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- Friday, 5 May 2006
Many people believe that there is nothing beneficial about gambling online, but for all you online gambling fans, you know that this just isn't true. Besides being a great way to improve on deductive skills, playing poker at an online gambling site is also helpful to the rest of all. Many of the best poker rooms and online gambling casinos give away tons of money to charities, and these charities are helping people throughout the planet. One of the more refreshing things that have happened since the poker 'boom' started early in this decade is the philanthropic efforts that have developed.
The World Series of Poker chose poker professional Phil Gordon's charity drive 'Put A Bad Beat On Cancer' (for the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation) as its featured charity for the run of the 2005 tournaments and has selected NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon's charitable foundation as its featured cause for the 2006 renewal of the event. In addition, there are many other online gambling and land-based tournaments that happen around the world which raise money to benefit many worthwhile causes.
In the online gambling poker world, that same beneficial heart has been shown through a variety of tournaments at many different sites. From relief efforts for the tsunami victims of Asia in late 2004, aid for the devastated areas of the Gulf Coast from the 2005 hurricane season in the United States, to smaller benefits to assist popular online poker players who have fallen ill, rounders will often speak with their wallet and get into these tournaments to show support for a cause or to help the less fortunate. Now an online poker site has been specifically set up for such philanthropic endeavors. | |
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