On Tuesday night we hosted another poker night for Seattle area technology startups. The turnout was once again fantastic, with 17 fun folks representing more than a dozen different startup companies. The final table battled it out until 10:15pm when finally Casey Muller (JamGlue.com) emerged as the winner and claimed the first place prize. Second, third and fourth place finishes went to Shan Sinha (DocVerse.com), Jeff Khadavi (stealth startup), and Phuc Vu (InCampus.com).

Thanks to the great suggestion of Marcelo Calbucci of Sampa.com we reserved a seat at the tables for charity. Marcello recently implemented a charitable donation feature on his web site that makes it effortless for users to make charitable donations. For our part, we set up a side pot that everyone could donate to and then we let the winner chose a charity to send the money to. We're going to use Marcelo's web site to make the contribution -- which turned out to be $45 this time. The night's winner, Casey, chose UNICEF to receive the funds.