Poker news tagged with 'big one for one drop'

The poker player who has made himself super busy during the first half of the year 2018 and has been reaping a lot of cash prizes and recognition for all his hard work is none other than Justin Bonomo, and now the latest achievement that he can potentially put under his name could be that he'll win a summer tournament that is worth $10 million in cash prize.

Read more » 2018 WSOP: Event #78: The Big One for One Drop - Justin Bonomo Leads Final 6

On July 15, 2018, "the WSOP and One Drop announce the return of The BIG ONE for One Drop, a $1 million buy-in tournament capped at a maximum of 48 players and the most significant charity initiative in poker history.

Read more » WSOP 2018: Negreanu, Hellmuth, Ivey among contenders for $1 Million Buy-in WSOP Tournament ‘The Big One for One Drop'

The 2016 Big One for One Drop (€1,000,000 buy-in and no pros allowed for the first time) kicked off last Friday at luxurious Casino de Monte Carlo in Monaco. With 28 entries (26 players and 2 re-entries), a prize pool of €24,888,892 was generated and €3,111,108 was raised for charity!

Read more » Elton Tsang Wins Big One For One Drop For €11 Million!

Daniel "KidPoker" Negreanu will be coaching billionare Guy Laliberte, the founder of Cirque Du Soleil and the One Drop Foundation, before and during the €1,000,000 buy-in Big One For One Drop Invitational event (no poker pros allowed to enter this time) on October 14th, 2016.

Read more » Daniel Negreanu To Coach Billionaire For €1M Big One For One Drop

During the 2016 WSOP event back in July, One Drop founder Guy Laliberté had announced that the Big One for One Drop shall have a comeback, and this time with a whopping €1 million buy-in, making it one of the biggest poker tournaments of all time!

Read more » 35 Players Confirmed For €1M Buy-in Big One For One Drop

ONE DROP^TM, one of the world's leading organizations dedicated to sustainable access to safe water, has just announced that the Big One for One Drop (€1 million buy-in) will return this year as a part of a 5-day high stakes cash game tournament in Monaco.

Read more » Big One for One Drop Moves To Monte-Carlo!

This year's edition of the One Drop (the 5th one in total) had a $111,111 buy-in and drew a field of 183 players, who battled over 3 days of play for their share of the $19,000,000 prize pool! After eliminating Las Vegas pro Dan Smith in second, Germany's Fedor Holz walked away with the biggest slice of the cake ($4,981,775) as well as his first gold bracelet!

Read more » Fedor Holz Wins One Drop High Roller ($4,981,775)

Guy Laliberté, the man behind the One Drop Foundation, has had tough times at the poker tables, both live and online (according to a Swedish poker site, he has lost around $20 million playing online poker alone.)

Read more » Guy Laliberté To Sell His Company For $1.5 Billion

Daniel Colman has been on everyone's lips this year thanks to his amazing winning streak, including a 1st place finish in the BIG ONE for ONE DROP for $15,306,668 in July. In total, Colman has won $22,5 million playing live tournaments around the globe and approximately $22 million of those winnings are from this year alone! 

Read more » Nolan Dalla Speaks His Mind On Daniel Colman: "Are you kidding me. Seriously?"

Guy Laliberté recently made headlines in Spanish newspapers for building a monument outside his villa in Ibiza. The monument consists of 13 monoliths with the highest being over 20 meters and decorated with 23 carat gold. According to Spanish newspaper El Mundo, the Canadian billionaire and founder of $1m Big One for One Drop received a record breaking fine for building it without a planning permission.

Many believe that Laliberté, who was one of the first space tourists, built the monument as a landing spot for UFOs. What do you think?

Canadian Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu has had an incredible year so far on the live tournament circuit, including 9 cashes worth over $8.5 million at the 2014 World Series of Poker.

Thanks to his outstanding achievements this summer, Negreanu now has a great chance of winning back-to-back WSOP Player of The Year titles! In addition to that, he turned 40 on July 26th which means that he's a big favorite of being inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame!

Read more » WSOP: Daniel Negreanu On His Success This Summer

Daniel Colman, 23, is the winner of the second $1,000,000 buy-in BIG ONE for ONE DROP! The final table action lasted for 118 hands and Colman defeated no one else than Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu heads-up to nab the bracelet and a bank-busting $15.3 million in prize money. Colman, better known as heads-up sit-n-go specialist "mrgr3n13", battled Negreanu for 46 hands before an epic all-in occurred...

Read more » 2014 WSOP: Dan Colman Wins BIG ONE for ONE DROP ($15,306,668)!!!

The final table of Event #57: The Big One for One Drop ($1,000,000 buy-in) is set after two days of intensive play! Day 2 began with 31 players and Sam Trickett out in front. After 13 hours of poker action, Rick Salmon (FILM PRODUCER, ACTOR, TELEVISION PRODUCER, ENTREPRENEUR, PROFESSIONAL POKER PLAYER) bagged up the largest stack (23,575,000 chips) amongst the nine survivors.

Read more » 2014 WSOP: Rick Salomon Leads Final Nine In The Big One for ONE DROP

On Monday, another 10 new players were confirmed for the 2014 World Series of Poker $1 Million BIG ONE for ONE DROP, including the first ever female participant, Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst!

"I'm so excited to be taking part in The BIG ONE for ONE DROP this year," said Selbst. "I didn't get to play in 2012, but after seeing how much fun everyone had with the event as well as how profound an impact it had on ONE DROP, I knew I had to be a part of it this time around."

Read more » 2014 WSOP: New Players Confirmed For BIG ONE for ONE DROP

The official schedule for the 2013 World Series of Poker has now been released. The tournament series will include 62 bracelet events and run from May 29 to July 7 at the All-Suite Hotel & Casino. During the opening weekend, a new "Millionaire Maker" (Event 6) will be played. The tournament will have a buy-in of $1,500 and will see one person taking home $1,000,000!

Read more » 2013 WSOP Schedule Released!

Big One for One Drop, the biggest buy-in tournament in poker history, took place in Las Vegas during the 2012 WSOP and attracted a field of 48 professional players and amateurs who put up $1 million each. The tournament was won by Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari ($18.3 million) and raised a total of $10 million for charity.

Read more » Big One for One Drop: The $1 Million Buy-in Tournament Will Return In 2014!

On Tuesday, the fifth day of World Series of Poker Europe in Cannes, France was played and it turned out to be a very thrilling day of poker. Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari, the winner of the biggest buy-in tournament in history (Big One For One Drop), defeated a field of 626 to capture the title of Event #2: €1,1000 No-Limit Holdem (€126,207). This was Esfandiari's third WSOP bracelet, and he now has the WSOP Player of the Year lead.

Final table results:
1 Antonio Esfandiari €126,207
2 Remi Bollengier €78,059
3 Salvatore Bonavena €57,079
4 Antonin Teisserie €42,356
5 Valentin Detoc €31,869
6 McLean Karr €24,309
7 Ashly Butler €18,798
8 Jamel Haddad €14,736
9 Florian Ciuro €11,707

Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari was on Howard Stern's radio show the other day. Stern, an American radio personality, television host, author and actor, asked Esfandiari about his win of of Big One For One Drop ($18 million first price), whether or not poker is a game of skill, if he ever had two women at once, and many other personal questions. 

Click here to listen to the interview (mp3).

Ever wondered what the most successful surname in tournament poker is? Speculate no more! An American poker news site, together with Hendon Mob (a statistical database), have checked which surnames have won the most money in international poker tournaments and created a list of the top 100 surnames, the number of players, and the total amount won.

Read more » The Most Successful Surnames In Poker

It's not very often that Phil Ivey has the time or wants to sit down for a "proper interview". In fact, it took about 3 years until WSOP's Nollan Dalla was invited over to Ivey's private trailer in the parking lot aside the mammoth tournament area at the Rio for a seocnd one-on-one interview with the world's best poker player.

In the interview, Phil said that he's happy to have made it to 5 final tables in two weeks at the 2012 WSOP but that he's never satisfied with coming second in a tournament.

No, I don't get any satisfaction from second place at all. It's all about winning.

Read more » Interview with Phil Ivey

Sam Trickett finished in second place for $10.1 million in the $1,000,000 buy-in tournament Big One for One Drop a few days ago. After the big win he and some friends went out to celebrate his amazing achievement with lots of champagne.

However, it didn't take long before the amazing night turned into a nightmare as he was attacked and beaten by six men on his way out of a club. Also, they spat in Trickett's girlfriend's face.

Read more » 2012 WSOP: Sam Trickett beaten up by gang - just hours after winning $10.1 million!

The most expensive tournament in poker history has come to an end - The Big One for One Drop ($1,000,000 buy-in). Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari ended up taking home the whole thing and bank-account busting $18,346,673 - the richest prize in poker history. Besides that, he received his second gold bracelet after winning the $2,000 Pot Limit Hold'em event in 2004 for $184,860.

Read more » Antonio Esfandiari Wins One Drop and Mind-Blowing $18 Million!

The first day of the most expensive tournament in poker history has come to an end. Not less than 48 brave (and rich) players entered the $1,000,000 buy-in tournament The Big One for One Drop (Event #55 - No-Limit Hold'em).

After 9 levels of play, the first day came to an end with 37 players (players that were eliminated on the day included, for example, Jens Kyllönen, Jonathan Duhamel, Paul Phua, Erik Seidel, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Nick Schulman, Eugene Katchalov, Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi and Giovanni Guarascio.). Brian Rast tops the the remaining field with his 10,7100,000 stack, Phil Hellmuth is in second place with 8,395,000 chips.

Read more » 2012 WSOP: Brian Rast leads the $1,000,000 buy-in tournament

Poker pro and loudmouth Antanas Guoga, better known as Tony G, won't be taking part in Big One for One Drop at the 2012 World Series of Poker - even though he was one of the 42 pre-registered players for the tournament. The reason seems to be that he will travel around with Lithuania's basketball team, together with other big sponsors of the team, at the same time as the tournament is played in Las Vegas.

This means that 41 players will take part in Big One for One Drop. The tournament kicks off in a week and still there are 7 seats (48 player cap) available to anyone who has the money and the guts to use $1,000,000 for a single poker tournament!

In an interview that was published 22/5, 11-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth said that there is a big chance that he will play the $1,000,000 buy-in event Big One for One Drop at this summer's WSOP because he has found stakers to pay a large chunk of the massive buy-in.

Phil Hellmuth: I haven't even tried to raise money for the "Big One" yet. Then I talked to just one guy and I got a text from him: "I am thinking about buying a piece of you for the Big One. I put up $250,000." I just wrote back: "Thank you!"

Read more » 2012 WSOP: Phil Hellmuth as good as ready for the $1m buy-in event!

Jens "Jeans89" Kyllönen, whose name many recognize from PokerStars nosebleed tables, has confirmed that he will take part in the $1 million buy-in event called BIG ONE for ONE DROP at this summer's World Series of Poker ($111,111 from each buy-in will be donated to the ONE DROP, a nonprofit organization that finds clean water for people worldwide in an effort to fight poverty). This means that a total of 39 players have registered for the event that has a 48-player cap.

This is what Kyllönen said in an interview about his decision to participate in the historic event...

Read more » 2012 WSOP: Jens Kyllönen to play the $1M buy-in event this summer!

Yesterday ONE DROP Chairman and Cirque du Soleil Founder Guy Laliberté announced that 30 players have confirmed that they will participate in the $1,000,000 buy-in event on July 1-3 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

In total, the event has space for 48 players, so another 18 seats are still available. According to WSOP.com, $111,111 from each $1,000,000 buy-in will be donated to ONE DROP with the goal of raising enough money for a legacy project that will help a country with access to clean water. The event is rake free, so if "only" 30 players take part, more than $3,33 million will be donated to ONE DROP.

Read more » WSOP Big One for One Drop: 30 players confirmed so far (1 million buy-in)

In July next year it's time for a new charity tournament named Big One for One Drop. The tournament will be played during the 2012 World Series of Poker and all participants will automatically give $111,111 from the $1 million buy-in to water projects all over the globe. There are already a few big names confirmed for the tournament. Among these players one find super stars like Patrik Antonius, Gus Hansen, Johnny Chan, Daniel Negreanu, Tom Dwan and "ElkY".

Read more » Poker Pros to donate huge amounts to charity