October 17, 2016 12:48 pm

Elton Tsang has just won the biggest buy-in tournament in poker history, after forking out €1 million, or roughly $1.1 million to enter the 2016 Big One for One Drop Invitational event held at the Casino de Monte-Carlo in Monaco.
A total of 26 players entered the tournament, which combined with 2 reentries helped created a prize pool worth €244,888,892 ($269,966,037). Three days of action later, and it was China’s Elton Tsang who eventually managed to triumph over his opponents to claim the massive prize of €11,111,111 ($12,248,912), after which he commented:
“I was feeling good, feeling comfortable, getting cards, my bluffs were working, getting a good read on the table. It was just going my way. It was going good.”
With only six paid money places, a short-stacked Haralabos Voulgaris exited the competition in 8th place, after which Brandon Steven, who bubbled the 2010 WSOP Main Event, did likewise in this tournament when his K-Q fell to the A-K of Cary Katz.
With the final table set, Elton Tsang (A-9) took out Andrew Pantling (K-3) in 6th, before being dealt K-J and taking care of Cary Katz (A-J) in 5th. Anatoly Gurtovoy then eliminated James Bord in 4th, and after being dealt A-Q he subsequently sent Rick Salomon (Q-J) to the rail in third to usher in the final phase of the battle.
At this stage, Elton Tsang held a 93.7m to 46.3m chip advantage over Anatoly Gurtovoy, but Tsang managed to grind his opponent to a short-stack after which the Russian (A-5) went all-in on a Q-3-4-2 board having made a straight. Unfortunately for him, Elton Tsang (6-5) had been dealt 6-5, and so Anatoly Gurtovoy picked-up €5,427,781 for his runner-up finish, while the top prize and title went to Elton Tsang.
After winning the third biggest prize in poker tournament history, Elton Tsang moves up from being outside the top 3,000 money earners in the game to number 21 on poker’s all-time money list with lifetime earnings of $12,752,990.
Final Table Results:
1: Elton Tsang (Hong Kong) €11,111,111
2: Anatoly Gurtovoy (Russia) €5,427,781
3: Rick Salomon (USA) €3,000,000
4: James Bord (UK) €2,100,000
5: Cary Katz (USA) €1,750,000
6: Andrew Pantling (Canada) €1,500,000

Jason Koon vs Elton Tsang battle for a huge pot back in Montenegro 2018. 📌 Location: Maestral Resort and Casino - Sveti Stefan, Montenegro 🔽 Visit https://ww. Elton Tsang Ka-wai (born 1980) is a Chinese Canadian poker player currently residing in Hong Kong.

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As the clock drew to a close at the end of the nine levels of play today, Elton Tsang stood at the top of the chip counts before day 2. Tsang made his name known in the poker world in October last year when he won the €1,111,111 Big One for One Drop Extravaganza in Monte Carlo for €11,111,111. A total of 29 unique players sat down for the day 1, and nine of them opted to re-enter creating. Elton Tsang is a leading actor on the Triton poker scene. He was involved in the record-breaking €2,090,000 TV pot against Jason Koon. He is primarily a cash game player, and he is suspected to be the biggest winner of all-time! Jason Koon said in the Joe Ingram's podcast that this Chinese Canadian player won in his career over $120,000,000!