Lee Davy covers three stories with a PokerStars theme as Vanessa Selbst organizes the Blinds for Justice charity event in New York, PokerStars reveal they raised over half a million dollars for the Nepal Earthquake fund, and Phil Ivey wins the biggest pot of the year on PokerStars.

Three PokerStars themed news stories to get you up to speed on, and we will start with some sterling work from one of their own.

When Team PokerStars Pro, Vanessa Selbst, isn’t studying for bar exams, or winning some of the toughest competitions in the world, she is providing her time as a board member for one of the most interesting and rewarding non-profit organizations in New York.

Lawyer Doug Lasdon, kicked things off, when in 1984 he moved into a burned out building in Harlem, and began helping New York’s vulnerable and the homeless because nobody else was. Back then it was called the Legal Action Center for the Homeless, and today it operates as the Urban Justice Center (UJC)