Poker Games to Benefit Disabled

A local human services agency is hoping the latest craze in charity fund-raisers pays off, literally. Greater Marlboro Programs Inc., an organization providing services to the area's developmentally disabled population, is holding its first ever Texas Hold'em poker fund-raiser.

..."We've had fund-raisers in the past, but this is our first try at something like this," said Jim Karami, director of social and recreational programs for GMPI. GMPI is not the only nonprofit to steer away from the common benefit events and instead bank on the popularity of poker tournaments.

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The donation to enter is $125 and the organization hopes to get at least 100 players. Fifty percent of the money will be split among the top 10 winners, some of the percentage will go to taxes and 35 percent will go directly to services provided by GMPI, Karami said.

June 19, 2006
Posted By Guy Akers
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