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Old 10-26-2007, 05:56 PM
Alobar Alobar is offline
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Default Pennies for charity, a suggestion to all the sites

So I was thinking earlier about the cent remainders in our accounts that we cant cash out. I imagine for most sites this adds up to to a decent chunk of change. Take party poker for the best example, How many hundreds of thousands (million+ ?) of abandoned accounts do they have with anywhere between .01 and .99 cents in them, just from American accounts alone. Some simple math shows its not an insignificant sum. How many does a site like Stars who has been around forever have? People who played, busted out and never came back but still have a .72 balance?

I was thinking it would be nice if a site came forward and offered the option during cash out to have the cent balance be given to charity, or just the option to simply cashout your cents to charity. They could just move it over to some account until it become some sum worthy of donation and then donate it. So if youve got $800.67 in your account and decide to cash out $400 you could hit a little check box and that cash that .67 out to charity.

I dont see how that would be hard to implement and would do a lot of good, it would also be very good PR. Imagine logging into stars and the little pop up that talks about whatever EPT seat they are giving away, also mentions how their players have donated over half a million dollars to charity.
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