Full Tilt Poker has already had a big month with the addition to its brand of an Oscar-nominated friend in the form of film star and poker aficionado Don Cheadle. Don Cheadle has been a very successful celebrity player, but more importantly he’s a co-founder of the poker-related charity Ante Up for Africa.

Cheadle and fellow co-founders Norman Epstein and Annie Duke will be promoting the charity heavily during this year’s World Series of Poker where Ante Up for Africa has its own tournament event and television coverage and where charity supporters will be pushing competitors to donate 50% of their WSOP winnings.

Full Tilt is welcoming their new Friend by hosting a private $5+$5 tournament with proceeds to benefit Ante Up for Africa. This tournament is expected to take place prior to the WSOP and offers players a more reasonable opportunity to support the charity than the $5000 buy-in event.

Also new on Full Tilt’s roster of special events is the addition of two qualifying tournaments for the popular poker-centered shows Late Night Poker and Poker Million. Players interested in competing for a Poker Million appearance will have six opportunities to win via direct qualifiers held throughout the months of August and September. Qualifying tournament winners will earn a $20,000 buy-in to the main event plus a $2000 travel budget.

If Late Night Poker is more along your lines, then Full Tilt is offering four qualifying tournaments through June and July. Winners of these tournaments will take home a $10,000 buy-in plus $2000 extra in petty cash.

Competitors in both tournaments will have a shot at prize money in excess of $1 million and regardless of their placings will receive some airtime courtesy of Britain’s Channel 4 (Late Night Poker) and Sky Sports (Poker Million).