PokerStars Adds Charity Tournament to EPT Season Five Grand Final Schedule
Poker Stars has introduced a new event into its famed European Poker Tour Grand Final Week, and it’s a charity tournament no less. The charity is the current crisis in Darfur, and the event is the Ante Up For Africa Europe Celebrity Charity Poker Tournament. The event, a EUR 4,000 buy-in, No Limit Texas Holdem shootout tournament is scheduled for April 27th at 6 pm ET, the day before the Season Five PokerStars EPT Grand Final Main Event takes place.
Poker pros from Team PokerStars will be in attendance, including “Kid Poker” Daniel Negreanu, WSOP Main Event Champion Joe Hachem, and GoDaddy spokesmodel/up-and-coming poker sensation Vanessa Rousso.
The winner of this Ante Up For Africa Europe charity tournament will receive prize package centered around free entry into the January 2010 Season 6 EPT Bahamas event.
So far, the Ante Up For Africa organization has raised more than $2 million to provide aid to the survivors of the violence in the Sudan.
All PokerStars EPT Season Five Grand Final events will be held in Monte Carlo, Monaco.