As some of you know, one of our forum members' daughter has struggled with a rare form of cancer for years. We will be holding our 3rd annual "Libby Tournament" on December 16th at Poker Stars to help ensure Merv and his family have a wonderful Christmas!

Here's how you can help:

Make a donation via Poker Stars (Mervhage) to Merv's family ($15 Min) and Merv will send you the password.

Tournament Details:

Pokerstars- Dec. 16th 7PM EST

Click on tournaments> Private
Tournament # - 68536379
Name: Libby Tournament
Buy-in $5 - With Donation - $50 added to the prize pool - $10 Bounty on Ugi
Format- HORSE

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Awesome I am in.

I should donate before I say that..Will do that next

Edited again I'm In

Looking forward to dominating Eru yet again

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This is excellent, I am definitely in. You deserve it Merv, and your family too.

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I just want to say thank you to everyone in advance who have been so supportive. We are very thankful for everything that you all have done for us and I won't lie, it has been an incredible help as well.

It's ironic that when I was younger, I was always willing to help out anybody who came to me in need. It's in my nature. I never imagined that one day the roles were reversed. I guess life is funny like that.

Again, thank you in to everyone for everything! All monies will go towards buying Christmas presents for my children... and maybe one tank of gas, :lol:

I will find a way into this tournament and make the donation as well. I don't deposit into PokerStars because I can't afford to "spend" the $50 minimum on poker right now, but I have a friend who can transfer me money if I give him cash, so I'm in, soon. (By typing this, it also gives me the fire under my butt to actually do it, )

It was your saying this that pushed me over the edge to commit myself to doing this. (I know it's only $20 total and no big deal, but...) This statement hit home for me in a big way, and I never thought of "life" like this until I read your words.

I, too was always kind and helpful to kids and people with special needs growing up. When other kids would pick on and ignore the handicapped, or mentally challenged kids, I would always stand up and have their back. When I started my computer career, I was introduced to a person (that I worked with) that had a Mentally handicapped daughter (19yo) that needed tutoring to help her become sufficent in computers in order to someday get a job in an office somewhere or something. I jumped at the chance.

My wife used to teach religion to "special ed" kids because nobody else wanted to when she was younger.

About 1 1/2 years into the tutoring this young woman, my wife got pregnant with our second child. When our son was two, he was diagnosed as Autistic. He's now 10 and quite a handful. My own mother (passed earlier this year) has suggested putting him in a home to ease our burden. Of course, that's out of the question as nobody would care for him as we do since he's ours and wouldn't trade him for the world. He's made tremendous strides in improvement, and is on the right track although we have a long road ahead of us.

Many people have told us that God would only give us a special needs child because "we can handle it". It's hard to believe that I never put 2 and 2 together until I read what you said about the "role reversal" above. Apparently, your words are more true than you may have realized when you said (typed) it.

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I'll be in like flynn this year, just got to move some money over to PS first. I hope your family has an awesome Christmas merv!

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Mirage: something that lets me see other ppl's holecards

Excellent. I'll bring the dip.

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11:09:32 PM Randy: limit poker is easy
11:19:03 PM Randy: ok, i suck at teh limit

Mirage: FU PKOER
Mirage: F
Mirage: U
Mirage: FUFUFU
Mirage: up a $1.45 still YES

One question...
I know how it sucks if/when an outsider wins these tourneys, but are non-forum members welcome in this thing?

The "friend" I spoke of that transfers money for me has a good heart and would probably jump at this, he'd probably kick in more like $20-25 either way, .

I didn't want to invite him before asking here first. He's not the Forum type so he'd never bother to contribute (or sponge like me) here, in fact the only thing he knows how to do on a computer is lose money on PokerStars.

So the likelyhood (spelling???) of him finishing "in the money" is slim, but you never know.

edited: just in case

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Yep, all are welcome. Maybe he'll even decide to stick around a bit. :)

Just noticed that it's HORSE... Sweet!

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Blog Updated 6/21, Oooops, I'm goin to Vegas in a few days.
11:09:32 PM Randy: limit poker is easy
11:19:03 PM Randy: ok, i suck at teh limit

Mirage: FU PKOER
Mirage: F
Mirage: U
Mirage: FUFUFU
Mirage: up a $1.45 still YES

All fun except the "Razz" round. I'll be getting beer at that point. Have fun taking my blinds, just play slowly enough that I can get back before Stud starts. :mrgreen:

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