It is yesterday that the World Series of Poker have unveiled the list of the first inscriptions for the Big One for One Drop, one million dollars buy-in tournament (of which $111 111 will be taken for the benefit of the organization One Drop).
So far, we know that 20 players are already registered (23 seats are confirmed and sold), but only 17 of these were in agreement that it publishes their name. As regards the other 6 seats, 3 will be won in satellite tournaments and 3 others will be occupied by businessmen who prefer to remain anonymous for the moment.
To return to the satellite tournaments, will be the $ 25,000 entry fee tournaments. 1 satellite will be held at Aria, 1 at the Bellagio and the last at the Rio.
With regard to the 17 names, our readers can already guess some. If not, here is the list of the first registrants:
Antonio Esfandiari
Sam Trickett
David Einhorn
Guy Laliberté
Brian Rast
Bobby Baldwin
Phil Ivey
Phil Galfond
Erik Seidel
Philipp Gruissem
Jason Mercier
Vivek Rajkumar
Noah Schwartz
Andrew Robl
Brandon Steven
Bill Perkins
Paul Newey
During the last edition of this tournament, the maximum number of participants was set at 48. For the next edition, it was brought to 56.
For more details on this upcoming tournament, you can read the release official published by WSOP.
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