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$18,346,673.
It featured a buy-in of US$1 million, the largest in poker history. Of the buy-in, $111,111 was a charitable donation to the One Drop Foundation, and the WSOP took no rake. All 48 seats available for that event were filled, resulting in a prize pool of $42,666,672, with over 5 million dollars donated. One Drop - WSOP 2018 49TH ANNUAL WORLD SERIES OF POKER The Big One for One Drop by WSOP WSOP Europe 2017 High Roller for One Drop WSOP Europe 2017 Little One for One Drop Little One for One Drop: July 6, 2019 WSOP Event #75, $1,111 buy-in.
It's a monumental number, the kind that only Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather and one or two other athletes will get in one lump payment throughout their careers. Now, you can add Antonio Esfandiari to that very limited list.
Esfandiari was one of 48 professional poker players and amateurs who put up $1 million each to participate in The Big One for One Drop, the Guy Laliberte brainchild that concluded Tuesday at the 2012 World Series of Poker. The 11.111 percent of the total entry fee that went to Laliberte's One Drop charity made the event an altruistic endeavor, but that was over and done with when the first cards were dealt on Sunday.
Through three days, Esfandiari glowed. He ran from table to table, joking with friends and seeming entirely at home in the largest-buy-in tournament in poker history. He seemed like a man who knew what awaited him.
'Yes, I did think [I'd win],' Esfandiari said as he basked in the afterglow of his victory. 'I believed it, I declared it and I wanted to win even more since I took third [last week]. I was determined to come back and win.'
Esfandiari entered the final day's play with a small chip lead over England's Sam Trickett, with whom he flip-flopped in the standings for most of the table play that was broadcast on ESPN. Malaysian businessman Richard Yong was eliminated during the first few hours of the final table. After the dinner break, 1978 world champion and City Center CEO Bobby Baldwin went out next in seventh and Esfandiari's close friend, Brian Rast, was stopped by Sam Trickett in sixth with a massive cooler.
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As Esfandiari took out the event's creator, Guy Laliberte, A-K over Q-Q, he suddenly held a commanding chip lead. Phil Hellmuth's quest for his 13th bracelet ended with a fourth-place finish, and David Einhorn, a hedge fund manager who donated his prize purse to the education-focused non-profit City Year, finished third. In a match that many expected to see as the final table played out, it was Esfandiari versus Trickett for the $18.3 million. Esfandiari got Trickett all-in on a Jd-5d-5c board, holding 7d-5s for three of a kind. Trickett showed Qd-6d for a flush draw.
'My heart wasn't beating that hard actually,' Esfandiari said, surprised. 'I just went through the process and thought, 'Here we are. This is the moment. If you fade this flush draw, you win the biggest tournament in the history of the world. Please, Jesus, one time!' I think I used up my 'one times' in this tournament. I'm OK with that though.'
Esfandiari got his one time. The diamond never came. The turn was 3h, the river 2h, and Esfandiari was the champion. He was immediately swarmed by his friends and family on stage.
In addition to the money, Esfandiari won a special edition platinum bracelet, which he immediately gave to his father. This was Esfandiari's second career WSOP title. With the $18,346,673 first prize, his total tournament winnings come to $23,245,828, the most any player has won in organized tournament history. Trickett's $10,112,001 consolation prize gives him a career total of $16,471,097, good for fourth all-time behind just Esfandiari, Erik Seidel and Phil Ivey. Trickett's cash was also the third largest single prize awarded in WSOP history behind Esfandiari and 2006 WSOP champion Jamie Gold. That the all-time standings were so effected indicates the true scope of this event.
'I think it had everything,' said Mitch Garber, CEO of Caesars interactive Entertainment, Laliberte's partner in The Big One. 'It had drama, charity, great poker, every major hand you could possibly see. We had a great final table, a terrific performance by businessmen and pros alike. We put on a fantastic show and raised $5.3 million for charity so, for me, it's a total success for everybody.'
'For One Drop it was fantastic,' Laliberte said. 'What could I expect more than that? Antonio is a worthy champion. He was great. He scooped me. When you're running good, you're running good. Like I said at the opening of the tournament, I was already a winner.'
For Esfandiari, the victory represents maturation. Finding poker celebrity at a young age, his penchant for partying became a major storyline in his life. 'I did some self-awareness work, tried to put things in perspective,' he said. 'What was important, what wasn't important. Going out and partying all the time, it really didn't make me happy. I loved it, don't get me wrong, but I kind of grew out of it. I'm 33 now. I decided to live a better life. This WSOP, I decided I was going to be focused, wake up every day, go to the gym and win a bracelet. It's 100 percent the reason I won.'
Many of Esfandiari's competitors noticed the change.
'The way he started out in poker, I didn't respect,' Hellmuth said of Esfandiari after being eliminated in fourth place. 'You know he'd bust Phil Ivey and start shouting, 'Hit the door!' and all this crazy stuff. You know, the early days. But he's come a long way, and he's actually turned into a really great guy. He's worked really hard on himself and he's turned into a great guy.'
What of the Big One? With the phenomenal success it enjoyed and the interest it has inspired, Garber isn't shy about its future.
'You'll see it again,' he asserted. 'This is not about one-offs. I think that we've established that we can put on the greatest tournaments in the world, the highest buy-in events in the world, and that we can wrap in charity to those events as well. We'll do this again. It's a question of in what format, when and where. I think Guy and I need to spend some time thinking about it and we'll make a decision very quickly.'
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For Esfandiari, that's all down the road. With $18.3 million reasons to celebrate, he shared a shot of Jameson with friends on the WSOP's brightest stage. Even as you mature, you have to celebrate the greatest moments of your life.
Below are the complete results of Event 55 at the 2012 World Series of Poker:
Event 55: The Big One For One Drop
Buy-in: $1,000,000
Entries: 48
Prize pool: $42,666,672
Players in the money: 9
1. Antonio Esfandiari ($18,346,673)
2. Sam Trickett ($10,112,001)
3. David Einhorn ($4,352,000)
4. Phil Hellmuth ($2,645,333)
5. Guy Laliberté ($1,834,666)
6. Brian Rast ($1,621,333)
7. Bobby Baldwin ($1,408,000)
8. Richard Yong ($1,237,333)
9. Mike Sexton ($1,109,333)
LAS VEGAS -- As the poker world converges on Las Vegas for two months of poker tournaments, with the World Series of Poker at the center, a handful of poker players manage to put together a spectacular summer of results every year.
That season winds toward a close on Tuesday as the $1 million buy-in Big One for One Drop wraps up on Tuesday at the Rio All Suite Hotel & Casino -- and Justin Bonomo sits in the catbird seat with six players left.
A lot of attention has rightfully been heaped upon the likes of Shaun Deeb, with his pair of WSOP bracelet wins and his strong hold on the 2018 POY race, and Joe Cada for his two bracelet wins and monumental run to fifth place in the WSOP main event. But in that time, the biggest story from the start of the summer, Bonomo's, has hovered slightly off the radar in recent weeks because of everything else going on in the meantime.
That will certainly change Tuesday, though, if he's able to carry his chip stack into winning $10 million -- the biggest individual WSOP prize of the summer -- on Tuesday.
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It's already been an incredible year for Bonomo, who has already rattled off more than a dozen significant High Roller results in 2018 including a $4.8 million win in the Super High Roller Bowl China in March and a $5 million win to kick off the summer in the Super High Roller Bowl in late May. All told, he came into this tournament with just shy of $15 million in tournament cashes. Bonomo also added his second career WSOP bracelet in the $10,000 no-limit hold 'em heads-up championship just over a week later.
'I've been on the streak of a lifetime,' said Bonomo. 'I've obviously never expected anything like this. I mean, I think I'm a great player, but what I've done is above and beyond what I've ever expected or think I even deserve, to be honest. From the most part, I'm just trying to focus on the next day -- tomorrow's a big day -- so I'm not going to think about the accolades or the accomplishments. All I'm going to think about is how to maximize my expectation tomorrow.'
The chance at a $10 million payday in the Big One for One Drop offers another accolade that hangs in the balance should Bonomo win.
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'The financial considerations are definitely first, and that's why I play poker,' said Bonomo. 'One thing that I have been thinking about is the all-time money leader list, and it'd be pretty sweet if I passed Negreanu. I was actually thinking at the start of the tournament, 'I hope Negreanu doesn't win, because that'll set me back about five years in passing him.' And now I have a really good shot at passing him.'
With 48.9 million in chips, Bonomo holds more than twice as many chips as second place. The other five players represent a mix of high roller regulars and some familiar faces from Big One for One Drop final tables past. Fedor Holz (22.1 million) and Dan Smith (21.4 million) are bunched together in second and third, while 2014 Big One for One Drop fourth place finisher Rick Salomon (19.6 million) sits just behind.
2012 Big One for One Drop third-place finisher David Einhorn (12.3 million) and Byron Kaverman (10.5 million) -- the latter being one of three players to register at the last moment Tuesday morning before Day 2 of the tournament began -- are the two players most at risk of going home empty-handed.
The Big One for One Drop drew 27 total players, each of whom put up a $1 million buy-in to battle it out. The tournament buy-ins directly benefit the One Drop Foundation's global efforts for clean drinking water, sanitation and hygiene. There's no rake taken from the tournament. Instead, $80,000 from each buy-in is set aside as a donation to the foundation.
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Rounding out the action from the 2018 World Series of Poker, Joe Cada pulled off a remarkable feat early Monday morning by winning the $1,500 'Closer' event -- a tournament with three starting days and unlimited re-entries well into each day. After busting out of the main event in fifth place following a massive coin flip hand, after nine grueling days of poker, Cada immediately returned to action the following day. He fought his way through a field with 3,120 entries and, after a dominating final table performance, claimed his second WSOP gold bracelet of the summer and fourth overall. He also added another $612,886 payday to his tally for 2018.
With a staggering 17 cashes, two bracelet wins in a pair of marquee WSOP events and a third final table appearance to boot, Shaun Deeb carries the 2018 WSOP POY lead out of Las Vegas. Though events at WSOP Europe will count toward the race, Deeb would have to be considered a heavy favorite to win this year's recognition.