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Corum, poker pros, celebs 'Ante Up for Africa'

Watch brand awards World Series of Poker winner with Romvlvs timepiece

July 18, 2008

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Las Vegas—A bevy of celebrities and professional poker players gathered in Las Vegas earlier this month for the second annual "Ante Up for Africa," a Texas Hold'em charity game held to raise money for victims of the crisis in Sudan's Darfur region.

The event was founded last year by poker pro Annie Duke, actor/director Don Cheadle and Norman Epstein with the hope of raising awareness of the humanitarian disaster that still continues in Darfur today.

To take part in the game, attendees paid a $5,000 buy-in. The winner, pro poker player John Hennigan of Philadelphia, won $136,860 and donated it all back to charity.

Hennigan didn't go home empty-handed though: Corum, the official timepiece and bracelet supplier for the World Series of Poker, presented him with a specially engraved Corum "Romvlvs" timepiece.
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