Stars CALL For Action powered by PokerStars - Charity Tournament

Stars CALL For Action powered by PokerStars - Charity Tournament
Day: 1
Event Info

Stars CALL For Action powered by PokerStars - Charity Tournament

Final Results
Winner
David Costabile
Winning Hand
44
Prize
$100,000
Event Info
Prize Pool
$450,000
Entries
23

Home Game Buddies Hank Azaria & Andy Bellin Make It Happen

Hank Azaria and Andy Bellin
Hank Azaria and Andy Bellin

The Stars CALL For Action powered by PokerStars - Charity Tournament started as a small idea between Hank Azaria and Andy Bellin, who play in the same home game. Both wanted to use their fame and connections to help during the pandemic, so they reached out to PokerStars. The result is this very tournament chock full of Hollywood celebrities.

“Andy and I had been planning to hold a big charity poker event in New York, the old-fashioned kind where people actually sat around a table and touched cards,” Azaria recently told the PokerStars Blog. “We realized right now it doesn’t really make sense to do an event like that except for COVID relief.

Bellin added: “We’ve both been working really hard to think of how we can lend our various skill sets to helping people. Particularly right now in a time where charitable giving has to be way down.”

Fans no doubt know Azaria from the hundreds of characters he’s voiced on The Simpsons over the past decade, not to mention roles in things like Ray Donovan, Free Agents, and currently Brockmire. Meanwhile, Bellin is a screenwriter (he’s currently writing the Phil Ivey inspired movie The Baccarat Machine) and is a poker veteran having once played for a living and even writing the classic book Poker Nation in 2002.

Click here to read more about Azaria and Bellin on the PokerStars Blog.

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