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Hey everyone,

I had an idea for creating a "charity prop"for the month of March. I've recently seen some awesome stories in the news about athletes donating x amount of money to charity when they do certain things ( like 1k for every point scored, 10k per goal etc.) ...so I thought we should totally do something like this for poker!

Myself and a few cash game grinders talked it over and were going to donate a percentage of our profits to a charity of our choice next month. Personally, I'll be playing for The Greenview Foundation, which supports diagnosing and assisting in patients with Hepatitis C. (http://www.hepcfund.org/) My Mom was actually diagnosed and successfuly beat this disease a few years ago so hopefully my donation can help assist others in combating this disease as well :)

^link to organization

This challenge is open to anyone, not just cash grinders :) . I'll be donating 10% of winnings, up to 5k. Feel free to donate any amount though, every little cent helps. It would be amazing if we could get a significant portion of CC behind this effort, so tell everyone you know about this!

-Deuces

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Cardschat will match the top donation up to $1k!

xdeuceswild81xx - donating 10% to http://www.hepcfund.org/
Marginal - donating 10% to ?
Scourrge - donating 15% to top donator's charity
Jillychemung - donating 10% or $100 to Food Bank of the Southern Tier
fletchdad - donating 10% to ?
youregoodmate - donating 50% of profits up to $500 to ?
WVHillbilly - donating 10% or $100 to the top donator's charity
Panamajoe - donating 50% or $25 to http://www.wuqukawoq.org/
advoghado - donating 10% or $50 to http://www.apaesp.org.br
JohnBoyWWFC - donating 10% up to $500 to New Hope Trust, Watford
Justinawe12 - donating $100 or 10% to American Red Cross
Colbefc - donating 10% to http://www.bhf.org.uk/#&panel1-3
BluffYou123 - donating 10% up to €200 to http://www.aware.ie
RiverOfDreamz - donating 10% or $100 to http://biglittlejc.org/
dakota-xx - donating $50 to top donator's charity
belladonna05 - donating $25 to http://www.gleaners.org/Give.aspx
the lab man - donating 10% or minimum $50.00 to Canadian Cancer Society
tripleSYXX - donating $100 to Wounded Warrior Project
nitubhatia - Made a donation toChild Relief and You
Pokertron3000 -- donating €50 to start and then €100 http://www.justgiving.com/MillieRoseAppeal
If anyone is still missing from the OP or wants to be added, post ITT and let us know. If you post/have posted in here and have been missed, just drop me a PM and I'll sort it. :)
 
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As discussed in the chat,

10% up to 5k. Havent decided on a charity yet but I think if I do, Ill try to find something in Trinidad, That amount of money would be huge for ppl back home.
 
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As discussed in the chat,

10% up to 5k. Havent decided on a charity yet but I think if I do, Ill try to find something in Trinidad, That amount of money would be huge for ppl back home.

Yayyyy

It's appreciated! :D
 
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In. 15% of my profits, unbounded (given my volume won't be that great).

Charity of choice is undecided so far, but considering choosing one related to multiple sclerosis.
 
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In. 15% of my profits, unbounded (given my volume won't be that great).

Charity of choice is undecided so far, but considering choosing one related to multiple sclerosis.

Much Appreciated!
 
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OK, I am in. I will do 10% but am leaving the 20th of March till the 13th April. So I will do till the1st to the 20th and then 10 days after I am back.

Have to figure out who it goes to (hopefully something will be won)
 
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I'll do 10% or $100 whichever is more ($100 will be more!) and I'll give it to whoever donates the most from this thread's favorite charity.
 
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I'll do 10% or $100 whichever is more ($100 will be more!) and I'll give it to whoever donates the most from this thread's favorite charity.

awesome!

Thanks for the support everyone, lets keep it up!:cool:
 
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It would be me WV.
 
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Very possible. I'll be glad to donate to the Trinidad ladyboys society or whatever. ;)
 
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Posted on FB and g+ and also tweeted for CC. :)
 
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I'm practically spamming this thread on twitter to a bunch of big name poker players, we'll see if we could get any attention :)
 
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I love how we have the cap. Im pretty sure I would need to play 10/25 to make the 50k.
 
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mods, could you move this to "general Poker" so that people who are not registered with the forum can still see the thread?

Thanks!
 
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Very typical of CC'ers. Thanks xdeuceswild81xx for a good reason to be generous to others, again! :)

I'll be giving %50 of any profits, or $25, whichever is greater to: the Wuqu' Kawoq in honor of a great family friend that works with them.

The Wuqu’ Kawoq health alliance is a nongovernmental organization committed to facilitating excellence and linguistic competence in medical care delivery in indigenous Guatemala.

These people are really making a difference.

http://www.wuqukawoq.org/
 
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Hopefully in, will try and get some money together and grind some, not sure how much I can play due to other life stuff so I will prob just send some cash to you on stars OP if thats ok when the month is over? Unless I bonk big and thats going to the make a wish foundation, they sent my family to Disney when my bro was terminal and made what was left of his short life fun.

Love the idea.
 
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Hopefully in, will try and get some money together and grind some, not sure how much I can play due to other life stuff so I will prob just send some cash to you on stars OP if thats ok when the month is over? Unless I bonk big and thats going to the make a wish foundation, they sent my family to Disney when my bro was terminal and made what was left of his short life fun.

Love the idea.

Thanks Pokertron!

I'm actually US :( so I can't do stars....but I'm sure some loyaler would be more then willing to accept it/help out. :)
 
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I'll give 10% of my Feb winnings to the British Heart Foundation :D
 
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Very typical of CC'ers. Thanks xdeuceswild81xx for a good reason to be generous to others, again! :)

I'll be giving %50 of any profits, or $25, whichever is greater to: the Wuqu' Kawoq in honor of a great family friend that works with them.

The Wuqu’ Kawoq health alliance is a nongovernmental organization committed to facilitating excellence and linguistic competence in medical care delivery in indigenous Guatemala.

These people are really making a difference.

http://www.wuqukawoq.org/



Just doing my part to help out and give back a little bit. Thanks for your generosity as well bro!
 
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One of my friends liked a page on fb today, a little girl has a rare form of cancer in my home town called neuroblastoma. This is the same thing my brother had and it seems like this is what I will grind for. I am gonna try and get 50 uk pounds as a start and then 100 and hopefully more and send it to her fundraising people.
 
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50% of any profits up to $500. If Im negative then nothing I'm afraid cos I'm a poor student :(
 
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