“He said, ‘Guy’s you’re getting a ticket’ and we’re like, ‘What are we getting tickets for buddy?’ And he goes, ‘This one’s for being in love and this one is for lying about it.” We’re lying about it? What are you talking about? And he says, ‘This is for talking back to a police officer,” his father recalled with a smile. An example of that, according to Engler, came after the Montgomery County Police Department made their son an honorary K-9 officer. The whole time his father said Luke maintained his sense of humor. Luke fought hard to survive, going through rounds of chemotherapy and radiation. “One of the words I’ll never forget him saying is, ‘This is nuclear,’” Engler said. Rich Engler recalls the day when a doctor broke the heartbreaking news to him and his wife. In 2017 their 7-year-old son Luke fell over while playing with his sister, that was later determined to be a symptom of Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, or DIPG, which is a highly aggressive and difficult-to- treat brain cancer. Supporting the tournament is Rich Engler of Rockville, Maryland, and his wife, Nancy. ‘We developed our own poker platform called Poker501 that allows people to see and hear each other while they’re playing poker,” said Brad Nierenberg, founder of Chance For Life.Įven though it is online Nierenberg said he hopes this year’s Chance for Life event will bring in more than $1.5 million, which would be down from the more than $2 million that is raised when the event takes place in person. This year, the pandemic is preventing the tournament from taking place in-person - but poker faces are still necessary as the event goes virtual. It’s an annual poker tournament, which has raised almost $10 million for research into treatments for childhood cancers over the past 16 years. Rich and Nancy Engler, with their son, Luke, at a previous Chance for Life fundraiser.
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