Think of the worst tournament bad beat you can remember. Now triple it. Now televise it to the biggest poker audience you can imagine.

Now imagine that you paid a million dollars to enter the event.

Connor Drinan has no need to imagine such a bad beat because back in the summer of 2014, he lived it.

Playing in The Big One for One Drop is a huge accomplishment in itself. Not only have you managed to either pony up the world’s biggest buy-in at the time – or convinced multiple backers to invest in your action – you have to be a very decent standard not to be embarrassed at the felt.