Poker Discussion Post

I wish your dad all the best Devin and I will be playing and donating 100% of my winnings to your fathers cause.  My thoughts and prayers will be with you and your family. 

can we get this stickied?

Also, I will be donating $500 at a minimum.  Every person that pays taxes on poker might as well donate it to something worthwhile instead of paying for $5,000 toilet seats in a subway station.

 Good luck, my mom went through chemo, i wouldnt wish it on anybody....

 Devin,
    Joe Sebok and Gavin Smith are going to mention the tournament and donation site on the next PokerRoad Radio show that will go up tomorrow.  Let us know if you do anything like this going forward so we can help you promote it.

-Court 

Wow! That is awesome Court! Thanks a million..

I only did it $30 so as not to get a limited participation..They wouldnt let me adjust the buy-ins and rake outside of the normal 10+1, 20+2 etc

I guess I could always do another thats $100 buyin or w/e at the same time, but I think this will get the most participation.

Thanks again to all the random donations I've been getting from people I don't even know.. Complete strangers!!  People really are truly amazing and can flat out shock you.

cant play on Sunday so I shipped a little on stars. GL with everything.

id love to contribute but only got ftp money... anyway i can ship u there for the cause

Devin, hope things work out for you and your family, for I am going through the same with my Father and my mom passed from that evil shit. Tough road to hoe but beatable for alot of us when caught early. Take care all you PF's that have family sick and I will pray for all that need it and more.

I wish your dad the best.

Just to note- The password for the tournament is pocketfives... Not- Pocketfives(case sensitive) Might want to edit that in the OP Devin.

I'LL PLAY

 your dad will kick cancers ass. my grandpa had it twice and got rid of it both times lived to his 90s. you get my donation, keep your head up! ps. speaking of charity annie duke is having the marathon for africa in san diego next week (i just quit smoking so i may give it a shot but it wont be pretty).

your location is halloweentown on ps right? 

I lost my Mom to cancer, im def in. If i dont win any in the tourn expect a transfer.

 Be positive and help him beat this shit.

Debo

     Hey man my prayers go out to you and your family. My brother had non hodgkins lymphoma and he beat it. The doctors thought I had Hodgkins disease at one point because I had a pretty sizeable tumor in my axillary region. I think staying positive is a huge part of overcoming cancer but I can't beat around the bush with you cancer of the lymphatic system is bad shyt. They told me I was gonna have to undergo chemo and radiation treatments but it turned out that I had a weird form of pre-cancer instead so I didn't need any additional medical attention except for surgery to remove the tumor. My condition was called progressive transformation of a germinal center and my condition was so rare that they sent the tumor to Stanford to be analyzed. In my brother's case he wasn't able to use radiation because his cancer was below the diaphragm. He had a young oncologist that put him on very aggressive treatments and that is probably what saved his life. Rather than just use the standardized chemotherapy regimen (that the old school doctor wanted to use) she decided that it was best to hit him hard with big doses and less overall treatments. A similar treatment regimen might work best in your father's case as well. I would have him get different opinions from different doctors and see which choices are available to him rather than just accepting the first doctor's chemotherapy regimen. I will play in your monday tournament and whatever place I take the $$$ goes to you. Hopefully I will win it!