A month after vowing not to gamble for a year, after being sued by a Las Vegas Casino for failure to repay $400,000 in loans and markers, Charles Barkley is scheduled to play in a celebrity poker tournament at the 2008 World Series of Poker on July 2...
Players in the tournament put up $5,000 to play, and are asked to donate at least half their winnings to "Ante Up for Africa" to bring awareness for the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan.
Friday, June 20, 2008
Charles Barkley Enters Poker Tournament
A month after vowing not to gamble for a year, after being sued by a Las Vegas Casino for failure to repay $400,000 in loans and markers, Charles Barkley is scheduled to play in a celebrity poker tournament at the 2008 World Series of Poker on July 2...
Players in the tournament put up $5,000 to play, and are asked to donate at least half their winnings to "Ante Up for Africa" to bring awareness for the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan.
