St. Jude Against All Odds” golf and poker tournament planned on May 20-21
for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®
Registration is now open for the St. Jude Against All Odds golf and poker tournament on May 20-21 in Las Vegas for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®.
This is the first year the poker tournament has expanded to include a 144-person golf tournament at Siena Golf Club on Friday, May 20, to kick off the weekend festivities. A continental breakfast and lunch will be served to guests registered to hit the links. The following Saturday, May 21, guests will meet at the Red Rock Casino Resort and Spa for a turbo-style poker tournament that offers participants the chance to win a seat to the 2022 World Series of Poker Main Event in July. Additionally, there will be a cocktail hour, dinner and live entertainment to help raise awareness and support for lifesaving mission of St. Jude: Finding cures. Saving children.®
This year’s event sponsors include Charity Series of Poker, Golf Venture, Johnson Brothers of Nevada and SKC Group. Event founder Daniel Negreanu, a six-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, is co-chairing this event with Matthew Stout, President and Founder of the Charity Series of Poker.
“To say we’re excited to return to live in-person events like St. Jude Against All Odds would be a vast understatement,” said Stout. “We’re thankful for our sponsors and pleased to expand our event with the addition of the golf tournament as yet another way we can have fun with purpose for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.”
St. Jude is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Funds generated through events like this help fund the current $11.5 billion, six-year St. Jude strategic plan, which includes tripling its global investment to impact more of the 400,000 kids around the world with cancer each year.
Weekend packages start at $300. Visit stjude.org/lvpoker to register to attend and learn more about sponsorships and other ways to get involved.
About St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Its purpose is clear: Finding cures. Saving children.® It is the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center devoted solely to children. Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20% to more than 80% since the hospital opened in 1962. St. Jude won’t stop until no child dies from cancer. St. Jude shares the breakthroughs it makes, and every child saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists worldwide can use that knowledge to save thousands more children. Because of generous donors, families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food, so they can focus on helping their child live. Visit St. Jude Inspire to discover powerful St. Jude stories of hope, strength, love and kindness. Join the St. Jude mission by visiting stjude.org, liking St. Jude on Facebook, following St. Jude on Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok, and subscribing to its YouTube channel.
Acerca de St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital lidera los esfuerzos a nivel mundial para entender, tratar y vencer el cáncer infantil y otras enfermedades pediátricas que amenazan la vida. Nuestro propósito es claro: Descubrir las curas que salvan a los niños. St. Jude es el único Centro Integral de Cáncer designado por el Instituto Nacional del Cáncer dedicado exclusivamente a los niños. Desde su inauguración en 1962, los tratamientos desarrollados en St. Jude han ayudado a incrementar la tasa de supervivencia del cáncer infantil de un 20% a más de un 80%. St. Jude no descansará hasta que ningún niño muera de cáncer. Los descubrimientos desarrollados en St. Jude son compartidos libremente, y de esta forma cada niño salvado en St. Jude significa que médicos y científicos alrededor del mundo pueden utilizar ese conocimiento para salvar a miles de niños más. Las familias nunca reciben una factura de St. Jude por tratamiento, transporte, hospedaje ni alimentación – para que así puedan enfocarse en ayudar a sus hijos a vivir. Visite St. Jude Inspire para descubrir conmovedoras historias llenas de esperanza, fortaleza, amor y generosidad sobre St. Jude. Únase a la misión de St. Jude visitando stjude.org, dándole ‘me gusta’ a St. Jude en Facebook, siguiendo a St. Jude en Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn y TikTok, y suscribiéndose a su canal de YouTube.