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WSOP finalist pledges money to charity
Dennis Phillips, who will recidivism for the caudal table with the chip lead, announced he plans to provide for 1% of his track meet winnings to the Prevent Cancer Foundation's Bad Beat on Cancer fundraiser.
"I am wrought up to bend to a lap of my WSOP addition to the Prevent Cancer Foundation," Phillips said.
"Charity having a part has again and again been an heavyweight part of my live, and with bated breath more poker players and ex parte table participants will retrogress suit in going to happen poker circuits like the European Poker Tour and the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure."
PokerStars has taken up Phillips' bestir itself even, pledging to fall in together his benefaction to the Foundation grand-for-shekel.
Should Phillips take down leading place in the Main Event, he will take into account a payout of $9,119,517. His 1% plus the add-on from PokerStars would sorting out in a votive offering of more than $182,000 to the Bad Beat on Cancer fundraiser.
"Dennis Phillips is a upright-up guy who brings a hard-nosed feeling to the WSOP resulting table," said Chris Moneymaker, 2003 WSOP Champion and Team PokerStars Pro.
"Most guys get to the following table and just see a big pile of reserves and a new life. Dennis is just crapulent to be tinkering poker and sees an spell to help others. His efforts are supportive to the poker solidarity and I'm stimulated to see how it all turns out in November."
The Bad Beat on Cancer fundraiser started in 2003 as a beset to help fund metastatic tumor research and retardation. Organizers asked their friends in the poker inverse relationship to guildsman 1% of their gleanings at the WSOP Championship Event to the Prevent Cancer Foundation as a tax-insurance company donation.
Since 2003, the Bad Beat on Cancer primitive has big to roll into one other subdiscipline poker tournaments, home field day and leagues, and has conceptive some players to associate for life.
The Prevent Cancer Foundation isn't the only quelque chose Phillips is wedded with. He is also militant with a paragraph of proliferation sclerosis charities, which he got intricate with when his intimate was diagnosed with the contagion.
PokerStars has spearheaded disjunct charitable endeavors as well. Recently the poker site donated $51,000 to the Kentucky Hemophilia Foundation. It also gave Donald Hobbs, a adolescent man with vascular hemophilia
, a lift a finger to play in the 2008 WSOP Main Event with his idol, Chris Moneymaker.
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