August 16
Last month, Full Tilt Poker
teamed with Bluff Magazine to raise money for a great
cause. The online poker room and the casino gambling
magazine hosted a Poker Tournament and gala loaded with
Hollywood types at the Wynn Las Vegas. Appropriately
named the Charity Gala
and Celebrity Poker Tournament. The event was actually
held on July 5th, but the buzz is still circulating
after a check for over $100,000 was delivered to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Las Vegas.
The poker tourney was played in the Wynn's La Bete
nightclub. Many Celebrities played in honor of the Club
for charity. Rare poker items were even bid on top raise
money.
Many people
attending the poker event included Vegas business
people, poker pros and more. All for a great cause, too.
Team Full Tilt, the well-known
poker pros behind fulltiltpoker.com lead the poker game and were joined by poker
personalities such as Daniel Negreanu, Marcel Luske,
and Annie
Duke. Poker loving celebs such as poker regular Jennifer
Tilly, Ron Livingston, Erik Palladino, Nicholas
Gonzales, and even Omarosa from The Apprentice was in
attendance.
In addition to the $100,100
raised during the auction for the Boys & Girls Clubs of
Las Vegas, Full Tilt Poker donated an additional $23,000
that was shared between the
winners from each table to go to the charity of their
liking.
Actor Erik Gonzalez from the TV show ER, who won the
final table, took home $10,000 (of the $23,000), for his
charity, the orphanage Friends of El Faro.
