Daniel Negreanu and Barry Greenstein: Poker for Charity

Daniel Negreanu has made a living (a killing even) by making good decisions. It's a skill he also applies to choosing charitable organizations to work with. It was recently reported that Negreanu made an unexpected contribution to a charity when he sent 20 poker tables, 40 decks of cards and 20,000 poker chips to a charity poker tournament set up to benefit the Adam Pulling Memorial Scholarship fund. Pulling was a West Michigan University student who died of cancer in 2004. He loved to play poker and so the charity event was an obvious choice for organizers.

When Negreanu was asked why he got involved in the Pulling charity he paused and then answered, “It has to be something that touches me in some way, or something I feel compelled to do.”

One of Negreanu’s fellow poker pros is Barry Greenstein, a.k.a the “Robin Hood” of poker because of his charity work. Greenstein has been playing poker since he was a teenager, involved as mainly a cash game player until 2003. He’s played about 50 tournament events a year since then, and has won two WPT titles and two WSOP bracelets.

Rumors are circulating that “Robin Hood” donates either half or all his winnings to charity. Is this true? “I had been donating all of the winnings,“ Greenstein explains. “Last year, I only donated the net winnings. I'm not sure how much I'll donate this year, since I haven't had much of a chance to make money in side games, because my tournament schedule is so extensive and expensive.”

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