Simply weeks earlier than the 2024 World Sequence of Poker, one in all final yr’s bracelet winners has put his WSOP {hardware} up for public sale to boost cash for most cancers analysis.
Final July, Paul Berger gained the summer time nearer $1,000 Tremendous Turbo No-Restrict Maintain’em for his first bracelet and $212,645 after defeating a tricky heads-up opponent, Brazilian tremendous professional Yuri Dzivielevski Now, Berger is auctioning that bracelet and can donate the proceeds to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
The bracelet is listed for public sale on the fundraising platform GiveSmart, giving the golden band a worth of $5,000. The public sale is dwell till Might 18 at 8 p.m. Pacific Time.
“Each summer time poker gamers flock to the town of sin to strive their hand at profitable one in all poker’s most prestigious and sought-after awards: a World Sequence of Poker gold bracelet,” the public sale itemizing reads. “Take pleasure in this coveted (collectible) with case and occasion engraving as we speak!”
It is not the primary charitable deed by Berger, a wildlife photographer whose Instagram reveals him touring the world and documenting nature’s wonders. The bracelet winner who gained six figures final yr informed PokerNews “I play poker for enjoyable and donate the prize cash that I win.”
“To me it made sense to donate the bracelet as nicely,” he stated. “The extra I may also help with poker winnings the higher. I’ve been very lucky in life and it is a nice solution to give again and for me it makes poker extra enjoyable figuring out that my winnings assist others.”
Berger informed PokerNews the identical factor in a winner’s interview final summer time. “The truth that I’ve bought the largest rating of my life and it will go to an excellent trigger may be very cool.”
This isn’t the primary WSOP bracelet to be auctioned off for charity. 2008 Most important Occasion champion Peter Eastgate famously auctioned his bracelet to William Haughey for $147,500 after a bidding conflict with Tony G.
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Others who’ve auctioned bracelets for charity through the years embrace 2017 Tag Group winners Liv Boeree and Igor Kurganov and Max Pescatori, who auctioned his 2015 bracelets for earthquake aid in Italy.
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