A month after vowing not to gamble for a year, after being sued by a Las Vegas Casino for failure to repay $400,000 in loans and markers, Charles Barkley is scheduled to play in a celebrity poker tournament at the 2008 World Series of Poker on July 2...
Players in the tournament put up $5,000 to play, and are asked to donate at least half their winnings to "Ante Up for Africa" to bring awareness for the crisis in the
Darfur region of Sudan.