PokerNetcast.com Charity Tourney
Filed in archive Tournament News on April 7, 2007
For most of the week I was walking up and down Las Vegas Blvd. and Freemont Street sampling in the place many poker professionals call their workplaces. The Belliago, Mirage, and even my "home" base for the past week the MGM Grand sport some of the best poker rooms on the strip. But, without the original poker base of Benny's bullpen at Binion's Horseshoe (now just named "Binion's Hotel and Casino") most of the strip wouldn't contain those bunkers of card slinging for pros and home game champions to try their skills in Vegas.
Today at Binion's several pros will be gathering and throwing down $2,500 for a charity tournament to benefit the Vegas Grand Prix's Charities (a big race that currently has most of the downtown roads filled with cement barriers).
Here's the details of the event from PokerNetcast.com:
Saturday, April 7, 2007 -
CELEBRITY POKER EVENT TO BENEFIT
THE VEGAS GRAND PRIX CHARITIES!
Benny's Bullpen at the Binions Hotel & Casino is going to be the place to be in Las Vegas as celebrities battle it out to take home the celebrity poker event trophy as well as part of the prize pool winnings! The red carpet rolls out at 7:00p.m. and the $2,500 buy-in live poker action starts a 8:00p.m. Celebrities scheduled to participate include Jason Priestley, Mimi Rogers, Cheech Marin, David Brenner, David Cubitt, Robert David Hall, Patrik Antonius, Robert Williamson III, Marcel Luske, and Hoyt Corkins.
And if you're in town here is the race information for today:
Saturday, April 7, 2007
6:00 AM CHAMP CAR/Atlantic Paddocks Open to Participants
6:15 AM - 4:00 PM Atlantic Technical Inspection
7:15 AM - 5:00 PM Champ Car Technical Inspection
7:00 AM - 3:00 PM Champ Car Registration Open
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM Atlantic Practice
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM HGP Practice
9:35 AM - 9:40 AM Foot Crossings Open
9:45 AM - 11:00 AM CHAMP CAR PRACTICE
11:10 AM - 12:20 PM Foot Crossings Open
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Streets Open
12:30 PM - 1:05 PM Atlantic Qualifying
**1:10 PM - 1:50 PM "Champ Car VIP" On Track Activities
1:15 PM - 1:45 PM Pit Walk-thru
1:50 PM - 1:55 PM Foot Crossings Open
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CHAMP CAR QUALIFYING
3:05 PM - 3:10 PM Foot Crossings Open
3:15 PM Atlantic Driver/Team Manager Meeting (Drivers Meeting Room)
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM HGP Qualifying
4:00 PM CHAMP CAR Team Manager/Drivers Meeting (Drivers Meeting Room)

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My name is Glazyrin Evgeniy. I am a member St. Petersburg regional public charity organization "Volonterskaia Slugba" ("Volunteer Service"). In 2007, our organization makes a charity program "Solnechnyi Mir" (Sunny world), aimed at helping children from orphanages situated in Leningradskaya oblast.
Under this programme, in July of this year we are having children's camp together with the Touring Club "Parus" ("Sail"). I am writing to request financial support for this children's camp. If you are interested in this proposal, you can read more detailed information below .
Sincerely, Eugene Glazyrin, manager of the project "Children's camp "Tainstvennyi Ostrov" (Mysterious Island)
"Volunteer Service" is a youth public organization, which promotes and supports volunteer initiative. We organize games and holidays for children from orphanages, economic assistance for children in difficult circumstances, lonely elderly people, and environmental actions. We have been organazing entertainmental programs for children from orphanages Leningradskaya oblast during three years.
Charity program "Solnechnyi Mir" (Sunny world) involves educational activities, creativity, leisure and other activities for the development and socialization of children orphans and children left without parental care, and children in difficult circumstances. Under this programme, in July of this year we are having children's camp "Tainstvennyi Ostrov" (Mysterious Island)
The Camp will be consisted in three tours on boats on rivers in the Karelian isthmus near the town Priozersk. 20 children of Kalozhitskiy and 20 children from Siverskiy orphanages will participate in this camps. The camp will help children to learn living skills, help develop their ability to communicate and cooperate, to understand other points of view, to monitor their own feelings and behavior, it will also help stimulate children to be interested in learning about the world and people. The teaching staff camp consists from students from universities of St. Petersburg, who have been trained in Guide School for 4 month
We need 3,500 rubles for one child to pay for the place in a tourist group, and for 40 children we need 140000 rubles or 5500 USD. Please provide material assistance to the camps in an accessible format for you.
About our organization more detail you can see on our website : www.volonter.info
You can help us if you turn the money in our webmohey account.
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Sincerely, Eugene Glazyrin