Sport celebrities will lay their cards on the table at a charity poker night in North Geelong next month.
Shane Warne, Billy Brownless, Brian Taylor and Brendan Fevola are scheduled to attend Geelong’s All In For Charity at the Sphinx Hotel on 11 May.
The event will raise money for the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF).
Australian poker champion Joe Hachem’s management group has organised the “celebrity fund-raising poker night” patterned on the internationally successful Texas Holdem’ format.
The Hachem version was becoming “one Melbourne’s most sought after and high-profiled social fund-raisers”, his company said.
The company sought support from Geelong through either donations of fund-raising items or buying tables of 10 or tickets for the Sphinx night.
Patrons would vie for prizes worth over $50,000, the company said.
The proceeds from the Geelong poker would help NBCF “realise its vision of zero deaths from breast cancer by 2030”.
Breast cancer remains one of the most commonly diagnosed cancer among Australian women, with 42 diagnosed daily.
NBCF is Australia’s leading community-supported organisation dedicated to funding research into the prevention, detection and treatment of breast cancer but receives no government funding.
More information about the Sphinx event is available at hachemgroup.com.au.
