Attention Boardsters: Help/Feedback Wanted

Over the last few months Ive been thinking of a way to raise money for cancer charities through poker. My father died from cancer 10 years ago and I have done a few things in those years to raise money such as triathlons (dont f'in laugh!).

At the SSF game I put my idea to a few of you and got a positive reponse so I have decided to put it out on Boards to get this thing out there and start doing instead of just talking about it.

The idea is simple and will not overburden people for donations. Heres how it works........

Players make a pledge to donate a small part of all their offline tournament winnings.

1. The pledge is 1% of all tournaments for 12 months.
2. The players sign a pledge form and announce they are pledgers at any tournament they play. Their name is added to the web page as pledgers with a unique member number
3. Most large tournament directors and cardrooms will be signed up as 'partners'. Fintan/Donal and Luke Ivory have already agreed.
4. If the player makes the money and gives the TD his 'donation'
5. The TD gives the player a receipt (with all details) for the amount
6. The receipt books are checked on a regular basis by 'The Charities' directors and the TD hands over the amount raised from the last time it was collected
7. The players donation/name is put on web page (must have sign waiver on pledge form to use details otherwise 'annonymous')
8. The TD/Tournament Company/Cardroom is credited with amount pledged through them
9. Running total raised is displayed on webpage

Also....

1. 'The Charities' registered as a charity and directors made up of upstanding poker players.
2. Legal and financial matters handled by lawyers/accountants that are poker players that work pro bono
3. All expenses covered by 'sponsor' such as Irish online poker rooms etc. Therefore 100% of pledged winnings goes to Cancer charities. Thus, good PR for them.
4. All TD/Tournament Companies/cardrooms get links on web page for their efforts
5. Companies donate 'free stuff' such as tournament tickets to be raffled amongst pledgers (incentives to gain pledgers)

If this is worked out then I feel at least €50,000 per annum could easily be raised. This out weighs the €1/€2k that 'might' be raised from a single event. The idea is to get players to pledge for life and then there is a constant stream of revenue for the charities from poker players in Ireland.

I hope this makes sense. It is logistically possible in an small country like Ireland where most of the non-backroom tournaments are well known and well run by people with good reputations.

Just think....If you win €10k would you donate €100 to a charity?....I think you would. An example might be the Pokerevents game in the Red Cow on a Monday that on average has about a €10k prizepool. If all the winners were pledgers then that tournament alone would donate about €5k a year.

So, what do you think?