Ante Up for Africa event raises $500K

May 17th, 2008
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Pro poker player Annie Duke and actor Don Cheadle helped to raise more than half a million dollars for charity thanks to their Ante Up for Africa event at the San Manuel Casino in Los Angeles.

The casino itself added money to the funds raised by the celebrity tournament, which was designed to raise awareness for the situation in the war-torn region of Darfur in Sudan.

According to pokernews.com:

The pair brought some of their celebrity friends out to the Inland Empire to play some poker, including Duke’s brother Howard Lederer , Chris Ferguson, Phil Laak, and Andy Bloch. The LA Dodgers young first baseman James Loney was in attendance, as were charity poker regulars Willie Garson from “Sex and the City”; Josh Malina from “The West Wing”; and Scott Ian of “Anthrax”.

Whole thing here.

Ante Up for Africa will also hold an event at the World Series of Poker on July 2, before the main event begins.


Article Credit: Dustin

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Archive pick: Value betting the river, no limit hold em cash -

Game type: 1/2 No Limit Cash Game
Your image: Fairly Aggressive
Opponent's image: Solid, a little tricky
Your hand: As Qh

This hand is from the archives and originally appeared on 8/21/07. View the original quiz and comments here

The setup: You're fairly new to this table and you picked up a pot quick when you flopped a set and won a decent multi-way pot. You've been fairly active since, seeing a lot of flops cheap and playing for the win on the flop or turn in a couple of spots.

This hand you're dealt AQo UTG and you decide to limp. The button limps and both blinds play. You flop top pair:

Qd 7h 6d

The SB leads out for $6. The BB folds. You make it $24 and the button folds. The SB calls. The turn gives you two pair with the Ac. The SB checks and you pop $40 into $54. The SB flat calls.

The turn comes the 10c. The SB checks again. There's $134 in the middle. Do you value bet here and if so, for how much?


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