On May 20-21, the annual “St. Jude Against All Odds” event, which was founded in 2014 with the help of poker pro Daniel Negreanu, took place in conjunction with the Charity Series of Poker (CSOP) at Red Rock Casino in Las Vegas. The combo golf-poker venture raised $400,319 for the kids of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, which brought the charity event’s all-time fundraising efforts up over $2.3 million.
This year’s charity poker event attracted some big names including Negreanu, CSOP founder Matt Stout, four-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner Kevin Gerhart, World Poker Tour (WPT) Player of the Year Anthony Zinno, emcee and stand-up comedian Joe “Stapes” Stapleton, Joey Ingram, and American Idol alum William Hung.