Poker writer, Robbie Strazynski, talks to Lee Davy about his 2017 goal to raise money for the Kids Kicking Cancer charity by creating a personal challenge to run 1,000km in 2017.

Poker, more than any other game or sport in the world, has done so much to help reduce suffering in the world via its various philanthropic endeavours. It started out with brands such as the World Poker Tour (WPT), World Series of Poker (WSOP), and PokerStars. It spread to the players and the formation of Raising For Effective Giving (REG) and Charity Series of Poker (CSOP). And now it’s the turn of the poker media.

Robbie Strazynski from CardPlayer Lifestyle and Poker Update fame, has jumped on the charity choo-choo train to raise a few bucks for Kids Kicking Cancer in his 1,000km Charity Poker Challenge ‘Running Well’, and I caught up with him to ask him where this all began?

What are your earliest memories of ‘charity’?