Winner Will Receive $4,830,619 and WSOP Bracelet
Published on June 26th, 2013 9:07 pm ESTRegistration for the $111,111 One Drop High Rollers No Limit Hold'em event (WSOP Event #47) is now closed.
In total, 166 players turned out for the One Drop High Rollers event, which ended up creating a total prize pool of $17,891,148. A portion of each buy-in is going to the All In for ONE DROP charity, which works to provide safe and clean water to millions of people throughout the world. In total, All In for ONE DROP raised $553,278 from today's tournament entries alone.
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Five players will take home at least a million dollars. Let's look at the final table payouts:
1st - $4,830,619
2nd - $2,985,495
3rd - $1,965,163
4th - $1,433,438
5th - $1,066,491
6th - $807,427
7th - $621,180
8th - $485,029
Players started with 300,000 in chips and the levels will last a total of 60 minutes. The winner of this event will be crowned on Friday evening / early Saturday morning.
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Some of the players who turned out for this event included:
Antonio Esfandiari
Tom Dwan
Daniel Negreanu
Erik Seidel
John Juanda
Phil Ivey
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier
Erick Lindgren
Phil Galfond
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Filed Under: The World Series of Poker