$111,111 of each players’ buy-in is donated to the One Drop Foundation, created by Cirque du Soleil boss Guy Laliberté. The organization seeks to provide clean water supplies to all countries in the world.
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Sam Trickett, who was runner-up to Antonio Esfandiari is the first ever Big One for One Drop in 2012, is the overwhelming chip leader following Day 1 play. Trickett started strong right out of the gate, he will start Day 2 play with 13.4M chips, the only player over 10M.
Sadly, top pros Vanessa Selbst, Dan Smith, Jason Mercier and Philipp Gruissem were amongst those eliminated on Day 1.
45th WORLD SERIES OF POKER$1M BIG ONE FOR ONE DROP$1,000,000 buy-in | 42 Entries | $37,333,338 Prize Pool Top 10 Day 1 Chip Counts
Sam Trickett (UK) 13,400,000 Tom Hall (UK) 9,125,000 Phil Ivey (USA) 7,675,000 Daniel Colman (USA) 6,875,000 Antonio Esfandiari (USA) 6,725,000 Noah Schwartz (USA) 6,275,000 Rick Salomon (USA) 5,890,000 David Sands (USA) 4,615,000 Phil Galfond (USA) 4,390,000 Daniel Negreanu (CAN) 4,270,000
