Haiti Poker Fundraiser

Four of A Kind Poker(myself), in association with the Haven trust NGO and three other poker companies, namely Mayo Poker Tour, Shamrock Poker Tour and Shuffle up and deal Poker, are co-hosting a massive poker night fundraiser on Feb 5th in Yeats County Inn, Curry, Co.Sligo at 8pm. Details of the Tournament can be found above on the poster.
Haven is beginning to build sanitation facilities in some of the temporary camps which have sprung up around Port au Prince following the earthquake on Jan 12th 2010.
The Haven trust, which is the only Irish NGO operating solely in Haiti, has been part of the emergency response since the devastating quake hit two weeks ago.
At the end of April this year, Haven will send 250 volunteers out to Haiti to take part in a "built it week" when the volunteers will help rebuild the homes of those devastated by the earthquake.
Its this "build it week" that the funds from the Poker Night Fundraiser will go towards. 30% of the total prizepool on the night will be donated towards the Haven trust, leaving a generous 70% to be paid out in the poker tournament.
If your never played Texas Hold'em poker, then what better reason to start? If you do play poker, then what better reason to play?
Naturally we are running this event free of charge. We are expecting a minimum of 60-70 players turning up.
We also will have musical entertainment, food and spot prizes provided for on the night to make it as enjoyable as possible.
Your support on the night will go along way to helping Haiti get back on its feet!
Ciao!

Sleepout Result and thank you!

I would like to extend a sincere word of thanks both from me and from the thirteen others who took part in the sleep out, to everyone who donated to this project. It was a very worthwhile event. I am delighted to report, now that all the money has been received and counted, that a total of €3,559 was raised!!
Our target starting out was to get €1000 raised for the Galway Simon Community, so its fantastic to have raised as much as we did. As I said, I want to thank all those who made the effort to go out and get donations. Also, on the night of the sleep out, we got great support from the locals here in town. A special word of thanks to Brian Lynch from Spar, who provided us all with complimentary tea, coffee's and sandwiches up until 10:30pm and also to my mother, Mary Cretaro, who provided us with the soup run. A few other words of thanks to AnsaMed, Sean O Dowd, and Janice Roddy from the Una Bhan office who helped greatly with getting this project advertised as best as possible.
Its given us a great platform to build upon for next year's sleep out. More people hopefully will be interested in getting involved and we will try to raise as much as we can to help the homeless situation.
We only did a twelve hour overnight sleep out, in which at the end we could go home to a nice warm bed. Unfortunately, thats a choice that over 5,000 men, women and children in this country do not have the luxury of making.
Again, thanks from the sleep out gang and Happy new year.
Ciao!