Sports
Brazil's soccer great Ronaldo shows prowess at poker in The Bahamas
By The Bahamas Weekly News Team
Jan 14, 2015 - 12:52:58 PM

Ronaldo at Power Stars Caribbean Adventure

Retired Brazilian soccer superstar Ronaldo has been in The Bahamas attending the professional poker event PokerStars Caribbean Adventure at Atlantis, and has proven that he's not only great on the field, but he's exceptional at the poker table as well. 

Ronaldo, the World Cup winner and three-time FIFA Player of the Year won $42,180 (£27,824) at the  event.

"I'm really excited, it's the same emotion I used to have at the soccer fields playing at the highest level," he said after the event.

"The experience has been great, my first goal was to get a prize in a big tournament and I achieved that."

"He's almost on the same level as Pele," said PokerStars' Brazilian blogger Sergio Prado in Pokerstarsblog.com.

Prado has been covering poker for nearly a decade. He works for Brazilian ESPN and is a big cog in the PokerStars Brazilian poker machine. He's seen a lot, but he's never seen anything as big as Ronaldo playing poker and succeeding as he did this week.

"It's crazy. Everybody pays attention to every step he takes," Prado said. "If he's playing poker, everybody talks about it. If he's doing good at poker, it's amazing for us. The major websites, the TV, they are talking about him. Things have changed a lot in last eight or nine years."

Ronaldo at Power Stars Caribbean Adventure at Atlantis, Paradise Island

© Copyright 2015 by thebahamasweekly.com -