Athletes, actors, and different celebrities gathered on the Commerce Casino lately for a poker event to lift funds for charity. Variety – The Children’s Charity of Southern California hosted the group’s twelfth Annual Poker and Casino night time.
Jamie Gold, 2006 World Series of Poker principal occasion champion, served as host for the night time. In complete, the occasion helped increase $225,000 for the trigger.
Variety, which is a component of a bigger worldwide group, gives lifesaving help for disabled, abused, bodily challenged, and underprivileged youngsters. The poker event has turn into an everyday a part of fundraising for the Southern California chapter and has raised greater than $1 million since launching greater than a decade in the past.
This 12 months’s occasion featured quite a few celebrities together with actor Rob Riggle (Stepbrothers, Fox NFL pregame present), actor Haley Joel Osment (Forrest Gump, The Sixth Sense), rapper and R&B star Ray J, actor Mekhi Phifer (ER, 8 Mile), former UCLA soccer participant and actor Donovan Carter (Ballers, Legacy), actress Bai Ling (The Crow, Nixon, Red Corner), former NFL participant Omar Bolden, actor Omar Benson Miller (CSI: Miami, 8 Mile), and others.
Numerous leisure trade executives commonly play within the occasion as effectively. This 12 months, Brandon Jones, CEO of Film Frog, considered one of Paramount’s film trade companions, got here out because the occasion’s high-stakes winner. Raffi Varozian purchased a ticket for the occasion independently and got here away because the mid-stakes winner.
*_Photos by Marc Moraitis_
