According to the press release by the Poker Players Alliance, the online poker community contributes $1.5 million for the victims of the Earthquake that hit Haiti with 7.0 magnitudes.

Full Tilt Poker, as the world’s second largest poker online site raise a total of $586,423 from all the donations of the poker players from the site together with the funds from the no-play tournaments and aid for Haiti programs that they have made. In addition, Full Tilt created a special user account to accept incoming donations for the Haiti victims. This account allows the poker players all around the world to send their contributions easy. Read the rest of this entry »

During the night at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, hearing tsunami warning swept all the poker players in the tournament. Everyone became sad thinking that thousands of people are suffering from calamity. Casualty in Haiti has already reached into six figures.

Photographs that became head turning and bits of bad news begun to appear in the media show a massive disaster has fallen to Haiti. Due to this bad news, poker community has step up on its own by offering financial assistance to all the victims of the Haitan capital city of Port-au-Prince. Read the rest of this entry »