Of course, just who is fronting all that money isn’t always clear. However, if you ever wondered how you’d pay for it, here’s what 2014 WSOP Main Event champ Greg Merson came up with…Ī post shared by greg merson on at 3:24pm PDT $1million Big One for One DropĪs far as I can work out, nobody has as yet forked out more than once for the biggest buy-in live tournament event in history – the charity-aimed Big One for One Drop where $1million is needed to take your seat. They both ended up big winners, but as Lee Davy pointed out for Calvin Ayre at the time: “There is no way that firing $500,000 at a $100,000 event and $750,000 at a $250,000 can be a long-term profitable decision in my uneducated opinion”. Here’s a round-up of the day: /FVFzEUdybwįiring multiple bullets isn’t all that unusual, of course, with last year witnessing Kings Casino owner and highstakes ‘amateur’ Leon Tsoukernik shoot seven times at €25k in the VeldenEM high roller – although unlike Dwan and Kuznetsov he at least turned a good profit by eventually taking down the title and the €370,000 ($432,819) payday.īack in 2014 at the Aussie Millions, Daniel Negreanu not only bought in 5 times to the $100k Challenge, he also fired 3 bullets in the $250k version, while Isaac Haxton spent $600k and $500k respectively. Well we couldn’t get down to the winner, but the action in the HKD 1m Short Deck continues tmrw 12.30AM ! The multiple attempts (37 unique entries and 44 re-buys!) will ensure a wealthy winner, however, with a total prizepool of HK$76,140,000 (about US$9.7 million) of which the eventual victor is set to walk off with HK$22.4 million (US$2.84 million) and it will be one of these four… They weren’t the only ones to give the $127,500 buy-in tournament more than one shot, though, as the following graphic shows…the Triton news team describing it as ‘the joys and perils of short-deck hold’em in South Korea’

The legendary duo of ‘Durrrr’ and ‘Trueteller’ were the biggest spenders in the Triton Jeju High Roller Series Short Deck event number five – 5 bullets each at HK$1million apiece making it an extremely expensive US$637,000 afternoon, with nothing at all to show for the money.

Well there’s someone we know at the table! ? Catch the action here: /ebNRXqZDXj In the dangerous world of Russian Roulette, firing 5 bullets and giving up is usually a good thing – in poker, as Tom Dwan and Timofey Kuznetsov found out yesterday, it’s more like an expensive multi-misclick!

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