Plug Pulled on NC Charity Tourney
Anti-poker Forces Clearly Opposed to Ending Hunger
It’s usually when a charity tournament starts raising too much money that people try to stop it. And that’s what happened in North Carolina … as what is claimed to be the largest charity tournament in the nation just got canceled. The general counsel for UNC decided that with 1,000 people slated to compete for donated prizes that maybe just maybe the event — Hold’em for Hunger — was legally questionable.
Last year saw a field of more than 500 competing for a top prize of a big-screen TV to raise more than $12,500 for a group called Nourish International.
This anti-poker victory in North Carolina comes as poker-friendly forces in South Carolina appear to be making great strides with a bill in South Carolina that would’ve overturned a 200-year-old law to allow churches to raise charity money via poker got defeated.
5 Comments to “Plug Pulled on NC Charity Tourney
Anti-poker Forces Clearly Opposed to Ending Hunger”
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Kevin Mathers Says:
March 8th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Not so fast Dan.
http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/333572.aspx
Basically, they decided to let the voters vote on if churches can do raffles twice a year, but no poker.
DanM Says:
March 8th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Damn you and your accuracy, Kmath! So was pokerpages wrong?
Or are we talking about two different bills in SC … or has it changed in the past few weeks?
Very confusing …
DanM Says:
March 8th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Oh, wait, I got it … two separate bills. The casino-night / poker one got defeated 13-8.
85nutz Says:
March 9th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Lottery to benefit schools for children — goood.
Poker to benefit food for starving children — bad.
When are government officials going to realise how hypocritical this is?
Lavigne in Austin Says:
March 10th, 2008 at 7:55 am
when we turn the bad guys out of office