Dealt a Helping Hand: Yes Foundation

After the bruhaha over the events last Friday, we went to our regularly scheduled poker tournament day, at the Airport Casino Filipino and since it was the 3rd week of the month, it would be for charity, this time the YES! Foundation. They produce the Miss Teen Philippines as well as campus tours that advocate the stopping of underage drinking, drug use and pregnancy. We kept telling them they should have been the NO! Foundation cause they encourage teens to say no to drugs, etc, etc, etc. . . Anyways, back to the game.

I think there were a few players that were taken aback from the previous night's excitement and decided to just stay home for the weekend, but we did have a healthy field of 52 players (of which 26 were regular players) that were competing for the 1st prize which was the WPT Philippines Experience, buy-ins to all FOUR WPT Phils. events including the WPT Phils. Championships.

When the final count was in, after level 6, there were Php 179,000 raised for the YES! Foundation for their projects and after we announced this to the remaining players, there was a huge applause and then quiet, because the tournament had now become serious. There was also a cheer for Jean-Marc Hauducoeur who won a GC for the SPA and two boxes of Evian water for being the player with the most rebuys with six. I know Evian was expensive but Php 12k for two boxes? Hehe, I'm sure the foundation was delighted by his contribution.

The final table on featured two regular players, Jun Del Prado and Joe Davies, both PBT players from the Hard Rock Cafe stops, the rest were players that just got into the tournament by sheer chance or were invited by the foundation. In the end, Michael Poblacion won the WPT Philippines experience package and capped a great day.

See ya next time

Deal a Helping Hand: YES! Foundation

Event: Deal a Helping Hand: YES! Foundation
Venue: Airport Casino Filipino, Paranaque
Date: September 16, 2006
Reg: 12:00 nn
Starts: 2:30pm
Ticket Price: Php 3,000
Rebuys: Unlimited until the end of level 6 (Php 2,000 for 2,000 in chips)
Add-on: At the end of level 6 (Php 2,000 for 3,000 in chips)

Prizes:
1st - WPT Philippines Experience (Seat certificate for all three regular 10k+2k WPT Phils events AND for the 25k+3k WPT Phils Championship)
2nd - Seat certificate for WPT Phils event and a DVD Player/LCD TV Combo
3rd - DVD Player/LCD TV Combo
and many more!


YES! Inc. recognizes that the youth is a powerful sector in Philippine society, and that their active participation in creating a just, humane and productive society is imperative and inevitable. Accordingly, YES! Inc. is committed in developing well-rounded, educated and self-reliant Filipino youth leaders who shall inspire and motivate their peers to be responsible and productive citizens of the Philippine society. Through their “Teen Health Talk” School Tour and Miss Teen Philippines Summer Youth Camp.

See you guys there.