Charity Event For Chad, Poker Ad Complaints Dismissed

Pros Prepare to Honour Chad Brown

Following the news of Chad Brown’s passing last week, a special charity tournament has been announced.

Set to take place this Sunday inside the spiritual home of the WSOP, Binion’s Horseshoe, the $225 (+$50 rebuy) tournament will be overseen by Matt Savage and charity of choice will be T.J. Martell.

In amongst a host of pros expected to attend, the general public are being invited to ante-up in honour of Chad and support of T.J. Martell’s fight against various forms of cancer, leukaemia and AIDS.

Half of each player’s buy-in, plus all the funds from rebuys, will be given to the charity and to make the pot even bigger, PokerStars (Chad’s former sponsors) has pledged to match the total amount raised by the event.

On top of this, the online poker site is putting up a PCA Main Event seat and a Montreal Poker Festival prize package for the winner and runner-up.

Chad Brown Charity Event Details:

July 13th, 2014 at 6 p.m.

No-Limit Hold’em Rebuy Poker Tournament with $200 + $25 buy-in

The buy-in will be evenly divided between the prize pool and the charity

Each player will start with 3,000 chips and levels will be 20-minutes long

A $50 dealer add-on will be available

Players may purchase unlimited rebuys for $50 through the first six levels

All of the rebuys will go directly to the charity

Poker Advert Given the All Clear

A string of recent complaints about a poker advert on British television have been dismissed by the country’s complaint’s commission.

Earlier this year Channel 5 ran a Rush Poker advert during an interval between two halves of a show entitled: My Spiral into Debt Hell.

Despite serving as somewhat of a contrast to the content of the programme, the advertising Standards Agency (ASA) rejected 13 complaints for viewers.

In a public statement, the ASA said:

“We acknowledged that the ads for online gambling were incongruous with the programme content, but considered the scheduling of those ads around the programme was not irresponsible, or an unsuitable juxtaposition that was likely to cause distress or offence to viewers.”

Despite not having control of when its adverts are shown, Full Tilt confirmed that they did not request for the promo piece to be shown during a show outlining the effects of problem gambling.