The $111,111 High Roller for ONE DROP was completed a few hours ago. The event attracted a total of 135 of the world’s most popular high rollers who created a prize pool of $14,249,925, the largest one in this year’s edition of the WSOP.
Former WSOP Champion Jonathan Duhamel won the exciting event to capture the amount of $3,989,985 and his second gold bracelet.
This was the fourth consecutive year when a bigger buy-in ONE DROP event was held. Former champions were Antonio Esfandiari in 2012, Tony Gregg in 2013, and Daniel Colman in 2014. Generally speaking, a $105,556 portion of the buy-in fee goes into the prize pool. The remaining $5,555 go to the ONE DROP charity. Its main goal is to bring clean water to developing countries.
As mentioned above, Duhamel had to face some of the world’s most popular poker players. Apart from him, two other former bracelet winners sat at the nine-handed final table – Phil Hellmuth, who won his 14th gold piece a few days ago, and Daniel Colman, who defeated Daniel Negreanu last year to win The BIG ONE for ONE DROP event.
Eventually, Duhamel faced California-based part-time poker player William Klein for one final heads-up duel. Hand #114 was the last one in play. And here is how Duhamel captured his title. He raised to 1,200,000 and his opponent three-bet to 3,600,000. Duhamel moved all-in and Klein called after a few moments of consideration.
Klein tabled [Kh][Jd] against his opponent’s [Kc][Ks]. The board ran out [Jh][9c][5h][As][4s] to secure Duhamel with his second WSOP title and the amount of $3,989,985.
Klein, on the other hand, had to content himself with a runner-up finish and $2,465,522 of the entire prize pool. The player announced that he would donate his prize to the ONE DROP charity.
This was Duhamel’s 26th WSOP cash. Yet, it was not his largest one. In 2010, the Canadian player won the 41st Annual WSOP $10,000 Main Event for $8,944,310. Up to now, Duhamel has $16,819,897 in live tournament earnings and is 2nd in his country’s all time money list, with Negreanu being the only to stand before him.
And here are the rest of the players who made it to the final table:
Daniel Colman from Holden Massachusetts finished 3rd to capture the amount of $1,544,121. As mentioned above, the player won last year’s The BIG ONE for ONE DROP event.
Ben Sulsky from Brewster, Massachusetts took 4th place for $1,118,049. Dan Perper from Highland Park, Illinois, finished 5th to scoop the amount of $873,805.
Califnornia-based poker pro Phil Hellmuth, who holds record 14 WSOP gold bracelets, missed his chance to win yet another precious piece. Yet, he took 6th place in the event, which paid $696,821.
Anthony Zinno from Boston, Massachusetts was paid $565,864 for taking 7th place in the event. This was his fourth final table appearance at this year’s WSOP.
Russian Sergey Lebedev received $466,970 for his 8th place. Andrew Lichtenberger rounded out the final table to capture $390,875. The player won the WSOP Circuit Main Event back in 2010.
