The World Series of Poker and the One Drop Foundation has announced plans to host the third iteration of the Big One For One Drop but with a twist. The event will be held in Monte Carlo, it will be an invitational, and professional poker players will not be invited proving that charity is the star; not poker.

In 2007, Guy Laliberte, the founder of Cirque du Soleil, created the ONE DROP Foundation, a Montreal based non-profit with a vision to provide every inch of this planet with a clean and accessible water supply.

“One person dies every 20-seconds from not having access to clean water. That is how and why the ONE DROP was born,” Laliberte told Green Global Travel during a 2013 interview.

In 2012, Laliberte, a keen poker player, teamed up with the World Series of Poker (WSOP) to create an ambitious plan to host the largest buy-in event in the history of poker – a $1m buy-in event called The Big One for ONE DROP with $111,111 from each buy-in being donated to the ONE DROP Foundation.