Tsunami Relief Effort
Posted by Josh Hoptay on January 4, 2005

If you have watched the news, read a paper, or seen any form of media over the last week or so, then you know about the devastating Tsunami. Everyone is doing whatever they can to help, including the poker community.

From Poker Stars' website:

The past week we have all witnessed a great tragedy unfold. The recent East Africa and South Asia earthquake and tsunami disaster has devastated many parts of the area, killing over a one hundred and twenty thousand. Many more have seen entire families lost, homes washed away, crops destroyed, and water sources contaminated.

With your help PokerStars plans to reach out and lend a helping hand to the millions affected by this disaster. Over the next several days we will be collecting donations from any PokerStars player willing to give. We will then match those donations dollar for dollar and submit the money to the International Federation of Red Cross.

We hope you will join us in lending a helping hand; each dollar you can spare will give two dollars in aid for those who have lost everything.

Information about how to donate can be found here.

I don't know if it is a marketing move or if the people behind Poker Stars really care. As long as the money goes to those who need it though, and from what I can tell it does, I really don't care.

If you can spare anything at all, I would urge you to consider donating to the relief effort.