Online Casino Games for Charity

The idea of it throws the whole concept of betting on its ear; funny thing is, it looks dashing that way. Playing online casino games and then give your profits away to charity is not without precedent.

Long before online casino game rooms implemented the practice, Barry Greenstein was making a name for himself doing just that: raking in the pots in mostly Texas hold'em poker games and distributing the money to places like Children Incorporated, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, ILoveSchools. com, Drive of Dimes, 999 for Kids, and the Golden Angels for Olive Crest. Well, now you too can be an online casino game philanthropist, with the help of many of your (and our) favorite online casino game rooms.

Maybe the most publicized online casino game area that gives to non profit organizations is Golden Palace Online Casino, but their style of charitable giving is to bid extraordinary amounts on auctions for rare oddities of questionable value with the proceeds all going to charity. But this doesn't empower you, as a player, to be the cause or the object of the giving Singapore online casino. That your online casino game room donates to charity is nice, yes. But how would you like to are the one, with your online casino game room's help, that makes the difference?

Hollywood Poker is after that reputation, however, aiming to become the number one internet poker room associated with charitable giving. In reaction to the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Katrina, Hollywood Poker, in December of 2005, hosted an internet poker tournament whereby they matched donor-player's entry fees dollar for dollar, with all proceeds (the full $47, 950) given to the American Red Cross and the International Hospital for Children.

Hollywood Poker also hosted a land-based tournament benefiting MADD (Mothers Against Swallowed Driving) in which players participated in raising $69, 000. This amounted to 10% of the buy-ins and re-buys.

Ultimate Bet hosts many online casino games for charity; even internet poker too. Though of the proceeds go to charity, the winner of each tournament does get something worthwhile besides that special feeling inside that comes from doing good for someone else: most recently, that took the shape of an Apple mp3 player Nano. In that particular Pro Bounty Charity Tournament, the ball player who knocked out poker celebrity Annie Duke also got an Apple mp3 player Nano. You can count on Ultimate Bet to keep coming up with innovative ways to reward you for your goodwill.

Bodog is another online casino game area that's been hosting charitable tournaments for years, with donations the Fisher House Foundation, The L. A. Laker's Youth Foundation, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, the Sean McCauley Hope Foundation for Pediatric Cancer, the Humane Society, and the Animal Avengers Organization. As of this writing, Bodog's latest charitable event will be a grand-scale Casino Royale at a land-based location to boost money for Art of Elysium, a charity that brings creativity and art into the lives of ill and underprivileged children.