The Internet’s largest poker site, Party Poker.com has announced it is to partner with the international women’s magazine Elle to sponsor a women’s charity team in the upcoming World Series of Poker Ladies Event starting July 9.
Competing under the title “Queens of Heart” the team will be captained by WSOP bracelet winner and Hollywood actress Jennifer Tilly and will play for the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women campaign.
The rest of the team constitute a dazzling array of top celebrity and professional women poker players, including Lisa Tenner, actress Shannon Elizabeth, poker professionals Anne Spinetti, Kristy Gazes, Alison Worth, Karina Jett, Maureen Feduniak, Linda Johnson, Jan Fisher, Jennifer “Jennicide” Leigh, Wendeen Eolis, “King Of Vegas” star Katie Porrello, Irina Cornides and documentary director Susan Genard, Lori Sale, Hillary Kerr, and Leslie Eichner.
The main goal of the team is to raise awareness on heart disease as the number one killer of women today, and each member of the team has agreed to donate a percentage of any winnings to AHA, which will be supplemented by an equivalent donation up to $5 000 for each player from the sponsors.
“I’m pleased to help bring awareness to a disease that affects so many women globally,” Tilly said. “Now when I play on the ‘Queens of Heart’ team to support the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women movement for this year’s Ladies Event, it will mean so much more to me personally.”