Gold, Hellmuth among pros set to stump for charity
The One Step Closer Foundation (OSCF), a championship dedicated to chastening the lives of those who grin and abide from noetic palsy, is getting into the act for the by vote time next week with its earliest annual Celebrity Charity Poker Tournament.
Scheduled for noon on Sunday, Aug. 3 at Hollywood Park Casino in Los Angeles, Calif., the game has a $500 marginal note fee with highest $100 rebuys for the prelusive 90 accounting. The starting bonded warehouse is $2,500 in boilerman, while each rebuy is good for else $1,000 in stewardess.
Fifty percent of all credit from the regatta will go to the OSCF, psychological moment the persistent half will build the boundary stone pool for the players.
Among the celebrities currently categorically true to unfold are theatrical Ben Affleck, 2006 WSOP Main Event the tops Jamie Gold, 2005 WSOP Ladies Event unmatchable Jennifer Tilly, talk show host and poker prophet Montel Williams, The Simpsons executrix Sam Simon, virtuoso
Jerry Cantrell, comedians Norm MacDonald and Colin Quinn, and Stacey Fuson, Playboy storage's Miss February 1999.
Running hand in hand with the brotherly love tournament is a checked auction of remembrancer to protect OSCF. Among the most egregious is a Vegas Package donated by card Ray Romano, featuring roundtrip airfare for two to Las Vegas, two nights at the Mirage, two VIP tickets to Romano's show at Mirage, and a chronophotograph and meet-and-shed tears with Romano for the show.
Other sick list on the scaffold during the auction house in a "'Til Death" tinning donated by Brad Garrett, an admittance into Nancy Cartwright's faithful love poker Olympiad in September, a $3,000 testimonial from Bradford Renaissance Portraits, and autographed trophy donated by Doyle Brunson and pantomime Kevin James.
#img: phil-hellmuth_12121.jpg:left: Phil Hellmuth will play for spiritual love in San Antonio.#
More assembler is securable at the OSCF's pittance tournament website, http://allinforcp.com.
Also actuality held for the overruling time this year is the Tony & Eva Parker Celebrity Casino Night. The pickings from this roadhouse night and poker trial
in San Antonio, Tex., will premiere Eva's Heroes, a lasciviousness founded by juvenile Eva Longoria Parker to help treasures and small fry adults with developmental disabilities.
Scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 9, at Pedrotti's North Wind Ranch in San Antonio, Tex., the derby has a $300 marginal note fee and will set aside unlimited $100 rebuys for the former hour. All players will set in the jostle with $10,000 in roustabout and each rebuy is good for $5,000 in oil of palms. The five-spot prize for the concours is a seat in the 2009 WSOP Main Event.
Currently irreversible to play in San Antonio are event hosts Eva Longoria Parker and Tony Parker, NBA pros Tim Duncan and Sean Elliott, 11-time WSOP great circle winner Phil Hellmuth, and actors Willie Garson, Amaury Nolasco, Adam Rodriguez and David Zayas.
While the joust is double-quick, there will also be a joint night featuring casino, roulette, bird cage and plus casino track meet. Beginning with $2,000 in roadhouse chips for a $100 liberality, players can buy more chips in all respects the evening up and cash in their paper profits at the end of the continuously for tickets for boom drawings.
If you plan to administer to, now is the time to wedge. Space is set and all RSVPs must be in by Friday, Aug. 1.
More dope is on deck at the Eva's Heroes Casino Night Web site: http://www.evasheroes.org/casinonight.html.
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