I’ve been meaning to make a post following up on the Pay It Forward project I started last Christmas for a long time now.. For those who haven’t been following my blog since then, last Christmas I decided to play poker out in below freezing temperatures alongside homeless people to raise money for them.
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It turns out that Dusty's progress through life was hardly uneventful. A heart attack at a surprisingly young age and his father's inability to pay him a wage (he was working for the family business) whilst he recovered could have left him homeless.
Instead of giving up he deposited all his money and ran it up to months of rent and never looked back. Those tough times no doubt helped drive him to be one of the greatest of all time and someone who will be a hero to everyone except the fools on 2+2 who post jealously every time news comes out about Dusty.
The story ends very happily. Leatherass is a wealthy family man who continues to enjoy life and the game and has given something back to the world. He's changed 3 people's lives through his charity project. That's something not many poker players can say and mean it in a good way. Congratulations Dusty.
I could not possibly be more proud to report that I have gotten a chance to meet the people that my poker profits were able to help out and ALL 3 of them are in jobs that they are loving and their employers are impressed, with a couple of them even getting promotions!! They are all about to be on their own with the prepaid rent expiring and all of them will remain in those homes as self sufficient, valuable members of the community.
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