Las Vegas, NV (July 14, 2023) – Bin Weng won the first-ever World Poker Tour® tournament hosted in partnership with the One Drop Foundation, WPT® EveryOne for One Drop at Wynn Las Vegas. Weng scored a massive top prize of $2,227,054, defeating WPT DeepStacks Champion Scott Baumstein heads up on Friday evening.
“By the end of Day 3, yesterday, I became another final table chip leader with six remaining. I’ll be honest with you, I didn’t sleep all that well last night because I was too excited,” said Weng as he graced the winner’s circle. “I don’t know what to say right now. I mean, I’m really, really happy for sure, and I’m really grateful right now for being this far in a short period of time.”
The $10,500 buy-in event attracted 1,676 entries via three starting flights. The sum generated a $16,257,200 prize pool, which allotted a cash to the top 210 finishers, and raised $335,200 for charity. A total of $209,500 went to the One Drop Foundation and $125,700 went to the Wynn Foundation.
“We are delighted to have raised over $300,000 for the One Drop and Wynn foundations and their noble missions. We see this as a sign of good things to come in our charity endeavors together,” said WPT CEO Adam Pliska. “Thank you to the Wynn Las Vegas staff for putting on such a spectacular event, and to the players for making a difference in people’s lives.”
When the field was cut to three, the players negotiated an ICM deal to even out the remaining payouts, while still competing for the title, trophy, and nearly $400,000 to the eventual champion. As the runner-up, Baumstein earned $1,503,988 and Niko Koop took home $1,872,438 for his third-place finish. They were preceded by Freddy Heller (4th place – $956,000), WPT Champion Dominik Nitsche (5th place – $700,100) and Tom Cannuli (6th place – $524,500).
A slew of other notable players secured a cash at WPT EveryOne for One Drop, including Stephen Chidwick (16th place), four-time WPT Champion Darren Elias (19th place), 2022 WPT Prime Championship winner Stephen Song (39th place), two-time WPT Champions Matt Giannetti (60th place), Noah Schwartz (65th place), and Jared Jaffe (97th place), 2022 WPT World Championship winner Eliot Hudon (66th place), WPT Global Ambassador Ethan “Rampage” Yau (127th place), Chris Moneymaker (141st place), and many more.
Next up is the $111,000 WPT Alpha8® for One Drop at Wynn Las Vegas, which commenced Friday morning. The three-day, high roller affair will conclude on Sunday, July 16 with a livestreamed final table. The stream can be viewed on WPT YouTube and Twitch channels, as well as Caffeine TV.
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About the One Drop Foundation
The One Drop™ Foundation is an international philanthropic organization created by Cirque du Soleil and Lune Rouge founder Guy Laliberté with the vision of a better world, where all have access to living conditions that allow empowerment and development. Its mission is to ensure sustainable access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene for communities facing extreme barriers through innovative partnerships, creativity, and the power of art. Together with its partners, the One Drop Foundation deploys its unique Social Art for Behaviour Change™ approach designed to promote the adoption of healthy water, sanitation and hygiene-related behaviours and empower communities. For this to be possible, the One Drop Foundation creates novel fundraising initiatives supported by a visionary community of partners and donors. The One Drop Foundation is celebrating 15 years of turning water into action, with projects that will soon have improved the living conditions of more than 2.7 million people around the world.
About Wynn Las Vegas
Wynn Resorts is the recipient of more Forbes Travel Guide Five Star Awards than any other independent hotel company in the world and in 2023 was once again honored on FORTUNE Magazine’s World’s Most Admired Companies list. Wynn and Encore Las Vegas consist of two luxury hotel towers with a total of 4,748 spacious hotel rooms, suites and villas. The resort features approximately 194,000 square feet of casino space, 20 signature dining experiences, 14 bars, two award-winning spas, approximately 513,000 rentable square feet of meeting and convention space, approximately 174,000 square feet of retail space as well as two showrooms, two nightclubs, a beach club, and recreation and leisure facilities, including Wynn Golf Club, an 18-hole championship golf course. For more information on Wynn and Encore Las Vegas, visit press.wynnlasvegas.com.