Jean-Robert Bellande has bought in to the $1 Million One Drop event. Vanessa Selbst has also bought in, as have 28 others.
Here is Bellande buying into the event with a million in cash
There is some chance that Selbst bought herself in (she's bought into big events before), but I have to imagine that $1 million is too much for her, and that again, Laliberte bought her in to add intrigue of having a (really good) female player in the field.
What about JRB? I'll explain him in the next post.
There are 33 confirmed players for the event. This includes 4 anonymous businessmen, three satellite seats, Guy Laliberte himself, and 25 others:
Antonio Esfandiari
Guy Laliberté
Bobby Baldwin
David Einhorn (hedge fund manager)
Phil Galfond
Philipp Gruissem (UK pro)
Phil Ivey
Jason Mercier
Paul Newey (businessman)
Bill Perkins (businessman)
Vivek Rajkumar
Brian Rast
Andrew Robl
Erik Seidel (stolen Full Tilt money??)
Brandon Steven (businessman)
Sam Trickett
Noah Schwartz
Jean Robert-Bellande
Vanessa Selbst
Anthony Gregg (winner of 2013 $100k One Drop)
Max Altergott (won a big Monte Carlo event)
Tobias Reinkemeier (German)
Igor Kurganov (Russian, played high roller events elsewhere)
Christoph Vogelsang (German)
Niklas Heinecker (huge online winner - German)
That makes a total of 8 businessmen, 21 pros, Guy himself, and 3 satellite winners (also likely pros).
Pretty tough field.
