Intercasino
deserves a hearty round of applause for stepping up to the plate and donating $111,000 to Unicef's Children's relief fund for the tsunami tragedy.
Last January brought on one of the most devastating human tragedies that we have witnessed - and Ted Loh from
Got2bet and I wondered if there was something that we could do. We know a lot of people in casino-land - a lot of good people, and we thought that there must be something we could do to get these people motivated to donate some cash towards the victims of this horrible mess. We decided to auction off a banner spot on each of our main index pages, and the top bidder would receive that spot for a full year. 100% of the bidded amount would go to Tsunami relief.
I purchased and installed some auction software, and away it went - bidding was fierce and with about two seconds to spare - Intercasino nabbed the top bid - $111,000 which in it's entirety went to Tsunami relief. At last year's ICE, Peter Marcus - Intercasino's spokesman, presented both Ted Loh and I the check for $111,000 which went into the mail that day to Tsunami relief. You can check this out
here.
Not to overlook the other bidders who stepped up to the plate as well. Here are the runner ups:
iGlobalmedia
Stanley Acropolis
The Virtual Casino Group
VipCasino
KingSolomons
32Red
Crystal Palace
Winward Casino
Poker.com
And besides these casinos, many others stepped up to the plate on their own, the Sunny Group, Winward Casino, the Vegas Partner Group, Trident Lounge, and a slew of others. Some of their donation campaigns are archive in our
News - December 2004 and
January 2005
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