GGPoker Donates Over $350,000 After HUGE WSOP Online Charity Event
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Event 33: $1,111 Every 1 for Covid Relief (Caesars Cares) ended this past Sunday. Alek Stasiak was the eventual winner taking home $343,203 and a gold bracelet. Typically a story like this is all we have at the end of a poker tournament. We follow the big names and love hearing about someone unknown making a deep run and how it came about. Event 33 gave us that story and much more.
The tournament attracted 2,323 participants, who each donated $111 of their buy-in to the Caesars Cares assistance fund; this fund supports Caesars Entertainment team members across the U.S. who have suffered unanticipated hardships as a result of the COVID-19 public health emergency.
Over $350,000 Raised for Charity
GGPoker today announces that $257,853 was raised by the worldwide poker community via ��Event #33: Every 1 for COVID Relief��, one of the poker tournaments in its WSOP Online 2020 series. GGPoker pledged a further $96,903, resulting in a total donation of $354,756 to Caesars Cares.
��We are incredibly grateful to our partner GGPoker for their contribution to Caesars Cares,�� said Ty Stewart, Executive Director of the World Series of Poker. ��This donation will provide needed support to Caesars Entertainment team members experiencing unexpected setbacks as we work towards resuming operations and restoring normal business conditions. As if GGPoker��s idea to direct a portion of the buy-in from each player to Caesars Cares wasn��t generous enough, we are absolutely floored and elated by their decision to contribute nearly another $100,000 to the fund.��
��The international poker community really stepped up this time, and GGPoker was there to push the effort forward,�� said GGPoker ambassador, Daniel Negreanu. ��We will continue to raise funds for worthy causes in the future, and I��m grateful to be part of something that��s helping to make such a difference.��
GGPoker Charity Donations
At the end of the day, two first place prizes were awarded. Alek ��astazz�� Stasiak received $343,203 for his efforts in the tournament and Caesars Cares received $354,756 to help all their employees that were affected by COVID-19.
Following the latest pledge, GGPoker and the worldwide poker community have now donated more than $600,000 in the past six months, with over $250,000 raised to fight COVID-19 via earlier GGPoker charity tournaments.
