The Big One for One Drop 2014

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The Big One for One Drop 2014 was the second edition of this poker tournament . It was played from June 29 to July 2, 2014 as part of the World Series of Poker at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and, with a buy-in of one million dollars, was the most expensive poker tournament of 2014.

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The Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas (2008)

The tournament in the variant No-Limit Hold'em was the 57th event on the tournament schedule of the WSOP in 2014 and took place from 29 June to 2 July. The buy-in was $ 1 million, of which $ 111,111 went to Guy Laliberté's One Drop Foundation , which advocates unconditional access to clean drinking water in crisis areas. A total of 42 players took part, generating a prize pool of more than $ 37 million.

Attendees

With Vanessa Selbst , a woman took part in the tournament. The 42 players were:

Max Altergott Bobby Baldwin Jean-Robert Bellande Daniel Cates Daniel Colman Connor Drinan David Unicorn

Antonio Esfandiari Phil Galfond Anthony Gregg Philipp Gruissem Tom Hall Isaac Haxton Niklas Heinecker

Phil Ivey Gabe Kaplan Cary Katz Bill Klein Igor Kurganov Guy Laliberté Ronald Lo

Jason Mercier Greg Merson John Morgan Daniel Negreanu Paul Newey Bill Perkins Doug Polk

Fabian Quoss Vivek Rajkumar Brian Rast Tobias Reinkemeier Andrew Robl Rick Salomon Noah Schwartz

Erik Seidel Scott Seiver Vanessa herself Talal Shakerchi Brandon Steven Sam Trickett Christoph Vogelsang

Results

Daniel Colman (2014)

There were eight paid places for the 42 participants. Since winner Daniel Colman showed no reaction after his success and did not seem to be happy about the money won, there was a lot of criticism from the media, which he responded to about a month later on Twitter with the words “I am actually 100% certain in who I am. “Answered.

space	origin	player	Prize money (in $ )
1		Daniel Colman	15,306,668
2		Daniel Negreanu	08,288,001
3		Christoph Vogelsang	04,480,001
4th		Rick Salomon	02,800,000
5		Tobias Reinkemeier	02,053,334
6th		Scott Seiver	01,680,000
7th		Paul Newey	01,418,667
8th		Cary Katz	01,306,667

Web links

• The Big One for One Drop 2014 in the Hendon Mob Poker Database
• The Big One for One Drop 2014 on the World Series of Poker website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} 45th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2014 ($ 1,000,000 No Limit Hold'em - The Big One for One Drop (Event # 57)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 31, 2017 (English).
2. ↑ Full Player List and Bios for 2014 $ 1m WSOP Big One for One Drop on pokerlistings.com on June 29, 2014, accessed on March 31, 2017.
3. ↑ Poker-Ace is not happy about the victory bonus on bild.de from August 30, 2014, accessed on March 31, 2017.
4. ^ The Contradictory World of Daniel Colman on pokerzeit.com July 8, 2014, accessed March 31, 2017.