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The Poker Stars Pro team includes the best players from almost all corners of the world. This group of elite poker pros includes champions of the most prestigious international events. You can play online poker with members of a professional team only on PokerStars.
Each member of the TPSP team has achieved the highest results and has a long list of achievements in various poker events.
Here full list this group: Chris Moneymaker, Doug Palovich, Andre Akkari, Victor Ramdin, Brian Huang, Evgeniy Katchalov, Barry Greenstein, Marcin Horecki, Bertrand Grospellier, Enrique Pinho, Martin Hruby, Jonathan Duhamel, Theo Jorgensen, Joe Cada, Johnny Lodden, José Ignacio Barbero, Dario Minieri, Alexander Kravchenko (RF), Juan Manuel Pastor, Angel Guillén, David Williams, Victoria Koren, Christophe De Malder, Ivan Demidov (RF), Rino Matis, Vanessa Selbst, Tony Judet, Humberto Brenes, Marcel Lask, Joao Nunes, Maxim Lykov (RF), Pier Paolo Fabretti, Richard Toth, Vanessa Russo, Chad Brown, Christian De Leon, Jason Mercier, Raymond Wu, Luca Pagano, Mathias De Malder, Lex Velduis, Daniel Negreanu, Leo Fernandez, Selina Lin, Ville Wahlbeck, Liv Boeri.
It’s nice that among them there are as many as three Russians, which, you see, is not bad for a country whose authorities have equated poker with regular poker. gambling such as roulette, and even .
We have already written about that, and now we will tell you in more detail about the three most famous of them: Daniele Negreanu, a multiple champion who won World Series events; Vanessa Rousso, winner of the 2009 EPT High Roller and Jonathan Duhamel, 2010 WSOP champion.
Daniel Negreanu
Daniel Nigreanu is the most famous member of the PokerStars team
This is perhaps the most eminent representative in the PokerStars team. The room was lucky that the poker room that Daniel represented closed down, and they managed to lure him away.
Daniel was born in Toronto, Canada. This happened in 1974 in a family of emigrants from Romania. At first he planned to play billiards professionally, but in billiard rooms he learned about poker. Negreanu failed to enroll in college and began playing poker in Canadian casinos. At the age of 21, having filled up his bankroll, he headed to Vegas.
His first successful performance in major events awaited him in 1997, and a year later he took his debut WSOP bracelet in the pot-limit “Texas”, becoming at that time the youngest owner of the bracelet (this record was taken away from him only in 2004). In subsequent years, Negreanu continued to show great game, he already has 4 bracelets and has won the WPT twice. His biggest successes happened in 2004, when he became “Poker Player of the Year” at once at the WSOP, WPT, and also according to the CardPlayer publication.
Daniel has been on PokerStars since 2007 under the nickname “KidPoker”, which means “poker kid”, “poker child”. He earned this nickname for his early (of course, at that time) achievements in the game. Daniel is the author of several books and a section in the “Supersystem”, a book that, by the way, can be bought for FPP in the Starz store.
Vanessa Rousso
Vanessa Rousso is a poker pro who has won over a million dollars in her career
She is beautiful, young and an excellent poker player! Almost the perfect woman. Vanessa is one of five ladies on Team PokerStars.
Rousseau is French, although she was born in New York, America, in 1984. She lived in France until she was ten years old, then moved to Florida, studied well, was an activist and played sports. At the University of Miami she studied game theory, which led her to chess and then to poker.
Vanessa's career began online because she was under 21 and not eligible to play in the US. In real life, her first successes occurred in 2005, and the next year she consistently made it to the finals and sometimes won various major poker events. Her biggest success at the Grand Final EPT €25,000 High Roller in the spring of 2009 brought her almost $1,000,000, and in terms of overall achievements in tournaments, she is firmly among the TOP poker players.
Russo is an active member of the alliance for the legalization of poker, including online (this a big problem for the USA). She is still involved in sports and was a participant in a “swimsuit” photo shoot for Sports Illustrated. Russian fans could see her at the RPT in Moscow.
On Stars, Vanessa plays under the nickname “LadyMaverick”. In the fall of 2007, Russo became second in the WCOOP Stars main event, winning $700,000.
Jonathan Duhamel
Jonathan is another millionaire from Team PokerStars
He is a professional poker player from Canada, famous for his victory in the 2010 WSOP main event. He is the first Canadian to do this. Since 2010, he has officially represented the TPSP team.
Born in 1987 in Butcherville (Quebec, Canada). Jonathan's career as a poker pro started in 2006. Before winning the main event, he had already been in the WSOP prizes, and in 2010, remaining in heads-up, he defeated his opponent John Racener (with AJ against K8s). For this event he earned $8,945,000 in prize money.
But Jonathan's successes don't end there. In January 2011, Duhamel won the High Roller event at EPT Deauville. A year later, also in January, he made the finals in four PCA Stars tournaments. Of these, we can note the fourth place in the PokerStars PCA Super High Roller tournament, where his prize money amounted to $313,600. He also finished first in the Side Event NLHE PokerStars PCA for $5,000. He receives $234,000 in prize money for winning. He also becomes second in the PokerStars PCA High Roller tournament and thereby becomes richer by $634,550.
Jonathan Duhamel is a Montreal Canadiens fan. After winning the 2010 WSOP main event, he donated $100,000 to the Montreal Canadiens Children's Foundation.
As of 2012, the amount of prize money he won in tournaments reached almost $11 million. Of this, he earned $8.9 million at the 2010 ME WSOP. Jonathan also stated that he left his studies in finance to finally focus exclusively on professional poker.
On PokerStars he can be found under the name “johnduhamel”.
The PokerStars poker room boasts the most representative and stellar Team Pro, consisting of the best professional players in the world.
Special sponsorship contracts are concluded with Pro players. The team members change regularly, currently there are about 75 players on the team, including Daniel Negreanu, Chris Moneymaker, Bertrand Grospellier, Joe Cada, Ivan Demidov, Max Lykov, Alex Kravchenko, etc.
Moreover, the PokerStars Pro team is an example of a real professional community. Even Black Friday couldn’t hurt him, while the second most famous team in the online world, FullTilt, was left without an employer for a long time.
A contract has been concluded with each of the listed players, and after that, for the duration of the contract, the poker player is obliged to officially play only under the red and white logo.
In return, the poker player receives various privileges from the room: payment of buy-ins in major offline events, increased rakeback, special VIP service, etc.
Selection process for the pro team
Any poker player on the planet can try to get into Team PokerStars Pro. To do this you need to conquer one of the following peaks:
- win Sunday Million
- get to the top of the ranking table of tournament players
- have Supernova Elite status
- reach the WCOOP finals
The problem is that possessing any of the listed titles will not automatically give you access to the team of white and red pros. It’s just that your path will be easier - you will receive an invitation to the main event SCOOP, where you will fight with current Stars professionals.
A pass to the team will be awarded in this tournament. However, even if you do not have all the specified points in your track record, you still have the opportunity to get to the main event through a satellite worth $11.
Now about another unpleasant fact: PokerStars is not currently considering applications for Team Pro membership. According to information, when the new application period starts, all users with Supernova status will have the opportunity to participate in the selection process. Each Supernova player will receive a pop-up message about the start of the application period in the PokerStars client program. There will be no advance notice of the opening time for applications.
Keep in mind that there are no set guidelines for selecting Team members. One of the main goals is to maintain a diverse team by recruiting players from different regions of the world, playing at different limits in different types and poker formats.
If you want to increase your chances of getting into the PokerStars Team Online team, the best thing that can be advised is to achieve or maintain Supernova VIP status, start a blog that will attract positive attention to the room and you, and maintain a friendly relationship with all poker players, including, of course, and your constant opponents at the tables.
Here is an abbreviated response from PokerStars support to a letter with the question “How to get into Team PokerStars Pro?”:
“Team PS Pro members are selected by PokerStars management based on their highest achievements specific player in major life tournaments around the world.
Today, our Pro team members are professional poker players who regularly make it to the TOP of events such as WSOP, LAPT, EPT, APPT, etc.
Despite the fact that all members of our team were once beginner players, they participated in online games at PokerStars (and continue to participate) even before they started playing in elite life tournaments. Our management noticed them and invited them to the team.
So take part in the games at PokerStars, develop your skills to become that level of poker player, and play in satellites of some of our most iconic tournaments. Who knows, maybe you will be able to win the WSOP, and then you will have the best chance of being in Team PokerStars Pro.”
A fly in the ointment, or the story of Alexei Makarov
We hope you understand that getting into Team Pro Stars is incredibly difficult. Not a single achievement (except, perhaps, winning the WSOP Main Event) guarantees that tomorrow representatives of PokerStars will be knocking on your door with an invitation to join the ranks of their Team Pro. So think about it - is the game worth the candle?
Let's listen to the opinion Alexey Makarov(ex-member of the Russian Team Pro Starzov, nickname "Gump")
There was a long list of reasons for terminating the contract with PS, Alexey tells us, and here are some of them.
Restriction on playing in other rooms and a certain depression during a long one-sided downswing. Some obligations that are unpleasant for me (like WODs).
There are plans to somewhat reduce online play and increase offline play. After all, with successful performances at life tournaments, you can negotiate completely different conditions for yourself.
In addition, when concluding the contract, I was counting on some prospects, which, to be honest, I never saw. And the average amounts of sponsorship contracts with rooms today are not very interesting for poker players of my limits.
I heard that Negreanu has about $2 million annually, the winner of the WSOP Main Event has about a million (and only for a year). Why talk about the contracts of less stellar players? In short, it became clear to me that with the current pricing policy there is no point in trying to keep the contract.
In conclusion, let’s say that the life of professional poker players is similar to the life of professional athletes. It is quite saturated with an abundance of large contracts, television filming and participation in prestigious tournaments, and it also imposes certain obligations and conditions, which sometimes causes significant problems. But you almost never see this on TV.
Pokerstars is not only the largest poker room in the world, but also a brand that unites the largest number of world poker stars. The Pokerstars team includes more than 70 professionals, each of whom has experience of winning major tournaments and multimillion-dollar winnings.
The most famous players in the ranks of PokerStars are:
- Chris Moneymaker
- Bertrand Grospellier
- Joe Cada
- Vanessa Rousso
- Barry Greenstein
Among the team of Poker Stars professionals there are also representatives of the CIS countries: Russian Ivan Demidov, as well as Ukrainian Evgeniy Kachalov. Previously, the PokerStars team of professionals also included Russians Alexander Kravchenko and Maxim Lykov.
In addition to successful performances at the world's largest tournaments (WSOP, EPT and others), the team of PokerStars professionals is also engaged in attracting new players.
The path to millions starts small
It is noteworthy that many of those who are now part of the PokerStars team started their journey with a small deposit, which later became their first big step in the world of professional poker.
For example, such a cult personality as Daniel Negreanu took his first steps while still a teenager, losing 10 on his first night of playing poker. Nevertheless, he continued to play, read all kinds of educational materials and improve his level in every possible way, and after a few years he was able to become a stable winning player. And by the age of 22, he realized that poker had become what he wanted to do for the rest of his life.
Such examples only prove once again that anyone can reach the top in poker, including you. Do you want to follow in the footsteps of Daniel Negreanu and other professionals?
Take your first steps in big poker. Who knows, maybe your photo will soon adorn the page of professional players of the PokerStars team.
Over the past month, the team of PokerStars professionals has been significantly reduced. Room abandoned Max Lykov, Humberto Brenes, Jose Barbero and Angel Guillen. This policy caused a variety of reactions and assessments in the poker community. What is the reason for the “purge” and what awaits the remaining players in the future? We'll try to figure it out by looking at the comments on the forums.
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One of the users of the 2+2 forum writes: “I’m sure that these are not the last people PokerStars broke up with. Room simply doesn’t see the point in keeping so many people. Daniel Negreanu is helpful. But is there any benefit from some guys with room attributes appearing at serious tournaments?”
Another opinion: “I think that PokerStars doesn’t need so many useless people - they just suck out money. Most team members do nothing or do poorly. I think the room will even cut down its blog.”
From such statements it is clear that many ordinary players are not too inclined towards the PokerStars pro. The feeling that "stars" are receiving dividends without putting in any effort causes resentment. Everyone understands perfectly well that many of the PokerStars team are not poker geniuses, but simply lucky people from different backgrounds - which is important! -: countries
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Users on forums write that quantity has not translated into quality. They are more pleased to see 10-14 players with serious ambitions and efficiency among the representatives of the room. It’s unlikely that anyone will mind if, instead of an army of dependents, the room signs a couple of real poker luminaries.
Fame is not a guarantee of professionalism
A forum user shares his opinion: “It’s been a long time since good players ceased to be the center of the room’s advertising life. Players don't bring non-poker people into poker. Ronaldo, Vicky Koren, Nadal - this is the main direction of advertising for poker rooms.”
Others believe that the poker era is changing - rooms no longer need pros, but media personalities. We need to teach sports and movie stars how to play a little and put them at the table. Players are required to be artistic, scandalous or simply ridiculous. Get into some funny situation, shoot a video and post it online. Well, or have at least size 3 breasts.
Optimal team
If you look through a couple of pages of reviews, you can easily create a PokerStars team, what it will be, according to users, in the near future. Let's just list the names: Chris Moneymaker, Daniel Negreanu, Liv Boeree, Bertrand Grospellier, Vanessa Selbst, Jason Mercier + movie star, sports star. Even Cada and Duhamel don't make it - sorry guys.
Let us explain the reasons for each candidate for Noah's Ark:
Daniel Negreanu is one of the most famous players, makes great money from poker - he embodies the dream of any young poker player, charming, tolerant, loves to participate in all kinds of bets, makes educational videos, and is active on the forum.
Liv Boeree - the girl plays well, often appears on TV in shows, posts photos of herself in a swimsuit on the Internet, personifies the dream of a young poker player, but from a different side than Negreanu.
Vanessa Selbst is the most successful woman in poker, plays in live tournaments, is a lesbian - plus 20 points to the room’s tolerance. And if you kick her out, then there will be minus 20 points in tolerance.
Chris Moneymaker - won a World Series gold bracelet without being a professional. Then he lost Phil Ivey himself in the final. Just by his presence he provokes: “Dude, play at PokerStars. You can do it too, like me!”
Bertrand Grospellier
Bertrand Grospellier, a representative of online poker players at PokerStars, came to poker from eSports, i.e. is responsible for attracting gamers who spend a lot of time on the Internet, and therefore are attractive to the room. Grospellier is a rather boring guy with pale skin and dark glasses, but many grinders see him as one of their own. Well, sometimes he learns something - once he even fought in the ring and got it okay!
Jason Mercier is a guy without any personality, but he is photogenic. No bracelets, no EPT. But he represents 7 countries at once. Very economical!
Rafael Nadal is a famous athlete. There is passion in sports, that is, fans are a potential audience for the room. It’s worth giving credit, Rafa Nadal plays decent poker too.
Let's say Ryan Gosling is a famous actor, acts in a lot of films, and has a lot of fans. Gosling is for girls. For boys there is already Liv Bori.
It's worth adding Vanessa Rousso to this list. Room will not kick Vanessa out after the death of her husband Chad Brown, if only for ethical reasons and fear of incurring the wrath of bigots.
One of the users gives a pragmatic, but quite reasonable thesis: “Pro is needed to attract a new audience, and not to interact with the old one.” This statement is fully consistent with the composition we have derived.
Calls to the banner of its team of poker professionals Team PokerStars Pro, the most best poker players in the world. For casual poker fans and poker players, being named a Team PokerStars Pro usually means that person is one of the best in the poker community. Any poker fan or amateur poker player, even without knowing who is in front of him, but seeing the “PokerStars Pro” branding on a person’s clothes, will immediately say that in front of him is one of the strongest online/offline poker professionals.
Most details of the contracts between PokerStars and its sponsoring Team PokerStars Pro members are strictly confidential and will not be disclosed under any circumstances. Team PokerStars Pros never reveal the advantages or disadvantages of their work. However, if you carefully study numerous interviews with Team PokerStars Pro team members, and just take a closer look at their lifestyle, you can still find out some facts and features of the work of Team PokerStars Pro team members.
Advantages
As most poker fans correctly assume, being a Team PokerStars Pro member comes with a number of tangible benefits. The most obvious of these is the use of the player's name and image in numerous PokerStars advertising and promotional videos. Advertising and promotional videos produced by PokerStars significantly increase recognition and popularity poker player worldwide.
A Team PokerStars Pro member has a number of advantages over others online players, when playing poker room PokerStars. short biography The poker successes of each member of the Team PokerStars Pro team are described on the official PokerStars website. Next to their nicknames there is a special icon (a red spade) so that anyone playing at the same table with them knows that they are playing against a member of Team PokerStars Pro. However, this does not mean that each of their tournament buy-ins is paid by PokerStars. Of course, each member of Team PokerStars Pro has a special clause in their contract that stipulates a certain number of online/offline tournaments paid for by PokerStars. But this clause in the contract is strictly individual for each member of the Team PokerStars Pro team. So, most Team PokerStars Pros shell out their own money when they sign up for an online tournament or sit down at an online cash table.
Most Team PokerStars Pro members are required by their contract to participate in live tournament series such as the European Poker Tour and PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. Depending on the terms of their personal contract with PokerStars, some members of Team PokerStars Pro will receive housing and travel expenses for these tournament series. However, the vast majority of Team PokerStars Pro members bear this cost burden out of their own pockets. Basically, PokerStars pays Team PokerStars Pro members the buy-ins for these tournaments, allowing them to keep the winnings.
The approach to remuneration for Team PokerStars Pro team members, who are contractually required to play online, is also strictly individual. Some have special rakeback conditions for the duration of the contract. Online game others are paid at an hourly rate, the size of which depends on the number of other players and fans following their game (depending on those who watched the stream of their game, for example). Still others simply have to play a certain number of online tournaments and receive a certain salary for this every month.
Responsibilities
While the benefits of being a Team PokerStars Pro are numerous, their responsibilities are also quite extensive. The main responsibility of each member of Team PokerStars Pro is to promote the popularization and recognition of the PokerStars brand through actions and deeds. The responsibilities of each member of Team PokerStars Pro are also strictly prescribed by the terms of their personal contract. The duties of some may only include wearing various attributes of clothing with PokerStars branding at live poker tournament series and various social events. Others should help promote the PokerStars brand by writing various articles and posts. Still others should host their own blogs or training sessions. Team PokerStars Pro members are required to give interviews to various media outlets. Each Team PokerStars Pro must be open to answering questions from fans about the PokerStars poker room.
Quite often, members of Team PokerStars Pro have to deal with certain difficulties. Even if a member of Team PokerStars Pro is very irritated or on tilt, during their online session or live poker table, he must refrain from any words or actions that may cause negative attitudes among others or negatively affect the image of the PokerStars brand. Each member of Team PokerStars Pro must devote a certain amount of time to communicating with poker fans. Depending on the terms of the personal contract, a Team PokerStars Pro member must communicate either via chat when playing online or on social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.
Without a doubt, most Team PokerStars Pro members simply have unique bonuses that come with their status. In addition to the fact that each member of Team PokerStars Pro earns money simply by playing poker, they receive several bonuses that make their work even more worthwhile.
Even though some Team PokerStars Pro members must pay out-of-pocket for travel expenses to various live poker series, each Team PokerStars Pro member already automatically receives a bonus for traveling to various beautiful locations. peace. Each year, most Team PokerStars Pro members spend nearly two weeks in the Bahamas, home of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure live poker tournament series. Members of Team PokerStars Pro are traveling to the EPT Grand Finale in Monte Carlo, one of the most luxurious and bohemian destinations in Europe. Members of Team PokerStars Pro travel to live poker tournament series in such wonderful and amazing places as Melbourne, Dublin, Malta, Prague, Barcelona, Panama, Seoul and Macau. In addition, each member of Team PokerStars Pro is paid to travel to the Isle of Man to meet with company executives and tour PokerStars headquarters after signing a contract.
In addition, Team PokerStars Pro members are invited to various charity dinners and buffets. They live in five-star hotels. They have access to a number of unique free offers for active recreation (swimming with dolphins in the Bahamas, for example). Their VIP status gives them free access to parties hosted by PokerStars. They go to various poker awards ceremonies.
Translated from pokerupdate..
