Elton Tsang Wins the Big One For One Drop Extravaganza for €11,111,111!

After three fabulous days of action, the 2016 Monte-Carlo One Drop Extravaganza €1,000,000-buy-in Big One For One Drop has crowned a winner.

Tonight, Canadian born but Hong Kong based, Elton Tsang can say that he’s won the third biggest prize in poker history as he defeated a field of 28 entries to win a massive €11,111,111.

Such is the scale of the prize Tsang’s won that he’s vaulted from outside the top 3,000 to 21st on the all-time money list.

He defeated a final table that included Andrew Pantling, James Bord, Rick Salomon, Haralabos Voulgaris, Cary Katz, Brandon Steven and Anatoly Gurtovoy.

Final Table Results

No Ordinary Tournament, a €1,500,000 Bubble

This was no ordinary tournament and the final table got the introduction it deserved. Guy Laliberté did not disappoint as the players were escorted to the tables to a crescendo of electric guitar riffs and the One Drop foundation frontman took to the microphone to perform the ceremonial ‘shuffle up and deal’ announcement.

We didn’t have to wait long for action. Just two hands in, Elton Tsang took the chip lead from Andrew Pantling and when the two clashed again on the next hand, with Tsang coming out on top, Pantling had lost two-thirds of his stack while Tsang now had a big chip lead. Looking back we can say that these were two of the most pivotal hands of the final table, we just didn’t know it yet. They’re so pivotal because at this point Tsang’s stack was over 47,000,000. During the entirety of the final table, no other player would get their hands on a stack that big.

Coming into play as the short stack was Haralabos Voulgaris. The professional sports bettor needed to find a spot and eight hands in he found it. Unfortunately for ‘Bob’ this one didn’t go in his favor as his shove with a suited king was picked off by Anatoly Gurtovoy with ace-queen. Neither player connected with the board and it was bubble time with 7 players remaining and just 6 getting paid.

It was a €1,500,000 bubble but you wouldn’t have known it as the action didn’t grind to a halt and there was zero stalling. Brandon Steven was the first player all-in and at risk of bubbling, he and Pantling both had ace-king but after the turn, Pantling was freerolling and any diamond would’ve burst the bubble. Steven survived and Cary Katz was the next player to face a sweat. He had dwindled to just under five big blinds by the time he took a stand with jack-ten. Again it was Pantling who was looking to play the role of executioner but Katz started, and finished, with the best hand to get a much needed double up.

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