Als Research Benefit Tournament

[YBravo 0]

This is a post from P5's. I figure a lot of people here probably read P5's, but if not, here you go. My aunt had ALS when I was a kid, and it's pretty terrible. It's completely random, and a diagnosis is a death sentence. Basically the disease slowly shuts down all of the muscles in the body. They've made some advancements in prolonging the process, but it is still w/o a cure. Charity Tournament to Benefit ALS research by Lenny on 9/26/2007 13:51 Pocketfiver hypnotrader recenly let us know the bad news that his wife has been diagnosed with ALS (aka Lou Gherig's Disease). Sometimes it takes bad news like this to spur us to action, but it is times like these that make me hapiest to be a part of the poker community because the generosity of poker players is tremendous. He has set up a Charity Tournament to raise money for the search for a cure for ALS. Money will go to his local chapter of The Walk to D'Feet ALSThe tournament will be held on Full Tilt Poker Tuesday October 2nd. 8:25 ETThe buy-in is $5 + $5 with $4.50 going directly to charity. Tournament #28040946 (10/2/07 20:25ET), it is open for registration, password word is "als_ami".Also jesterwords has donated several added prizes from http://www.pocketfivesgear.com/Added prizes A) poker bag bounty on hypnotrader if you knock him out. must post HH.B) $25 coupon to p5gear for the winnerC) $20 coupon to 2nd place good for p5gearD) $15 coupon for 3rd place good for p5gearE) Bubble person gets a tilt buddy.

[Vtlaxer09 4]

im definitely in it and if not to win it... then to kick some als ass.this is a great idea... and hopefullt it becomes a weekly thing.

[Vtlaxer09 4]

ps. i dont see the tourney?\NVM UNDER PRIVATE

[GWCGWC 83]

I searched this on Stars like, 4 times. I'm kind of slow. I'm in but I don't think I'll play it.

[vbnautilus 48]

In.

[13CARDS 0]

I wish I'd known. I lost my mother to ALS almost two years ago. I hope the tournament raised a nice donation....

[Mercury69 3]

Missed this, but...ALS is Lou Gehrig's Disease?Anyway, hope it raised some $$$.

[13CARDS 0]

Missed this, but...ALS is Lou Gehrig's Disease?

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Gehrig :"Henry Louis ("Lou") Gehrig (June 19, 1903 – June 2, 1941), born Ludwig Heinrich Gehrig, was an American baseball player in the first half of the twentieth century. He set several Major League and American League records and was voted the greatest first baseman of all time by the Baseball Writers' Association.[2] His record for most career grand slam home runs (23) still stands today. A native of New York City, he played for the New York Yankees until his career was cut short by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), now commonly referred to in the United States as Lou Gehrig's Disease."