French Rap Star Joins Team WinamaxWorld Poker Tour Winner Bruno “Kool Shen’ Lopes Joins French Poker Team |
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French rap star Bruno “Kool Shen” Lopes has joined Team Winamax, the pro team set up by one of France’s largest online poker sites.
Lopes, who this year won the Euro Finals of Poker Diamond Championship as well as a World Poker Tour National Cannes main event, only started playing poker in 2008
He also came fourth in the European Poker Tour Madrid during in March and has won a number of online tournaments at Winamax.
In a statement at the site the company said, “For over twenty years, the suburban Parisien is one of the major figures of French rap thanks to the success he’s had with the group he co-founded with JoeyStarr: the NTM.
He’s an eternal icon of French rap and now Kool Shen is one of the most respected poker players on the tournament circuit. Kool Shen joined Team Winamax in autumn 2012. You can find the tables under the nickname ‘Kool Shen.’”
Lopes joins the likes of Ludovic Lacay, Davidi Kitai, Patrick Bruel, and Nicolas Levi on Team Winamax.