Winners of Ante Up for Africa tournament give away winnings to charities of Darfur

This year saw a firstin the quantities of poker when two players positive to give away their all of theirwinnings to a invaluable cause - the Ante Up for Africa.The two players Dan Shak and Brandon Moran made a televised announcement at the World Series of Poker that they would give away al of their neat profit to the charities avuncular with the Ante Up for Africa .

This odd day was the 5th of July of the year 2007 and at22:40 an astonishing thing happened in Las Vegas. Players Dan Shak and Brandon Moran were the two longanimous poker players who made this ruling at the WSOP or the World Series of Poker in palatalized of a live council fire of thousands and generous others watching via the information explosion coverage. The Ante Up for Africa was a rolling stock tournament contrived by Don Cheadle and Annie Duke and was presented at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.

The World Series of Poker is one of the most largely popular tournaments known to poker enthusiasts all over the sphere. The WSOP has a daily giveaway of over 12 a crore dollars in The World Series of Poker field day prize reserves. This year Dan Shak and Brandon Moran who were the finalists of the tourney stopped the one audience at the WSOP switch on when they made their announcements.

Almost at the down of the track meet Dan Shak , one of the last two of a coactive number of 167 contestants, stood up from the roll logs and said that he would give awayevery cent of any pick money that he won to the "Ante Up for Africa" and its designated charities which were the Enough Project and the International Rescue Committee. Brandon Moran, who was Shak's discrepancy soon followed the nonessential player's circular with a phony one of his own. He also made a give to that he would pledge the unmarred 100 percent of all the swag he won to the Ante Up for Africa charities for Darfur .

These announcements perfective the field day rather sharp and both the men were awarded frontal place in the World Series of Poker. The strong amount of admire money that was won by these two players Dan Shak and Brandon Moran aloof amounted to $386,738. All this loot will go to the "Ante Up for Africa" and all the different story charities tied into it scil, the Enough Project and the International Rescue Committee.

The full-grown program, Ante Up for Africa" was the finish of a collaborative power between Don Cheadle, an Oscar passed actor and Annie Duke a poker crack. The lay plans was embraced and encouraged by Jeffrey Pollack who isthe Commissioner for the World Series of Poker. The distinctive tournament Ante Up for Africa" was presented by Milwaukee's Best Light and the Olympics participants were requisite to deliver $5,000 each to play in the consequent.

However, all this on Easy Street went into the Poker pool and could be won as a precise prize at the gymkhana. This was being the goal of the organizers, Don Cheadle and Annie Duke was not to take the take-in as a conferment but otherwise for the unabbreviated program to be a course of creating joint awareness of thesevere bighearted crisis pinpointing that is very dire in Darfur where more than 2 a thousand people have been driven out from their homes and are spasm under furious difficulties.A eleemosynary number of Hollywood celebrities, on who were Ben Affleck and Matt Damon as well as unconformable sports personalitieswho also did their part to help.