Facts and Figures Big One for One Drop
- Buy-in: $1.000.000
- Players: 6 of 27 (late reg open)
- Prize Pool: $24,840,000
- First Prize: $10.000.000
- Places Paid: 5
$1.000.000 Buy-in, 24 Million Dollar in the prize pool!
The final event of the 2018 World Series of Poker is also the most expensive one with an insane buy-in of $1.000.000!
24 of the best poker players in the world such as Fedor Holz, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, Dan Colman, Justin Bonomo or Adrian Mateos have signed up so far, but late registration is still open until today’s Day 2.
Day 1: Phil Ivey and Daniel Negreanu in the Top 3!
Surprising chipleader is Hollywood Homegame Hero Rick Salomon with 11,445,000 chips. Hot on his heals are poker superstars Phil Ivey (10,365,000) and Daniel Negreanu (8,100,000) are hot on his heals though.
Other notables include Dan Smith (7,735,000), Erik Seidel (6,835,000), Talal Shakerchi (6,745,000), Dominik Nitsche (6,550,000), Jason Koon (6,540,000), Christoph Vogelsang (5,680,000), Nick Petrangelo (5,300,000), Justin Bonomo (4,715,000), Stephen Chidwick (4,550,000), Fedor Holz (3,220,000), and Adrian Mateos (3,100,000).
Kenney, Peters, Haxton, Esfandiari busto
Only five of the 24 players busted on Day 1 and all of them were big names: Bryn Kenney, David Peters, Isaac Haxton, Jake Schindler and the winner of the first-ever Big One for One Drop Antonio Esfandiari.
They have a changer to re-enter though as registration remains open until noon local time.
Day 2: Justin Bonomo dominates
Justin Bonomo’s incredible run continued on Day 2 of the Big One for One Drop. He went on a massive heater and send Phil Ivey, Dominik Nitsche and Nick Petrangelo to the rails.
Bonomo is massive chipleader (48,950,000) on the bubble with more than twice as many chips as the second Fedor Holz (22,125,000). Shortstack on the bubble is Byron Kaverman and the min-cash is a staggering $2,000,000!
The tournament continues tonight at 5.30 pm local time directly on the bubble, so make sure to tune in live at PokerGO!
The Chipcounts after Day 2:
| Name | Nation | Chipcount | BBs |
| Justin Bonomo | USA | 49.000.000 | 98 |
| Fedor Holz | DE | 22.100.000 | 44 |
| Dan Smith | USA | 21.500.000 | 43 |
| Rick Salomon | USA | 19.700.000 | 39 |
| David Einhorn | USA | 12.300.000 | 25 |
| Byron Kaverman | USA | 10.500.000 | 21 |
Day 3: David Einhorn bubbles, Fedor Holz dominates
The 2018 Big One for One Drop continued on Day 3 directly on the bubble with 6 players left and 7 places paid. The min-cash was everything else but mini with a staggering 2 Million Dollar!
Byron Kaverman started the day as shortstack, but it was businessman David Einhorn, who ended up becoming bubble boy.
Afterwards Fedor Holz clearly dominated and took over the chiplead by busting Kaverman (A5s) and Rick Salomon (AKs) in the same hand with Pocket Tens.
He extended his lead 3-handed to a point, where he had more than 3 times as many chips as Dan Smith in second place. However, Bonomo closed the gap by busting Smith in third with K-10 vs Q-10.
Chipcounts before the start of Heads-Up play:
Fedor Holz: 84,300,000
Justin Bonomo: 50,700,000
Fedor started the Heads-Up as chipleader and once again extended his lead to almost 3:1, but then Bonomo doubled up with A-8 vs 4-4 and from that moment on everything went his way.
He doubled again and continued to increase his lead. In the final hand Fedor pushed after a limp from Justin on the button with A4o and Bonomo called with AJo. The board changed nothing and Justin Bonomo won the 2018 Big One for One Drop for $10.000.000!
The Year of Justin Bonomo – More than 25 Million in live winnings only in 2018!
The insane run of Justin Bonomo continues. After winning both of the Super High Roller Bowls, he now also shipped the $1 Million Dollar Big One for One Drop raising his live winnings in 2018 to more than 25 Million Dollar!
By now this is the most winnings a poker player ever managed within 8 months. Justin Bonomo also overtook Daniel Negreanu and is now Number 1 in the All Time Money List with winnings of $42,979,591!
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Payouts 2018 Big One for One Drop:
| Place | Player | Country | Prize (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Justin Bonomo | United States | $10,000,000 |
| 2nd | Fedor Holz | Germany | $6,000,000 |
| 3rd | Dan Smith | United States | $4,000,000 |
| 4th | Rick Salomon | United States | $2,840,000 |
| 5th | Byron Kaverman | United States | $2,000,000 |
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