During Monday night’s broadcast of the 2012 WSOP Main Event, it was revealed that the Big One for One Drop, which ran for the first time this year and saw Antonio Esfandiari (pictured) scoop an $18 million top prize, will make its return in 2014. The announcement was hyped throughout the first 90 minutes of ESPN2’s coverage of the Octo-Nine live from Las Vegas as a “big” announcement. Get it?

Esfandiari, who is announcing for ESPN, told viewers that he was happy to see the tournament return, albeit not for two years: “No one has a chance to out-top the most winnings [until 2014]. It’s great for charity, so why not?” One Drop is a charity focused on worldwide water usage. This year in the first running of the Big One for One Drop, the buy-in was $1 million and a $48 million prize pool was up for grabs. Esfandiari became poker’s all-time money leader.

ESPN poker commentator Norman Chad joked that he would ask one million people for a dollar in order to amass the buy-in. Before the announcement was made, poker journalist B.J. Nemeth Tweeted, “ESPN is really hyping this ‘big’ announcement. I’m curious, but ready to be disappointed by its big-ness.”

During the first break, which lasted about 15 minutes, ESPN’s Olivier livb112Busquet gave his take on Jesse Sylvia, the chip leader: “If he sees resistance, it’s because his opponents have hands… He’s shown a lot of aggression, but he hasn’t gotten involved in any pre-flop wars… He’s not going too far… He seems comfortable in his position. He’s in a really good spot to make a deep run and perhaps even win this tournament.”

On what Busquet expected in the upcoming level, he said, “I expect there to be more and more action. I look especially at Jeremy Ausmus(pictured), the short stack at 25 big blinds, who is really getting into that critical level.” Ausmus scooped a pot worth 6.2 million on a board of 6-5-10-2-A with three spades after betting two million on the river. Jake Balsiger, who held pocket nines, got out of the way. It was revealed on ESPN2 that Ausmus held A-J. Ausmus bumped his chip stack by 30% to 10 million.

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