Some of the celebrities come up at PokerStars first ever Ante Up For Africa Europe Celebrity Charity Poker Tournament. The tournament take placed last April 27, 2009 at Sporting Casino, Avenue Princess Grace, Monte Carlo at 6 in the evening prior to the PokerStars Europe Poker Tournament Season 5 Grand Final Event.
Some of the celebrities are spotted like the HipHop rapper Nelly, singer Christina Millian, Tennis Player Boris Becker, James Kryson Lee of TV Series Heroes, Jason Lewis of Sex in the City, Good Charlotte brothers Joel and Benji Madden, F1 driver Nico Rosenberg are the few celebrities participate in the event others are poker professionals especially the Team PokerStars Vanessa Rousso, Joe Hachem and Daniel Negreanu competing in the EUR 4,000 buy-in, No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament in Monaco.
The prize from the PokerStars Ante Up For Africa Europe Tournament will be donated to Ante Up For Africa to support fund in the charities that provide aid and assistance to the survivors of the situation in Darfur Sudan, and support activism dedicated to clear up the crisis. And luckily, the Ante Up for Africa has mobilizes to €260,000
Although the condition in Darfur had a pinpoint in some signs of development, the area stays precarious, that's why the campaign of ethnic cleansing by the government forces in Sudan has left over 300,000 dead and 3,000,000 are living in a filthy refugee camps along Chad, Sudan border.
The International Criminal Court has displayed some Sudanese officials. The companies leaved off to do business in Sudan, adding up to $ 10,000,00 taken off and 22 US states have passed laws prohibiting pension funds from investing in companies in Sudan.
The PokerStars and The Ante Up For Africa Europe are looking forward to bring more attention to the catastrophe and create a thorough support for the armed forces and aid workers in the Sudan.
Although the condition in Darfur had a pinpoint in some signs of development, the area stays precarious, that's why the campaign of ethnic cleansing by the government forces in Sudan has left over 300,000 dead and 3,000,000 are living in a filthy refugee camps along Chad, Sudan border.
The International Criminal Court has displayed some Sudanese officials. The companies leaved off to do business in Sudan, adding up to $ 10,000,00 taken off and 22 US states have passed laws prohibiting pension funds from investing in companies in Sudan.
The PokerStars and The Ante Up For Africa Europe are looking forward to bring more attention to the catastrophe and create a thorough support for the armed forces and aid workers in the Sudan.
The event grab a total of 40 runners put up €4,000 each to play in the huge fundraiser, creating a €160,000 prize pool that was donated to charity. PokerStars, which sponsored the Monaco tournament, donated another €100,000. In the end, Team PokerStars Pro member Isabelle Mercier emerged as its champion, defeating soccer superstar Teddy Sheringham.
The grand prize package, a trip to the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, went to Teddy Sheringham,
And about these largest online poker site-PokerStars, run more than 150 million poker tournaments that had entered to the Guinness Book Of World Book Records for hosting a 35,000 poker players, and the first and only poker website to reach 200,000 simultaneous players.PokerStars sponsor European Poker Tournament, Asia Pacific Poker Tournament, PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, World Championship of Online Poker, Aussie Millions, World Cup Of Poker and Latin American Poker Tournament.
They also had a PokerStars Team with 30 poker professionals who ,play online casino across the globe!
PokerStars Ante Up For Africa Europe Tournament also donated money to the victims of last year’s Earthquake in China, the Life Ball, the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund, the Pujols Family Foundation, and Habitat for Humanity.
