After the One Drop Foundation and the World Series of Poker announce the numbers raised for charity during the 2016 Big One For One Drop, Lee Davy, suggests they could have raised a lot more.

When the World Series of Poker (WSOP) announced plans to host a $1m buy-in event back in 2012 the part about charity was lost upon me. I didn’t care about the 11.11% charitable donation. I didn’t care about the lives it would save. All I cared about was the $1m price tag and that someone would walk away with close to $20m in cash.

My priorities were severely misaligned, and I take no solace in the fact that after this year’s One Drop I realise it can happen to anyone.

The WSOP has released the official numbers raised for charity during the 2016 One Drop in Monte Carlo and once again they are huge. The Monte Carlo event alone raised $3,805,000 for the One Drop Foundation. Combine that with the $1,206,478 raised in the summer and you have a combined 2016 figure of $5,011,478. You will be hard pressed to find another sport anywhere in the world that can raise that kind of money for charity.