The Big One for One Drop - player cap almost reached

Forty two players have already confirmed their participation in the special $1,000,000 poker event ($111,111 of each buy-in goes to Guy Laliberté's One Drop Foundation) that will take place at this year's World Series of Poker. The Big One for One Drop is scheduled to take place on July 1st at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, and it will be the first event ever to award an exclusive Platinum WSOP bracelet, instead of regular gold one.

The event has a 48-player cap, which would mean the first prize would be worth ~$18 million. As mentioned, 42 players have already confirmed their entry, and 2 more spots are actually reserved and awaiting for confirmation.
That leaves the tournament open with only 4 slots, and now we were informed that that cap won't be increased. Only way possible for more players to enter the event is if there is enough buy-in's into the special $25,300 buy-in satellite:
"For every 40 entries, we will award a seat into the Big One," explained WSOP communications manager, Palansky. "Therefore, if 80 or more players enter that Mega Satellite, there is a possibility that the cap increases. This is because regulations to run this event require us to award a seat for every 40 entries.
No one knows what to expect for that Mega Satellite. If 40 players don’t sign up, we are guaranteeing the first seat anyway."

Full list of confirmed players at the moment of posting this news:
Andy Beal
Cary Katz
Paul Newey
Vivek Rajkumar
Anonymous - U.S. Venture Capitalist
Daniel Negreanu
Paul Phua
Andrew Robl
Anonymous - European Hedge Fund Manager
Daniel Shak
Phil Ruffin
Nick Schulman
Anonymous U.S. Hedge Fund Manager
Erik Seidel
Richard Yong
Noah Schwartz
Anonymous - French businessman
Giovanni Guarascio
Tom Dwan
Roger Teska
Arnaud Mimram
Gus Hansen
Tony Guoga
Sam Trickett
Bertrand "Elky" Grospellier
Guy Laliberte
Bob Bright
J.R. Bellande
Bobby Baldwin
Johnny Chan
John Morgan
Ben Lamb
Anonymous U.S. Hedge Fund Manager
Jonathan Duhamel
Eugene Katchalov
Caesars Entertainment seat
Caesars Entertainment seat
Justin Smith
Jens Kyllonen
Carlos Nahas
Jason Mercier
MGM Mirage Satellite seat
Patrik Antonius
David Peat

isn't David Peat "Viffer"?

still no Phil Ivey

why even have a cap?

How many of these guys are backed by laliberte?

Wasnt Bellande on one of the last PAD episodes and almost in tears after losing a 60k pot in a coinflip situation because "its all the money he got"?
Next thing you know Brad Booth is in too

going to be so sick to watch

Anonymous - U.S. Venture Capitalist

Anonymous - European Hedge Fund Manager

Anonymous U.S. Hedge Fund Manager

Anonymous - French businessman

Anonymous U.S. Hedge Fund Manager

God damn it idiots you'll be on Television why not just permit them to disclose your names...

Firstly why the fuck do you care?

Secondly, they aren't disclosing their names because they don't want a bunch of people bothering them about a donkament when they have 9 or 10 figure portfolios to manage

On June 10 2012 22:06 Highcard wrote: Firstly why the fuck do you care? Secondly, they aren't disclosing their names because they don't want a bunch of people bothering them about a donkament when they have 9 or 10 figure portfolios to manage

Either way people are gonna bother them after the donkament anyways so thats not rly a valid argument :D
They r just delaying the inevitable

On June 10 2012 22:06 Highcard wrote: Firstly why the fuck do you care?

I'm going to follow you around now on LP and demand to know why you care about anything or everything.

On June 10 2012 16:27 YouGoTGoT wrote: How many of these guys are backed by laliberte?

I think Tacos post contains all the people who arent backed by guy

On June 10 2012 20:02 taco wrote: Anonymous - U.S. Venture Capitalist Anonymous - European Hedge Fund Manager Anonymous U.S. Hedge Fund Manager Anonymous - French businessman Anonymous U.S. Hedge Fund Manager

that would actually be a pretty good investment for Guy, get 5M for your charity/gambling addiction riskfree

how can J.R. Bellande buyin did he win survivor 34?

His Twitter handle: @BrokeLivingJRB

JRB has been playing in the most epic looking 100/200NL private game that has been running at ARia. Only pros that I've seen playing that game are JRB and Viffer, then there are like five 60 year old casino owner dudes. Most unreal game ever... super rigged that it's invite only

On June 10 2012 23:38 Spitfiree wrote: Show nested quote + On June 10 2012 22:06 Highcard wrote: Firstly why the fuck do you care? Secondly, they aren't disclosing their names because they don't want a bunch of people bothering them about a donkament when they have 9 or 10 figure portfolios to manage Either way people are gonna bother them after the donkament anyways so thats not rly a valid argument :D They r just delaying the inevitable

lol how is it not valid, getting bothered after is less overall time then being bothered before + after.

On June 11 2012 07:46 Target-x17 wrote: how can J.R. Bellande buyin did he win survivor 34?

He has a lot of money from past business

On June 11 2012 18:33 impact69 wrote: Show nested quote + On June 11 2012 07:46 Target-x17 wrote: how can J.R. Bellande buyin did he win survivor 34? He has a lot of money from past business

the only way that statement makes sense to me is if JRB shits diamonds