As you may have read in an earlier piece, the $1,000,000 buy in tournament at the World Series of Poker starts in a few hours.

The list of participants is pretty impressive and as previously mentioned, $111,111 of each $1 million buy in will go to the charity One Drop.

Here are the participants (information from WSOP official site)

Bobby Baldwin - Chief Design and Construction Officer, MGM Resorts
Frederic Banjout - CEO, Eden Shoes
Bob Bright - CEO, Bright Trading LLC
Ilya Bulychev - Businessman
Roland De Wolfe - Professional Poker Player
Tom Dwan - Professional Poker Player
Jonathan Duhamel - Professional Poker Player
David Einhorn - Hedge Fund Manager
Antonio Esfandiari - Professional Poker Player
Phil Galfond - Professional Poker Player
Bertrand ElkY Grospellier - Professional Poker Player
Philipp philbort Gruissem - Professional Poker Player
Giovanni "Malibu" Guarascio - Professional Poker Player
Phil Ivey - Professional Poker Player
Eugene Katchalov - Professional Poker Player
Cary Katz - CEO, College Loan Corporation
Jens Kyllönen - Professional Poker Player
Guy Laliberté - Founder, Cirque de Soleil, One Drop Canada
Ben Benba Lamb - Professional Poker Player
Tom Marchese - Professional Poker Player
Jason treysfull21 Mercier - Professional Poker Player
Michael Mizrachi - Professional Poker Player
John Morgan - CEO, Winmark Corporation
Daniel Negreanu - Professional Poker Player
Paul Newey - Chairman, New Wave Ventures
Chamath Palihapitiya - Venture Capitalist
Bill Perkins - Owner, Small Ventures
Paul Phua - Businessman
Brian tsarrast Rast - Professional Poker Player
Vivek Psyduck Rajkumar - Professional Poker Player
Tobias Reinkemeier - Professional Poker Player
Andrew good2cu Robl - Professional Poker Player
Phil Ruffin - Owner, Treasure Island Resort
Rick Salomon - Film Producer
Nick Schulman - Professional Poker Player
Noah Schwartz - Professional Poker Player
Erik Seidel - Professional Poker Player
Mike Sexton - Professional Poker Player
Dan Shak - Founder, SHK Asset Management
Talal Shakerchi - European Hedge Fund Manager
Mikhail Smirnov – Businessman, Poker Player
Justin Boosted J Smith - Professional Poker Player
Brandon Steven – Businessman, Car Dealer Owner
Sam Trickett - Professional Poker Player
Haralabos Voulgaris - Professional Gambler
Richard Yong - Businessman
Satellite Winner - $25,300 Mega Satellite winner, June 30 at Rio
Satellite Winner - MGM Resorts International VIP winner

With such an impressive list of players, this is sure to be an exciting game.

The players will be divided into 8 tables of 6 and the top 9 finishers will win a minimum prize of $1.1 million. The first prize is $18,346,673.

The game begins on 1st July 2012 at 1.11pm and there is a live stream of the first 2 days of action on WSOP.com. The final day will be shown on ESPN and ESPN2.

More news of the event will follow


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