March 21, 2018
888Poker has announced a significant partnership with the One Drop Foundation to celebrate World Water Day tomorrow (March 22) by presenting the charity’s first ever online poker tournament. The $11.11 buy-in event has a $5,000 guarantee, and all fees will be donated to One Drop, a charity that provides clean water to underdeveloped communities around […]
July 12, 2017
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) has donated one of two “unawarded” WSOP bracelets from the inaugural $10,000 Tag Team Championship event to Raising for Effective Giving (REG), a non-profit charity co-founded by poker pro’s Igor Kurganov and Liv Boeree. Kurganov and Boeree won WSOP 2017 Event #2, but having only two tag-team members left […]
November 8, 2016
The third iteration of the Big One for One Drop charity poker tournament, held as an invitational event in Monte Carlo last month (see previous reports) raised Euro 3,491,000 for the water charity, which aids people in undeveloped nations to access clean water. Twenty-six recreational poker players took to the felt in the largest buy-in […]
January 24, 2016
Over the weekend the Sydney Morning Herald reported that the consumer watchdog for the Australian province of Victoria has ordered an independent audit of the Shane Warne Foundation following reports of inconsistent accounting and administration practices at the organisation, which assists ill or disadvantaged children. Forty-six-year-old Warne, an Australian cricketing legend and erstwhile online poker […]
November 17, 2015
Amaya Inc. online gaming brands PokerStars and Full Tilt will extend their partnership with Right To Play, an initiative that uses the educational power of sports, games and play to provide disadvantaged children and young people in over 20 countries worldwide with learning, health and social skills. Through Amaya’s corporate giving program, Helping Hands, the […]
July 26, 2015
Hundreds of Wall Street financial execs and poker fans enjoyed an entertaining evening at the Gotham Hall in Manhattan last week to railbird or play in a “Take ‘Em To School” poker tournament convened to raise funds for the Education Reform Now charity. Sponsors of the tournament were mainly Wall Street firms, although Amaya Gaming […]
August 26, 2014
Pokerstars and Rational Group head of corporate giving, Sue Hammett, has announced a new charity initiative by the online poker giant, adding a new section to its VIP Store entirely dedicated to charity. “We want you to be able to give back when you want, not just when we ask you to help,” Hammett advised […]
July 23, 2014
The Rational Group, parent company of Pokerstars and Full Tilt, has released details of its charitable donations totalling $560,078 over the past 7 months, mainly benefitting victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines last year. The two operational companies started a player fund with a commitment to match donations made by players on a dollar-for-dollar […]
June 18, 2014
Guy Laliberte’s charity poker concept Big One for One Drop, which raises funds for clean water developments in third world nations, is again proving popular as part of the World Series of Poker festivities in Las Vegas. The second outing of the $1 million buy-in competition takes place in two weeks’ time, but has already […]
May 21, 2014
A long list of celebrities turned out for the Tiger Woods Poker Night charity event at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas this week, including the international golf star himself, Kunal Nayyar, who plays Raj on The Big Bang Theory TV show; Dallas Mavericks owner and star of ABC’s Shark Tank Mark Cuban; The Bachelor […]