Pacific Poker Giving Away a Seat at the Cannes Charity Poker Event

It is almost time for Pacific Poker players to battle it out for a seat to the Cannes Charity Poker Event being held on May 19th in Cannes, France. This is a private charity tournament running in tandem with the Cannes Film Festival in May, against tons of celebrities that most poker players only dream of meeting including the Oscar winning friends, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. Now is the time for you to play some No Limit Texas Hold’em with the stars.

There are a couple of different ways you can enter to win this great prize package from Pacific Poker and its parent company, the 888 Holding group. Pacific Poker will be hosting 2 different poker tournaments to allow you the chance to win. The first tournament is the Celebrity Charity Challenge Satellite found in the multi table tournament tab in the Pacific Poker lobby with a buy in of $150+$10 on May 7th, 2009 at 10pm GMT. The top 3 players of this satellite will get seats to Pacific Poker’s Celebrity Charity Challenge Freeroll.


Obviously, that is not the only way to get into the Celebrity Charity Challenge Freeroll. Pacific Poker players that have accrued 1,200 FPP (frequent player points) between March 1st, 2009 and May 6th, 2009 will also be awarded a free seat in the Celebrity Charity Challenge Freeroll. If you did accrue that many points, all you have to do is go to the Multi-table tab and then the restricted tab in the Pacific Poker lobby, and register. The Celebrity Charity Challenge Freeroll will be held on May 9th, 2009 at 9pm GMT. The winner of this freeroll will win themselves the 888 Celebrity Charity Challenge package.


Included in the 888 Celebrity Charity Challenge package are;


Your $1,000 buy in to the Celebrity Charity Challenge
All flights and transfers for you and one other person
3 nights accommodations for you and your chosen person


One of the big prizes of this charity poker event is a villa in Durban, South Africa worth a quarter of a million dollars! Even if you don’t take first, just making it to the final table makes you a winner! In fact, all players that make it to the final table will receive an 888.com chip set along with a set of poker DVDs, one of them being Matt Damon’s movie ‘Rounders’.


Because this is a charity tournaments, they chose a charity to donate all of the proceeds collected to and the winners are the ‘Not on Our Watch’ and the ‘One Voice for Freedom’ charities. Not on Our Watch was founded by famous actors such as Matt Damon, Brad Pitt and George Clooney as well as Don Cheadle, David Pressman andJerry Weintraub. It is an organization started to help children in the Darfur region of Africa.


Although you probably won’t find the founders of the One Voice for Freedom charity on the screen at your local movie theatre, they are still great people for doing all they have done. It was founded by Vanita Patel and David Simpson. Since day one, the One Voice for Freedom charity has dedicated their time and effort into promoting awareness about modern slavery through fundraising events.

News Added: 13 March, 2009

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