Whereas the poker world awaits the most recent winner of the 2024 WSOP Fundamental Occasion, there’s one one who will likely be getting their arms on a bracelet due to a web-based public sale.
Final yr, Stanislav Zegal took down the WSOP Paradise Fundamental Occasion for $2,000,000 and a custom-made Jostens bracelet.
Now, Zegal is auctioning off his bracelet and instructed PokerNews he plans to donate 100% of the proceeds to charity.
Particulars of the Public sale
The public sale is presently stay on eBay with a beginning value of $17,500. In keeping with the outline, Zegal will donate 100% of the proceeds to the charity GiveDirectly.
GiveDirectly permits donors to ship cash on to individuals in poverty with no strings connected.
“We imagine individuals dwelling in poverty deserve the dignity to decide on for themselves how finest to enhance their lives – money permits that selection,” it states on their web site. “Money is probably the most rigorously researched anti-poverty intervention, with confirmed optimistic impacts on a variety of outcomes throughout earnings, training, well being, entrepreneurship, ladies’s empowerment, and extra”
Bidding on the merchandise ends on Tuesday, July 9 at 6pm (PT).
Concerning the WSOP Paradise Fundamental Occasion Bracelet
In keeping with the WSOP, the inaugural WSOP Paradise Fundamental Occasion bracelet was hand-crafted by Jostens with an “island spin” on the long-lasting WSOP Fundamental Occasion bracelet.
The bracelet was comprised of 10-karat yellow gold, and weights 95 grams. It’s adorned with 494 real blue topaz spherical stones.
“Our first Fundamental Occasion bracelet for WSOP Paradise places a enjoyable spin on the trophy’s legacy,” World Collection of Poker Vice President Gregory Chochon mentioned on the time. “That is the World Collection of Poker, we’re international and wish a correct World Championship trophy to symbolize the most recent dwelling we’ve added to the collection. Jostens delivered on that imaginative and prescient as soon as once more, and we will’t wait to see who takes dwelling the first-ever WSOP Paradise Fundamental Occasion bracelet.”
That individual was Stanislav Zegal, and now the subsequent proprietor might be you!
Different Bracelets Up for Sale
This is not the primary time a bit of WSOP historical past has gone up for public sale.
Peter Eastgate’s bracelet from the 2008 WSOP Fundamental Occasion was ultimately purchased for $147,500 in 2010 after a web-based public sale.
A couple of years later, Jamie Gold (pictured) put his 2006 WSOP Fundamental Occasion winner’s bracelet up on the market earlier than it was ultimately purchased for $65,725.
Venezuela’s Joseph Di Rosa Rojas’s 2017 Marathon bracelet went up on the market the next yr with 2023 WSOP bracelet winner Paul Berger auctioning off his earlier this yr to assist the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
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