Special Alert from Pauly

Pauly passed along an email today regarding another charity tournament to be held this week.

According to Chad O. Noble Poker is not only donating the price of admission, but an additional $250.00 to his friend Leah who has been diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma. Pretty nice of them. If you are unable to make it this Thursday, another tournament is in the works on Poker Stars.

Site: Noble Poker
Date: Thursday March 2nd, 2006
Buy-in: $10 + 1
Time: 7:30pm ET
Password: charity

Coupon code to use when registering (if you need to register an account): help4leah

A little about Leah, from Chad:

This tournament is being held to raise funds to help out my good friend Leah. On Tuesday February 7, 2006, Leah was diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma, a very rare form of bone cancer. Medically, Ewing’s Sarcoma is best summed up as a cancerous tumor that attaches itself to a bone and destroys it. As I could not find Canadian statistics on this I will use USA stats. In the USA, there are only 150 new cases reported in a year. Of those 150 cases, only 9% affect Leah’s age group of 20 to 30 which is the oldest age group affected. Treatment of Ewing’s Sarcoma includes chemo, radiation and surgery to remove the tumor.

On a more devastating note, this form of cancer can result in amputation of limbs or even death.

Leah is a vibrant, confident, caring, beautiful woman who would do anything for anyone of her friends. She is the exact type of person who does not deserve to be going through this. Leah lives in Regina, Saskatchewan and because of this, she needs to travel to Calgary, Alberta for treatment. Her boyfriend Barry will be going with her standing beside her through every thing. The costs of both of them being away from work and living in hotels in a completely different province will be substantial at best.

I couldn’t think of two more deserving and devoted friends who need our help. I want to personally thank you for joining this fundraising tournament to help my friend Leah through this difficult time. She really needs to focus on getting healthy and should not have to worry about the financial burden this will cause.

Our little poker blogs (still loathe to use the term blog but I’m getting there), when used to promote causes that are special to us can make a significant difference when used en masse. I encourage everyone who has a little slice of online real estate to do what they can to promote such events, but more, I also encouage those who request time and space on our blogs to provide complete detailed information. If you have your own blog, devote one post to all the information so we can link to it. (The charity information should be the only information in the post. If it’s hard to find or difficult to disseminate, you may miss out on potential donors.) If you don’t have a blog, be sure to send us everything we need to know. We don’t always have time to hunt around for all the details. I will risk speaking for all of us when I say that we drunken degenerate gamblers want to help. So help us, help you!