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Originally Posted by RobertWe

What kind of charity work do you do?What organizations have you chosen to work with and why? What's the charity poker tour all about?

I've done a lot of work with Habitat for Humanity for a long time and was the VP of Habitat for my college. I even ran a (probably illegal) charity poker tournament to raise funds for them at my college. I've also started volunteering at Threesquare food bank in Vegas and will be doing some work with Habitat Vegas soon. I love Habitat because they provide incredibly low-cost housing to people in need and I've always like supporting food banks because it's important to help our fellow man fulfill this most basic need without having to beg regardless of what their financial situation is.

The Charity Poker Tour is a bunch of ideas that I've had for a long time to have a series of charity events that are built into series' on the tour to make it convenient for pros to show up and support various charities while bringing amateurs out to support the causes and play with the pros. As much as I love the WSOP, dealing with Caesars means TONS of red tape as I found out years ago, and now that they have One Drop I'm drawing dead on that front. I partnered with a group of people and created/submitted a proposal to the WPT when they were trying to figure out how to move forward with their planned charity initiative. Unfortunately they decided to go in a different direction with it. Hopefully I can make something happen with it in the near future.

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09-24-2013 04:27 PM #1
RobertWe View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message View Blog Entries Join Date Dec 2012 Posts 95 Location Berlin	What kind of charity work do you do?What organizations have you chosen to work with and why? What's the charity poker tour all about?

10-10-2013 01:11 AM #2
ProMattStout View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message View Blog Entries Join Date Sep 2013 Posts 62	Originally Posted by RobertWe What kind of charity work do you do?What organizations have you chosen to work with and why? What's the charity poker tour all about? I've done a lot of work with Habitat for Humanity for a long time and was the VP of Habitat for my college. I even ran a (probably illegal) charity poker tournament to raise funds for them at my college. I've also started volunteering at Threesquare food bank in Vegas and will be doing some work with Habitat Vegas soon. I love Habitat because they provide incredibly low-cost housing to people in need and I've always like supporting food banks because it's important to help our fellow man fulfill this most basic need without having to beg regardless of what their financial situation is. The Charity Poker Tour is a bunch of ideas that I've had for a long time to have a series of charity events that are built into series' on the tour to make it convenient for pros to show up and support various charities while bringing amateurs out to support the causes and play with the pros. As much as I love the WSOP, dealing with Caesars means TONS of red tape as I found out years ago, and now that they have One Drop I'm drawing dead on that front. I partnered with a group of people and created/submitted a proposal to the WPT when they were trying to figure out how to move forward with their planned charity initiative. Unfortunately they decided to go in a different direction with it. Hopefully I can make something happen with it in the near future.