Poker Tournament to Benefit Colon Cancer Patients

#4 is in the books.

2011-03-07T11:15:00.000-08:00

Another successful Charity tournament! We had 96 players and 27 rebuys. After all was said and done we raised right at $6700 for the Figgtree Foundation.

Thank you to everyone that played, donated, or even pimped the tournament for us.

I'll have pictures up soon so check back later this week.

2011 Charity Poker Tournamament Registration Information

2011-01-18T07:30:00.000-08:00

Click on the flyer for a bigger view, or print out.
You can also register online by clicking here.

Save the Date: SATURDAY, MARCH 5TH, 2011

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It's time for another AWESOME poker tournament!

Plan on being there. All money raised goes directly to patients with Colon Cancer.

We are looking for prize donations also. We accept poker related stuff, cash, and online poker funds (fulltilt money, pokerstars money, or bodog), or anything else you think would be a nice prize to get. Every single prize we give out is donated, so any bit you give is appreciated.

Thanks for your consideration.

2010-03-02T12:19:00.001-08:00

Wanted to reach out to you all and on behalf of the Figg Tree Foundation say thank you for supporting the recent poker event this past weekend. We are still tallying up final totals but forecast that the event will end up raising about $8,500. Thank you to everyone who came out to support our event as funds raised will go back to the patient.

The volunteer team did a great job that evening and James and Kelly once again did a great job running the event. We hope to see most of you at more of our events, our next event is coming up on May 1st our 7th Annual Golf Tournament at Incline Village.

We hope you enjoyed yourself and look forward to seeing you at more events in the future!

Tammy & Bryan Figg

Co-Founders Figg Tree Foundation
www.figgtree.com
"Get Your Rear in the Clear"

Photos 2010 #2

2010-03-02T10:09:00.000-08:00

Photos 2010 #1

2010-03-02T08:39:00.000-08:00

Another HUGE success!

2010-03-01T09:07:00.000-08:00

Thank you to everyone who participated. I will get up the final rankings, the final numbers on how much we raised, and a ton of pictures by Wednesday. We had 123 players, shattering last year's number of 79. Here is your first place winner, Jim McWilliams:

2nd place went to Joe Cleaveland:

3rd place went to Jeffrey Schroth

Final 6 were (from left) Bill Loynd, Joe Cleaveland, Jim McWilliams, Brent Jasper, John Loveless, Brian Hawkins was dealing, and Jeffrey Schroth.

Steve Stefko (pictured on the right) made the final table but was knocked out 7th.

Scott Wallace made the final table, but never actually sat at it as he was knocked out on the same hand as the 9th place player.

Thanks again, and please plan to play again next year.

Here are some of the prizes for 2010

2010-02-11T08:33:00.001-08:00

This year we have:
*2 visa check cards
*Pokerstars and Fulltilt cash
*Free access to poker training videos
*more poker hats, tshirts and hoodies
*and much much more
You can still register for $20 less than the cost at the door CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

Print to register

2010-01-09T15:49:00.000-08:00

You can click the flyer and print to register. Or you may resgister online at this website.

Save the date: SATURDAY, FEB 27th, 2010

2009-11-19T06:50:00.000-08:00

Plan on being there. All money raised goes directly to patients with Colon Cancer.

We are looking for prize donations also. We accept poker related stuff, cash, and online poker funds (fulltilt money, pokerstars money, or bodog), or anything else you think would be a nice prize to get. Every single prize we give out is donated, so any bit you give is appreciated.

Thanks for your consideration.

The tournament was a huge success!

2009-03-01T17:04:00.000-08:00

Just thought I would throw up a quick post with some pictures. I'll get more up or linked on here later in the week. The final numbers are not in yet, but the rumor last night was that we raised over $5,000 after expenses to help the charity.

The prizes were all laid out. We had right at $4,000 in donated prizes. THANK YOU to everyone who donated. We gave something to everyone that busted out (keychains for the first ones out). We started the real prizes at 35th place.

79 players bought in. We had 1 full table more than last year. THANK YOU EVERYONE who played. It went smoother than I expected, in large part because of the Tournament Director software. I let it reassign player seating and it was perfect. It was so smooth, I almost felt like I could be playing while running it. Almost...

The final tabe was played on my table I brought from home. It allowed us to get 8 players and a dealer seated. Thanks to Anna Willis for dealing the final table (she is in the green shirt).

8th place was $100 fulltilt cash and a Pokerroad shirt. It went to Mike Loynd

7th place was an Apple Itouch. Joe Allen wins it.

6th place was another Golf package and it went to Melissa Roshek.

5th place was a Cordless Milwaukee Drill and Hackzall and it went to Daryl Bradshaw.

4th place was a prize package for him and her which included everything on the poker table (and the fold out table top). It went to Andrew Brown.

3rd place and the Golf Prize package goes to Thomas Cronin.

Ryan Roshek takes 2nd place and a 32" TV

1st place goes to Jeff Wade. He missed the first hour because of getting out of work late. It obviously didn't hurt him. Congratulations Jeff. 1st was an $800 Visa Check Card.

Some of the prizes

2009-02-16T09:22:00.001-08:00

Here are some of the prizes for the tournament on February 28th.

To register by credit card go here: http://www.figgtree.com/?page_id=19

Charity Tournament Feb 28th, 2009 in Saint Louis

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Click form, PRINT and Mail in with payment!

$800 Visa Check Card Guaranteed to 1st place.

Save the date: SATURDAY, FEB 28th, 2009

2009-01-20T10:55:00.000-08:00

Our next charity tournament will be Saturday, February 28th. We have already secured some great prizes, including an $800 Visa Check Card to First Place.

But, we are still in need of prizes. Any monetary or prizes donated would be greatly appreciated. All the money raised will go directly to Colon Cancer Patients. For more information, go to http://www.figgtree.com/ .

You may contact the foundation directly, or leave a post here and I will contact you. Or you may contact me at broncohawk7 at yahoo dot com.

Thanks for considering this.

Jamyhawk

COMING SOON......

2008-12-30T06:41:00.000-08:00

We are working on another charity tournament to benefit Colon Cancer Patients. The date is still to be determined but will be around the last week of February 2009.

We need donations as prizes. These can be money, online poker funds, hats, shirts, electronics, books, or anything else that we could give away as a prize. These tournaments are only a success because of the donations we get as prizes. The better the donations, the better the prizes, the more people we can entice into playing.

Thank you in advance for considering a donation.

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2008-12-26T07:21:00.000-08:00

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Photos from latest charity tournament

2008-03-24T12:37:00.001-07:00

And the winners are:

1st Place (Nathan Goff)

2nd Place

3rd Place (Brian Figg)

4th Place (James Hawkins)

5th place (Steve O'Connell)

6th Place

7th Place

8th Place

The final table

Tammy Figg in the center

Next Poker Tournament is March 22nd, 2008

2008-03-05T12:37:00.001-08:00

This tournament benefits a specific colon cancer patient: Jason Salas. Come out and play, donate, or just pass this along. Put on by the Family and Friends of Jason Salas. Thank you.

We have a WINNER!

2008-02-25T07:10:00.000-08:00

First of all: thank you to everyone who played. Your generosity was greatly appreciated!

We ended up having 71 players playing in the tournament (there were a few more that had pre-paid but did not show). We did 9 tables of 8. This was my first tournament running more than 4 tables, and I'm happy to say: everyone was pleased with how it ran.

With 71 playing, we had enough prizes to give to the top 29. THANK YOU to everyone that donated prizes. We paid out the top 40% of the players seated! What a great response we got.

The 1st place winner of an $800 Visa Check Card was Steven Turnage. He is a cousin of the Figg Tree Foundation Founders and drove in from Kansas City specifically to play in this tournament. He was so excited after winning. And rightfully so since he beat out 70 others to finish in 1st place. He was shortstacked going into the final 3 but managed to take it all down and finish 1st. Congratulations Steven!

The 2nd place winner of a 26" HDTV was Gary Batteiger(on the left with Me on the right). I helped him carry it to his car where he informed me that he has never played in a big tournament like this and has really only played Texas Hold'em a couple of times before. He was only playing since the money went to a good cause and didn't expect to do so well. Congratulations Gary!

Congratulations to all the rest of the players. I think everyone was very pleased with the prizes they received. And we had some really good ones for everyone at the final table.

With so many fantastic prizes donated, we were able to reward a lot of people. And then we saw a lot of prize swapping and selling. Some people were selling their prizes and then donated the cash back to the Figg Tree. Everyone was so generous all evening. One person even whipped out a $100 bill at the end of the evening and donated it for the charity. What a great win for the charity! After all the costs of running the tournament, we raised right at $3,000 for colon cancer patients. What a SUCCESS!

Thank you to the players and thank you to the prize donors. What a great response we had! We are already looking forward to the next one. We hope you can be there.

Here are some more pictures:

Mike takes 3rd place and gets the "guys night out" package.

Bryan Figg wins the $100 FTP Cash

The final table. Thank you to Sean Christy (holding the card) who dealt the final table for us.

Prize table. This was only a portion of the prizes we gave away...

FEBRUARY 23rd, 2008 in Saint Louis, Missouri

2008-01-17T09:15:00.000-08:00