+Ante Up for Africa: How Your Money Helps
Our third annual Ante Up for Africa tournament is so close. July 2nd is right around the corner and I am so excited for this year with ESPN filming the event and making it one of its episodes for their WSOP coverage. The ESPN coverage will do so much tor aise awareness about the crisis in Darfur. Not only that, but it should help with the amount of money we raise as well. Don Cheadle, Norman Epstein and I could never have imagined back in the fall of ‘06 that we would have raised over $2 million to date for Darfur. Back then, before we got the World Series of Poker on board as our partner, we were thinking that maybe we could raise $20K to $50K. The WSOP has been such an amazing partner and we could never have raised this much without them. We are hoping that with the ESPN coverage we will be able to overcome the recession and raise at least what we raised last year which was about $400K.
With an eye toward next week, I wanted to post this video that Enough helped us with. It explains how the money we raise helps work toward a solution to the crisis in Darfur.
i hope it went good tonight. thanks annie. keep up the good work and raising awareness.