Resorts World Las Vegas introduced a brand new high-stakes charity poker event in partnership with the World Poker Tour (WPT) and the One Drop Basis that can happen throughout the Formulation 1 weekend in November.
The Large Deal for One Drop might be a $10,000 buy-in occasion with as much as 54 gamers competing whereas elevating cash for the One Drop Basis, which helps communities remedy the water and local weather disaster. Seventeen-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth is ready to emcee the occasion.
“To date, I’ve MC’d charity occasions elevating over $75 million for a lot of nice charities,” Hellmuth stated within the annoucement. “I stay up for elevating extra funds for worthy causes in November.”
“Previously 12 years, One Drop has created iconic poker tournaments which are going to be within the large historical past e-book of poker for a very long time,” added One Drop Basis founder Man Laliberté. “The Large Deal for One Drop goes to be a kind of, for the enjoyable facet and for the folks it’ll draw.”
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In its announcement, Resorts Worlds famous that the event “will characteristic Race Week personalities, celebrities, and some choose poker execs battling it out on the felt for prizes, money-can’t-buy experiences, and bragging rights.”
The Large Deal for One Drop will happen on November 22 at midday native time contained in the Alle Lounge on 66 at Resorts World. Like most charity occasions, there might be rebuys and add-ons accessible all through the event.
“This particular occasion, in partnership with the One Drop Basis and Resorts World, is definitely a not-to-be-missed occasion for any poker fanatics trying so as to add a enjoyable, international affect angle to Race Week within the coronary heart of Las Vegas,” stated WPT CEO Adam Pliska.
Formulation 1 will return to Las Vegas November 21-23. Final 12 months’s race included a number of charity occasions and different festivities at Resorts World that PokerNews documented, together with a Q&A session with F1 celebrity Max Verstappen.
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