Footballer's Royal Flush Playing Online Poker Generates Internet BuzzInstagram Post Of Hand Goes Viral |
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Brazilian football star Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior has only been an ambassador for online gambling site PokerStars since May, but he has already generated a lot of buzz on the Internet thanks to the hands he’s getting.
On Saturday, Neymar Jr hit a royal flush in spades on a board reading K
5
4
10 Q during a €50 Super Stack tournament. He later went on to make the final table, though it was completely insignificant money for him. He makes at least $30 million a year.
He posted a photo of the hand to his Instagram account, and it was liked more than 510,000 times. That’s pretty good exposure for the company and the game of poker. Granted, he later posted a seemingly random selfie that got more than 700,000 likes. With 30.3 million followers on Instagram, Neymar Jr is the second-most followed man on there, trailing only Justin Bieber.
While the signing of Neymar Jr was intended to help the company continue marketing to players outside of America, all eyes are on Amaya Gaming, the parent company of PokerStars, inching closer to receiving a license to operate in New Jersey.
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