Athletes, actors, and different celebrities gathered on the Commerce On line casino not too long ago for a poker match to boost funds for charity. Selection – The Youngsters’s Charity of Southern California hosted the group’s twelfth Annual Poker and On line casino evening.
Jamie Gold, 2006 World Sequence of Poker foremost occasion champion, served as host for the evening. In whole, the occasion helped increase $225,000 for the trigger.
Selection, which is a component of a bigger worldwide group, supplies lifesaving help for disabled, abused, bodily challenged, and underprivileged kids. The poker match has develop into an everyday a part of fundraising for the Southern California chapter and has raised greater than $1 million since launching greater than a decade in the past.
This yr’s occasion featured quite a few celebrities together with actor Rob Riggle (Stepbrothers, Fox NFL pregame present), actor Haley Joel Osment (Forrest Gump, The Sixth Sense), rapper and R&B star Ray J, actor Mekhi Phifer (ER, 8 Mile), former UCLA soccer participant and actor Donovan Carter (Ballers, Legacy), actress Bai Ling (The Crow, Nixon, Purple Nook), former NFL participant Omar Bolden, actor Omar Benson Miller (CSI: Miami, 8 Mile), and others.
Quite a few leisure trade executives commonly play within the occasion as effectively. This yr, Brandon Jones, CEO of Movie Frog, considered one of Paramount’s film trade companions, got here out because the occasion’s high-stakes winner. Raffi Varozian purchased a ticket for the occasion independently and got here away because the mid-stakes winner.
*_Photos by Marc Moraitis_
