Hollywood celebrities and poker stars will gather on Oct. 29 at the San Manuel Indian Bingo & Casino in Highland, Calif., for the second-annual Ante Up for Africa poker tournament.
Ante Up for Africa was founded by Academy Award nominee Don Cheadle, World Series of Poker bracelet winner Annie Duke and Norman Epstein to raise money and awareness for the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Africa.
Among the confirmed Hollywood celebs who will be attending are Don Cheadle, George Lopez, Marlon Wayans, Mekhi Phifer and Casey Affleck. They will be betting alongside some of professional poker’s best players, including Howard Lederer, Mike Matusow and Phil Gordon. Nearly 300 players from the general public will also be participating.
This is the second year that the San Manuel tribe has hosted the event. As it did last year, the tribe has pledged a donation of $500,000.
“Our decision to continue partnering with Ante Up for Africa is rooted in the shared history of survival among the California Indian people,” San Manuel Chairman James Ramos said in a press statement. “We must turn the tide to stop atrocities against all people in the world where we can.”
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Monday, May 12, 2008
San Manuel Casino Event Raises Big Bucks for Darfur
Hundreds of poker players showed up at the San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino on May 8 for a tournament to raise funds for and awareness of the crisis in Darfur, Sudan, where violence, disease and starvation has claimed at least 400,000 lives since 2003. While tournament players, which included some Hollywood celebs, a few sports stars and pro poker players, were the attention-grabbers, it was the tribe that was the real champion with its $500,000 donation to the cause. All proceeds are going to Ante Up For Africa’s Not On Our Watch Project (NOOW). NOOW, founded by actors George Clooney, Don Cheadle, Matt Damon and Brad Pitt, is a non-profit organization that focuses global attention and resources toward putting an end to mass atrocities around the world. The crisis in Darfur is the group’s inaugural campaign.
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