World Series of Poker Update: Soccer Superstar Neymar Among Entrants
Neymar Jr. may live more habitual to World Cups than a World Series, but the soccer superstar found his path to Las Vegas over the weekend.
The Brazilian national squad standout and genus Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) forrard took portion inwards the $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship, which started on Sunday.
While Neymar attracted a lot of fans at the WSOP, he did not get under one's skin a lot of luck or upright cards. He combat injury upwardly beingness eliminated inward the sixth troll of action.
The Hold’em Championship, which started with 74 players, continued through Tues afternoon as eighter remained at the net table.
On Monday, Neymar hosted “Neymar & Friends,” a stove poker tourney at Bally’s – before long to turn Horseshoe Las Vegas – with 16 upside Brazilian poker players.
Neymar’s clip at the WSOP ostensibly isn’t done. group A Caesars spokesperson indicated Tues that the association football star is provision to swordplay another case later this week.
Not Neymar’s First Poker Foray
The World Series isn’t Neymar’s first of all foray into poker. According to The Hendon Mob database, the 30-year-old has played in hexad tournaments, including deuce European Poker Tour events earlier this yr in Monte Carlo.
His topper vocation finish was a sixth-place showing at a 2018 Brazilian Series of Poker High Rollers event in Sao Paulo that netted him $21,072.
While salamander may be a passionateness for Neymar, don’t wait him to follow quitting his solar day job any time soon. According to Forbes, Neymar was the fourth-highest paid jock in the human race this year. He earned $70 zillion on the delivery and $25 billion off it.
Only his PSG teammate Lionel Messi ($130 million), NBA superstar and aspiring Las Vegas team owner LeBron James II ($121.2 million), and Lusitanian soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo ($115 million) made more than Neymar.
Ausmus Joins WSOP Four Timers Club
Neymar may follow noneffervescent seeking his 1st Au bracelet, but on Monday dark poker pro Jeremy Ausmus earned his quaternary when he won the $3,000 Limit Hold’em.
After finishing 24th and earning $17,481 inward a $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed case finally week, Ausmus entered the third twenty-four hour period of the Limit Hold’em event as the 2d stack. However, according to PokerNews/WSOP.com, the net tabularise featured some tumultuous run and at times Ausmus found himself as the unawares stack.
It’s just now genial of the nature of limit, substantially stove poker inwards general but limit especially is very aggressive with a lot of three-betting and rearing flops and rearing turns- it’s rattling volatile and thwarting at times,” Ausmus told PokerNews/WSOP.com. “But then i just now ran salutary against (Michael) Rocco who plays heads-up lots and the win feels good.”
Ausmus work over come out 212 others to arrogate the event, taking $142,147 out of the add up value pocket billiards of $568,710.
He becomes simply the 64th four-time bangle winner in WSOP and is at present eligible for WSOP Poker Marguerite Radclyffe Hall of Fame consideration. Ausmus also joins Jacques Louis David Peters and Scott Seiver, both of whom also won their fourth bracelets before this month.