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YPP Late-Night Craps Tournament

January 27, 2012 by Brittany Baize

We are extending a special invitation to all of our YES Prep Professionals members to join us for one of the most fun and exciting charitable events of the year!

Click here to purchase a ticket. The deadline to purchase tickets is 11 pm Tuesday, February 7th.

For seven years, YES Prep has hosted a Texas Hold 'Em Oil & Gas Tournament as our largest annual fundraiser. Designed for and attended by over 650 oil and gas professionals annually, YES Prep’s tournament has become Houston’s premiere business development event for entertaining and networking with decisionmakers
in the oil & gas industry (see www.yesprep.org for a list of our 2012 sponsors).

Widely anticipated, with over 75% of sponsors returning year after year and 100% of our top-tier Scholarship sponsors returning every year since 2005, we plan to make 2012 our best year yet!

For the first time, and for what we hope will become an annual tradition, we are offering late-night, discounted tickets to YPP members and their guests to join us for open bar, catering, and a craps tournament upstairs.

You will be playing right next to the final winner's table of the poker tournament, so the excitement will be high!

Your $50 ticket gets you:

Event entry at 9:30 pm
$2,000 in craps chips to play
Top-shelf, open bar
Letter confirming your tax-deductible donation

Click here to purchase a ticket. The deadline to purchase tickets is 11 pm Tuesday, February 7th.

To stay in the game and "win," you must have the most chips - either by "re-buying" chips (aka donating) or by playing better than the rest! So bring your credit card (or expense report), and make sure and let us know if your company offers matching gifts. The winner gets bragging rights and their photo in the next edition of Oil & Gas Investor magazine.

Door prizes are also awarded at every table.

Hosted at the stunning Corinthian, named “Houston’s Ultimate Party Venue” by the Houston Chronicle, and conveniently located in the heart of Houston’s Downtown Historic District. Catering and top-shelf open bar at the Corinthian provided by Houston Culinary Award-Winner, Jackson and Company.

In 2011, the event raised $910,700 to help low-income students beat the odds. Help us shatter $1,000,000 this year and break all tournament records!

100% of your ticket and the evening’s donations directly impact our school and students.

Click here to purchase a ticket. The deadline to purchase tickets is 11 pm Tuesday, February 7th.