIP winner.


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/25-300-one-drop-mega-satellite/

Player   Occupation     Residence
Bobby Baldwin   Chief Design and Construction Officer, MGM Resorts Intl.   Las Vegas, NV
Frederic Banjout   CEO, Eden Shoes   Paris, France
Bob Bright   CEO, Bright Trading, LLC   Las Vegas, NV
Ilya Bulchev   Businessman   Moscow, Russia
Roland De Wolfe   Professional Poker Player   London, England
Tom Dwan   Professional Poker Player   Edison, NJ
Jonathan Duhamel   Professional Poker Player   Montreal, QC, Canada
David Einhorn   U.S. Hedge Fund Manager   Rye, New York
Antonio Esfandiari   Professional Poker Player   Las Vegas, NV
Phil Galfond   Professional Poker Player   Potomac, MD
Bertrand Grospellier   Professional Poker Player   Paris, France
Philipp Gruissem    Professional Poker Player   Germany
Giovanni Guarascio   Businessman   Montreal, Canada
Phil Ivey   Professional Poker Player   Las Vegas, NV
Eugene Katchalov   Professional Poker Player   New York, NY
Cary Katz   CEO, College Loan Corporation   Las Vegas, NV
Jens Kyllönen   Professional Poker Player   Finland
Guy Laliberté   Founder, Cirque de Soleil   Montreal, QC, Canada
Ben Lamb   Professional Poker Player   Las Vegas, NV
Tom Marchese   Professional Poker Player   Parsippanny, NJ
Jason Mercier   Professional Poker Player   Davie, FL
Michael Mizrachi   Professional Poker Player   Miami, FL
John Morgan   CEO, Winmark Corporation   Minneapolis, MN
Daniel Negreanu   Professional Poker Player   Las Vegas, NV
Paul Newey   Chairman, New Wave Ventures   Dorset, United Kingdom
Chamath Palihapitiya   Venture Capitalist   Burlingame, Cal
Bill Perkins   Owner, Small Ventures (Private Equity)   Houston, TX
Paul Phua   Asian Businessman   Miri, Malaysia
Brian Rast   Professional Poker Player   Las Vegas, NV
Vivek Rajkumar   Professional Poker Player   Las Vegas, NV
Tobias Reinkemeier   Professional Poker Player   Brighton, Germany
Andrew Robl   Professional Poker Player   Las Vegas, NV
Phil Ruffin   Owner, Treasure Island Resort   Las Vegas, NV
Rick Salomon   Film Producer   Los Angeles, Cal
Nick Schulman   Professional Poker Player   New York, NY
Noah Schwartz   Professional Poker Player   Miami, FL
Erik Seidel   Professional Poker Player   Las Vegas, NV
Mike Sexton   Professional Poker Player/Commentator   Las Vegas, NV
Dan Shak   Founder, SHK Asset Management   Philadelphia, PA
Talal Shakerchi   European Hedge Fund Manager   Surrey, England
Mikhail Smirnov   Businessman/Poker Player   Moscow, Russia
Justin Smith   Professional Poker Player   Los Angeles, Cal
Brandon Steven   Businessman/Car Dealer Owner   Wichita, KS
Sam Trickett   Professional Poker Player   East Retford, England
Haralabos Voulgaris   Professional Sports Handicapper   Winnipeg, Canada (Lotto seat)
Richard Yong   Asian Businessman   Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Gus Hansen   $25,300 Mega Satellite – June 30 at Rio   
Phil Hellmuth   MGM Resorts International VIP winner - June 30   

According to the World Series of Poker, the participant list will become 100% official after the completion of Level 4 of The Big One for One Drop on Sunday. Until then, the list is subject to change.

Mad Marvin Rettenmaier is reportedly first alternate

 http://www.pokernews.com/news/2012/06/ivey-dwan-48-registered-1-million-buy-in-big-one-one-drop-12975.htm

In a match bet, what price businessman v poker player to win this?

On the first hand back from the unscheduled break, Shaun Deeb raised to 3.24 million and left himself with just one T5,000 chip. Gus Hansen called and the flop came down  Ahrt Qd Ts . Hansen bet 25,000 and Deeb quickly folded.
Deeb dropped down to just a mere 5,000 in chips while Hansen moved to 7.195 million.
Tags: Gus Hansen, Shaun Deeb.


Read more: http://uk.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/25-300-one-drop-mega-satellite/chips.30161.htm


Seems a fun way to lock up $1m knowing they are only letting 1 person in

No Phil Laak, in fact I don't recall seeing him mentioned anywhere this year.

Clearly he didnt want to play but i would laugh if enough people now dropped out he would have to play

Sounds like collusion to get one of them in, chip dumping imo

Ninja editing.

Arg too slow

Watched the interviews after, neither wanted to play it.

Then Gus is pretty stupid playing that hand the way he did!

This event is ridic! Half the field are super whales and whoever wins is going to top the all time money list in one go!!

Unscheduled Break
Posted 5 hours 30 minutes ago by donpeters • Level 19: 40,000-80,000, 10,000 ante     
The remaining two players have taken a short, unscheduled break.


Shaun Deeb
On the first hand back from the unscheduled break, Shaun Deeb raised to 3.24 million and left himself with just one T5,000 chip



Seems it was planned during said break

Yeah they agreed, Deeb talked him in to playing it.

If neither wanted to play, surely they agree to chop money 50/50 and take 50% of the action, in which case you would want deeb in the tourney

Can only imagine gus wanted to play!

Yeah Deeb said in his interview that neither wanted to play it but that he had convinced Gus to play it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0hphZOVZJE&feature=player_embedded

How can I watch this online....? Thanks in advance...

They will stream the event on the wsop site but I think the final table will only be showed with a slight delay on espn

speaking to him the other night he informed me he had retired from poker tournaments unless the buy-in is $1,000,000 or more.

pretty fucking ballin'

What time does the stream for this bowl start?

By Gary Wise | Special to ESPN.com

Imagine sitting down at a table with $1 million of your money on the line. The fear. The excitement. The intensity. The power. The anticipation. The frustration. The stress that comes with realizing, "This is the hand where I could lose $1 million" recurring every two minutes for days on end. Either terminal defeat or supreme glory is always on the horizon. Now, imagine you were just one of 48 players going through the exact same thing.

Sunday marks the beginning of a singular event in poker's history. Last year, the $50,000 buy-in for the World Series of Poker's highest-rolling event, the Poker Players' Championship, seemed monumental. It felt like maximum capacity might have been reached. However, buy-ins had been skyrocketing worldwide, with a trend in super-high-roller events of players put up as much as $250,000 to play in tournaments that would barely reach double-digit entries. Even the WSOP might not have inspired better numbers. It felt like the WSOP just might not be the right vehicle for that kind of tournament, especially since the WSOP has always blazed the trails, not walked them afterward.

Enter Guy Laliberte, founder of Cirque de Soleil, poker player, humanitarian. The Big One for One Drop is his brainchild and One Drop is his cause. What Laliberte proposed to Caesar's was a pro-am style event with a $1 million buy-in. He knew poker's heaviest hitters would generally not risk this much in a single tournament unless there were more incentive than just money. It needed to be a golden opportunity, so Laliberte infused a charity component (11.1 percent of all buy-ins go to One Drop). He became the tournament's first entrant.

Laliberte started flying to meet with his business contacts, heavy hitters in the business world and enthusiasts at the table. He told them about One Drop and its mission to make sure no child would go thirsty. He waxed romantic about the incredible experience a tournament like this would provide, and one by one, the businessmen started making their commitments. From the sharks' perspective, with each businessman dollar that entered the pot, the tournament started looking like a potential feeding frenzy. Laliberte had provided them the incentive to feed, and where putting up $1 million for just about any player at one point seemed implausible, when the expected 48 seats filled this past Friday, there were numerous pros left holding large wads of cash with nowhere to spend them. The rake, $5,533,328, has been set aside for the foundation.

Outside of Las Vegas, the event and the cause are gaining national exposure. Days 1 and 2 will be streamed live online at WSOP.com. The final table on Day 3 will be broadcast live on Tuesday, starting at 4 p.m. ET on ESPN2, then moving at 8 p.m. to ESPN. It's safe to say the world's education on this issue is about to hit a steep incline. Thus the event is already a massive success.

"There's no chance this could have happened without Guy," Daniel Negreanu told ESPN.com. "He put this all together. The idea of a $1 million buy-in was ridiculous. He's so tapped into the business world, though, that he was able to go out and recruit, rally the players. Without him, this never happens … he's just really passionate about the charity. It's a great way to raise awareness and a whole lot of money. The rake is going to charity. I think his passion for charity is what motivates him."

"Guy was so important," said poker pro Bertrand Grospellier, who helped promote the event from the start. "If it wasn't for Guy, there wouldn't be a tournament. It had to be him, a guy who loved poker, knew the players and knew the businessman. Guy was definitely the absolute best person to do this."

Starting at 4:11 p.m. ET Sunday, 48 players (29 of them professionals, 19 of them big-time businessmen) will receive a stack of 3 million in chips for the $1 million they've each put up. The tournament will begin with six tables and will continue for three days. The winner will take home $18,346,673 of the $42,666,672 prize pool and will automatically be tournament poker's all-time leading money winner. Amazingly, for hosting this monster, the WSOP isn't taking one red cent off the top despite providing space, tables, chips, dealers, drinks and the rest that comes with a class poker event, because for all of the personal fortune the players stand to gain, this event isn't about them. Really, it's not even about the WSOP, even though there's a platinum bracelet for the winner.

What it's really about is water.

"Our mission is two things," Laliberte has explained more times than he can count. "We want to do field projects because there are people all over the world who need our help. The other part of our mission is education, awareness, which is equally important. We're living in an area of privilege where people feel like water as a resource is infinite, which isn't the case. There are people who don't have that access to water, whose neighbors are dying every day. Really, the One Drop campaign is calling for unity and international collaboration on a solution to water access issues in the world."

Laliberte knows his work has only just begun. "There's many ways of supporting the One Drop cause," he said. "First, there's always the money part of it. The campaign has tried to reach the community and the individual, asking for them to commit a percentage of their winnings financially because we'd be able in that community to raise a lot of money. The more money we raise, the more lives we save. It's important because this informs people about the importance of access to water, how important the resource is, how it isn't infinite."

"It's a shot in the arm for poker," said Ty Stewart, executive director of the WSOP. "But it's just so much bigger than that. The Big One shows how philanthropy can spring up in the most unlikely of places. … We're proud poker's most historic moments happen at the WSOP."

Now, with money and awareness raised, after a year of planning, recruiting and promoting, the time to shuffle up and deal is at hand. As much as the world's best tournament players are accustomed to reducing poker chips in their mind to game pieces, even they're expressing excitement you seldom hear.

"I'm more excited for this one than I have been for a tournament since I first played the main event," said Brian Rast, who's biggest win, in the 2011 $50,000 Poker Player's Championship is about to no longer be the biggest buy-in event in WSOP history. "The size of the buy-in, the amount of money I've put up, the exposure of this whole thing … it's a crazy, sick, cool, awesome tournament."

"For now, it feels like a once in a lifetime opportunity," said Grospellier. "I'm so excited, so happy to be a part of it. That it's benefiting such a great charity is great also."

"It really didn't sink in until I saw my buy-in receipt," admitted Negreanu. "It said $1 million for buy-in and it just felt crazy. I feel like it's an honor just to be a part of a select group."
Will Laliberte give all his winnings to charity if he were to be victorious?

"Absolutely not!" he said with a laugh. "I'm a poker player. A percentage will go there, sure, but absolutely not. I play also for myself. There's no one out there who paid a million to not win it. … It's a big boxing match type of weekend in Vegas, the pros in the red corner, businessmen in the blue corner. I think the pros have an edge because of their profession, but the luck factor could go either way and the power and the money could balance these things. These businessmen, there will be a situation where they would push an all-in situation, the pro won't have the nuts and will be representing 10-20 people who have invested in them … it will be tough."

On Saturday night with 46 seats full and two satellites left to play, the world watched with anticipation to see who would be the final members of the brotherhood that would form this field. Typical of his late-entry theatrics, Phil Hellmuth finally joined the party, taking the seat paid for early on by MGM. Then, Gus Hansen won the final seat in a $25,000 satellite that awarded a seat for first, $1 million for second (claimed by Shaun Deeb), $400,000 (claimed by Jason Somerville) for third and nothing for fourth (sorry, Will Failla). It was dramatics proceeding dramatics. Nothing is small about this tournament.

Hansen and Hellmuth join the stellar roster that will not only be competing for that first prize, but also be immortalized as the cast of this monumental spectacle. Just being able to say you played in One Drop is a big, big deal. You won't need to say you won it, because you'll be remembered forever. Here's the list of players:

The pros: Roland De Wolfe, Tom Dwan, Jonathan Duhamel, Antonio Esfandiari, Phil Galfond, Bertrand Grospellier, Philipp Gruissem, Giovanni Guarascio, Phil Ivey (the favorite?), Eugene Katchalov, Jens Kyllönen, Ben Lamb, Tom Marchese, Jason Mercier, Michael Mizrachi, Daniel Negreanu, Brian Rast, Vivek Rajkumar, Tobias Reinkemeier, Haralabos Voulgaris, Nick Schulman, Noah Schwartz, Erik Seidel, Mike Sexton, Justin Smith, Sam Trickett, Andrew Robl, Phil Hellmuth and Gus Hansen.

The businessmen: Paul Phua, Richard Yong, Ilya Bulychev, Mikhail Smirnov, Bob Bright, Cary Katz, Frederic Banjout, John Morgan, Paul Newey, Bobby Baldwin, Talal Shakerchi, Rick Salomon, Guy Laliberte, Dan Shak, David Einhorn, Bill Perkins, Phil Ruffin and Brandon Steven. (Steven and Shak are regularly found on the poker circuit.)

Seriously though, how can any of these guys have a bank roll big enough to put 1 million into a tourney?

It will be interesting to see if the info is available who is actually putting what amount of their own money up and who is backed to what percentage.

I suppose its only like your average guy entering a 1k to a Billionaire

It did cross my mind as to whether Guy Laliberte may have bought big %'s in some of the players just to ensure he got the turn out he wanted. Its not like he can't afford it.

Bonomo doing commentry , bombard the text box or whatever it is.

"Bonomo can you shut up i am trying to concentrate on the sunday million"

Is it a rebuy tournament?

My guess is that none of the poker pros have 100% of themselves.

Be surprised if any has more than 25% tbh.

Be intereting to see how many sponsor badges are on the players.  Ideal PR I'd have thought.

Is this on our ESPN does anyone know?

lol @ Bill Perkins buying into this. Seriously, he might as well have set fire to a wad of notes on the big game when he played. Ivey etc will be salivating if they are on his table

Think jeans said he has 100% action

I'm not entirely sure about that. Guess it depends on the Site. For many sites, it would send completely the wrong message.

If, hypothetically, Sky Poker stuck Thewy in that, there'd be an awful hue & cry, & quite right too.

Sites?  I was thinking more of the larger corporation in the USA, non poker related

Ahh, I see, my apologies, you may well be right in that scenario, but there are dangers there, too.

Can you imagine the feedback if, say, Ryanair sponsored someone into it?

Whatever view you have, the mind truly boggles......

(http://i1147.photobucket.com/albums/o541/tikay2/Vegas1219224.jpg)


(http://i1147.photobucket.com/albums/o541/tikay2/Vegas1219226.jpg)

Interesting

(http://i1210.photobucket.com/albums/cc416/cambridgealex/onedrop.jpg)

I wish I'd done a staking thread now.

Freerolling for 50% MBN

1st: $18,346,673
2nd: $10,112,001
3rd: $4,352,000
4th: $2,645,333
5th: $1,834,666
6th: $1,621,333
7th: $1,408,000
8th: $1,237,333
9 th : $1,109,333

so with 48 players some loons have paid the entry fee for a 50% stake...if you are risking $1m then its 1st 2nd or 3rd to get a decent return...what a crazy bubble these people must live in.

Marchese will be kicking himself for selling at spot.

Fyp

negreaunu ftw!

wonder what the odds are on each player? 2o quid on each pro would surely be guaranteed binkaments

Negreanu's looks like the most sensible deal, he put up 1/4 and he's playing for 1/3.

ergh the stream is crap

Hellmuth!!  13!!

Cant get stream to work at all. Sigh. Fix pls

I am tuned in to the Live Feed in the Media Centre - or should be - even that is not working at the moment.

from what i saw they are showing table 3.

insane lineup!

eric sidel, ben lamb, ivery and esfandiari!

sickaments

LOL from Shaun Deeb's Twitter:



Sure he'll sell them, but a kick in the teeth none the less.

Sky won't lay £200 on an a even money shot.

Be a little more than surprised if they a poker player in a million dollar buyin tournament!

They are in the cash

Sam Trickett is chip leader:

Top Chip Counts
1    Sam Trickett       36,000,000
2    Antonio Esfandiari    33,500,000
3    Guy Laliberté       22,000,000
4    Brian Rast               14,000,000
5    Mike Sexton       9,900,000
6    Phil Hellmuth       8,800,000
7    Richard Yong       7,500,000
8    Bobby Baldwin       7,425,000
9    David Einhorn       7,200,000

1          18,346,673
2          10,112,001
3          4,352,000
4          2,645,333
5          1,834,666
6          1,621,333
7          1,408,000
8          1,237,333
9          1,109,333

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-55-the-big-one-for-one-drop-no-limit-hold-em/

Come on old school baby

Final table line up for tomorrow

Seat   Player   Country   Age   Chip Count

1   Guy Laliberté   Canada   52   21,700,000
2   Brian Rast   USA   30   11,350,000
3   Phil Hellmuth   USA   47   10,925,000
4   Antonio Esfandiari USA 33   39,925,000
5   Bobby Baldwin   USA   62   7,150,000
6   Sam Trickett   UK   26   37,000,000
7   Richard Yong   China 54   7,475,000
8   David Einhorn   USA   43   8,375,000

Trickett is 2/8, and with every chance....


http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-55-the-big-one-for-one-drop-no-limit-hold-em/

Sick final table set-up. Great balance of pros/businessmen. Would be so awesome if Guy won. And Trickett, what a beast - he's got to be a favourite I think, these tournaments are perfect for him and his style of play. So sick he's the only guy in his twenties on the final.

Can't wait to rail this tomorrow.

If Tricket wins he should put his gf  on Secret Millionaire

Good table dynamic with hellmuth and rast after last years 50k - no love lost there ..

Eight Remain at the Final Table of the Big One for One Drop; Esfandfiari Leads

The official final table for the $1,000,000 Big One for One Drop has been set after just about 12 hours on the felt. With a little more than 17 minutes left in Level 18, the final elimination occurred with Mike Sexton falling in ninth place. But first, let's recap the day.

When the day began, 37 players remained for the start of Day 2. The money line was set at nine, so everyone hunkered down for what was expected to be a long day of poker. Little did everyone know that the chips would be flying early.

On the very first hand of the day, Chamath Palihapitiya was all in with the {K-Clubs}{10-Spades} versus the {A-Spades}{Q-Clubs} for John Morgan. A board of {Q-Hearts}{J-Diamonds}{10-Clubs}{8-Hearts}{3-Diamonds} ran out and Palihapitiya headed to the rail.

Next to go was Vivek Rajkumar and then a big one went down between Mikhail Smirnov, Tom Dwan and Daniel Negreanu that saw the latter two eliminated. In a three-way all-in pot, Dwan held the {A-Diamonds}{A-Spades}, Negreanu the {A-Hearts}{10-Diamonds} and Smirnov the {9-Spades}{9-Clubs}. The flop, turn and river ran out {9-Hearts}{7-Diamonds}{4-Hearts}{8-Hearts}{9-Diamonds} and Smirnov made quads to bust both of his opponents.

Following those eliminations, Phil Galfond, Noah Schwartz, Tobias Reinkemeier and Paul Ruffin went out. Then Morgan, Paul Newey and Gus Hansen all got bounced to bring the event down to the final 26 players.

Phil Ivey could never really seem to get much going on Day 2 and wound up falling in 26th place at the hands of Philipp Gruissem. Ivey had raised to 200,000 from the cutoff seat with the blinds in Level 12 at 40,000/80,000/10,000 and Gruissem reraised to put him all in from the big blind. Ivey called off his last 1.3 million or so holding the {Q-Hearts}{Q-Clubs} and was up against the {A-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds} for Gruissem. The board ran out {J-Diamonds}{9-Spades}{8-Spades}{4-Diamonds}{10-Diamonds} to give Gruissem a runner-runner flush and the victory in the hand.

After Tom Marchese busted Ben Lamb in 25th place, the field was down to the final three tables. Marchese was out in front with Antonio Esfandiari in second and Brian Rast in third.

From there, Bob Bright, Dan Shak, Smirnov and Rick Salomon all busted before the largest hand of the tournament came up that saw Esfandiari send Jason Mercier out the door in 20th place. Mercier had seven-bet shoved with the {K-Hearts}{K-Spades} and ran into Esfandiari's {A-Diamonds}{A-Clubs}. The pot was worth around 22 million and sent Esfandiari to the top of the counts.

Bill Perkins, Talal Shakerchi, Haralabos Voulgaris, Cary Katz, Roland De Wolfe, Frederic Banjout, Tom Marchese and Brandon Steven finished in places 19 onward before Gruissem fell in 11th place and the final 10 players all redrew to one table.

Esfandiari had the chip led with 10 left while Ilya Bulychev was riding the short stack as the largest bubble in poker history had arrived. Then, just a few hands into 10-handed play, all of Bulychev's chips went into the middle and he was called by Sam Trickett. Bulychev had shoved for his last 2.55 million with the {Q-Diamonds}{6-Diamonds} after action folded to him in the small blind. The blinds were in Level 18 at 150,000/300,000/50,000 and Trickett looked him up holding the {K-Clubs}{7-Hearts}. After a flop, turn and river of {7-Diamonds}{4-Diamonds}{2-Clubs}{3-Spades}{2-Spades}, Bulychev had become the official bubble boy.

With the money reached and all nine remaining players guaranteed at least $1,109,333, the tournament still needed to lose one more player for the official final table to be set and things to end for the night. That player was none other than Mike Sexton, one of the greatest ambassadors the game of poker has ever seen.

Esfandiari had raised it up to 900,000 preflop and Sexton called from the big blind. The flop came down {A-Spades}{J-Spades}{3-Diamonds} and both players checked. The turn was the {6-Diamonds} and Esfandiari bet 1,150,000. Sexton decided to move all in and Esfandiari called. At first, the dealer thought Esfandiari had folded and he put his cards face down on top of the muck pile. Esfandiari jumped up right away and the floor corrected the dealer, putting his {6-Spades}{3-Clubs} back onto the table after the floor came over to rule on the situation. Esfandiari had two pair and Sexton showed the {J-Diamonds}{10-Diamonds} for a pair of jacks and a flush draw. The river was the {8-Clubs} and Sexton was eliminated.

Upon making the final table, all eight players have locked up no less than $1,237,333 and it's Esfandiari on top of the pack with 39.925 million. He's trailed closely by Trickett holding 37 million before a big drop off occurs and Guy Laliberté falls in third place with 21.7 million. Those three players are the only ones with above average chips.

Laliberté was the man behind this event from the get go and has done extremely well to find his way to the final table. Not only did he work extremely hard to make the Big One for One Drop happen successfully, but Laliberté buckled down and was all business at the tables for the past two days. For both, he's now reaping the benefits.

When asked about how he felt about making the final table, chip leader Esfandiari said, "It's better than the first time I had sex!" Esfandiari good friend and fellow final table player Brian Rast commented, "This was exactly what I wanted at the start of the tournament."

Trickett, who has several tournaments where he has made final tables with a large stack, described the feeling as "Exhilerating!" and pointed out, I"'ve been in this situation before — coming into a final table with a big stack — I feel comfortable and confident."

Joining those four aforementioned players at the final table are David Einhorn, Richard Yong, Bobby Baldwin and none other than 12-time WSOP gold bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth.

Hellmuth highlighted, "This was the scariest bubble I've ever seen, because you have investors. You don't want to let your friends down. I have three billionaires investing in me, one of which I hardly know. You don't want to let your friends down."

Coming into the final day of play, Hellmuth holds 10.925 million in chips, which is good for fifth place out of the last eight. He'll surely be looking not to let anyone down.

Einhorn, who will enter the final table with 8.375 million and in sixth place, has pledged to donate all of his winnings from this tournament to charity. That's quite the gesture and quite the chunk of change to be donated, making him the lead runner for the most feel-good story at the final table.

On Tuesday, the players will return at 12:00 PM PT at the Rio to play to the conclusion of the event.


 http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-55-the-big-one-for-one-drop-no-limit-hold-em/

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ABH obv

Come on Sam - would love to see him ship it all

Anyone but Rast for me Guy. Hellmuth keeps doing it time and time again. If your name sake wins I bet he donates it all to charity. Still think Sam winning edges it over everyone else too

Ideally I'd like Guy to win then put all the money in a skip and set fire to it Joker-style, but I guess he'd instead be no fun and give it to the charity.

Hopefully then we'll see the back of this farce of a tournament #stakemefornextyearplz

See WSOP Live on ESPN uk schedules later tonight/WEdnesday morning...should be good viewing love Hellmuth /Trickett 1-2

My mate Tuchman says it will be on wsop.com earlier. Will look for his tweet

My bad it's on espn app

Then found a tweet saying if you live outside USA then it's on wsop.com

I'm confused.com

What time will the stream be up BST?

on 1am on espn imagine stream pretty similar time?

Play is supposed to resume at 12pm Vegas time, which is 8pm here isn't it? Live coverage on ESPN TV channel is just from 1-3am when I checked. Better getting on the ESPN Player if you want to watch the whole thing.

surely ppl want hellmuth to win!

What's the ESPN player? Does this allow me to watch it from 8pm? Tried looking at the WSOP site at one point but found the whole thing terribly confusing. I'm supposed to be a computer scientist ffs

Yup!

http://www.espnplayer.com/espnplayer/wsop

 :)up

This looks like a premium service..?

£2.99 for the week

Gg me. My iPhone does not have flash

Gogo Antonio/Trickett/Guy

Any of the above would be incred

What's with the Rast hate Herbie?

Hate is a strong word. It's more love for Hellmuth really. Stopped Phil winning another braclet last year and has been a pain in the butt in this comp. There is something that just don't sit well with me about that style of player and attitude. I like people with a bit of character and he seems to be lacking in that department. It's just down to personal taste I suppose.

Trickett just taking the piss now. What a life

Good luck To Sam.

But got to be rooting for Einhorn here. Played against him at the WSOP a few years ago and he's a top bloke and he's giving all his winnings to a children's charity.

At a time when the FTP shit is going to be all over the press throughout the world, poker needs a positive story imo.

Did guy get the watch/bracelet done? It looks like a richard mille.

Thought guy was a huge AP fanboy

Wow

http://hypebeast.com/2012/06/world-series-of-poker-2012-big-one-for-one-drop-official-bracelet-by-richard-mille/

Rast prolly the best player at the table fwiw.

Don't know if anyone saw Mizrachi's exit hand but was pretty special.

Serious question, if you win how much are you sposed to tip? 1% would be $184k which seems somewhat excessive

don't tip...pretend you are English

Nice testcard and some clwon giving it 1-2 on the stream l;ol

Bet the US Government are sweating Trickett winning...

Tip...? They're better off giving a little more to charity then tipping the dealers 10%... I would tip $10k (cheap yeah I know) then donate 10% to a charity of my choice..

horrible

On the Einhorn bandwagon, glgl that man.

is there only the espn stream?

Yeh grinders exit was comedy

Cliffs on mizrachi exit pls

i was just watching a video about the one drop when it was announced.

but there was alot of players mentioned that didnt play

http://www.wsop.com/2012/thebigone/

tony g
 johnny chan
andy beal
antonious

The Wow was at RM design/making this.

Here we go streams up

folds to mizrachi in the SB playing 10.5bb~ he opens to 2.5x and sexton calls, flop is

AKJ cc

Mizrachi Cbets ~3bb's sexton calls

Turn 5c

Mizrachi jams his last 5 big blinds and sexton calls

Sexton has Qc Js for third pair/gutshot/2nd NFD Mizrachi turns over 2c 3s for the wheel gutter and 2c flush draw.

Only cashed for the $14m lifetime, unreal life.

no need to pay for 1 drop

its here as usual for non US

http://www.wsop.com/2012/live-video/default.aspx?TID=12155

Rast is a sicko

board is like AKJ x 9   vs antonio and antonio has bet river. He tanks forever and says "i think the 9 helped you"

He tank folds an A - antonio has 99

pretty horrid peel pf though.

Never heard of of RM before today.

Are they like Swatch? Because that's what Swatch would come up with if asked to design the bracelet

Einhorn doubles through Esfandiari :)

Didn't he also do stuff like this in the 50k as well ?

Oioiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Einhorn.

Is this really slow for anyone else?

Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Running superb on laptop, crap on desktop

eww love this link, ty Guy. I don't do football but I reckon for me watching this must be like you footy fans watching England play.

See told ya I don't do footy, never even knew he was a player.  ;ashamed;

Standard for bracelets, they are all minging

Really slow and sticky for me, is there any partic browser better than IE for this?

Rast is a nice guy, played with him a lot last year, very classy and respectful. Only thing he's done is bash Hellmuth up, not his fault

im using chrome and its only stopped once, but been very good other than that

Same issues using both Crome and firefox

antonio ftw!!!

finally a great of the game getting his just sauce!

Anyone want $100 team bet 4v4 for fun sweat ?

not perfect on chrome but a vast improvement....

Finally? he has over $4 Million in tournament winnings and a tea pot lid fiddlers pic on his hendonmob...

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=s&n=17408

Shocking on ipad

What price would you give me on Guy or Hellmuth FTW...?

No idea what it should be, I like to keep it simple :)

Would you give me 5-1 on Hellmuth bearing in mind his chip stack, I'll do $50  :) :)

No due to above.

Cool Cool.. I'll take the 4 you don't take for 100 filmed press ups uploaded onto blonde tomorrow...?

Too late... Yong is out..

Anyho  ;whistle;

Baldwin survives and all-in with K9o vs Laliberte's 54o.

Laliberte hit two pair on the turn, but a 7 on the river made Baldwin's straight.

ill take that bet if you want!

Booked...

Bit naughty from Antonio there, or just me ? He folds so Einhorn has to show a winning hand when he put him on an Ace so obv Einhorn would've bet.

you spelt genius wrong haha

Sam playing great. Looks like Sam & Antonio HU.

theres a lot of names missing from this field imo.

galen hall, phil laak and johnny chan!?!

also Doyle??? or is this chump change compared to the hollywood game?

anybody annoyed at these 5 minutes breaks every 10 hands- play the f'in game

gogo Hellmuth...

+1, he's looking good!

When's restart uk time ?

Says 4pm ET then 8PM ET on ESPN

1am gmt

nooooooooo haha

good to have an anti sweat!

Haha.. You have the ESPN link? Twitter or FB me if you need it.. Can't post it on Blonde..

i found the stream in the usual place. thanks though.

Anyone struggling for stream just started on espn channel 417 on sky

Here we go...
#TeamHellmuth

Such a disciplined fold from Trickett there, wpwp.

Hellmuth talking about needing white magic to win 12 bracelets, lololol <3.

Edit: PMSL, such comedy gold they repeat it again, mwuhahahahaha.

oh my

Gowan Sam

Wal

fyp

kinda sad im betting against him to be honest....

this man is a legend to anyone that could appreciate a nature of utter pantomime.

Hero <3

The story according to wikipedia is that for the main event a few years back they wanted him to arrive in style.

you just cant make this stuff up....

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dmN48oowUk

I'll give you a buyout of $75 if you want to root for him ...

Wanted Guy to hold :(

What a Guy.

Huge for antonio

no thanks mate haha

that all in just showed how much of a gentleman those two are.

poker should be proud the masses see an example of such!

Antonio still shouting for his cards tho. Mbn for $ to mean so little to Guy. He deserved to win this just for all the work he put in imo.

Boiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

Well done to Hellmuth, he played well, unfortunately didn't really catch any hands... Parker details and I'll ship you the funds... Well done..  

Finals been played in a great spirit, then you get Hellmuth whinging as per and criticsing others, std.

shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip it

at least he did it to his family and not directly on the camera..... so far.....

incred comp, again again!

Amazing FT!!

Sam v Antonio HU pls

tytytytytyty

xx

Dave are you railing Sam?

Has there been any clues as to how much % Trickett has of himself?

Great work from Guy organising this, been a great comp and it's nice to see something so positive come from poker, Einhorn for an incred comeback to top it off plz.

lololol even odds on helmuth doing his box over here > box over there <white magic speeeel LOL

earlier in this thread i believe, he has 50%

White magic, gonna be all over the poker world the next few weeks.

ok i found it, if this is accurate, what a deal Trickett got! Even if it's after stake-back.

Yup, Sam has 50% but Matchbook paid all 100%...

Normally costs about $250 an 8ball :D

Antonio was selling on Twitter at face value last week, not sure how much he sold.

Tut tut.

dont think people are really giving out 50% freerolls in $1m tourneys with 11% rake do we?

Wp Sam. Excellent effort.

so sick.

SO SICK.

Congrats to both.

Heard you had 10%

#lildavenotsosecretmillionaire

Sam Trickett is 4th on the all time money list now.  Must be nice  :). Antonio is 1st on the list

Did hellmuth win a seat? I saw he got on through the MGM but them only had 15% of himself

i dont know this 100% but my understanding (cant remember who told me either but someone relatively in the know) is that someone won a seat and gave hellmuth a 15% freeroll to play it. in Which case he got a touch under $400k for no exposure which is obv pretty sick. I might be wrong though, likely am here as well.

And you don't know the full account of what Sam had in himself. I heard Matchroom had 50% and Natasha had the other 50%

It was something like when the freeroll got down to the last 8 or so, the players decided that Hellmuth was the best chance they had at winning the One Drop, so they agreed that he would take the seat and they negotiated various %s of him based on their chip stacks.

Wow really. Obv no one in the 8 under 25 who thought hellmuth was tez and that they could do a better job

yh that sounds about right actually - and it's worked out for them!

I dont think it's right of me to discuss the details of Sam's deal in public, dont worry though it's been a decent day for the lad :)up

Pic on HM says matchbook put him in and it was 50/50... Sounds about right

Strange payouts though, Helmuth won only 2.6M for 4th place

Hi Phil. Welcome to Blonde.

It's a 48 runner 8 handed comp paying 9 places. Not surprised it was fairly flat up to 3rd. Especially when 1st got 43% of prizepool (which seems high).

DTD pays 42% for a 48 runner FO so I guess it's about right

Hellmuth confirms he had 15% of himself on twitter.

WAL

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBOYUTibLsI

Cheers. Enjoyed listening to that

yeah nice post...

This >>>> Lederer interview

Really shouldn't say that but it is!