Comments on: Purposeinc 2007 SEO Poker Tournament Begin Here

By: SnowBall

SnowBall — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:13:51 +0000

@bwnbwn: you and dk both have big hearts. To go visit a prison every single week is beautiful. And that's amazing that you are able to go play poker for these charities after having an addiction. Very strong of you. And dk, I really love the organized way you set all of this up. Just a nice list of links of everything you need to know.

By: grayreign

grayreign — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:25:59 +0000

So many links. The winners story is exciting. Quiet, not arrogant. Just the facts with a happy tinge.

Seems the poker event went off just fine. Money for charity, and space to network. Impressive feat.

By: Patience

Patience — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:08:14 +0000

What they do at Criminon is great. Prisons were never meant to be a place to be punished in thier own right, they were meant has holding places for criminals until they recieved punishment (work yard, torture, death, fine, ect.) or until they had some way of rehabilitating themselves. Now we throw people in vast prison’s for punishment and rehablitation but, between this not being an effective punishment (people keep going back in) and the prison system not having the funds (to many people in jail for trivial things) to rehabilitate the inmates, many of them cycle through over and over. This leads to a never ending cycle of wasted resources and an ever increasing lack of recourses to acomplish return provention (rehablitation, education, therapy and training). Only good things can come from endeavors like Criminon’s.

By: dk

dk — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:16:04 +0000

Anthony,
Stay posted here for details about sponsoring coming up.
I am also going to put you on my mailing list for the poker tournament, and my our other upcoming event. If you prefer not to be on the mailing list, just send me an e-mail.
Much Love,
dk

By: Anthony a.k.a. OldSchoolSEO

Anthony a.k.a. OldSchoolSEO — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:10:21 +0000

Keep me in mind for the next one. I’d love to play and possibly assist in finding sponsors.

Anthony
http://www.OldSchoolSEO.com

By: dk

dk — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:38:03 +0000

bwnbwn,
I would love to hear the story.
If you win, (which I hope you do!) you can just have the check made out to my company and I will put it in the pot for the charities, or to any one of the charities directly and I would be more than happy to mail it.

By: bwnbwn

bwnbwn — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:26:13 +0000

dk there is an old saying somewhere in a Book “Don’t lay up Treasures were moths can eat it and robbers can steal, lay them up were no man can touch them…” or close to this anyway. It is tough sometimes to do but I have been doing it now going on 7 years.

I see this event as the same and I am very well aware of the time it is chewing up getting this organized. You have a big heart dk.

Thank you for this event it will be my only playing I do there as I was once addicted to the game among other things but a Miracle happened. I don’t gamble anymore as to the reason I will give my winnings back.

Maybe we can chat on this during the game.
bwnbwn

By: dk

dk — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:32:05 +0000

bwnbwn

That is fricken awesome that you do that EVERY week! That is a huge donation of your time.

By: bwnbwn

bwnbwn — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:47:44 +0000

dk I will donate the money this tournment generates to a charity you have chosen. Not sure the one maybe all of them.

I just learned about the prision one reading the blog, that is new to me.

I visit a prision for troubled young men every Thursday and see the need for something like this there. Anyway I plan of donating my winnings to a charity…

bwnbwn

By: orie

orie — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:41:55 +0000

I think it is a great idea to spread the money over a number of charities. It is odd how people react to anyone just picking one charity to support, but this is a great way to use the money. The Sudan stuck in my head because of an NBA player named Manute Bol. He was the son of a Sudanese tribal chief and played in the NBA for about 10 seasons. He was the second tallest man to ever play in the NBA at 7′7″. The reason I thought about him is that he spent ever cent he made in his time in the NBA to help stop the violence in his Sudanese homeland (an estimated 5 million dollars). Now there is some charity.