Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Another Sick Month (March Recap)

I posted at the end of February that I was going to donate 5% of my net winnings in March to charity. Good news for charities: I had another great month. When I tallied up how much 5% of my winnings was, I was like, "wait... I'm giving all of that to charity?!" I mean... we're not talking that much... barely four figures... I've just never donated much more than old clothes before! :-D

Up until writing this post, I had no clue where or what I was going to donate to, but I just remembered an interesting dinner I had last Saturday. I'm not sure the parties involved would want me to name names, so I'll keep it anonymous by saying that I met up with a few friends, one of whom brought one of their friends. Anyway, that friend-of-a-friend, if you will, is currently undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer. I hadn't met her before, but within minutes I couldn't help but feel heartbroken for her. She's still quite young and is clearly a beautiful, energetic individual. However, you can also tell her disease has taken a lot out of her. She said she struggles to take her dog out for regular walks. We even had to cut the after dinner conversation short because she was too exhausted from the evening (which wasn't much more than meeting for dinner at 7:30 and leaving by 8:45). Anyway, her courage and positive attitude amidst awful circumstances was a big inspiration to me that night. I'm happy to be able to make a small donation to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation in her honor.

I want to continue donating a portion of my net winnings to charity, but it occured to me that I should probably stretch out the duration longer than a month at a time so as not to further expose myself to the perils of variance. Being that it's a new quarter, I'll keep the donation schedule quarterly. Five-percent of my net winnings from this new quarter will be donated to charity.

Hopefully that donation can be pretty sizable. The way poker has been going for me lately, I'm hopeful it will be. I've been playing a ton of online tournaments the past couple of days and feel great about how things are going. Just since Sunday, I've played 65 online tournaments, easily the most I've ever played in a three day stretch. Fifteen of those went for cashes, including five final tables. The biggest of these was a 6th place finish in the Sunday Mulligan for $9,000. Unfortunately, I had tens lose to ace-king for a really huge pot with seven players left. Had that held, I would have been in good position to make a run at the $45,000 first place prize, but a score that huge will have to wait another day.

Thanks for reading, and all the best to you in the new quarter! :)
(Can you tell my roommate watches CNBC five hours a day?)

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Kudos to you for keeping to your pledge and donating your winnings! I would like to follow your lead and do the same.

I don't get to play poker as much as I once did, but I will at least pledge to donate some portion of winnings before the end of the year.

Keep the receipts for tax purposes if you plan to itemize!

April 9, 2008 at 10:32 AM  

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