Friday, June 4
6 pm
Golden Nugget
Las Vegas
Buy-in: $220
Rebuys: $100
First place:
$10,000
As you know, I’m not really watching much poker this summer; however, I am rather excited about finally getting to play a little, tournament-style — and Friday I’ll be doing just that in Karina Jett’s All-In 4 Autism Celebrity Charity Poker Tournament. There’s just [...]
Tags: All In 4 Autism, charity-poker, Golden Nugget, Karina Jett, WSOP News & Speculation
Boycotting may be too strong a word … “avoiding” could work, as could “snubbing”, as could “pissing off its own players by telling them they can’t go.”
Supposedly, highly reliable sources are saying, Full Tilt brass in Ireland are telling Full Tilt-branded American (and non-American) pros that they are not allowed to play in the Venetian [...]
Tags: charity-poker, Full-Tilt, howard-lederer, napt, Ray Bitar, sponsorship deals, Venetian Deep Stacks, WSOP News & Speculation
We know little because we’re thousands of miles away, but why am I not shocked that what coulda been the greatest thing ever — poker that helps a bunch of kids on Super Bowl Sunday — has left at least a few people with a sour taste in their mouths?
I sent an email trying to [...]
Tags: charity-poker, Dallas CAN! Academies, poker business, Super Bowl, WSOP News & Speculation
There could be 1,000 players or more gathered in South Dallas this Sunday, just a few blocks from Dallas Police Headquarters btw, competing for a WSOP main event seat in what’s being advertised as the biggest “True Freeroll Texas Hold’em Poker Tournament” in history
The event is technically a charity fundraiser for the much-respected DallasCAN! Academies [...]
Tags: charity-poker, Dallas CAN! Academies, Dallas Cowboys, DFW Big Game, Drew Pearson, freeroll, Gilley's, Jason Witten, Jay Novachck, Randy White, Stephen McGee, WSOP News & Speculation, WSOP qualifiers
The entire world got a reminder about life, death, and nature this week … the Haiti earthquake gave us all at least a bit of pause to find ourselves, at least momentarily, caring about people we didn’t think we cared about.
We know how charitable poker players can be — it’s our one saving grace — [...]
Tags: calvin-ayre, charity-poker, Haiti, Jen Browning, poker-media, PokerStars, WSOP, WSOP News & Speculation
In Washington state, this video would be grounds for a criminal prosecution on par with with child molesting. But down south, in Portland, Oregon, it’s a super-feelgood story with online poker pro Dusty Schmidt (aka “Leatherass”) gambling for the homeless.
His schtick is playing for rent for the underprivileged, and ends up making $20k for [...]
Tags: charity-poker, Dusty Schmidt, online players, Oregon, WSOP News & Speculation
Lisa Wheeler, president of Greasie Wheels, a poker consultancy that specializes in charity events, says that actually, numbers are not up across the board at charity tourneys in Las Vegas and elsewhere, though thanks to a handful of players, they aren’t hurting like all get-out:
Though attendance is down, and charity poker tournament coordinators are constantly [...]
Tags: all in for cp, charity-poker, Greasie Wheels, lisa-wheeler, poker economy, WSOP News & Speculation
The All In for Cerebral Palsy charity tourney ran last weekend at the Hard Rock … and as any event-planning fundraiser can tell you, it’s been a little unnerving in 2009 wondering if people will actually show up to support your cause.
This was a $500 buy-in event (with $200 rebuys, an auction, and silent [...]
Tags: charity-poker, darvin moon, dennis phillips, Hard Rock, jacob-zelewski, Jennifer-Tilly, mekhi-phifer, one step closer foundation, sam simon, WSOP News & Speculation
The charity poker season here in Vegas is in full holiday swing. And one of the bigger tournaments (celebrity-wise) is this Saturday — the second annual All In for CP at the Hard Rock. (More info here via Facebook.)
It has a $550 buy-in (with $200 rebuys through the first hour). Early RSVPs include the likes [...]
Tags: all in for cp, charity-poker, Doyle-Brunson, jacob-zelewski, Jennifer-Tilly, WSOP News & Speculation
