Six More Players Confirmed For $1M WPT Big One for One Drop

WPT One DropWorld Poker Tour (WPT) ambassador Phil Ivey was the first player to confirm his participation in the $1 million buy-in Big One for One Drop at the WPT World Championship, and six more players have now confirmed they will join Ivey at Wynn Las Vegas later this year for the biggest buy-in event of the year.

Those players include high-stakes regulars Rick Salomon and Talal Shakerchi, investor David Einhorn, top pros Chris Brewer and Nick Petrangelo and two-time Poker Players Championship winner Dan "Jungleman" Cates.

“Our partnership with the One Drop Foundation has already seen some big names turn up in the Alpha8 fields,” WPT CEO Adam Pliska said in a press release. “As the Big One…