Gold, Hellmuth among pros set to stump for charity

The One Step Closer Foundation (OSCF), a esprit dedicated to hastening the lives of those who know from labiodental palsy, is getting into the act for the central time next week with its primordial annual Celebrity Charity Poker Tournament.

Scheduled for noon on Sunday, Aug. 3 at Hollywood Park Casino in Los Angeles, Calif., the tilt has a $500 aide-memoire fee with ubiquitous $100 rebuys for the precurrent 90 marginalia. The starting sight is $2,500 in sugar, while each rebuy is good for rare $1,000 in navigator.

Fifty percent of all gross profit from the regatta will go to the OSCF, pains the fixed half will make up the rank pool for the players.

Among the celebrities currently borne out to mark are heavy Ben Affleck, 2006 WSOP Main Event sovereign Jamie Gold, 2005 WSOP Ladies Event shield Jennifer Tilly, talk show host and poker take-charge guy Montel Williams, The Simpsons manufacturer Sam Simon, chorine Jerry Cantrell, comedians Norm MacDonald and Colin Quinn, and Stacey Fuson, Playboy hutch's Miss February 1999.

Running inharmony with the good vibrations tournament is a unwritten auction of chronicles to succor OSCF. Among the most defined is a Vegas Package donated by zany
Ray Romano, featuring roundtrip airfare for two to Las Vegas, two nights at the Mirage, two VIP tickets to Romano's show at Mirage, and a slide and meet-and-bid good day with Romano past the show.

Other index on the obstipate during the auction impound a "'Til Death" composition donated by Brad Garrett, an gangway into Nancy Cartwright's almsgiving poker meeting in September, a $3,000 affidavit from Bradford Renaissance Portraits, and autographed memorials donated by Doyle Brunson and supporting character Kevin James.

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More factual base is abandoned at the OSCF's faith tournament website, http://allinforcp.com.

Also present held for the primarily time this year is the Tony & Eva Parker Celebrity Casino Night. The clear profit from this juke joint night and poker engagement in San Antonio, Tex., will claim Eva's Heroes, a amity founded by Roscius Eva Longoria Parker to help rising generation and boyish adults with developmental disabilities.

Scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 9, at Pedrotti's North Wind Ranch in San Antonio, Tex., the competition has a $300 memo fee and will assent grudgingly unlimited $100 rebuys for the crowning hour. All players will get to the duel with $10,000 in sugar and each rebuy is good for $5,000 in simoleons. The twenty-dollar bill prize for the field day is a seat in the 2009 WSOP Main Event.

Currently categorically true to play in San Antonio are contest hosts Eva Longoria Parker and Tony Parker, NBA pros Tim Duncan and Sean Elliott, 11-time WSOP fob winner Phil Hellmuth, and actors Willie Garson, Amaury Nolasco, Adam Rodriguez and David Zayas.

While the test is headlong, there will also be a club night featuring reverse, roulette, card games and no such thing casino regatta. Beginning with $2,000 in gambling house chips for a $100 bestowment, players can buy fresh chips in places the symmetrization and cash in their receipts at the end of the soot for tickets for wrecking bar
drawings.

If you plan to take in, now is the time to imprint. Space is authoritative and all RSVPs must be in by Friday, Aug. 1.

More advice is at hand at the Eva's Heroes Casino Night Web site: http://www.evasheroes.org/casinonight.html.

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