You might remember back in November of 2010, when 2008 World Series of Poker main event winner Peter Eastgate auctioned off his bracelet, raising over $140,000 for charity. The winner of that auction, William Haughey, talked to a poker news website to discuss the bracelet and revealed how he wants to work with the WSOP organization to arrange a charity event where he’d match any money raised, up to $1,000,000.
Haughey’s got a history of such generousness: the British businessman (who has made his fortune through his own City Refrigeration Holdings) has donated over £5 million to various charities and thinks that the bracelet might be an “in” to raising more for them through the world of poker.
When asked how he was planning on doing that, Haughey responded: “Since I purchased the bracelet, I’ve never had it on and I never have my picture taken with it. It has been in a safe, and what I would like to do is maybe protect the integrity and the worthiness of the bracelet. I would like to discuss with the World Series of Poker if they would take the bracelet as a gift from me and keep it in the Hall of Fame. Maybe they could strike a one-off bracelet in Europe next year for charity. I could pick a charity of my choosing and they could pick one of their choosing. I think it’d be great for the poker community. Not everyone gets a chance to win a bracelet, so maybe we could do something online for a couple of hundred bucks and raise like $400,000 or $500,000.”
It’s a fascinating read and it really does prove that the poker community is more than just people trying to take each other’s money. Go to www.pokernews.com for more information.
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