And the winner is … Let’s Play!
The Super Saturday Charity Poker Championship, an inaugural event, took place on December 4. The original field of players was whittled down from the finest ten in the ultimate quest to find the best Super Saturday poker player.
Many were praying for Terry “The Macaroni Kid” Paine to chalk up a proud win on behalf of his fellow in-mates at his retirement village, although he would have needed to out-twit his fellow Super Saturday presenters. To read further or see photos of this fun charity event,
On his debut poker game Owen ‘Rugga Kid’ Nkumane took an impressive second place, which makes him a force to be reckoned with in future. Singing sensation Ed Jordan and part-time Poker Celebrities, Rod McCurdy, Julie Alexander and Grant “Skidder” Stephens also took part in hopes of winning the coveted recyclable and environmentally friendly ankle bracelet (hand picked by Cliffie Jennard). Super Sister was present in all her mysterious glory and certainly gave the boys a run for their money.
The vastly experienced Neil “Chunky” Andrews, who has played at two previous World Series of Poker events in Las Vegas, and the Aussie Millions in Melbourne, was the ultimate winner on the evening and handed over his winning prize of R20,000 to the SuperSport Charity “Let’s Play” initiative.
Let’s Play is a corporate social responsibility initiative developed by SuperSport and partners in response to a National need. “Our children are becoming alarmingly inactiv. They can’t catch balls or walk on a balance beam. 20% of our children are overweight and physical education has almost been entirely eliminated from government school curricula. Family activities follow the path of “least resistance” as parents and kids opt for “sedentary play” activities. This has to change!”, says Vaughn Bishop for Let’s Play, Supersport.
“We are delighted to be able to participate in this very deserving initiative to achieve the target of collecting a million soccer balls by 2010. Donating money to charity should always be this much fun!”, remarked Wendy Graaf, Group Marketing Manager of Piggs Peak, Swaziland.
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