Pocket 5’s Supports Obama

12 Feb, 2008 Poker Talk, Randomness, Tournaments

After spending the evening catching up on some poker talk in the popular online poker community, Pocket 5’s, I went into the Off Topic section and found a lot of interest in the US Presidential Race. Many of the treads that caught my attention had titles like: “Why Obama will win the primary easily” and “Barack Obama will fight for you” and “So I signed up on Obama’s Website” There were many more along those lines posted just today.

The threads discuss everything from spam generated from email lists being sold associated with the candidate’s site to how he is taking the steam out of the Clinton Machine. It is obvious that the Poker Players are watching this election very closely.

The most impressive line of discussion includes one players fund raising efforts for Barack Obama. Jon Wiesman, aka Underdog, has organized some online poker tournaments specifically for Pocket 5’s players. Each one is a 50/50 win. The tournament champ will donate 50% of the cash pot to the Obama camaign for President of the United States. This movement has successfully raised more than 100 dollars for the first tournament with double that for tomorrow’s event. As part of the tournament promotions, he is also accepting straight donations for the campaign. With the second Poker Stars Tournament for Obama set to get underway tomorrow, he has already raised 150 USD in straight donations.

Donations can be made here.

It appears that the poker player’s canididate is Barack Obama.