In only a week's time, the only Drop Extravaganza kicks off on the Casino Monte Carlo. Guy Laliberté came up with the theory for the development and organizes the tournament together with the arena Series of Poker. PokerNews might be on site to report everything live from Monte Carlo.
The Big One for One Drop on the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas in 2012 and 2014 attracted the largest names in poker and the result of those two tournaments still dominates the best-ever money list. This year, though, there is a twist; no professionals are allowed to play. Laliberté said within the announcement video that "the development is for recreational players only."
The question we have to have a look at is what makes someone a poker professional? My colleague Marty Derbyshire defines being a qualified as "[INDIVIDUALS WHO] undergo specialized training and contribute something to society, practicing what they've learned professionally." I, personally, have a far less strict definition. For me, a poker professional is someone who depends on poker for (essentially the most a part of) their income.
That still isn't as strict a line as one may want when deciding who's a recreational player and who's a qualified player. Within the end, it doesn't actually matter. So far as we know, it's as much as Guy Laliberté himself to determine in case you can play it be. as Daniel Negreanu said in an interview with PokerNews;
"Basically, if Guy desires to let someone play, he can allow them to play. It's that easy. Individuals are like 'Well, are you gonna let Talal [Shakerchi] play? Do you think about him an amateur?' But really, it's as much as Guy. It's so simple as that."
That doesn't suggest we won't have a look who we predict is eligible to play, and who's more likely to compete. To start out we've taken a glance on the entrance list for The massive One for One Drop 2012 and The massive One for One Drop 2014. Everyone we all know that has a unique main job or is retired and plays poker as a hobby, and players we predict Laliberté might consider playing, we listed underneath:
| ● Bill Perkins | ● Rick Salomon |
| ● Paul Phua | ● Tom Hall |
| ● Chamath Palihapitiya | ● Gabe Kaplan |
| ● Ilya Bulychev | ● Cary Katz |
| ● John Morgan | ● Paul Newey |
| ● Haralabos Voulgaris | ● Bill Klein |
| ● Talal Shakerchi | ● John Morgan |
| ● Cary Katz | ● Talal Shakerchi |
| ● Dan Shak | ● Guy Laliberté |
| ● Paul Newey | ● Rono Lo |
| ● Rick Salomon | ● Stanley Choi |
| ● Richard Yong | ● David Einhorn |
| ● David Einhorn | |
| ● Phil Ruffin | |
| ● Bob Bright | |
| ● Brandon Steven | |
| ● Guy Laliberté | |
| ● Frederic Banjout | |
| ● Bobby Baldwin | |
| ● Mikhail Smirnov | |
| ● Giovanni Guarascio |
As you'll be able to see, there are recreational players that play almost about full time these days, and you've got recreational players that only play so often. While someone like Paul Newey plays a large slate of events every year, someone like David Einhorn or Chamath Palihapitiya really only take place for an event once a year.
But there are more recreational players on the planet that will give this €1,000,000-buy-in event a try. There were numerous other big events on this planet besides the 2 One Drop tournaments, including the $250,000 reentry 2012 Macau High Stakes Challenge Super High Roller and $300,000 Super High Roller Bowl.
To get a feel for who may well be competing, we've taken the best-ever money list on HendonMob.com and filtered out all of the players we all know that play for a living and players that experience never competed in big buy-in events. That does not leave numerous players. So who're the most productive rich recreational players within the world, judging by their results?
1) Dan Shak
Dan Shak
| Live earnings: | $8,638,844 |
| Position all time money list: | 60th |
| Biggest score: | 2nd place ($1,178,980) |
| PCA 2014 $100,000 Super High Roller | |
| Country: | United States |
| Profession: | Commodities Trader |
| More info: | PokerNews profile |
| Wikipedia profile |
2) Stanley Choi
Stanley Choi
| Live earnings: | $7,104,152 |
| Position all time money list: | 82nd |
| Biggest score: | 1st place ($6,465,574) |
| 2012 Macau High Stakes Challenge Super High Roller | |
| Country: | China |
| Profession: | Founder YunFeng Capital, largest shareholder Simsen International Financial Group |
| More info: | Bloomberg profile |
3) Cary Katz
Cary Katz
| Live earnings: | $7,114,113 |
| Position all time money list: | 83rd |
| Biggest score: | 8th place ($1,306,667) |
| 2014 The large One for One Drop (WSOP) | |
| Country: | United States |
| Profession: | Former Board Chairman College Loan Corporation, Founder Poker Central® |
| More info: | Bloomberg profile |
| CaryKatz.com |
4) Richard Yong
Richard Yong
| Live earnings: | $5,973,913 |
| Position all time money list: | 114th |
| Biggest score: | 1st place ($1,477,560) |
| Aussie Millions 2015 $100,000 Challenge | |
| Country: | Malaysia |
| Profession: | Gambling related business man |
| More info: | PokerNewsPokerNews Top 10 Stories of 2014 |
| Richard Yong twitter |
5) David Einhorn
| Live earnings: | $5,152,863 |
| Position all time money list: | 150th |
| Biggest score: | 3rd place ($4,352,000) |
| 2012 The large One for One Drop (WSOP) | |
| Country: | United States |
| Profession: | Hedge Fund Manager, founder Greenlight Capital |
| More info: | Wikipedia profile |
6) Tony G
Tony G
| Live earnings: | $4,826,341 |
| Position all time money list: | 166th |
| Biggest score: | 3rd place ($552,239) |
| €25,000 High Roller EPT Grand Final 2009 | |
| Country: | Lithuania |
| Profession: | Member European Parliament, Business man |
| More info: | Wikipedia profile |
| MEP profile |
7) Mark Teltscher
Mark Teltscher
| Live earnings: | $4,165,025 |
| Position all time money list: | 205th |
| Biggest score: | 2nd place ($920,015) |
| 2007 EPT Barcelona Main Event | |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Profession: | Trader, real estate investor |
| More info: | PokerNews interview 2015 |
8) Roger Sippl
Roger Sippl
| Live earnings: | $3,770,381 |
| Position all time money list: | 235th |
| Biggest score: | 2nd place ($1,344,420) |
| 2015 PCA $100,000 Super High Roller | |
| Country: | United States |
| Profession: | Entrepreneur software industry |
| More info: | PokerNews article |
| Wikipedia profile |
9) Paul Newey
Paul Newey
| Live earnings: | $3,337,703 |
| Position all time money list: | 293rd |
| Biggest score: | 7th place ($1,418,667) |
| 2014 The massive One for One Drop (WSOP) | |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Profession: | Former Venture Capitalist, former owner Ocean Finance |
| More info: | birminghampost.co.uk profile |
10) Talal Shakerchi
Talal Shakerchi
| Live earnings: | $2,711,458 |
| Position all time money list: | 406th |
| Biggest score: | 1st place ($656,599) |
| 2013 EPT London £10,000 High Roller | |
| 1st place ($1,468,000.88) | |
| 2016 SCOOP Main Event | |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Profession: | Hedge Fund Manager |
| More info: | PokerNews.com SCOOP report |
| Poker Life Podcast with Joey Ingram |
The organization announced last week that 35 players have signed up, but no names were within the press release. Dan Shak leads the highest 10 we composed and intends on playing the development. He has poker pro Scott Seiver as his mentor and sells shares online:
Besides Shak we all know Guy Laliberté is playing himself, coached by Daniel Negreanu:
Who's your money on from the highest 10 above?
Last Two Week's Biggest Pots Online
The three biggest pots of the last two weeks, all came from the $200/$400 pot limit Omaha tables. They all were six-handed and they all featured multiple people within the pot. All three times, the pot was chopped between two players while a 3rd ended up losing all of it.
1) "Grazvis1" and "Ravenswood13" Chop a $206,872-Pot (517 big blinds) versus "EEE27"($200/$400 PLO 6-Handed)
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"EEE27" opened under the gun for $1,880 and got called by "Grazvis1" at the button and Sergey "St1ckman" Vasiliev within the small blind. Big blind "Ravenswood13" squeezed to 9,880 and everybody called, growing a huge $40,080 pot going into the flop.
Vasiliev checked on 
and "Ravenswood" bet pot, leaving himself $36,261.06 behind. "EEE27" called all in for $14,289.41 total and "Grazvis" pushed for $91,786.85, prompting a fold by Vasiliev. "Ravenswood13" called all in for $76,256.06 total.
The three of them ran the turn and river twice. The primary time it came 
, 
, making "Grazvis1" a whole house and granting him half the pot. The second one time it came 
, 
, giving "Ravenswood13" a flush and the opposite half.
2) "Aron0621" Wins in a $166,672-Pot (416 big blinds) versus "bajskorven87" and David "Bullitos" van der Weele($200/$400 PLO 6-Handed)
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From the cutoff, "bajskorven87" raised to $1,200 and "Aron0621" three-bet to $4,680 from the button. Big blind David "Bullitos" van der Weele four-bet to $15,920 and either one of his opponents called, growing the pot to $48,920.
The flop came 
and Van der Weele pushed all in for $47,296. "bajskorven87" called all in for $23,160. "Aron0621" had them both covered and called the all-in as well.
The three of them ran it a single time, and it came 
, 
giving "bajskorven87" a winning backdoor flush. The side-pot went to "Aron0621" because the river ten gave her or him two-pair.
3) "Grazvis1" and Tom "tjbentham" Bentham Chop a $165,766-Pot (414 big blinds) versus Ben "Ben86" Tollerene($200/$400 PLO 6-Handed)
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Ben "Ben86" Tollerene opened for $1,880 and his neighbor "Grazvis1" called from the cutoff. Small blind Tom "tjbentham" Bentham squeezed to $8,400 only to be called by Tollerene.
"Grazvis1" resqueezed for $36,360 and Bentham moved all in for $59,592.42. Tollerene had all of his chips all in as well, and so did "Grazvis1" soon enough.
They ran all of the board twice. The primary time it came 
, the second one time around it ran out 
. Both times aces chipped the pot, leaving Tollerene the only loser within the hand.
There was quite a few action online these last two weeks. After a somewhat slower week after WCOOP, the massive names were back and a number of other high stakes games started running. The most important winner is Mikael "ChaoRen160" Thuritz, banking just over 1 / 4 of a million, leading to him being up over half 1,000,000 for the year and almost $1.5 million lifetime. The most important loser, in step with HighStakesDB, was Isaac "philivey2694" Haxton.
| Winning Players | |||||
| 1 | Mikael "ChaoRen160" Thuritz | 4,484 | +$251,444 | +$576,817 | +$1,437,365 |
| 2 | Dani "supernova9" Stern | 1,246 | +$244,373 | +$200,387 | -$234,073 |
| 3 | ltt1981 | 4,545 | +$123,573 | +$192,748 | +$192,748 |
| 4 | Jason Mercier | 3,659 | +$99,760 | -$73,650 | -$519,762 |
| 5 | Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky | 1,903 | +$89,753 | +$1,005,326 | +$5,042,529 |
| 6 | Phil "MrSweets28" Galfond | 839 | +$80,497 | +$216,893 | +$1,499,773 |
| 7 | Grazvis1 | 1,156 | +$69,724 | +$174,129 | +$185,049 |
| 8 | Iimitless | 267 | +$52,115 | +$57,560 | +$57,560 |
| 9 | BastianX | 1,335 | +$48,030 | +$37,751 | +$80,796 |
| 10 | Jens "Jeans89" Kyllönen | 299 | +$43,456 | +$211,372 | +$5,124,109 |
| Losing Players | |||||
| 1 | Isaac "philivey2694" Haxton | 1,878 | -$179,485 | +$481,821 | +$692,372 |
| 2 | Aron0621 | 1,784 | -$171,056 | -$111,348 | -$806,370 |
| 3 | Daniel "KidPoker" Negreanu | 257 | -$131,057 | -$131,057 | -$492,733 |
| 4 | Scott "gunning4you" Seiver | 441 | -$111,196 | -$84,821 | +$143,175 |
| 5 | VeGeTTo89 | 1,801 | -$67,199 | +$144,820 | +$201,432 |
| 6 | candela2005 | 1,997 | -$64,920 | -$481,735 | -$1,385,934 |
| 7 | ForTheSwaRMm | 883 | -$55,477 | -$94,304 | +$96,166 |
| 8 | Jens "Fresh oO D" Lakemeier | 6,640 | -$50,519 | -$131,504 | -$345,756 |
| 9 | OBORRA | 288 | -$49,590 | -$32,737 | -$34,892 |
| 10 | Mike "gordo16" Gorodinsky | 1,398 | -$38,961 | -$127,529 | -$463,611 |
The 2016 Leaderboard
With Isaac "philivey2694" Haxton losing almost $180,000 up to now two weeks, he slid down from the number 2 spot at the 2016 leaderboard to identify number 4. Mikael "ChaoRen160" Thuritz jumped into the spot left by Haxton, taking 2nd place within the yearly leaderboard.Andres "Educa-p0ker" Artinano lost a bit of but remains in third position.
| Winning players | |||||||
| 1 | Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky | 72,107 | +$1,005,326 | +$13.94 | +$5,042,529 | ↑ | 8-game |
| 2 | Mikael "ChaoRen160" Thuritz | 47,554 | +$576,817 | +$12.12 | +$1,437,365 | ↑ | PLO |
| 2 | Andres "Educa-p0ker" Artinano | 29,373 | +$561,801 | +$19.12 | +$982,789 | ↓ | NLHM |
| Losing players | |||||||
| 1 | Viktor "Isildur1" Blom | 163,726 | -$685,566 | -$4.18 | +$1,315,394 | ↑ | 8-game |
| 2 | "bodamos" | 9,983 | -$662,795 | -$66.39 | -$1,989,916 | - | 8-Game |
| 3 | Alex "Kanu7" Millar | 27,382 | -$605,291 | -$22.10 | +$2,655,300 | ↓ | NLHM |
The above top three biggest winners and losers in online poker for 2016 and the highest 10 biggest winners and losers online for the last week only include PokerStars accounts that haven't opted out with HighStakesDB.com.
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