The Bally’s Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas will host the latest edition of «Poker for Hope» a tournament that will help TIA’S HOPE. This year the host of the event will be Antonio Esfandiari an icon of the city and poker.

The tournament will be played March 5 with a $500 buy-in with a $60,000 prizepool. The winner will take home some cash and a gold bracelet donated by Niv Karat. The first 175 players to register will get a ticket to ABSINTHE, one of the best shows in town.

Many professional poker players will be there and will have special bounties. Players such as Yevgeniy Timoshenko , Bobby Baldwin , Jamie Gold , Michael Mizrachi , Scotty Nguyen , Maria Ho  and Melanie Weisner  have confirmed. Actor Mark Wahlberg will be at the event through his restaurant Wahlburguers.