The idea of it throws the whole concept of poker on its ear; funny thing is, it looks dashing that way. Playing online casino games merely to give your takings away to charity is not without precedent.

Before online casino game rooms taken the practice, Barry Greenstein was making a name for himself doing just that: raking in the pots in mostly Texas hold'em poker games and distributing the money to places like Children Incorporated, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, ILoveSchools. com, Next month of Dimes, 999 for Kids, and the Golden Angels for Olive Crest. Well, now you too can be an online casino game philanthropist, with the help of many of your (and our) favorite online casino game rooms.

Maybe the most publicized online casino game community centre that gives to aid organizations is Golden Palace Online Casino, but their style of charitable giving is to bid extraordinary amounts on deals for rare oddities of questionable value with the proceeds all going to charity. But this doesn't inspire you, as a player, to be dealing with or the object of the giving. That your online casino game room donates to charity is nice, yes. But how would you like to as the one, with your online casino game room's help, that makes the difference?

Hollywood Poker is after that status, however, aiming to become the number one poker online room associated with charitable giving. In reaction to the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Katrina, Hollywood Poker, in December of 2005, published an poker online tournament whereby they matched donor-player's entry fees dollar for dollar, with all proceeds (the full $47, 950) provided to the American Red Cross and the International Hospital for Children.

Hollywood Poker also published a land-based tournament benefiting MADD (Mothers Against Used Driving) in which 170 players participated in raising $69, 000. This amounted to 10% of the buy-ins and re-buys.

Ultimate Bet hosts many online casino games for charity; even poker online too. Though 100% of the proceeds go to charity, the winner of each tournament does get something worthwhile besides that special feeling inside that comes from doing good for someone else: most recently, that took the shape of an Apple iphone Nano. In that particular Pro Bounty Charity Tournament, the participant who knocked out poker celebrity Annie Duke also got an Apple iphone Nano. joker You can count on Ultimate Bet to keep coming up with innovative ways to reward you for your goodwill.

Bodog is another online casino game community centre that's been hosting charitable tournaments for years, with donations to (among others): the Fisher House Foundation, The L. A. Laker's Youth Foundation, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, the Sean McCauley Hope Foundation for Pediatric Cancer, the Humane Society, and the Animal Avengers Organization. As of this writing, Bodog's latest charitable event will be a grand-scale Casino Royale at a land-based location to get money for Art of Elysium, a charity that brings creativity and art into the lives of ill and underprivileged children.

Royal Vegas Online Casino and Poker Room allows players to set up and host their own charitable online casino games for the charity or aid organizations of your choice. They'll help you promote the tournament and even match a percentage of the funds you raise (based also on the number of players that participate), so your overall donation will be even larger. Royal Vegas, in addition, also hosts the college Poker Title, where the players are young people and the prizes are cash scholarships or school funding to college.