Charity Freeroll 26th June 2008 - 8PM BST Start

[ColU_FC]

The next charity freeroll will be held on 26^th June at 8pm. The charity donations will total 10% of the profits that ColU_FC, Mrs_ColU and runadrum have made in the period between 1^st April 2007 and 23 June 2008, runadrum’s share excludes the £30,000 he won in Australia for which he has already played a £3,000 charity freeroll. Therefore, we can’t yet be precise about how much the charity donations will come to but as an indication - in the above period the ColUs have made a profit of £1,886.95 (yes I am an anorak) and runadrum has made a similar sum.

The tournament will be run on Poker Trillion. The ColUs contribution will be split in three and used to put a bounty on both of their and runadrum’s heads. Whoever knocks them out will have that sum donated to a charity of their choice. Should one of the bounties win the tournament then the bounty will go to their chosen charity. runadrum’s contribution will be used to make a donation to the charities chosen by those who finish in the top three spots.

Colin of Poker Trillion has been extremely helpful in agreeing to set up this tournament and has generously made available a prize pool of $100 to be competed for. The prize pool will be paid to those ending in the top 3 positions and will be for them to keep for themselves. For information, the emails between Colin and I are shown below.

This tournament is open to all PL members who joined up to and including yesterday (5^th May 2008) who have made a contribution to PL of some significance. For example, a member who has only made a few posts all of which are concerned with eliciting freeroll passwords will not be considered to have made a significant contribution. I will make this judgement.

The tournament will be password protected. The password will be sent to all participants on the morning of 26^th June.

If you would like to participate please vote in the poll above.

Emails

Colin,

I have a favour to ask of you. Over a year ago 3 of us on Punters Lounge promised to donate 10% of our profits to charities via a freeroll for PL members. You can find more details here:

http://www.punterslounge.com/forum/f17/charity-freeroll-30th-march-2008-9pm-bst-start-62249/

I want to host a charity freeroll on my birthday, 26 June 2008 at 8pm. Would you host it for us at Poker Trillion? It would be a game with $0 prize money since the three of us will be making donations directly to the winner's chosen charities so as to attract gift aid on top of the donation.

There wouldn't be anything in it for Poker Trillion although I would hope you might get a few more PL members signing up with you. Of course, as a PLer yourself, you will also be most welcome to join in on behalf of your favourite charity. :-)

Regards,

…………………………………..

Hi David,

We would be delighted to support this. We can even put $100 in the Freeroll for the winner, so there is something to play for.
If all is OK, let me know the exact times, starting chips, clock and password, and I will make it happen.

Cheers
…………………………..
Colin,

That's brilliant, thank you. You are also very generous in offering the $100. Can I suggest it's $50 for 1st place, $30 for 2nd and $20 for 3rd?

Regarding arrangements:

Tournament name: PL Charity freeroll
Game: NL Hold'em
Date and time: Thursday 26 June 2008, 20:00 BST (19:00 GMT)
Starting chips: 2,000
Clock: 10 minute blinds
Password: TBA

I hope you will be able to join us for this game.

Lastly, with your permission, I would like to publish these emails on PL so that people there are aware of your generosity.

Regards,

[Sharpe1ne]

What a great gesture and it's on a Thursday so count me in

Just a good job it's not my profit's otherwise it would cost more to host the tourny

[Guppie(BPP)]

Great gesture once again

[morlspin]

Superb work again ColU, Mrs ColU and Runa

Nice gesture too by Colin and PT

[glceud]

Brilliant as always.

[happyhornet]

Most of my posts are thanking PL or it's members for their outstanding generousity. Not sure that counts as being a contribution of some significance!!
I echo all the above sentiments

[Mrs_ColU]

I've never had a bounty on my head before. Perhaps I should wear camoflage gear that night!!!!

[Red_Fear]

Lovely gesture, what a great way to celebrate your birthday.

[Warbirds]

Very nice gesture

Fred

[GotaFancy?]

(I really cannot think of anything else to say )

[dobbin]

Great Gesture indeed:not worthy

[jolly67]

great stuff ColU, Mrs ColU and Runadrum, and thanks to Colin (Trillion)

[kevsul]

Great gesture as usual guys.

[GazBlades]

Nice one you three! I'll be on a plane though so won't be able to play.

[pokerjace]

Very nice gesture

[Samba_SamPa]

Amazing gesture guys, and gal.

[ColU_FC]

This tournament has now been set up and can be found in the Private section of the Poker Trillion Tournaments lobby. I'll be sending out the password on the morning of 26th June. Please note the closing date for the poll:

This poll will close on 25-06-2008 at 16:24

I will probably be out during the day on 26th June having the odd tipple so please make sure you vote before the poll closes. If you post in this thread on 26th June asking to play then you are likely to be disappointed.

[Mrs_ColU]

When he says 'the odd tipple' what he really means is that, weather permitting, he wants to do a pub crawl involving a 7 - 8 mile country walk via 4 or 5 pubs including a lunch somewhere and several beers. I don't know whether we'll be awake for the poker!

[ubermonkey1]

great guesture you three
unfortunately i will be in vegas donating my money to all and sundrybut i hope it all goes well

[runadrum]

Originally Posted by Mrs_ColU

When he says 'the odd tipple' what he really means is that, weather permitting, he wants to do a pub crawl involving a 7 - 8 mile country walk via 4 or 5 pubs including a lunch somewhere and several beers. I don't know whether we'll be awake for the poker!

let's see

combination of lunch time, alcohol and fresh air

nope nothing there that would keep me awake after 6pm, let alone 8 !