It's Friday the 13th, a day that keeps the most superstitious poker players away from a card game. Connor Drinan may have wished he avoided the $1 million buy-in WSOP Big One for One Drop in 2014, especially after he suffered one of the most memorable bad beats in televised poker history.
In 2014, the WSOP brought back the historic charity event, and 42 players ponied up enough money to buy a mini mansion just to enter a poker tournament. Two years earlier, Antonio Esfandiari won the inaugural Big One for One Drop, which helped raise money for Guy Laliberte's One Drop Foundation, for $18,346,673, a single-event poker record at the time.