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Crossposting this from my LiquidPoker.net Blog, sorry if this seems weird as a first blog post coming from someone who's not at all active on TL. I've been outta the BW scene for a while but I'm sure a few of you remember me ^^
I helped win 25k for the nonprofit I work part time for, The PeaceJam Foundation: Sick 25k ship
Chase bank decided to give away $5 million via Facebook by doing online voting. For 1 month any non-profit in the guidestar database (over 500,000) was eligible to get a vote. The top 100 vote getters would take home 25k and move on to round 2. I found out about this when it first started and went crazy on trying to get PJ enough votes, and yesterday the results came in and we made the top 100!!! Ship it.
The next round is only the top 100 and starts on January 15th, lasting 1 week. First place of round 2 gets $1 million, and the next 5 get $100k. We're going for 1st place and I'm hoping TL/LP can help get us there. So on Jan 15th I'm gonna start asking you guys to help out cause this money will make a GIGANTIC difference for PeaceJam. This is one of those rare times where you'll get to take minute and make a huge difference.
Anyway I'm super happy that we made the top 100 and that people came out to vote and support us. To get 1st place in the next round ain't gonna be easy, but I'm sure with the help of the poker and BW worlds we could totally get it done =)
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USA29055 Posts
wonderful job! nice work.
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United States4796 Posts
Excellent work. Glad someone's doing something like this!
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Wow, 25k can go a long way, congrats. Keep it up and good luck winning the 1 million.
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Wow smi.newb long time haha. Congrats on the 25k for peacejam!
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On December 18 2009 11:20 Liquid`NonY wrote: Wow smi.newb long time haha. Congrats on the 25k for peacejam!
<3 nony, yeah it's been agesssssss
Thanks for the support guys. I hope you will all vote on FB in January and we can put the BW/Poker communities up against everyone else! Seriously, how can we lose?
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As long as you remind us all to vote on that day I am sure you will get a great turn out from the TL community.
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is awesome32251 Posts
Awesome man. Ill help : )
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On December 18 2009 11:42 Mastermind wrote: As long as you remind us all to vote on that day I am sure you will get a great turn out from the TL community.
Oh I'll be reminding people all week, hehe. I'll make a thread about it in General (if that's ok, otherwise I'll just do lots of blogs)
Thanks everybody ^^
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On December 18 2009 11:50 hrmM wrote: BRETT! i'll help ~
woot! that's what I'm talking about!!!
on January 15th these other nonprofits won't know what happened cause the BW community is gonna show em wussup =)
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United States996 Posts
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bump this thread on the day, and i will contribute ^ ^
come on TL ONE TIME
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yeah teamliquid is usually willing to help a hand in online votes for members, and this is probably the best cause ive seen yet, make sure to post again when the voting is open, ill definitely contribute =]
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I will vote :D General forum is cool :D I think the site itself gets like 20k visitors each day or something?
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i read it on liquidpoker and im definatally gonna help out, good luck with it
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