August '10 Home & Family—Susie Isaacs Column

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Our “Give Back” Quest

H
elp me and my friends “give back.” The poker world has been very good to so many of us. Some of my friends, Mike Sexton, Linda Johnson, Lisa Tenner, and Jan Fisher have set up a foundation to do exactly that—give some back to charity. Please join me and my friends for a “Poker Gives” [www.pokergives.org] charity poker tournament on Full Tilt. Here are the details:

Date: Sunday, Sep 19, 2010
Time: 4 p.m. EST (1600 server time, 1 p.m. PST, 9 p.m. GMT)
Site: www.FullTiltPoker.com
Tournament ID: 172330870
Buy-In: $10+$10 ($10 to the prize pool, $10 to the charity)
Game Type: No Limit Texas Hold ’Em (1,500 starting chips)
Password: poker

The way to register is from the main Full Tilt lobby—click on “Requests,” then “Find a tournament by ID…” then type in 172330870 the password is poker.

[Ed. Note: First-time users: visit www.FullTiltPoker.com before Sep 19 and take the online tour which explains their system and the software that needs to be downloaded before gaining access to the poker rooms.]

This online tournament is a part of a much bigger plan, National Poker Month. Details as follows:

Poker Gives is currently working on a huge fundraising project called National Poker Month that will take place in September 2010. Here’s how National Poker Month will work: Every card room in the United States will be asked to designate one day during the month of September during which they will host a charity event. Half of the proceeds from that event will go to Poker Gives and half will go to the prize pool. The names of all winners and all participating card room managers will be entered into separate drawings to be held on October 4, 2010.

“We expect most card rooms will participate,” said Mike Sexton. “In addition to all the goodwill it will bring to poker when we are able to present such large checks to charity, the participating card rooms will be listed in BLUFF Magazine and we will conduct a drawing from that list. Linda Johnson, Jan Fisher, and I will visit the winning card room and host a meet-and-greet and a free poker seminar.”