>$100,000 juice, unless players just want to donate to charity, I don't see this event surviving.

I predict this will be the last one drop, atleast with a million dollar buy in. Lack of businessmen willing to enter being the primary reason...

Sorry he owes you, definitely wouldn't get your hopes up either way

FYP that A8 hand against Galfond looked like he wants to lose.

You know you're a degen when you agree to pay 111,100 charitable donation but you can't play without selling, and you're playing to make a profit. So was Guy was like, okay the fee is 111,100 because 11.11% sounds cool and want max money to go to the charity? Guy is a billionaire. These pros didn't think to get the rake reduced on this event. Lol, I'm not going to feel sorry for any pro who loses 1m in this event, no matter if they can afford to be playing or not. Suckers to pay 111k, does a receipt and thank you card come with that? You get to be on ESPN though.

If you're playing because you have 50m or more and the money won't make a difference to you and you want to help a good charity, that's different.

[QUOTE=HelloFriends;43823855]Still plenty of time to buy in for a lot of these no-shows.[/QUOTEe]

he is in Vegas. saw him last night

Did he really sell 170%? If so, at some point people need to file criminal charges against these con artists.

i thought the same thing! Only 2 asian businessman so far, one busted and one with <500,000 chips

I predict at least 3 new entrants during dinner break

Which would be great, but, still less than last yr (with many less businessmen)

Yeah I think overall this One Drop is pretty disappointing. A few big names missing which is quite surprising, I am sure there are unknown reasons for them missing but I wouldn't be shocked if this was the last million dollar buy in for awhile.

The businessman-pokerpro ratio is nothing like it was planned to be. I wonder what´s the problem here and I would like to here it from the businessmen themselves.


Chip Counts at the Dinner Break

Sam Trickett 8,270,000 670,000
Tom Hall 5,605,000 505,000
Phil Galfond 5,465,000 1,115,000
Daniel Negreanu 5,338,000 863,000
Phil Ivey 4,709,000 639,000
Doug Polk 4,375,000 575,000
Christoph Vogelsang 3,902,000 662,000
Vanessa Selbst 3,860,000 310,000
John Juanda 3,830,000 -370,000
Isaac Haxton 3,800,000 460,000
Jean-Robert Bellande 3,644,000 1,544,000
Erik Seidel 3,565,000 -35,000
Brandon Steven 3,305,000 325,000
Guy Laliberté 3,150,000 210,000
Paul Newey 3,145,000 20,000
Rick Salomon 3,120,000 -70,000
David Sands 3,116,000 516,000
Daniel Colman 3,105,000 105,000
Cary Katz 3,079,000 -221,000
Tony Gregg 3,040,000 140,000
Antonio Esfandiari 3,030,000 -345,000
John Morgan 2,809,000 1,179,000
Greg Merson 2,775,000 -440,000
Tobias Reinkemeier 2,758,000 458,000
Daniel Cates 2,720,000 70,000
Scott Seiver 2,556,000 -584,000
Noah Schwartz 2,520,000 -830,000
Bill Klein 2,520,000 -280,000
Max Altergott 2,240,000 170,000
Gabe Kaplan 2,140,000 -430,000
Dan Smith 2,105,000 -55,000
Talal Shakerchi 2,070,000 795,000
Igor Kurganov 1,809,000 69,000
Philipp Gruissem 1,675,000 -445,000
Erick Lindgren 1,551,000 -149,000
Jason Mercier 1,475,000 -505,000
Niklas Heinecker 1,146,000 -4,000
Brian Rast 1,129,000 -1,261,000
Rono Lo 474,000 -876,000

yaaawn, just give Phil Galfond the money and wrap this thing up

There are some rumours about differences of opinion between Guy Laliberté and Macau regulars?

Why isn't BoostedJ playing?

WTF @ Baldwin, Robl, Quoss, and Rajkumar just not showing up?

My initial reaction is to say this will for sure be the last $1M One Drop with them continuing to do the 100K One Drop. That event got 166 runners last year so I doubt One Drop will be gone all together. But 2 years is a ways away and the are ways to pull off this event. I would imagine there are at least 100 ppl with 1M to spend on a poker tournament its just a matter of recruiting them appropriately. There are a lot of things wrong with the way this event is run so if they correct those (get companies like Monster or Red Bull to buy seats as a promotion, fix payout structure, eliminate the rake (not including the charity part) etc.) I could see another 1M event in 2016

nationwide satellites at major casinos
less rake
live stream w/30 minute delay on ESPN

Of the 42 entrants, 10 would easily be described as businessmen. It's an insanely tough roster of pros, but it's not like there isn't any reason for pros to want to play this.

There is no rake, only the charity donation.

Wonder why Dan Blizerian didn't register..

This

This reminds of a story about how Phil Ivey was willing to do a 10 million SNG but no else agreed to it.

How did Lingren sell 70% in a few hours while others like Phil Helmuth have not been able to sell enough to get in. His creditors most likely gave up debt to get a piece of his action. Probably better to get a piece of the action than to not get paid at all.