Newsletter Article

What should you look for in Charity Poker?
Appeared in August 2008, Volume I

Ask yourself... what images come to mind when you think of a  Casino Poker Room? If you are like me you'll immediately have an image of a professionally run poker room with trained staff and upscale equipment, such as tables and chips.

Your image will also include trained, professionally dressed dealers and staff. There will be monitors in the Poker Room communicating   tournament information to you. That's what you see on the outside, now what's on the inside?......

What's on the inside are controls and procedures in place to ensure that all cash games and tournaments are run with the utmost integrity. All dealers, pit bosses and managers are trained to spot player collusion and inappropriate activity giving players an unfair  advantage in the games. 

In all "Main Event" games, players are not allowed to touch the cards, except for the cards dealt to them. Players are not allowed to put their hands in the muck pile and they are not allowed to reach in the pot for any reason. Poker etiquette is strictly enforced.

Every player sitting in a game run by a Casino Poker Room is having fun, win or lose and each player knows and feels comfortable that he or she is sitting in an honest game. Any players attempting to cheat will not go unnoticed.   

Now how is this different than how Charity Poker Games should be run????  The answer is NO DIFFERENCE. There should only be two differences between playing in a poker room run by a Casino and playing poker in Chicago hosted by a charity.

1. The casino is always in the same place and doesn't move around.
    A Charity hosted poker event in Chicago must move around.
2. In a poker game run by a casino, the casino is making all of the
    profits. In Charity Poker, the charity is making all the profits.

These should be the only two differences. A Charity Poker event should not be run like a Home Game and it should not be run like free poker that use to be played in Chicago bars. Charity Poker should be run exactly like  poker games run in a Casino. Yes, there are strict requirements enforced by the Illinois Department of Revenue in how  Charity poker events must be run and managed, but those requirements can be followed and still put on a poker event that mirrors a Casino Poker room.

If you are looking to play in a Charity Poker Event that is run just like a Casino then Main Event Charity Games is where you want to play. We provide our charities with all the controls and procedures in place to mirror Casino Poker.

Our charities host the only Charity Poker Games in the Chicago area that are run just like a Casino Poker Room. Come out and play poker with us and feel the excitement!  You deserve it!!