Elton Tsang emerged victorious from the third and final day of the poker history that featured the biggest buy-in in the history of poker – the €1,000,000 Big One for One Drop. The event took place at the Casino de Monte Carlo in Monaco and offered not only a massive cash prize for the winner, but also a special bracelet.
The €1,000,000 Buy-in Big One for One Drop was considered as an event one of a kind, as it was mainly a charity event. The massive sum of €111,111 was taken from each entry in order to help One Drop back their brand’s international water access projects. The money raised for charity from this single event amounted to €3,111,108, considering the fact that a players base of 28 participants was accumulated.
The prize won by Tsang, who was born in Canada but currently resides is Hong Kong, was estimated to €11,111,111 and is described as the third largest prize in the history of poker so far. The player managed to outlast a total of 27 opponents to get on top of the ranking and take home the winner’s prize as well as the tournament’s bracelet, which was especially designed by the jeweller Richard Mille.
The victory of Elton Tsang came after he performed pretty well over the first two days of the event and dominated over the final table on Sunday. The final table of the tournament started after each of the eight players who got to the third day of the event was introduced by the tournament director Jack Effel.
Haralabos Voulgaris, who started the day at the third day with the smallest chip stack, was the first who got eliminated from the final table on the 8th hand of the day. He was followed by Brandon Steven, who got seventh.
With Elton Tsang emerging as winner, taking home the massive cash prize of €11,111,111, the runner-up position was occupied by the Russian Anatoly Gurtovoy, who got a prize estimated to €5,427,781. The third place was taken by the US player Rick Salomon, who was granted with €3,000,000.
The UK poker pro James Bord ranked fourth, followed by Cary Katz from the US, who took the fifth position and a prize of €1,750,000. The Canadian player Andrew Pantling was the sixth, and last player at the tournament’s final table, winning a prize of €1,500,000.
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Harry Evans
