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March 11, 2005
NASCAR & Poker
The Mobil High-Endurance Charity Poker Tournament was held last night at the Golden Nugget Hotel & Casino, where drivers were playing for their favorite charities, each drivers charity getting some money no matter where they placed.
Drivers in the tournament were: Rusty Wallace, Ryan Newman, Travis Kvapil, Helio Castroneves, and Sam Hornish Jr, Kenny Wallace, Jason Leffler and Richard Childress even filled a seat. They even had Poker Champion Chris Moneymaker on hand to give expert advice.
The winner's charity will get $50,000 and second places charity will get $10,000. Everyone else's charity will receive $4,000 for participation in the event, so no one's charity will go home empty handed.
I haven't heard anything on who won the tournament yet, but The Speed Channel has agreed to air the tournament sometime this Spring, no date has been set for airing.
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I used to love pink wintergreen mints...until they started pulling my teeth...(AAAAAAAA)
SpeedTV currently lists a Mikey Waltrip poker tournament for April 7th and 14th at the times Linda gave, that's the only poker as of now, but keeeeep checkin'...
Posted by: Bob Frable | Mar 16, 2005 11:47:46 PM
You heard right. Kenny did win it all and donated $50,000 to autism research. Rusty had a good run and finished fourth out of the twelve players who participated. My recollection is that Ryan was not in the top six.
The poker tournament was a lot of fun to watch, especially with Kenny participating. The action was certainly a lot more lively when he was present. (They actually played three rounds - two "qualifying" rounds and a final round. Kenny was not in the second round.)
By the way, there have been several tournaments played by racers for charities. They are going to be televised on Speedvision beginning on Thursday, April 7 and running through Thursday, June 2 at 9:00 p.m. eastern.
Posted by: Linda | Mar 15, 2005 3:48:17 PM
Hearing it was Kenny Wallace that won...with a big donation to the autisim society...congrats Kenny...and the rest of the players - for a bunch of good causes!...
Posted by: Janelle | Mar 12, 2005 12:26:16 AM
Maybe, but in poker you never know. I still haven't heard anything about who won.
Posted by: Kathy | Mar 11, 2005 4:24:38 PM
I was just laughing at those!
Hmm...looks like Ryan's pile of pink chips is considerably larger than Rusty's...maybe a clue as to who's charity came out on top?
Posted by: Janelle | Mar 11, 2005 3:37:36 PM
Let the snarky comments on those pink chips begin. :-)
Posted by: Marc | Mar 11, 2005 10:43:31 AM
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