Poker’s richest event is returning to Las Vegas. However the $1 million buy-in Large One for One Drop will now not be a World Sequence of Poker occasion. The event will make its return from December 18 to twenty as a part of the World Poker Tour’s World Championship Pageant at Wynn Las Vegas.
The inaugural Large One for One Drop in 2014, which provided the largest first prize within the historical past of event poker, $18.3 million, received by Antonio Esfandiari. (Picture: PokerNews)
The Large One for One Drop has not been held in Las Vegas since 2016, and never all since 2018.
As ever, the competitors will hope to boost cash for the One Drop Basis. The group is devoted to making sure sustainable entry to protected water, sanitation, and hygiene for communities around the globe.
Six p.c of every buy-in, or $60,000, will go on to the charity, decrease than the $111,111 that was donated from every buy-in in years previous.
The Large One for One Drop is such an iconic event on the planet of poker. We’re honored to placed on this unbelievable occasion along with the One Drop Basis and Wynn Las Vegas,” WPT CEO Adam Pliska stated in a press release. “The $1 million buy-in is a testomony to the heights this trade can attain and the continual evolution of the World Poker Tour.”
Greatest Prize in Historical past
First staged in 2012, the Large One for One Drop was the brainchild of the Cirque de Soleil founder and high-stakes poker participant Man Laliberte, who additionally established the One Drop Basis. Antonio Esfandiari received the inaugural occasion, beating a area of 48 to win an eye-watering $18.3 million, greater than tripling his lifetime event winnings in a single sitting.
The occasion was subsequent received by Daniel Colman in 2014. He took down a $15.3 million first prize in 2014, defeating Daniel Negreanu heads-up.
Subsequent, the occasion moved to Monte Carlo the place it was generally known as the Large One for One Drop Extravaganza, an invitation-only occasion that was closed to skilled gamers.
The then-unknown Chinese language-Canadian participant, Elton Tsang, topped the sector of rich amateurs, taking dwelling an €11,111,111 (then US$12.2 million).
A much less unique iteration of the event returned to the WSOP in Las Vegas in 2018, the place Justin Bonomo bested a 27-player area to take dwelling $10 million.
‘Unbelievable Feeling’
This yr’s occasion is predicted to draw the standard mixture of unbelievably rich amateurs and the world’s high high-stakes tournaments gamers, most of whom may have bought massive chunks of their motion to afford the buy-in and mitigate private monetary threat.
“It’s an unbelievable feeling to have the ability to have the help of WPT and Wynn to run our fifth version of the Large One. … The magnitude of the buy-in, of the prize pool, but additionally of the funds which might be directed to the essential explanation for entry to protected water makes the Large One the occasion of all superlatives,” stated a press release from Alexandre Meunier, One Drop Basis’s chief advertising and marketing and occasions officer.
