Starting a brand new thread for the tournament, adding relevant info as to the schedule:

The plan is for cards in the air at 1:11pm PT, so all the festivities/etc. start early.

There will be a feature table STREAMING at WSOP.com (5-minute delay, commentary, no hole cards) Sunday and Monday. Sunday's feature table will be held at the ESPN "mothership" where televised final tables take place. The other five tables will take be playing in the Amazon Blue section, which feature:

* Spectator seating
* Plasma screens to show flops/all-in and calls at each table
* Frequent chip counts (via Chiptic)

Players have been asked to arrive in Amazon as early as 12pm with a group photo at 12:30pm. Player introductions through the tunnel at 12:45 as Guy Laliberte handles the "Shuffle Up and Deal" at 1:10pm.

Updates at PokerNews, which also appears over at WSOP.com

The current list of players registered:

Bobby Baldwin
Frederic Banjout
Bob Bright
Ilya Bulychev
Roland De Wolfe
Tom Dwan
Jonathan Duhamel
David Einhorn
Antonio Esfandiari
Phil Galfond
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier
Philipp Gruissem
Giovanni "Malibu" Guarascio
Gus Hansen (Rio 25k Satellite Winner)
Phil Hellmuth (MGM Resorts VIP Winner)
Phil Ivey
Eugene Katchalov
Cary Katz
Jens Kyllonen
Guy Laliberte
Ben Lamb
Tom Marchese
Jason Mercier
Michael Mizrachi
John Morgan
Daniel Negreanu
Paul Newey
Chamath Palihapitiya
Bill Perkins
Paul Phua
Vivek Rajkumar
Brian Rast
Tobias Reinkemeier
Andrew Robl
Phil Ruffin
Rick Salomon (Caesars satellite winner?)
Nick Schulman
Noah Schwartz
Erik Seidel
Mike Sexton
Dan Shak
Talal Shakerchi
Mikhail Smirnov
Justin Smith
Brandon Steven
Sam Trickett
Haralobos Voulgaris
Richard Yong


Alternates (in some order):

Martin Kabrhel (If you read Remko's timeline, appears Kabrhel wired his money, but didn't complete the process quickly enough.
Marvin Rettenmaier
Shaun Deeb
Others?

Big One for ONEDROP structure

Big One for ONEDROP Payouts:

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

Schedule is to play 9 or 10 levels today, returning at 12pm Monday (with a STREAMING FEATURE TABLE) in Amazon Blue as the field plays down to the final 8 players. As all tables start eight-handed, it's unclear if they'll play two five-handed tables on the money bubble or play one 10-handed table.

The final table airs on ESPN2 from 4-7pm ET Tuesday, then moves to ESPN at 8pm ET as they play down to a winner. EDIT: Not sure if hole cards will be revealed at the "live" final table Tuesday night.

There will also be an edited 2-hour version of the final table airing on ESPN July 30.

excited

Gonna be epic especially with Hellmuth and Hansen getting the last 2 spots

Final table prediction

Ivey
Elky
Mercier
Duhamel
Trickett
Voulgaris
Marchese
Schulman
Paul Phua

Winner Sam Trickett beats Marchese headsupp here you have it!!!

They should pay 8 spots and the payouts should be something like this :

8-1,800,000
7-2,200,000
6-2,750,000
5-3,350,000
4-4,000,000
3-5,500,000
2-7,900,000
1-15,000,000

Total=42,500,000

Will the whole thing be live streamed??

Crazy pay jump from 3rd to 2nd. Should be an interesting finish if some players who actually understand ICM make the final 4.

this should be awesome!

Hope Laliberte ships this so he can donate everything to ONEDROP

Out of the 48 players registered for One Drop now, not counting the 2 satellite winners, and excluding all professional players as well as the 2 Chinese businessmen who regularly play in the highest games in Macau, there are still 16 entrants who are venture capitalists, hedge fund managers, film producer, etc etc etc who are basically "dead money".

So that's $16M of dead money to be spread between the other 32 players.

No wonder all the top players are trying so hard to get in on this... those 16 guys practically have almost no chance of winning and the other 32 players pretty much gets $500,000 in return for buying in $1M.

+1 this looks more normal to that insane payout strukture they have what on earth were they thinking its just Ridiculous

read OP?

Who let the Merge Network design the payout structure?

I doubt many of those guys are even close to completely dead money with 9 spots paying in a 48 person tourney. Some are certainly over -50% roi but that's a far cry from -100% roi.

Yeah I really liked the Jamie Gold main event where final table where "nicer" payouts.

It can't be a Merge payout structure though because there isn't one pay jump that is randomly less than the last couple before it.

LOL_you if the film producer win the tournament

thx for the update Kev, this things gonna be sick

cant wait for it to start

Sick line up.. glad to see that they'll have live streaming for the entire event, not just the FT.

Just to clear a few things up from the other two threads about the deals that were made...

Hansen's 1st place seat is obviously a must play, is Deeb's 2nd place alternate seat a must play?
Also, even though there's already a list of alternates, is he 1st in line?

I'm not sure why Deeb didn't want or try to work the deal in his favor to take the seat.

Regarding the deal that PH made, I understand he wasn't in the tournament, so he's obviously taking the 1st place seat, with 1st - 8th place finishers getting different equity. So what % of himself does he have going into the One Drop if 1st - 8th make up 100%?

prizepool structure suck hard

This is nice.

They obviously wanted to make the 1st place as high as possible though..

ITM prediction

Elky
Ivey
Katchalov
Mercier
Negreanu
Reinkemeier
Sexton
Smith
Trickett

Don't be bluffin Ruffin