POKERPLAYER ARE ALL HEART, SAYS PPA
29 January 2010
Over 50 000 players have made charitable
donations to ease the suffering Haiti
The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), a Washington-based
poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one
million members nationwide, today commended the
generosity of poker players in contributing to support
relief efforts in earthquake-ravaged Haiti.
"Like the rest of the world, the poker community is
eager to do anything it can to aid Haiti in the wake of
the devastating earthquake. I applaud PokerStars, Full
Tilt Poker and Cake Poker for providing poker players
across the globe an easy way to make a contribution,"
said former Senator Alfonse D'Amato, chairman of the
PPA.
The sites have set up special pages where
players can easily donate to Haiti relief efforts (see
previous InfoPowa reports). Full Tilt and Cake Poker,
for example, are offering online tournaments where all
registration fees are donated to the Red Cross, Doctors
Without Borders or UNICEF. In addition, players on all
three sites can quickly and easily transfer funds
directly from their online accounts on the sites to a
Haiti Fund that will be given to those organizations.
All three sites will match every donation made, dollar
for dollar.
More than 50 000 players have
donated, and more than $760 000 has been raised. With
the dollar for dollar match, the donations on behalf of
the online poker community will be in excess of $1.5
million.
"The generosity online poker players
are showing makes me even more proud to be part of this
community," said D'Amato.
Online Casino News Courtesy of
Infopowa
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