Remember last year during the World Series of Poker main event when this guy’s reaction made us think he’d lost the saddest poker hand ever? Erase that from your memory.

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This hand right here — from the WSOP Big One for One Drop, which aired Tuesday night on ESPN — is without a doubt the worst bad beat in the history of poker.

Dec 26, 2020 The WPT Online Poker Open $3500 Main Event features a guaranteed prize pool of $1 million with a single starting day and runs from December 27-29, 2020. The guarantee for the event can certainly be considered as ambitious considering the fact that it takes place in the ring-fenced New Jersey market.

Let’s start with this crazy fact: These guys paid $1 million(!) to play in a poker tournament, the only tournament of its kind with $15,306,688 to the winner (let that sink in for a moment).

Both Connor Drinan and Cary Katz picked up pocket aces, and after some pre-flop raises and acting that included an ominous message from Katz, they naturally got their money all in, but only Drinan was at risk of being eliminated. But, c’mon, what’s the worst that could happen when they’re an identical 2% to win a pot they split 98% of the time?

Jun 26, 2014 Among those on his calendar: the Big One for One Drop, a charity tournament with a $1 million buy-in. Yes, one million American dollars. The Big One for One Drop — a World Series of.
It featured a buy-in of US$1 million, the largest in poker history. Of the buy-in, $111,111 was a charitable donation to the One Drop Foundation, and the WSOP took no rake. All 48 seats available for that event were filled, resulting in a prize pool of $42,666,672, with over 5 million dollars donated.

Only this:

Aces vs. aces. No big deal?

That look you get when you know you can’t lose.

Flush draw. No, this isn’t happening …

This guy can’t believe it either!

Flush! It happened! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

How? Why? What?

That look you get when you realize $1 million was just flushed away on an awful beat.

Longtime ESPN poker commentator Lon McEachern called Drinan losing to an improbable flush “the worst beat in the history of tournament poker.” How can anybody disagree given the enormous stakes?

Oh, and that ominous message from Katz to Drinan before the flop? “Save your money, kid. You can’t win every pot.”

Drinan was knocked out in 18th place and out of the money.

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To watch this horrific beat slowly unfold, just click below:

Following the success of the GGMasters tournament, the GGPoker network has now launched a new set of weekly tournaments dubbed Multi MILLION$ with $3,150,000 in combined guarantees.

Multi MILLION$ features a line-up of three phase tournaments, including Global MILLION$ featuring a $1 million guaranteed prize pool for a buy-in of $100 and High Roller MILLION$, featuring a $2 million guarantee for a $500 buy-in.

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The third tournament will be the Zodiac MILLION$, with its prize pool and buy-in denoted in Chinese yuan. As the smallest of the Multi MILLION$ tournaments, Zodiac MILLION$ features a ¥1 million guarantee (worth approximately $140,000) for a ¥500 buy-in (approximately $70)

For those unfamiliar with phase tournaments, they offer multiple Day 1 phases, giving players multiple opportunities to play in the event. Players who survive a Day 1 phase move onto Day 2 (the final phase) where they are certain to reach the money.

Those players that survive multiple Day 1s will only bring their biggest stack forward into Day 2.

The $100 buy-in Global MILLION$ guaranteeing $1 million is arguably the most notable of the group. The tournament is quite ambitious as it is one of the cheapest weekly tournaments in the online poker industry to offer a $1 million guaranteed prize pool.

Day 1s for the Global MILLION$ are scheduled to run every day around the clock, with the final day (Day 2) being played every Sunday at 18:00 GMT.

GGPoker’s Multi MILLION$ Line-up:

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Global MILLION$, $100 buy-in, $1 million guarantee
High Roller MILLION$, $500 buy-in, $2 million guarantee
Zodiac MILLION$, ¥500 buy-in, ¥1 million guarantee

Will GGMasters Hit $600K Prize Pool this Sunday?

Meanwhile, GGPoker’s marquee tournament, GGMasters continues to attract record turnout almost every week.

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Last Sunday, a total of 4262 players entered the tournament to push its prize pool to nearly $590,000 —the biggest ever since its inception in early January 2020.

It also makes it four times in a row that the tournament covered its half-million guarantee with ease.

The tournament is quite exceptional as it comes for a buy-in of just $150. There are no rebuys or re-entries allowed, so every player gets a single shot to reach the money, unlike other big online poker tournaments that allow players to re-enter multiple times after they have been eliminated.

Furthermore, the tournament has its own dedicated Player of the Year leaderboard contest, offering players a chance to become GGPoker’s ambassador, worth $500,000. There are also prizes for the remaining top nine finishers.

Considering that the tournament has seen spectacular growth in popularity over the past few weeks, there is every chance that the fastest-growing Sunday major tournament could soon reach a new milestone by hitting $600,000 for the first time.

But with the addition of new Sunday majors, there could be some cannibalization which may end up causing GGMasters or the newly added $1 million guaranteed, $100 buy-in Global MILLION$ to overlay and ultimately provide huge value to players.

Important Information About GGMasters

The tournament takes place every Sunday at 17:00 UTC (1 PM ET)
It boasts $500,000 guarantee
The buy-in $150
There are no rebuys or re-entries allowed

More information about the GGMasters is available on our comprehensive GGMasters FAQ page.

GGPoker Multi Million$ Weekly Schedule

Day	Time(UTC)	Tournament Name	Buy-in	GTD
Weekdays	6:30	Zodiac MILLION$, ¥500, ¥1M GTD [Day 1]	¥500	¥1,000,000
Weekdays	9:00	Zodiac MILLION$, ¥500, ¥1M GTD [Day 1]	¥500	¥1,000,000
Weekdays	11:30	Zodiac MILLION$, ¥500, ¥1M GTD [Day 1, Turbo]	¥500	¥1,000,000
Weekdays	14:00	Global MILLION$, $100, $1M GTD [Day 1]	$100	$1,000,000
Weekdays	17:00	Global MILLION$, $100, $1M GTD [Day 1]	$100	$1,000,000
Weekdays	20:00	Global MILLION$, $100, $1M GTD [Day 1]	$100	$1,000,000
Weekdays	23:00	Global MILLION$, $100, $1M GTD [Day 1, Turbo]	$100	$1,000,000
Weekdays	15:00	High Roller MILLION$, $500, $1M GTD [Day 1]	$500	$2,000,000
Weekdays	18:00	High Roller MILLION$, $500, $1M GTD [Day 1]	$500	$2,000,000
Weekdays	21:00	High Roller MILLION$, $500, $1M GTD [Day 1]	$500	$2,000,000
Weekdays	0:00	High Roller MILLION$, $