Matt Damon and Ben Affleck Ante Up For Africa

My favorite celebrity dads, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, headed to Las Vegas on Thursday to participate in the third annual Ante Up for Africa poker tournament. The charity, co-founded by Don Cheadle with help from the World Series of Poker , or WSOP, has raised $2.1 million for Darfur up until this year. Last week’s tournament was a huge success and is expected to have raised a large amount of money for the war-torn nation. It was carried by ESPN this year, which should definitely help awareness: Thursday was our 3rd annual Ante Up for Africa tournament at the World Series of Poker and it was a huge success. This year we had 138 players and we had a huge poker pro presence with Jennifer Harman, Chris Ferguson, Erik Seidel, Rafe Furst, John Hennigan and Phil Gordon all making the final table. We also had a bigger celebrity... [read full story]                    

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