PokerStars Presents Ante Up For Africa

PokerStars has recently announced that it would host the first ever Ante Up For Africa Europe Celebrity Poker tournament which will take place on April 27, just a day before the PokerStars EPT Season Five Grand Final Main Event.

Ante Up For Africa tournaments have been featured at the World Series of Poker for the past two years, all with the purpose of raising money within the poker community for the humanitarian mission in Darfur, Sudan.

What Ante Up For Africa and PokerStars are hoping for is that events such as the upcoming third annual Ante Up For Africa tournament will bring more attention to the crisis in Darfur and help fund the work of charities that provide aid and assistance to the survivors in that region.

The tournament will take place on April 27 at the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel and Resort in Monaco. A field of celebrities and poker pros have already confirmed their attendance, including Team PokerStars Pros Daniel Negreanu, Vanessa Rousso and Joe Hachem.

All of the prize money from the PokerStars Ante Up For Africa Europe tournament will be donated to help the survivors in Darfur and support activism dedicated to resolving the crisis. In addition, PokerStars will award the winner of the tournament with a special prize package to PokerStar's EPT event in the Bahama's in January, 2010.

The Ante Up For Africa event was quite successful over the past two years, with the final table of the inaugural event in 2007 featuring a deal between Dan Shak and Brandon Moran that they would award both the first and second place winnings to the charity. Last year's event was no different, as John Hennigan won the event and gave his entire $169,000 winnings to Ante Up For Africa.