Cue/Case/Vegas Trip Raffle to help one of our own

Topher

Just Bangin' 'Em Around
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Last Day for Raffle tickets!!!

We have raised $1240 so far!!! Today is the last day for ticket purchases!!! Drawing is tomorrow night!!!



I got the idea to do this raffle from ratcues.http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=73111&highlight=raffle

I have decided to conduct a raffle to help out one of our AZ members in the pursuit of his dream. On AZ he goes by "poolguppie04" aka Richard "The Kid" Barney, our newly crowned BEF National Champion 19 & Under. Richard is one of the nicest kids I have ever had the pleasure to meet and, as people are starting to discover, one of countries top junior talents. Besides the BEF, he is also ranked 12th on the Tiger Tour, and has won the Supper Billiards Expo Juniors the last 2 years. His win at BEF Nationals has qualified him to represent the United States this November in Willengen, Germany.

Unfortunately, however, the BEF is only able to pay for Richard to go there by himself and as he is only 15 his mother needs be able to accompany him if he is to participate. As all of us here who support him locally are finding out it is prohibitively expensive to arrange travel with the little time he and his mother have been given. Even with the BEF paying for Richard's airfaire and hotel stay the costs are looking to be over $3000.

It is to help offset some of this expense that I have arranged the donation of three items cue, a case, and a 3 day/2 night stay in Las Vegas which includes a $500 voucher to use at the hotel to raffle off here on AZ (and locally as well). AZ's own member Joe from Bamacues, who knows Richard and I well, has been nice enough to donate a brand new Meucci Bandito cue (see info below). Another local cue smith Gayle Cook has donated a brand new Talisman 3x5 leather case (again, see below), and the Munson Family, who own Hagerstown Billiards & Cafe (our home room) have donated the Vegas stay. My thanks to all of them. The lucky winning ticket holder will take home all three items together. This is one amazing package!

This is how I plan to make sure everything is kept very clear and on the up and up for everyone. I am offering 3 chances for $5, 7 chances for $10, and 20 chances for $20 dollars. Anyone who would like tickets from AZ can post a reply here on the thread as to how many chances they would like, this way everyone can see how much money has been donated. I will then pm each person with a paypal adress to forward funds to, and when received I will physically fill out raffle tickets in their name and post the numbers they received back here on AZ. Since this raffle is also being conducted locally at the pool hall I will also post ticket numbers sold that way as well (again to keep everything on the up and up). I am starting ticket sales today with this posting and will end ticket purchases at 5:00pm on October 23, 2007. That evening (time to be determined and posted) I will have a video taken of the actual drawing and check presentation to Richard and his mom, which I will immediately post on youtube with links here on AZ so that everyone can see the event for themselves. The package will be sent out the very next day to the lucky winner.

Please know that every penny we raise will go commpletely to Richard and his mom with no personal gain for myself or anyone else. I will not be elligible to win the prize package.

For myself and everyone here in Hagerstown who supports Richard thanks in advance for your support. If anyone has any questions please pm me and I will give you my phone number so you may get answers from me directly.


Link to view cue:
http://www.meuccicues.com/bandito-black.htm

Link to view case:
http://www.talismanbilliards.com/BrownTribal.htm

Links to Vegas Stay info:
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q86/tophernum1/vegasstay1.jpg

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q86/tophernum1/vegasstay2.jpg
 
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What an excellent idea and a great way for AZ'ers to show thier support for one of our own, put me in for $10.00.
 
Raffle

Put me down for 20 and let me know how/where you want me to send the money.
 
Thank you so much!!!

What a great show of support to start things off! I was so surprised to wake up today having allready received pledges for over $100. I have always felt this is a great community of people, and this just proves it. Everyone who has posted prior to this has been sent the paypal information, and three so far have transferred funds already and their ticket numbers are listed below. As time passes I belive I will have to come up with a spreadsheet to more easily display the donations and ticket numbers, but for the moment I will just post them here.

Good luck again to everyone!

Ticket Number So Far:

JimS 0007269-0007288

MikeM 0007289-0007308

rayjay 0007309-0007315
 
Get off your wallets!!!

Folks,

The only way we are going to make sure that this game that we all love so much is around for another generation is to get young blood involved. When one of them has success like Richard has, we need to show support. We need to help this young man out. Just skip a couple of brewskies at league this week and buy a couple of tickets with the money.

I have donated a brand new Meucci for auction, and we also have a Talisman case and a Vegas trip in the auction. We need to make some money so that Richard can represent all of us in Germany at the worlds.

Richard is a great young man and a fantastic pool player. I am sure that a few of you have had the pleasure of playing him on the Tiger Planet Pool Tour. He is no walk in the park. He is a legitimate threat to win at World, but he needs our help.

Dig in and toss a couple of bucks to "The Kid".

Thanks,
Joe
 
The new ticket list

Thank you to everyone who made the first day so exciting. We raised $225 with another $100 awaiting paypal transfer. I am just blown away by the generosity. Let's keep it going!

The list for 9/18/25 accounting for all payments received or purchased at the pool hall:

JimS 0007269 -0007288
MikeM 0007289 -0007308
rayjay 0007309 -0007315
Double-Dave 0007481 -0007487
ramw5p 0007488 -000794
M. McGowan 0007478 -0007480
M. Katzenberger 0007458 -0007477
J. Witt 0007368 -0007387
J. Owens 0007431 -0007457
B. Hurley 0007361 -0007367
R. Bowers 0007394 -0007396
D. Wagner 0007388 -0007390
J. Pepple 0007404 -0007406
E. Neff 0007407 -0007413
D. Thomas 0007414 -0007420
D. Harnish 0007397 -0007403
P. Aaron 0007354 -0007360
P. Baker 0007391 -0007393
J. Jacobson 0007428 -0007430
Mr. Munson 0007421 -0007427
 
Ticket numbers for 9/19

Here are the ticket numbers for all of the ticket purchases for yesterday. We have raised another $80 bringing our total to $300. Thanks again everyone!

breaktime2 0007495 -0007451
frankncali 0007542 -0007548
Robertno1pool 0007549 -0007568
 
Back to the top for a good cause.

Thanks again to everyone who has donated to the raffle so far. Let's keep it going! Good luck to everyone!
 
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