Chicago’s authorities have made many attempts to run various legitimate card games, including Texas Holdem poker tournaments for charity purposes. The upcoming event that will definitely make a big splash in mass media will take place on April 4th and attract a lot of world famous poker pros, including winners of WPT.

Most of such shows, including Main Event Charity Poker’s Windy City Poker Championship, which is already airing at Comcast Sports Net are done in ESPN style, which means that they usually focus on the final table, showing just the most interesting situations of intermediate games. These shows are pretty entertaining, but its significant educational value also is another attraction that draws hundreds of Texas Holdem players to their TVs.

TJ Cloutier, who won 2nd place in the WSOP two times and won six other World Series of Poker events will be heading the event. Besides of this, many other sharks, such as the former cop and World Poker Tour winner Rick Fuller and Crispin Leyser, a scandalous WSOP player, will participate in the tournament.

The 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event accumulated the largest prize pool in the entire history of card games in general and poker tournaments in particular. Jamie Gold, the winner of the 2006 WSOP was supposed to get the entire $12,000,000, but it appeared that the Hollywood agent had promised half of his tournament winnings to Crispin Leyser before the beginning of the tournament. Crispin Leyser sued Jamie Gold and won the trial, although the amount of his claim was not disclosed.

Rumors swirling that Crispin Layser’s wife Jules will also participate in the tournament together with some other famous women that played Texas Holdem in many popular events. The buy-ins for charity poker tournaments are usually low, so there are pretty affordable for all, which draws additional money.

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