2012 WSOP: ALL OF THE LIGHTS

"Turn up the lights in here, baby
Extra bright, I want y'all to see this
Turn up the lights in here, baby
You know what I need, want you to see everything,
Want you to see all of the lights"

- Kanye West, All of the Lights
from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
(Def Jam, 2011)








It doesn't get any better than this, the biggest stakes, the largest prizepool in history and some of the best players in poker history all here to duke it out and find who will win The Big One for One Drop!

Here are the players by table and by seat location ...

ESPN MAIN STAGE
Haralabos Voulgaris, Ilya Bulychev, Alexander Gruissem, Cary Katz, Giovanni Guarascio, Tobias Renkenmaier, Phil Ruffin, Guy Laliberte

AMAZON ORANGE TABLE 391
Vivek Rajkumar, Thomas Marchese, Antonio Esfandiari, Nicholas Schulman, Benjamin Lamb, Brandon Steven, Phil Ivey, Erik Seidel

AMAZON ORANGE 401
William (Bill) Perkins, Frederic Banjout, Andrew Robl, Jens Kyllonen, Justin Smith, Brian Rast, Samuel Trickett, Jonathan Duhamel

AMAZON ORANGE 407
Daniel Shak, Mikhail Smirnov, John Morgan, Bobby Baldwin, Phil Galfond, Roland de Wolfe, Eugene Kathcalov, Tom Dwan

AMAZON ORANGE 409
Seng Chen Yong, Jason Mericer, Talal Shakerchi, Noah Schwartz, Gustav Hansen, Paul Newey, David Einhorn, ElkY

AMAZON ORANGE 411
Wei Seng Phua, Michael Mizrachi, Michael (Mike) Sexton, Robert Bright, Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu, Richard Salomon, Chamath Palihapitiya


The 48-player field will be fighting for the following prizes ...

1st: $18,346,673
2nd: $10,112,001
3rd: $4,352,000
4th: $2,645,333
5th: $1,834,666
6th: $1,621,333
7th: $1,408,000
8th: $1,237,333
9th: $1,109,333
Total Prize Pool $42,666,672

$111,111 of each players entry will go to benefit the One Drop organization.

This will be the largest first-place prize awarded in tournament poker history!


Cards will be in the air at 1:11pm PT.

I will be providing you with news at it happens, I have a birds-eye view of the five outer tables with the ESPN Main Stage right behind me.

Eric Danis
@PTPRpoker
www.PTPRpoker.com