apples to oranges comparison... comparing a golf outing to a poker outing. if you want to rip on bernstein he gives you plenty of other reasons.... but I would suggest not trying to do so involving the charity for cancer kids he chairs.

.. but I would suggest not trying to do so involving the charity for cancer kids he chairs.

It's not really Bernstein's charity. He works with it. I think there are heavier hitters than him on it.

Right, One Step has a mid-market i-bank sponsoring the thing while Mac gets a car dealership. I, like bigfan, think there are easy improvements with their signature event. Again, thursday at 6? Bc you get the room for free or cheap?

You'd have many more participants (players and spectators) on a Fri/Sat night. With Bernstein's sports connections and other One Step people's connections they can't arrange a silent auction? Hello, you have spectators who are doing nothing for hours except drinking and watching boring poker!

What are those? That's a big difference between Mac and bernstein. Mac is a bridge builder. bernstein is a bridge burner. How many sports connections can you really have when you are constantly bum-rapping the athletes? bernstein's connections are mainly the billionaire owners for whom he shills. Personally, I don't really want a guy who makes a living calling people retarded on the radio as the front man for my charity.

Much heavier Hitters than him, this is his and a few others event

Much heavier Hitters than him, this is his and a few others event

What are those?

My Aunt is heavily involved.

I am looking at the One Step Poker tourney and while I dont expect it to be a windfall, but its a seat at the WSOP and then a prize package to everyone at the winning table?

For $275, it just seems a little light?

Now, if thats all Db can muster up, OK, thats understandable, but I have been to a number of these events and there is always silent auctions, regular auctions, prizes for first knockout, or like at Brian Campbells, every table had a Hawk and if you knock them out you got the jersey of that player, right off the back. I think we all know DB can come up with some other items.

I guess for Bernsteins own charity though, he cant make a call to get a few things. However, when he wants seats on the glass or locker room passes for his kids, he knows who to call. or go to a NU game and get jerseys from the AD, etc. He sure knows who to call to take care of himself.

Why not even ask for $400 a seat and say they can sit with him and knock him out?

Just see a guy begging for a charity to make him look good, without putting in the effort he could. Just the time he has taken on radio the past 2 weeks asking people to sign up, he could get creative and sell spots, $500 gets you a seat a promo of your business.

At the same time, if you attend Macs Golf Outing, Mac personally makes sure every single hole is sponsored. There is a prize on each hole. Including Hawks Tickets. There are raffles for other prizes that have been donated. There is a hit the ball into the water, inside the square for a trip to mexico...(Which either Slap Shot Ed or HPK broke)

Good food (Lunch and Dinner), drink and then you get to play golf.

I do think people see a lack of effort on the part of DB and thus the decline in attendance. While you see the effort Mac puts into his event. You can tell the difference and you want to support rhe guy making the effort.

1. He's got the number one radio show in Chicago for men, plugging this tourney for 2 months and he can't sell 130 seats? Pathetic. People do better fundraising on twitter and Facebook campaigns. They don't have the advantage of having tens of thousands of listeners like Bernstein.

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Part of the problem might be that an upscale charity gala in River North might not jibe with the Score's demographic. With the exception of WSCR's airwaves from 1-6, meatballs have a sixth sense for knowing where they're not wanted.

This is a pretty good point.

Make no mistake about it, Dan Bernstein hurts the charity.

Part of the problem might be that an upscale charity gala in River North might not jibe with the Score's demographic. With the exception of WSCR's airwaves from 1-6, meatballs have a sixth sense for knowing where they're not wanted.