Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
Team Full Tilt member Erick Lindgren has organized a charity poker game to benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society in memory of Mindy Trinidad. The tournament is a great chance to throw chips around with some of your favorite pros and raise money to fight this terrible disease. The game kicks off Wednesday at 19:00ET with the juice going to the charity.
There is another charity game being organized by fellow Full Tilt blogger Michael Craig benefitting the Relay for Life on Sunday, December 21st at 18:00ET. Michael has the details up in this post.
Finally, there is a great chance to play live with your favorite pros at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in another tournament benefiting the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society on December 12th.
Full details after the jump.
Mindy Trinidad was a mother and poker player who lost her battle with Acute Leukemia just weeks after being diagnosed and is being remembered by her friends in the poker community. The first charity poker game will be online Wednesday, December 3rd at 19:00ET hosted by Erick Lindgren. It is a $5+$5 No Limit Hold’em game featuring many of the top Full Tilt pros. Full Tilt is donating the $5 juice to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and the $5 buyin goes to the prizepool.
Tournament: Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
When: Wednesday, December 3rd at 19:00ET
Game: NLHE
Buyin: $5+$5
Password: charity
The second event is a live poker tournament being held at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on Friday, December 12th. The list of pros playing in the event is endless, the lineup includes Full Tilt pros Erick Lindgren, Andy Bloch, Jennifer Harman, Lee Watkinson, Kristy Gazes and Beth Shak as well as former World Series of Poker Main Event winners Phil Hellmuth, Jamie Gold and Jerry Yang. The day kicks off at 2pm with a cocktail party and the tournaments starts at 3pm. The buyin is $200+$30, a good donation giving you a chance to rub elbows with the best.
Coincidentally there is a blogger gathering in Las Vegas that weekend so your humble blogger will make plans to play in the event instead of acting as a railbird.
Further information about the live tournament can be found here: Poker Jingle at the Hard Rock
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