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SPECIAL CHARITY EVENT AT EPT LONDON SET TO RAISE MORE THAN £10,000 IN AID OF CANCER RESEARCH UK

September 23, 2010

A unique charity event is being held at this year’s PokerStars.com EPT London Poker
Festival in aid of Cancer Research UK, the world’s leading charity dedicated to beating
cancer through research. The event, which has a guaranteed prize pool of £100,000, has a
buy-in of just £100 (+10+10). This is the first time an event of this kind has ever been run in
Europe.
£10 of each buy-in will go straight to Cancer Research UK, guaranteeing that at least
£10,000 will be raised for the charity. PokerStars, which is hosting the fund-raiser from
October 2-4 at London’s Hilton Metropole Hotel, has pledged to match both the £10 charity
contribution AND all additional player donations. Players can start donating now by
transferring funds from their account to the ‘cancerUK’ account on the PokerStars client.
The EPT London charity tournament follows several highly successful live tournament fundraisers
sponsored by PokerStars. In January this year, stars such as R&B singer Kelly
Rowland, the former Guns N’ Roses lead guitarist Slash and hip-hop star Nelly helped raise
more than $150,000 for amfAR, the AIDS research charity, during a celebrity charity poker
tournament held as part of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in the Bahamas.
In Season 5, PokerStars players and celebrities such as French Rugby International
Sebastien Chabal, Spanish football International Pepe Reina and Eventing World Champion
(and UK royal) Zara Phillips helped raise more than €160,000 at the EPT Grand Final for
Ante Up For Africa, which is dedicated to helping people in worn-torn Darfur.
In 2008, PokerStars also lent its support to the annual Hold’em100 charity tournament,
which raises funds for the Royal Marsden Cancer Hospital. This is the first hospital in the
world dedicated to cancer treatment and is the largest comprehensive cancer centre in
Europe.
Players can register online for the EPT London Cancer Research UK event on PokerStars,
as well as for the EPT London Main Event and all other side events. Further details are on:
http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/promotions/ept-charity/ and

http://www.europeanpokertour.com/tournaments/london/

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