Former Senator Alfonse D’Amato, Chairman of the Poke Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with more than a million members, applauded Poker Stars, Cake Poker and Full Tilt Poker for providing an easy way for poker players all over the world to make contributions towards relief efforts in Haiti after the devastating earthquake.

Special pages were set up on the various sites to enable players to make donations easily to the Haiti relief efforts and players on all three sites are able to transfer funds quickly and easily direct from their online accounts on those sites to a Haiti Fund. Poker Stars, Cake Poker as well as Full Tilt Poker have promised to match each donation made, dollar for dollar.

To date there has been over $760,000 donated by more than 50,000 players resulting in donations by the online poker community exceeding an amount $1.5 million in view of the dollar for dollar match.

D’Amato, added that he is proud to be part of the community after seeing the generosity that the online poker players are showing towards the devastation in Haiti.

Cake Poker and Full Tilt are offering online tournaments and will be donating all registration fees to the Red Cross, UNICEF or Doctors Without Borders.

Another leading online poker room, Titan Poker, is hosting a $10 buy-in event on January 31st and will be donating all proceeds to Red Cross relief efforts in Haiti. They will match the total amount of buy-ins made at this event. A little bit different is the donation offer of Pacific Poker. They host four different freeroll tournaments and donate $1 for each player that registers for one of these tournament.

Online players can also donate directly to the Red Cross without physically playing in the tournament by buying in directly to “no play” tournaments which can already be found in the Titan Poker lobby under the “Aid for Haiti” tab.