*** OFFICIAL *** One Drop $1 million dollar super lotto donkament discussion thread

[Muck Ficon]

Antonio's a beast at the pokerz. I would be much more intimidated playing Antonio than Ivey. Heck I'd probably school Ivey if the truth was known. Ivey is very very very overrated imo. My favorite to win is Antonio.

Holy shit somebody has to bust out 1st, omg that would suck.

Yeah, Ivey can't play. Only 5 final tables this year. I'm sure you would crush him.

[BeerAndPoker]

The Grinder degening it up into this tourney calling the $50k a satellite into the one drop:

[shortbuspoker]

It will be interesting to hear the rumors after the tournament about what the winner tips the dealers given the fact that Harrah's waived all of the tourney fees. A typical 3% tip on the first place money would be $550,400.

I also find it amazing that Mizrachi would be dumb enough to take the bulk of the $1.4 he won in the 50K to enter the One Drop. It's the stupid shit like that gets you in tax trouble. For the sake of argument, if you expect to pay 35% taxes on $1.4 million it would be $490,000. That would leave him (assuming that he had 100% of himself) with $910,000 of the original money. Knowing his past it is completely plausible that he did not set money back from the score to cover taxes and if he bricks the One Drop he will be in it with the IRS again. That is taking into account that Micon's e-cig business is cutting into Mizrachi's side money from the Vapor 51.

[GaryQQQ]

Table draws announced;

http://news.bluffmagazine.com/the-bi...f-death-31714/

[rickastley]

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

List of participants in the 2012 WSOP's Big One for One Drop $1MM buy-in tournament.
NAME OCCUPATION RESIDENCE
Bobby Baldwin Chief Design & Construction Officer, MGM Resorts Intl Las Vegas, NV
Frederic Banjout CEO, Eden Shoes France
Bob Bright CEO, Bright Trading, LLC Las Vegas, NV
Ilya Bulychev Businessman Moscow, Russia
Roland De Wolfe Professional Poker Player London, UK
Tom Dwan Professional Poker Player Las Vegas, NV
Jonathan Duhamel Professional Poker Player Montreal, Canada
David Einhorn Hedge Fund Manager Rye, NY
Antonio Esfandiari Professional Poker Player Las Vegas, NV
Phil Galfond Professional Poker Player North Potomac, Maryland
Bertrand Grospellier Professional Poker Player France
Philipp Gruissem Professional Poker Player Germany
Giovanni "Malibu" Guarascio Professional Poker Player 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/OneDrop.org Canada Founder Montreal, 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, CA
Bill Perkins Owner, Small Ventures (Private Equity) Houston, TX
Paul Phua Asian Businessman Miri, Malaysia (Island of Borneo)
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, CA
Nick Schulman Professional Poker Player Manhattan, NY
Noah Schwartz Professional Poker Player Miami, FL
Erik Seidel Professional Poker Player Las Vegas, NV
Mike Sexton Professional Poker Player Las Vegas, NV
Dan Shak Founder, SHK Asset Management Philadelphia, PA
Talal Shakerchi European Hedge Fund Manager Surrey, United Kingdom
Mikhail Smirnov Businessman/Poker Player Moscow, Russia
Justin Smith Professional Poker Player Los Angeles, CA
Brandon Steven Businessman/Car Dealer Owner Wichita, KS
Sam Trickett Professional Poker Player East Retford, United Kingdom
Haralabos Voulgaris Professional Gambler Winnipeg, Canada
Richard Yong Asian Businessman Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Satellite Winner $25,300 Mega Satellite - June 30 at Rio (name(s) TBD)
Satellite Winner MGM Resorts International VIP winner (name TBD)

[DJ_Chaps]

Pretty strong that Robl had 950k in Rio chips sitting around.

Agreed. Kid must be back on point in the CGs.

[Jasep]

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
9th: $1,109,333
Total $42,666,672 (Prize Pool)

The remainder of the prize pool, $5,533,328 will go to OneDrop.org

*** This is from the media info kit Seth Palansky sent out today, not much else of note except the players list that was already posted

[GambleBotsChafedPenis]

more important question...what players have more than 50% of themselves in this? dwan/ivey/negraneau/galfond/trickett would be my guess...

[Deal]

I assume the way Guy staked his horses is via casino chips. The 50k other is probably all he really paid.

[Steve-O]

Bluff Magazine has all the table draws: http://news.bluffmagazine.com/the-bi...ble-407-31715/

[Steve-O]

more important question...what players have more than 50% of themselves in this? dwan/ivey/negraneau/galfond/trickett would be my guess...

None of them do. The only "poker player" I know of who bought in 100% was Dan Shak; there is no way any of those players have 50% of their action in this.

[GambleBotsChafedPenis]

more important question...what players have more than 50% of themselves in this? dwan/ivey/negraneau/galfond/trickett would be my guess...

None of them do. The only "poker player" I know of who bought in 100% was Dan Shak; there is no way any of those players have 50% of their action in this.

id be willing to bet daniel did...i would guess PS bought him into the event...it's super PR for them...
ivey is definitely degen enough to have more than half himself...
trickett and dwan just because of their supposed run good in the macau games...
galfond might not...
i wouldnt count shak/einhorn on this list, theyre hedgie guys...

[Steve-O]

None of them do. The only "poker player" I know of who bought in 100% was Dan Shak; there is no way any of those players have 50% of their action in this.

id be willing to bet daniel did...i would guess PS bought him into the event...it's super PR for them...
ivey is definitely degen enough to have more than half himself...
trickett and dwan just because of their supposed run good in the macau games...
galfond might not...
i wouldnt count shak/einhorn on this list, theyre hedgie guys...

I can't imagine Negreanu ponying-up $400-500k of his own money for this to get 50% of himself. If any professional poker player has more than a third of their action I'd be shocked. I think it was Druff that has said this before, but whatever you think these guys have for money 90% of the time it's a lot less. With the charity angle the pros are probably just into +EV, so why risk a quarter to a tenth of your net worth on a single poker tournament?

[GambleBotsChafedPenis]

totally agree...thats why i brought it up...

you dont think stars bought daniel into this event? seems like it would be a no brainer because of the charity angle and the fact that it's one of the only events that will actually be televised...granted that doesnt help in the US, but still pub is pub...

[Steve-O]

totally agree...thats why i brought it up...

you dont think stars bought daniel into this event? seems like it would be a no brainer because of the charity angle and the fact that it's one of the only events that will actually be televised...granted that doesnt help in the US, but still pub is pub...

They may have put up some percentage, but if they bought him in outright there is now way he gets more than 20%

[v12cl]

Rick Soloman, lol.

[shortbuspoker]

totally agree...thats why i brought it up...

you dont think stars bought daniel into this event? seems like it would be a no brainer because of the charity angle and the fact that it's one of the only events that will actually be televised...granted that doesnt help in the US, but still pub is pub...

They may have put up some percentage, but if they bought him in outright there is now way he gets more than 20%

I think that Steve-O is correct on this one. Daniel has been very public on the fact that he was selling a large % of himself although he never said how much. From looking at the seating charts that were published, it looks like he has the easiest table outside of Guy's table imo. It's funny that Guy got the best "draw".

Juanda just tweeted that he got shut out and is offering to buy someone's seat if they want out. I think that it would be +ev for some of the guys that are playing to sell to Juanda for something like $900K plus 12% to 15% of his winnings if he would be willing to give up that much to get in. I'm not going to doubt the ability of some of the young guys that are playinf, because they must be good to get backed for that much, but Juanda is a beast against the tough fields just like Seidel is.

[rickastley]

http://www.pokernews.com/live-report...ega-satellite/

Names in the Field
Posted 2 minutes ago by donpeters
Chip Counts
Florian Langmann 75,000
Bertrand Grospellier PokerStars Team Pro 75,000
Eugene Katchalov PokerStars Team Pro 75,000
Talal Shakerchi 75,000
Shannon Shorr 75,000
Alex Bolotin 75,000
Roberto Romanello 75,000
Scott Seiver 75,000
Bobby Baldwin 75,000
Erick Lindgren 75,000
Jason Somerville 75,000
Fabrice Soulier 75,000
Jeremy Kottler 75,000
Brian Hastings 75,000
Darren Elias 75,000
Ognjen Sekularac 75,000
Sam Stein 75,000
Jason Mercier PokerStars Team Pro 75,000
Todd Terry 75,000

http://www.wsop.com/2012/thebigone/s...-Satellite.pdf

Players already registered for the Big One for One Drop event are not eligible to participate.

[TheXFactor]

I can't wait for the poker media to promote the winner of this million dollar buy-in tournament as the greatest poker player in history.
I hope one of the Russian mobsters win it.

If they didn't put a player cap on entries I'm sure they would have gotten over 60 players.

I wonder if the winner of this tournament will get invited to one of Guy Lilberte's drug and sex parties.


http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/06/12/e...a-cirque-star/

[mulva]

good to see justin smith is back in action.


when did he get out of jail.