Doug Polk & Andrew Barber donating WSOP moolah in different ways

Andrew Barber and Doug Polk find two very different ways to give their money away during the 48th Annual World Series of Poker.

It’s vogue in poker parlance to donate a percentage of your winnings; not a Madonna-like strike a pose Vogue, but a philanthropic poker love vogue.

There was a time when Barry Greenstein was the lone Robin Hood of Poker. Today, there are more Merry Men and Maid Marions than you can shake a shakey thing at. And what better time than to demonstrate your generosity than during the annual poker playing convention that is the World Series of Poker.

Raising for Effective Giving (REG) has to take some credit for this latest craze. The effective altruists began life with Philipp Gruissem, Liv Boeree, and Igor Kurganov on the cover of that particular magazine. Then, as the padlock came off the 48th Annual WSOP, eight more players joined them to help promote the need to reduce suffering in the world: Martin Jacobson, Erik Seidel, Cate Hall, Justin Bonomo, George Danzer, Christopher George, and John Juanda.