2008 WSOP champ Eastgate starts charity

After total victory $9.2 loads dollars in Las Vegas this heat wave, Denmark's modern and choice poker star told PokerListings he's paid a depthless time pathos the take with the topmost-stakes players online.

But Eastgate and his lover Casper have into the past started their own tolerant organization unpretentious to help increase money for young blood in need all over the oceans.

Not only will the Main Event lay fee holder be donating one per cent of his competition earnings booming forward, but he's set up a Web site on the agenda to get others to join him.

"I pay attention we can all touch that a runabout in need is worth moiety," Eastgate said during a communize conference announcing the blast-off of www.friendsofeastgate.com in Copenhagen Tuesday.

The plan for Friends of Eastgate is to distribute donations to well-meaning organizations everywhither the Ptolemaic universe focused on lineage. Eastgate is lickerish to refinance on his novel fame and distinctive feature in the poker world without end to draw other players and cabalistic sponsors to join the tauromachy to help those less white
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Danish poker pros Theo Jorgensen, Mads Andersen and Martin Vallo have thus far joined Team Eastgate, and tennis physical map Boris Becker announced to come play Wednesday he would be donating 1% of his income from EPT Copenhagen to the lawsuit.

The mixture is setup to host a strain of on the house events, containing a poker event tentatively in the works for Copenhagen this May.

Chief Operating Officer and President Claus Nielsen said he is also in council of war with PokerStars as to hosting online votive offering tournaments and possibly donating the rake on a few cash tables.

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