Post #46 - Doações Chegam a 20k!

Trechos de uma matéria sobre as doações devido ao que o Barry Greenstein disse no HSP:

Without playing a card, Children Inc. hit the jackpot.

Online poker players around the world have donated more than $20,000 to the Richmond-based charity this week, paying off a friendly wager among themselves. The money was still coming in yesterday.

"We are amazed and overjoyed at the response from the poker community," said CI spokeswoman Liz Sauer.

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"These people want to do something good, and we are happy to help them do something good," said Sauer, who noted the $20,000 would enable CI to sponsor 60 children for a full year.

The ringleader of this wave of bigheartedness is Barry Greenstein, a well-known poker player who has been dubbed the Robin Hood of poker for his custom of donating his tournament winnings to charity. Greenstein is no stranger to CI, which has been one of the beneficiaries of his generosity in the past decade. He's donated more than $1.5 million to the organization, according to his Web site. He also sponsors seven children through CI, said Sauer.

Greenstein's most recent largesse directed to CI began as a wager -- sort of a double-dog-dare-you -- among the 2+2 Forums online poker community (www.twoplustwo.com). If other players promised to make contributions to CI, Greenstein vowed to say "LOL donkaments" during a televised poker tournament. The phrase is an online expression that, according to a discussion board on the 2+2 Web site, pokes fun at the poor skill level of some tournament players by combining the words "donkey" and "tournament." In Internet lingo, LOL means "laugh out loud."

In an episode of "High Stakes Poker," aired Monday on GSN, Greenstein uttered the phrase. The money started rolling into CI on Tuesday morning.

"One of the [donation] process- ing ladies asked me, 'What's going on? We're being inundated with these donations, and they're all referencing Barry Greenstein,'" said Sauer. "I asked her how many did she have, thinking maybe five or10, and she held up a stack of papers."

So far, more than 200 donations have come in this week, ranging from $20 to $2,000, from across America and other places as farflung as Australia and Slovenia.

"We're just thrilled these people want to help our children," she said.

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Muito manero, né?

O Barry Greenstein também agradeceu a generosidade dos 2+2'ers e fez uma promessa nesse post escrito ontem:

I'm glad we are all able to share in the enjoyment of actually making a difference. Many people go through life without having this experience. This should provide extra incentive for all of us to do well, so we can make a difference whenever we hit it big in whatever we do.

I am now in debt to all of you. I will become the Charlotte's Web of poker as I utter cryptic messages on national TV. If I win an all-in pot in my NBC Heads-up match tomorrow against Carlos, I will say, "Ship it crucial," provided I can do it in a polite way.

Ship it Barry!

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