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There will be no repeat performance from Antonio Esfandiari at this year's $1 million Big One for One Drop at the World Series of Poker. Esfandiari, who won the event when it was last held in 2012, was eliminated two spots shy of the money in 10th place early on Tuesday morning at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino.

The World Series of Poker's Big One for One Drop is underway at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino. Thirty professional poker players and 12 businessmen and entertainers ponied up the $1 million buy-in for the second Big One for One Drop on Sunday afternoon.

Aaron Todd presents 10 numbers to note at this year's $1 million Big One for One Drop at the World Series of Poker.

As the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino celebrates its 10th year hosting the World Series of Poker, Casino City's Aaron Todd looks back at the 10 best final tables during that time.

This year’s WSOP will be about cash. Lots of it.

The second installment of the The BIG ONE for ONE DROP will return to the famed Amazon Room at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, as ESPN committed to producing multi-day coverage from the event comprising three consecutive weeks of prime-time coverage.

As its 10th anniversary approaches this summer, Casino City's Aaron Todd takes a look back at the 2004 World Series of Poker, one of the most interesting in recent memory.

The World Series of Poker-themed poker room at Bally's Wild Wild West casino in Atlantic City is still in its infancy, but as it gets set to host the WSOP National Circuit Championship on Memorial Day weekend, Caesars executives will find out where the room stands in the New Jersey poker market.

Casino City's Aaron Todd reviewed the list of events for the 2014 World Series of Poker, and selected the top-10 things he's most looking forward to this summer.

Aaron Todd looks back on the most memorable moments from this year's World Series of Poker final table.

Ryan Riess was 14 years old when he started hosting $10 poker tournaments in his basement in Clarkston, Mich., on Friday nights. Ten years later, he claimed an $8.36 million first-place prize and the title World Champion at the 2013 World Series of Poker.

There isn't much that can distract Amir Lehavot at the poker table; not even a crazy bunch of French-Canadians chanting for him to fold.

If there's one thing you can't accuse Sylvain Loosli of being, it's impatient. The Frenchman didn't play any of the first 17 hands at the World Series of Poker Main Event final table, and the strategy helped him climb the pay ladder to fourth place for nearly $2.8 million.

JC Tran was not only the most experienced player at the World Series of Poker Main Event final table, he was also the chip leader. But sometimes, the cards just don't come your way.

The men and women dressed in green, covered in Shamrocks, and chanting in French at the Penn & Teller Theater in the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino on Monday afternoon were friends of Marc-Etienne McLaughlin, one of the players at the World Series of Poker's final table.

Michiel Brummelhuis started the final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event with one major goal in mind: Don't finish ninth.

David Benefield had some of the biggest lay downs in the early stages of the World Series of Poker Main Event final table, but he also showed that he wasn't afraid to put his chips to use.

Mark Newhouse almost had one of the shortest November Nine experiences in history, but even though a fortunate flop kept him in the tournament, he was unable to use that luck to move up the pay ladder, finishing in ninth place in the World Series of Poker Main Event.

Scotty Nguyen and Tom McEvoy have distinctly different personalities. But when the two were inducted in the Poker Hall of Fame Sunday, they had one major characteristic in common -- emotion.

Whether you're a hard core poker fan planning to DVR every second of live coverage of the World Series of Poker Main Event final table or a casual fan that may flip back and forth between poker and Monday Night Football game, Aaron Todd provides the top-10 things to watch for during Monday's final table coverage.