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Home : Magazine : Antonio Esfandiari Vol. 25, No. 15
Antonio Esfandiari Vol. 25, No. 15 Card Player Magazine

Antonio Esfandiari Vol. 25, No. 15 Card Player Magazine

Antonio Esfandiari Wins $1,000,000 Buy-In ‘Big One for One Drop’

by Erik Fast

One million dollars is roughly twenty-four times the average annual salary in America. At the 2012 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, 48 people put-up exactly that unbelievable seven-figure sum in order to play the largest buy-in poker tournament in history, the “Big One for One Drop.” The event sold-out, ensuring that the first...

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