22 confirmed for $1 million buy-in

i'm a little excited for this event next wsop. 22 confirmed entrants including the following:
Guy Laliberté
Bobby Baldwin
Phil Ruffin
Andy Beal
Patrik Antonius
Gus Hansen
Daniel Negreanu
Johnny Chan
Tom Dwan
Tony Guoga
Jonathan Duhamel
Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier
Sean O’Donnell
Dan Shak
and others preferring to stay anonymous for now


i have to assume ivey will be in on this. can't see him passing up a $1 million buy-in.
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  • trigs wrote: »
    i'm a little excited for this event next wsop. 22 confirmed entrants including the following:
    Guy Laliberté
    Bobby Baldwin
    Phil Ruffin
    Andy Beal
    Patrik Antonius
    Gus Hansen
    Daniel Negreanu
    Johnny Chan
    Tom Dwan
    Tony Guoga
    Jonathan Duhamel
    Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier
    Sean O’Donnell
    Dan Shak
    Compuease
    and others preferring to stay anonymous for now


    i have to assume ivey will be in on this. can't see him passing up a $1 million buy-in.

    fyp..
  • guy laliberte? really? <.< How much money does this guy have?

    some names are suprising. I'm suprised duhamel is player for example
  • Richard~ wrote: »
    guy laliberte? really? <.< How much money does this guy have?

    some names are suprising. I'm suprised duhamel is player for example

    This Is a Freeroll, Guy Laliberte is just adding 1M for every top name pro that wants in!! JK, But he could if he wanted to!!! His net worth is 2.5 Billion.
  • Richard~ wrote: »
    guy laliberte? really? <.< How much money does this guy have?

    some names are suprising. I'm suprised duhamel is player for example

    Kidding?

    He's the one who organized this event isn't he?
  • lol Im willing to bet a lot the guy is staking duhamel in this.
  • lol Im willing to bet a lot the guy is staking duhamel in this.

    That was a pretty surprising name for me on that list. Makes sense when you put it that way though.
  • Guy Laliberte is the guy who founded/owns/made a shitload of $$$ off of Cirque du Soleil. He spent $20M so he could wear his red clown nose on the International Space Station a few years ago. He could probably buy Greece right now, and wipe out their debt issues. More money then God.
  • guy is sponsoring this event. his charity (one drop foundation) is taking $111,111 as a donation. winner is getting a platinum bracelet. duhamel works for the foundation as well and is most likely why he's in it. event is open to all and capped at 48.
  • 1 million starting stacks, 25/50 blinds just for the fun of it imo
  • Milo wrote: »
    Guy Laliberte is the guy who founded/owns/made a shitload of $$$ off of Cirque du Soleil. He spent $20M so he could wear his red clown nose on the International Space Station a few years ago. He could probably buy Greece right now, and wipe out their debt issues. More money then God.

    So if he gets more money then he becomes God?

    *In honour of the recent, yet all too infrequent, 800Over sighting.
  • So if he gets more money then he becomes God?

    *In honour of the recent, yet all too infrequent, 800Over sighting.


    Naah . . . he'd never take the pay CUT.
  • Richard~ wrote: »
    1 million starting stacks, 25/50 blinds just for the fun of it imo


    This is actually the structure for some sit n go's on America's cardroom.;)
  • Richard~ wrote: »
    1 million starting stacks, 25/50 blinds just for the fun of it imo

    apparently they are going with the normal starting stack format in the wsop which is 3x the buy-in...so $3 million starting stacks.
  • BAP

    Selling 99% and will only play if all of it sells

    No mark up

    1% - $10,000

    will only accept cashiers check in US Funds

    who wants a piece of this action?


























































    LOL YA RIGHT
  • SteveKerr wrote: »
    BAP

    Selling 99% and will only play if all of it sells

    No mark up

    1% - $10,000

    will only accept cashiers check in US Funds

    who wants a piece of this action?

    .001% please

    #rungood
  • Most -EV BAP ever :o
  • SteveKerr wrote: »
    BAP

    Selling 99% and will only play if all of it sells

    No mark up

    1% - $10,000

    will only accept cashiers check in US Funds

    who wants a piece of this action?

    lol i was going to post this as well
  • I think there are some sats for this tournament at the Montreal Casino.
  • This Sunday there is a $1k sat to the $25k satellite at the Lac Leamy (Hull) casino. $1000+100, min 26 players.
  • so basically world wide super expensive sats to a 40 player winner take all sat for an 1M BI, wow
  • This means a ton of money will leave the poker economy.
  • This means a ton of money will leave the poker economy.

    Nit . . .
  • Season 5 Shared League prize?
  • A guy at the local poker club who won the sunday million say down at a 100 NL live table at the club and shoved his 100 dollar BI every hand for what I think was several hours. Maybe the winner can do something similar to give back to the poker economy :P
  • apparently this will be a bracelet event they have decided. lots of mixed reviews on this from the pros. the argument is that it is only open to a very small portion of players who can afford it and therefore it shouldn't be a bracelet event. what do you guys think about this?

    personally, i don't see what the big deal is. who cares if only certain people can afford it? i completely agree with terrance chan's opinion on the matter:

    “I think it’s patently ridiculous that there are some poker superstars who are up in arms about this tournament being a bracelet event because its high buy-in excludes so many people,” Chan said. "It kind of shows how removed from reality they are when they don’t realize that even $10,000 buy-in tournaments seem gigantic for the vast majority of poker players worldwide. It’s like these people think they have a god-given right to play the largest poker tournament in existence, and if there’s one that’s larger, they have to hate on it.”
  • I wonder if James Bond will be playing this tournament??
  • RWPKRPLR wrote: »
    I wonder if James Bond will be playing this tournament??

    if he does, he'll run top full hose into quads and beat him self up for "thinking the guy was just bluffing" followed by slowrolling his 3 opponents with straight flushes 24/7, it'll be a mess <.<
  • 2 more confirmed....
  • I've heard Chuck Norris is signed up... Now let's see the action.
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