One Drop Tournament Returns with €100,000 Buy-In at EPT Monte Carlo

The iconic One Drop poker tournament is returning this year with a €100,000 buy-in. This time it is part of the European Poker Tour Monte Carlo festival from May 1-3. PokerStars is teaming up with the One Drop Foundation for the event. The tournament helps raise funds for global water access.

Organizers will take 3% of each buy-in and donate it to the organization’s global safe water projects. One Drop Foundation founder and Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté said, “One Drop Foundation is thrilled to partner with EPT and PokerStars to bring the cause of safe water to the poker table at the iconic Sporting Monte Carlo.”

PokerStars will stream the coverage on its YouTube channel. Additionally, PokerStars ambassador Jason Koon is one of the first committed to play the event. The 2012 WSOP hosted the inaugural One Drop event with a $1 million buy-in. Antonio Esfandiari won the inaugural One Drop event for $18.3 million. The WSOP hosted a high roller version of the event every year between 2012-2018. In 2016, One Drop held the first non-WSOP high roller event with a €1,000,000 buy-in in Monte Carlo. Elton Tsang won the €1,000,000 buy-in event in 2016 for more than $12 million. The tournaments have raised more than $26 million for the foundation. To date, One Drop has improved the living conditions of more than 3 million people around the world.