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#260 – Bad Beat on Cancer Announcement (a/k/a Bite Me)
Sorry for the delay in posts. Full Tilt is working on some exciting new stuff and they asked me to help them in the planning. No details for now but it’s really neat stuff and I devoted a lot of time to the project. I’m also working on a long multi-part post about Final Table Day at World Series of Poker-Europe, tentatively titled “Last Hand at the Empire.” I will start posting portions as soon as the early parts are done and I’m sure it’s looking right. (I also have many other posts about London to complete, and maybe something about the experience of my high school graduating class’s 30-year reunion. At the very least, I need something to answer the IRS agent when he asks, “You deducted the expenses from your high school reunion WHY?”)
But now I want to mention the upcoming Bad Beat on Cancer tournament.
Bad Beat on Cancer, as many of you are aware, is the effort put together by Phil Gordon and Rafe Furst to contribute (and encourage others to do the same) to cancer research and education. Their cause is affiliated with the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation, which has raised nearly $100 million. I started pledging 1% of my World Series winnings to their initiative at the Series this year – actually I started pledging at the ‘06 Series but there were no winnings with which to follow through – and, obviously, with Jo Anne a breast cancer survivor, it’s a cause I hold dear.
So bite me.
In the previous BBoC tournament, I offered a $50 bounty to the player who busted me. I wanted to offer something different this time, and I came up with the idea of pizza. If the player who busts me e-mails his or her contact information to mrchaotic@aol.com – and I will issue reminders during the tournament – I will send them, by UPS, a pair of world-famous Lou Malnati Chicago-style deep-dish pizzas.
The tournament is Tuesday, October 16 at 22:00 EDT (or, as I like to call it, 7 PM “Arizona Time”). It’s a $5 buy-in with $5 juice, which goes to cancer research, detection, and prevention. It’s a great cause and a good time. And if one of you guys gets lucky enough to bust me, you’ll get a couple of the best pizzas on earth.
