Live tournaments could also be slowly making their method again into the mainstream, however a bunch of actors and comedians acquired collectively Sunday on the digital felt to boost cash for charity.
Hank Azaria, who’s most well-known for his voice work on The Simpsons, was the host of the sport and was joined by Don Cheadle, Jon Hamm, Michael Cera, Michael Ian Black and Josh Charles in what was dubbed “Hank’s Home Game.”
Azaria, Cheadle and Black have been common poker gamers for fairly a while and made a number of appearances in high-profile charity occasions all through the final a number of years. According to Azaria, Cera simply began enjoying the sport a number of years in the past, however has turn into a robust participant fairly shortly.
The event was performed on PokerStars and streamed on the corporate’s YouTube channel.
Unlike a typical poker event, no person could be knocked out of this occasion. Instead, there have been limitless rebuys and gamers could be ranked based mostly on their revenue/lack of the event chips. Each participant began with 10,000 chips, so if a participant was knocked out, rebought, and completed with 40,000 chips, that might be a web revenue of 20,000 chips and would end above somebody who didn’t rebuy and solely doubled up as soon as.
Instead of accelerating the blinds, the blinds stayed at 50-100 for the whole thing of the event, which had a two-hour time restrict. At the top of two hours, the income have been tallied and payouts have been distributed.
All six spots would earn cash for his or her charity of selection. The winner netted $20,000 for his or her charity of selection with subsequent finishers incomes $12,000, $8,000, $5,000, $3,000 and $2,000 for charities.
Michael Cera, who performed ‘Played X’ in Molly’s Game, gained the event with and despatched $20,000 to the First Responders First charity.
You can watch the whole event within the video beneath:
