Full Tilt Charity Event
Full Tilt Poker is holding a charity event at 2:00PM ET on April 4th in tandem with PokerGives.org. The tourney will have a buy-in of $5 + $5, of which half will be added to the prize pool, and the other half will be donated to charities selected by PokerGives.
PokerGives was established in 2008 by Mike Sexton, Linda Johnson, Jan Fisher and Lisa Tenner. It is a poker charity organization dedicated to passing on as much money as possible to mainstream charities, and no board members draw a salary so that operating costs can remain lower than 5% of donations. Some of the charities that have benefited from past PokerGives efforts include the Special Olympics and the Paralyzed Veterans of America.
Full Tilt Poker isn’t new to charity events, but this could be a much more efficient way for the site to support charity tournaments in the future. It would be good to see many more charity events on poker sites, and working with PokerGives could make it easier for Full Tilt to run them on a regular basis.
What sort of charity events would you like to see in online poker rooms? Just single tournaments, or perhaps a tournament series? Please tell us your thoughts in the comments.
-Shad
