Brad Booth is in with a cool million.

quality bump

eric psydel will ship it

I hate charity donations.
If they really wanna do something then go ****ing make a difference themselves personally. Just donating; what is almost always a completely insignificant amount for the donator - and affects them in no way whatsoever, to make them feel like they did something for the greater good, is incredibly lame.

And to be fair; reproducing knowing an offspring will join them in extreme poverty...is beyond selfish, dumb and self destructive. They did it to themselves.

/ex-UN worker
[x]have worked on providing water in 3rd world countries and nursed sick kids.
[ ]has compassion

lol

Yah because turning a $1m investment into an excess of $5m only having to beat like 25 other people is a terrible decision.

If you are that concerned about the $1m and the vig, you shouldn't even be playing in it in the first place, so I'd tell whatever pro complains to STFU and STFD.

i guess these so called Full Tilt "Pros" might show up there to blow away the stolen money they still didn't pay up.

also don't believe any cent from the poker industry is going to charity since we still have no confirmation Full Tilts Haiti charity has gone anywhere else but in Jesus, Rays, Howards and the rest of the scum personal pockets.

yeah that would be a great chance bargain to get them all together....

so if you still can afford a one way ticket to vegas without your bankroll get it and take the connection flight to hell for free...

i am in to with 1000000 of phantom cash

See you there! I qualified thru Zynga Poker.

Agree about the transparency issue. Also, I visited the site a while ago and wanted to see how I can volunteer time and work for them as well, but there is absolutely no info. Apparently all they want is your money

lol Guy is not a professional poker player. He gave something of value to the world and, as a result, is rich and can do what he wants. He has no allegiance to the suffering poker players of the world lol and nor should he. He contributed more than enough money to the poker economy anyway. Go do something for someone else and stop whinning narrow self serving useless perspectives.

Yes, rich businessmen still play poker while your bankroll is funding gorilla hand ashtrays on Lederer's yacht. Is that Guy's fault? You want everyone in America to stop making money and doing what they do? Is it a kick in the teeth when you see people dining in expensive restaurants too? Get a job pal.

I really don't think this should qualify as a true bracelet event or POTR points. Doesn't seem fair to the micro-donks that can only afford the 1k tourneys.

Good thing nobody gives a fudge what you think.

Using your rationale here, the $10K Main Event, the $50K Player's Championship, etc. shouldn't be Bracelet events either?

How can an event with so few runners be a bracelet event? It's going to be like a ****ing sit n go...

On nice, they're actually doing this? Looks like I need to sell my Fiat & get my ass to WSOP... finally stakes that make it worth the trip.

QFT. Seriously.

Where do you get off saying how dumb this is? Guy wants to have a $1mm mtt, so what? How is that showing off? Maybe 1m will actually interest him, and he's probably lost many times that playing cash games, but who cares? It's his money! Should they not have high limit cash games because other players are broke?

Poker doesn't owe anyone anything.

So? They gave out bracelets for sitngos in the 70s, 80s and 90s. This is good for poker.

Speed read through the whining, some people will find a negative in anything. This is good for charity and good for poker, which could do with all the good publicity it can get right now, with the sheer value of the buyins the media are bound to pick up on it.

Regardless of whether it should or shouldn't happen, it will be epic, and if the charity is legit then thats great.

If? Really? It's Guy Laliberte...

Imma win this one

the wsop is about everybody having a chance at a bracelet and all that, I don't understand the meaning of this

Honestly get real. Not everybody can afford 10k. Not everybody can afford 1M. Everybody who thinks this is dumb is just butthurt cuz they are not rich enough to play it.

I may have posted this much earlier in the thread, but they key here, IMO, is the spectacle. The press will cover, maybe even mainstream press, and thus One Drop gets a ton of free publicity. And it's not a regular gold bracelet, but a "platinum" one, no? So, in a sense, like the difference b/t an All-Star trophy or something vs a World Series Trophy. It's a bracelet, but s special bracelet for a special event. Shouldn't decrease the value, so to speak, of the regular gold WSOP bracelets, while still providing an award and distinction (plus all that cash) to the winner..