Charity Poker - All In for a Good Cause!

About a month ago me and a friend decided we wanted to give back to our community here in Antigua, we thought about many different ways to help raise money and eventually we decided the best is of course poker. And so with that in mind we decided to invite the ladies of Antigua to "go ALL IN for a good cause."

Last week Saturday (20th Sept.) was our first attempt to raising money for the Disability Advocacy Programs in Antigua...oh wow I tip my hat off to every event coordinator, every tournament director and every person in the background that has ever organized such an event. What a mission and a real task it was, every time we got tired we had to remind ourselves that it was for a good cause and that thought alone kept us going.

Amazing what soft hearts women have for charities :-) A total of 40 women played in the No Limit Texas Hold'Em tournament, we had SunPoker girls, Bodog girls, WSEX girls and even female dealers from the local casinos coming out to support. But by far the most interesting women were the ones who have never played a singlehand of poker until that night. The amount of folds on Straights and Flushes that were made that night were beyond adorable...but for charity they were all willing to give it a go and by the end of the night with the help of the best dealers, which included two of SunPokers very own staff members, those girls were almost....ALMOST ready for a real cash game.

At the end of it all, the hard work paid off, the ladies had a blast (I'm sure the endless flow of alcohol helped) poker is a big hit amongst the new ones and most importantly money was raised for a worthy charity here in Antigua.

To here's to the ladies of Antigua going ALL IN for a good cause.

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Abi Mansoor
PR Manager
abi (AT) sunpoker.com

Abi Mansoor is the PR and Customer Relations Manager at SunPoker.com. She works with our SunPoker.com customers to ensure they are taken care of and to help spread the word about playing poker online with SunPoker.com!