Upgrade your brains, this one is not functioning well.

Maybe you should get some brains son!

People who worry about African charities ****ing up grain prices should perhaps turn their heads to EU agriculture policies.

Fact. Just graduated... class of 2009, baby!

That's fine... but the event is called Ante Up for Africa, not Ante Up for America.

If you're not interested in participating in an event where it's expected (and only expected, due to legal implications) that money is donated towards a particular cause, you don't need to participate in said event.

Donate on your own to whatever charities you deem fitting.

This should be an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm

edit- im sure everything will work out with the wife, the world needs baby Admos

Oh yeah, I feel sort of bad for not posting something wrt to Admo's family.

Admo, as far as I can tell, you're one of the most likeable people in the poker community. I've always thought highly of most every aspect of yourself that you've displayed - be it the ingenious humour in photoshops or your sense of morals.

I've just been through a successful, but sometimes challenging, pregnancy with my girlfriend, and I know how sometimes everything else just pales in comparison to what goes on with the health of those closest to you.

I hope all goes well with your baby, and that your wife remains in good health.

Chris

not like the US is not in on this lol

True. I just have a feeling the EU is more intricate and ridiculous in this aspect.

try northern hemisphere agricultural policies. EU, Japan and US are all criminal.

an average european cow gets more in subsidies each day than an average african human has to live on.

Your average African wouldn't be as tasty though.

Easiest answer ever:

The Human Fund

Just wanted to highlight a few areas. The part that is red and underlined makes me think that whoever hunter is ( IMO Annie) heard of Admo's plans, as far as talking with annie/UB.

Also if you read this email again just the writing characteristics and general tone reek of annie duke. Things like saying"Like" and knowledge of stuff such as what a "soft field" might be, I doubt an AUFA organizer would use this type of language, or even consider this type of angle.

In summery, I think Annie is hunter. I'd put money on it. I also think she is very upset about his plans to expose UB and her affiliation with them. This explains the uglyness in the tone of that email. All in all VERY unprofessional to say the least.

My bad--It was Pokerati. I was skim reading the RSS feed and just assumed it was Pauly because of the Hunter thing. Sorry for the misinfo.

Just want to also show my support of admo, and encourage him to do what he thinks is right. I happen to agree with the line he is taking and thinks it's very noble.

So,Admo, you seem like a guy who would be undeterred, but if it means anything I just want you to know that I and A LOT of others are really hoping you go through with this as you originally planned before taking 2nd.

glgl

You should read this book.

lots of tilt itt
People who argue over which charity is better than another puts me on life tilt. Most who are contributors have researched enough to feel good about how there money is used and should be allowed to give there.

Two things: I can see why someone like Greenstein would make direct donations to people actually working in Africa, rather than a charity with questionable fund-raising. As for the guy waiting outside of the bathroom for Admo to exit - he got lucky. If that had been the United Way organizer at my work, they'd have followed him into a stall to get their money...

so basically you chose not to get paid in order to start this mess just so you could confront annie duke about her affiliations with UB?

both of you should be ashamed of your plans and actions

As a warning this is a tl;dr post about the specifics of the AUFA charity, skip it if you are not interested.

I'm an accountant that specializes in audits of non-profit organizations. Just thought that I would quickly clear up some of the confusion itt regarding donations to non-profit organizations and specifically Ante Up for Africa.

First of all Ante Up for Africa calls itself a "non-profit organization", however I do not believe they are a registered 501(c)3 organization. 501(c)3 is the IRS tax code for tax-exempt (non-profit) organizations. In order to maintain your 501(c)3 status your organization must file IRS form 990 each year. These forms are a matter of public record. If any of you are interested you can go to www.guidestar.org to search for the 990's of 501(c)3 organizations. I searched for all incarnations of Ante Up For Africa and came up with nothing. Now it is possible they file under a different name so I can not be 100%.

When I googled "Ante Up For Afric 501c3" I came up with this link:

https://ssl1.americanprogress.org/o/..._page_KEY=2117

I am not sure where this link is from as I can't seem to get to it from the AUFA website but as you can see it looks like the rest of the AUFA website. On this link AUFA notes that the donations for the tournament at the WSOP will go towards "Enough" a project of the "Center for American Progress" and will be processed through the Center for American Progress (CAP). This seems to make sense as there is an "Enough" banner on the main page of the AUFA website.

If you go to www.guidestar.org you can access the 990 form for CAP (note that you have to go through a free registration to see these forms). I did this and quickly skimmed the 990 form along with the CAP website (www.americanprogress.org). Here is the Cliff's Notes of all that I saw:

-I'm going to take all political commentary out of this but it is obvious that CAP is a liberal organization which looks to promote a liberal agenda within the US. Again I'm not commenting on whether this is good or bad but it is a fact.

-All of the Executive Committee for CAP was part of the Clinton White House.

-Sen. Tom Daschle is a Distinguished Senior Fellow. Sen. Daschle was a distinguished Democratic Senator from South Dakota for nearly 20 years. He was nominated as President Obama's Secretary for Health and Human Services but declined the nomination when it came out that he owed over $140,000 in unpaid taxes.

-The President and CEO John Podesta earned over $280,000 as part of CAP in 2007.

-Everyone on the Executive Committee earned over $180,000 for their work during 2007.

-At least 3 Senior Fellows (of the many listed on the website) earned over $160,000 in 2007.

-CAP is closely associated with the Center for American Progress Action Fund. As a 501(c)3, CAP has limits on the money it can spend on lobbying efforts. CAPAF does not have these restrictions. During 2007 CAP gave millions of dollars in cash and other services (office space, equipment, etc.) to CAPAF.

There is plenty more and if anyone is really interested you can PM me and I'd be happy to explain the 990 or give additional info.

The main point is that while "Enough" is a project of CAP there is no guarantee that the money donated through AUFA even goes towards the Enough program. Once the money is in CAP's hands it is entirely their decision as to what to use it on.

This is why it is important to research charities before giving any money. As an editorial comment I think that CAP is mostly a liberal think tank that rewards loyal Democrats for time already served in low paying public positions (White House staffers) with high paying do-nothing jobs. I would personally not donate to the Center for American Progress. Also, there are plenty of these types of organizations filled with Republicans so I am not singleing out the Democrats. I would not donate to the Republican versions either.

If AUFA is not filing any paperwork at all with the govt, I dont think there is anything at all keeping the organizers from keeping 99% of the proceeds ("administrative fees") and only passing 1% on to CAP either.

"Legitimate" charities who actually file often have absurdly low passthrough percentages, one which doesn't seems even shadier to me.

Very well done Mr. Sanford.

I don't think many people realize how scummy a good portion of the charity world really is. Your imput is by far the most productive poast ITT.

Do you care to do all that for Refugees International?

Edit: Adding Annie's blog about Ante up for Africa.

Also adding CharityNavigator.com reports on Refugees International, International Rescue Committee which are also mentioned as AUFA charities.

I do not think this is going to end well for AUFA. How hard would it have been to deny "Hunter" had anything to do with their organization, or admit that "Hunter" released that statement without their approval or knowledge and apologize to Admo.

Have they released ANY kind of statement that anyone knows of?

Their silence is at the very least going to give pause when it comes to supporting their charity, and now you have guys like Matthew Sanford (nice post BTW) digging in your ****. How many times have companies/people pissed off the 2+2 community and had it blow up in their face when a simple apology would have ended it.

Again, does anyone know if AUFA has released any kind of statement-there's nothing on Pokerati.

So the money from AUFA is going to go to a project of another charity?. So in effect you're going to pay for the administrative fees of AUFA and then rest of the money goes to CAP which then takes out it's own costs (which you seem to indicate are absurdly high ) and then whatever is left might make it's way to africa?

If so, lol..