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The Poker Grapevine – Poker Pros Looking to Raise Money for Big One
Posted by: Randy Williams - Sat, 2012-06-30 09:37
The biggest
poker tournament ever to be held, the $1 million buy-in Big One for One Drop is only days away now, and as its kick-off date draws near, players are scrambling to get their finances in line with the requirements of the tournament. The three latest players who registered are Daniel Negreanu, Antonio Esfandiari and Andrew Robl. While most people automatically assume that players like those said above and their ilk are capable of buying into an event like the Big One at a whim, the harsh reality is different.
Jason Mercier, Phil Hellmuth and Ben Lamb are still peddling action in the tournament to get enough money to register. In a tweet, Lamb said he still had about 7% to sell, while Hellmuth is hunting for a massive $400k more.
By the middle of last week, there were 42 players registered for the event. The action kicks off on Sunday, and it may just end up generating more hype than the Main Event.
In other news: social gambling is slowly but surely taking off, as celebrities toss their names behind operators in ever increasing numbers. Former Playboy model and Baywatch star Pamela Anderson has struck an endorsement deal with BamPoker, an online poker operation based on Facebook. The pitch is an age-old one: BamPoker will apparently be the only place where people will be able to play poker online with Pamela Anderson. It is clear that the operation is counting on Anderson’s celebrity status in a big way, and if we were in the 90s the move would indeed be bordering on genial, but since that’s not quite the case, and because BamPoker is only offering play money games, the jury should definitely still be out on whether the whole BamPoker initiative is indeed a viable one.
Pamela Anderson’s previous online poker venture, Pamela Poker, fell victim to the 2006 UIGEA.
